January News
January News
Room 10 Mrs. Carruthers’Class I hope you all had a very enjoyable winter break with family and friends. We had a very busy December with lots of holiday arts and crafts integrated into our classroom programming. In writing, we shared holiday wishes for the world, our families, our friends and ourselves and displayed them on colorful light bulb shapes. Our grade one friends enjoyed visiting the other grade 1 and 2 classrooms as they took part in various crafts such as popsicle stick snowflakes, animal puppets and Froot Loop trees.. Decorating gingerbread cookie characters for family gifts was a delicious way for students to connect to the 4 versions of The Gingerbread Man we shared in class as we made connections between the different endings of this folktale and practiced retelling fiction stories. Creating the gingerbread-styled houses gave another opportunity to build a structure out of delicious materials and students also made a few aluminum foil structures for various purposes in Science. The grade 1s put on a fabulous performance as they sang parts of various songs in a winter medley at our school winter concert wearing the winter wonderland hats they decorated in class. Thank you, to all the families that contributed craft items for some of these projects. In Math, students practiced solving snowmen problems, built more of an understanding of graphing in a variety of Data Management centers led by Miss Hartmier, and continued to sharpen basic addition and subtraction facts. It was a very busy month! I am hoping our students had a well-deserved rest and are ready to continue the rest of their grade 1 year with a positive mindset. We are very excited that Miss Hartmier will continue her student teaching in our classroom for the beginning of 2018, teaching for a larger portion of each day until the beginning of February. Please see the attached sharing calendar and a look at January’s learning topics. The newsletter portion of this will be posted at… https://jcaruthers.commons.hwdsb.on.ca/
January News continued Learning Topics This Month Literacy:
-Writing: New Year’s Goals -Reading: elements of fiction and testing
Math:
- Geometry: 2 dimensional and 3 dimensional shapes and solids - addition and subtraction strategies and problem solving
-counting to 100 by 5s and 2s -introduction to Prodigy (a free online mathematical computer game that includes content from each of our 5 strands of Math)
Science:
Understanding Structures and Mechanisms: Materials,Objects, and Everyday Structures: Final Independent Design based on inquiry: Watch for memo for recyclable materials that may be needed from home. Energy in Our Lives - investigation of different types of energy used in every day life
Social Studies:: Our Changing Roles and Relationships Time-Line life booklets - finish inquiries of different roles, relationships and re sponsibilities during different times of our lives See-Saw
-Continue to gain independence with capturing learning using technology available and the See Saw app (especially when the task is not a paper and pencil task).
Home Support: -Continue home reading and record in reading log - Encourage mathematical thinking in everyday life (e.g., If everyone in the family ate 2 pieces of fruit each day, how many would we eat altogether in a week?)
Room 10 Mrs. Carruthers’Class I hope you all had a very enjoyable winter break with family and friends. We had a very busy December with lots of holiday arts and crafts integrated into our classroom programming. In writing, we shared holiday wishes for the world, our families, our friends and ourselves and displayed them on colorful light bulb shapes. Our grade one friends enjoyed visiting the other grade 1 and 2 classrooms as they took part in various crafts such as popsicle stick snowflakes, animal puppets and Froot Loop trees.. Decorating gingerbread cookie characters for family gifts was a delicious way for students to connect to the 4 versions of The Gingerbread Man we shared in class as we made connections between the different endings of this folktale and practiced retelling fiction stories. Creating the gingerbread-styled houses gave another opportunity to build a structure out of delicious materials and students also made a few aluminum foil structures for various purposes in Science. The grade 1s put on a fabulous performance as they sang parts of various songs in a winter medley at our school winter concert wearing the winter wonderland hats they decorated in class. Thank you, to all the families that contributed craft items for some of these projects. In Math, students practiced solving snowmen problems, built more of an understanding of graphing in a variety of Data Management centers led by Miss Hartmier, and continued to sharpen basic addition and subtraction facts. It was a very busy month! I am hoping our students had a well-deserved rest and are ready to continue the rest of their grade 1 year with a positive mindset. We are very excited that Miss Hartmier will continue her student teaching in our classroom for the beginning of 2018, teaching for a larger portion of each day until the beginning of February. Please see the attached sharing calendar and a look at January’s learning topics. The newsletter portion of this will be posted at… https://jcaruthers.commons.hwdsb.on.ca/
January News continued Learning Topics This Month Literacy:
-Writing: New Year’s Goals -Reading: elements of fiction and testing
Math:
- Geometry: 2 dimensional and 3 dimensional shapes and solids - addition and subtraction strategies and problem solving
-counting to 100 by 5s and 2s -introduction to Prodigy (a free online mathematical computer game that includes content from each of our 5 strands of Math)
Science:
Understanding Structures and Mechanisms: Materials,Objects, and Everyday Structures: Final Independent Design based on inquiry: Watch for memo for recyclable materials that may be needed from home. Energy in Our Lives - investigation of different types of energy used in every day life
Social Studies:: Our Changing Roles and Relationships Time-Line life booklets - finish inquiries of different roles, relationships and re sponsibilities during different times of our lives See-Saw
-Continue to gain independence with capturing learning using technology available and the See Saw app (especially when the task is not a paper and pencil task).
Home Support: -Continue home reading and record in reading log - Encourage mathematical thinking in everyday life (e.g., If everyone in the family ate 2 pieces of fruit each day, how many would we eat altogether in a week?)
