Ms. Gardner's Grade 1 - 2023 2024

Thank you to all our parents and families who took the time to join us for Parent Teacher conferences.  It is an exciting time of year as we celebrate the growth made already since January report cards and set some goals for moving into the final part of the school year. We wish you all a relaxing Spring Break with time to spend with family.  We look forward to welcoming everyone back on April 2nd. Here are just a little recap from the week.  Spring (or Winter?) Walk Although our plan for going to Fish Creek didn’t work out, we still enjoyed a walk outside in the snow.  We looked for signs of winter and spring and we transition into a new time of year and season.  We look forward to getting outside again soon and hope to reschedule for going to Fish Creek in April. We found a quiet spot to sit under the trees, to take a moment to be aware of our surroundings and use our 5 senses to connect to our environment.  After listening to the sharing of Elder Saa’kok...

This week was jam-packed with lots of exciting learning opportunities.  Here is a peek at some of the learning from this week.   Pink Shirt Day Needle Felting with Grade 6 Buddies We had the opportunity to work with our grade 6 buddies to build a beautiful representation of friendship and to mark Pink Shirt Day.  Thanks to our Student Voice who started this initiative, students in grade 1 and grade 6 partnered up to draw a heart, transfer it to felt square and then using roving wool and a felting needle created a quilted square that will be joined with others to create a friendship quilt.   Tea cher’s Pet Thank you to our amazing parent volunteers that were able to join us for this in-school experience.  Students investigated energy and built their understanding of direction, pathway, and speed of moving objects and animals. Students built a wooden race car, tested vehicles on different materials, built a marble run, and played an informative animal ga...

After wrapping up last week with puppets, this week found us moving back into our regular routines in Grade 1.  Here are some of the things we got up to this week. Science Learning Intentions: I can explore how the shape, materials, and surface texture of objects affect how they move. I can predict and test how different objects move based on their characteristics. I can record my findings about how objects move in different ways. As we continue to build our understanding of movement and energy, we tested various objects on different surfaces to see how they would move.  We were challenged to see if we could move the objects across a surface quickly and easily as well as slowly.  We then learned about how different factors can affect how an object moves, such as shape, texture, surface and material.  We have a solid understanding of these science concepts and look forward to increasing our knowledge and understanding with our Teacher’s Pet learning experience this co...

  February 26 - March 1  Take a look below to hear about our learning this week.  It has been another exciting week in grade 1! Puppet Residency On Feb 28 we recognized Pink Shirt Day.  As part of this recognition we shared our puppets that we created with Ms. Wendy and the plays that we created in class.  Our week focused on preparing for our puppet celebration with our parents and grade 6 buddies.  Students were excited to share the puppet plays and show the documentation of the process.  Thank you to all the parents that were able to come and take part! Pink Shirt Day - Author Visit In the afternoon of Wednesday, we listened to Canadian author Monique Gray Smith, who has written a number of books for various age groups.  She read us You Hold Me Up and When We are Kind and discussed the connections to love and kindness.  She also talked about the idea of showing kindness to Mother Earth as well, and why this is so important.  She also ...