Ms. Gardner's Grade 1 - 2023 2024

  Dear Parents, Welcome back! We hope that everyone had a spring break that was equal parts restorative and full of adventure! Reminders: Please note that on Monday with the Lunar Eclipse students will not be going outside at lunch  break.  With the warmer weather next week, please send your child with a change of socks and pants in case they get wet during their outside time.   Please return the permission forms for the Leighton Art Center (April 22) and Swimming (April 29-May 3).  We will be reaching out to parent volunteers.   We have had a busy week back. Take a look and see what we’ve been up to! Wellness We concluded our work with Mrs. Sampson this week.  Using the Colour Monster as our mentor text we have been learning about our feelings, and strategies for dealing with our feelings.  Students represented the feelings that they had learned through colours and descriptive words.   Learning Intention: Emotions show how an ...

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...