Ms. Gardner's Grade 1 - 2023 2024

  February 20-23 After Family Day long weekend, we found ourselves returning to our school routines and learning in Grade 1.  Here are some of the highlights from the week. Puppet Residency We enjoyed our final session with Miss Wendy and adding the final touches to our puppets.  We worked on adding the eyes and had an “eye opening ceremony.”  Our puppets truly did seem to come to life at this moment and they all look so unique and special.  We don’t want to give away too many details, as we look forward to sharing our work around this learning with you on Wednesday, February 28.  Our presentation to families will be 12:30 -1:00 in the Music room.  With Miss Wendy, she also worked with us on changing our voices and guided us through moving our puppets around the room.  We are now busy with creating our short skits connected to the story, The Owl and the Woodpecker, and sharing our own creative stories of some birds with some problems.   Learn...

It was a short this week but we were still busy in Grade 1!  Take a look to see what we have been working on this week! Social Studies Students worked hard to write thoughtful thank you notes to our special guests from our school community that visited last week to share their roles and responsibilities around our school. Students had the opportunity to work in partners or by themselves to compose a thank you note that expressed thank you to our guest, a statement of what they learned from our guest, and then that each guest is an important part of our school community.   Puppet Residency and Wellness We were so grateful to have another visit with Miss Wendy to continue our work on our Owl and Woodpecker puppets.  Students continued to add details like feathers, wings and bodies to their puppets.   Thank you to those parents who were able to join us and support this work.  Along with this hands on creative work we have been discussing and role playing diffe...

  February 5 - 9 Social This week we were excited to invite other important people in our school community to learn more about their roles and responsibilities at school.  One of our guests was Mrs. Scarrow.  She told us what some of her important jobs are at school.  We learned that she helps to keep our school safe.  She also helps teachers learn too!   Learning Intentions: I can understand ways that people help one another in our school community, to ensure the strength and positive energy of our school.   I can appreciate the experiences of other members in our school community.   I can appreciate how the actions of others can affect us.   We learned that: She uses her computer and her phone   She organizes and makes schedules for the teachers and special activities, like Inline Skating and our Puppets  Mrs. Dupius also came to talk to us about her important role and responsibilities.  She is a very...

  January 29 - February 2 Math In math this week, we moved back into thinking about numbers and how to represent them.  We worked with groups of ten trains and made connections to numbers with 0 - 20, 30, 40, 50 to 100.  We are now trying to extend our thinking and understanding of numbers beyond 20.  With a group, we also reviewed numbers from 1 - 20 and worked together to see if we could organize the numbers on an open number line in a way that made sense.  Some students were also ready to try with greater numbers to 50. Learning Intention: I can represent numbers to 100 using words, numerals, objects or pictures.   Social This week in Social, we continued to talk about our school as an important group and community to belong to.  We discussed and brainstormed different roles and responsibilities that students have at school.  We worked together in our table groups to think of all the important roles and responsibilities we have as students....