January 16-19


Inline Skating 

We had a great week in grade one despite the cold weather!  We have been fortunate to take part in Alien Inline Skating these past two weeks.  Its been a great opportunity for students to burn off some extra energy while we are indoors. It was also remarkable to watch the progression of skills for all students in such a short period of time! Amazing!  During this experience students worked on:

  • Putting on and taking off equipment independently

  • Falling safely

  • Avoiding obstacles

  • Steering around corners

  • Slowing down 

  • Stopping

Ask your child what they enjoyed most about this experience.








Math

In math we have continued to work on composing and decomposing 2D shapes.  Students created designs using a variety of shapes. Students were asked to look at the shapes in each design and recreate some of their own in their journals.  

Literacy

During our whole group literacy lessons and word work students focussed on learning digraphs.  Digraphs are sounds that are created when two letters-each with their own sound- come together to make one sound.  For example: c k makes the <k> should and s h makes the <sh> sound.  As well we have been exploring some online literacy resources such as Epic and Lalilo.  Both of these resources help students to focus on phonetic sounds and have a huge online library of good quality reading materials.


Social Studies

This week we returned to our look at communities, focusing on our school community.  Students were able to take a tour of our school being observers and collecting data about our school logo, special places in our school, and other symbols we might see that identify that we belong to the Andrew Sibbald Community.

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