​Here's what's to come this week in grade one...

Dates to Remember:

~ Friday, Feb. 3: Team T-Shirt Orders are due (team colours are the same as they were in K)

~ Tues. Feb. 7th and February 21 (9:45-10:25 am): Skating at York Arena (please return permission slip as soon as possible) 

*************Let us know ASAP if you cannot find a pair of skates and helmet for your child.  We have a few at school, but not a lot.  (They MUST have a helmet and skates to be allowed on the ice.)  We need lots of volunteers to help on the ice and to tie skates.  If you can help, please meet us at the rink.

~ Fri. Feb. 10: Sock Hop $2.00

~ Tues. Feb. 14: Valentine’s Day Celebration ( details will follow)

~ Wed. Feb. 15: K-2 pancake breakfast

~ Thurs. Feb. 23: Hot Lunch Orders for March are Due 

~ Fri. Feb. 24: PD Day – No School for Students

Special Note:  The office has asked us to remind everyone to call the office if your child won’t be here at school.  Emailing the teacher is a help but sometimes the teacher is absent or in a rush to get the students to music or phys. ed. and puts it in as unknown.  To save yourself an attendance phone call from school - just call and leave a message at school as well. 

Thanks

This week at a glance:

Literacy

Word of the week: friend, why, where, give, gave

Word family: Ink (pink, link, wink, kink, sink, blink, stink, etc.)

Oral Language: We are working on speaking and listening skills (and it really is a skill) 

Listener: Look at the person you are speaking to, nod or comment on what the speaker

is saying, ask questions about what the speaker is saying

Speaker: Speak at a good volume (not too loud or quiet),  add details to your story to

help the listener get a picture in their head, look at who you are talking too. 

Word work: al, l blends  (al: also, walk, almost, alright, always, etc. / l blends: black, blanket, flower, fly, clown, cloud, clap, etc.)  We will also be reviewing vowel sounds this week.

Reading: Students should be reading 10 minutes at night.  After reading, ask your child about the book.  What did they like about it? Or not like?  What happened in the book?  What do you think the character is like? (mean, happy, kind, etc.)  What in the book makes you think that?  Keep reading!

Writing

This week we will continue working on BME planners to help students write a personal narrative. We will be review all of our writing goals this week (I can… use a BME planner, stay on topic, use punctuation, begin sentences and names with an uppercase, use the word wall, use stretchy snake, add interesting words, grab my reader’s attention,)

Math

We are continuing our unit on addition and subtraction to 18. Our big focus will be adding 9 to a number. We are working on using the “make ten” strategy where students take one from the number and add it to 9 to make 10.  We will continue using a variety of manipulatives to help (double ten frames, number lines, etc.) We will also solve word problems, review double facts to 10+10, as well as fact families.  We will also be reviewing counting on, counting back and ways to make ten. Keep practicing these at home.

*This is Ms. Thomas’ last week with us.

Have a great week!

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