June 17-21

June 17-21

A few reminders:

All Home Literacy/Decodable Books - Please have your child return these.  We will not be sending any more home for this school year.  

Extra Bag - We want to start sending home items throughout this week - Reusable grocery/shopping bags work great, as they are easier to pack than our regular backpacks 

We will also be sending home many items this final week, that may still be helpful to support your child with reviewing and maintaining their skills in reading, writing and math over the summer!  

As we head into the final days together, we know this can be a time of mixed emotions for everyone.  Having conversations about how your child is feeling helps them to know they are supported with these changes.  Feel free to reach out as well, if your child is needing some extra support in these final days.    

As we are heading into the final days of our school year, we have had some great opportunities to enjoy our days together in some special ways. Here are a few highlights from our fun last full week together!

Camp Day!

Is that a campsite?  Definitely not.  We had fun making our own tent structures, playing a Bingo game and then reading with a friend and our flashlights in our tents. 

Pancake Breakfast

We were treated to a Stampede Preview when the Stampede Caravan came and made our whole school pancakes!

    

Fish Creek Walking Field Trip - Early Summer

         

We had the perfect weather to be out and exploring the land and Fish Creek Park.  We looked closely at native plants and noticed differences than our last visit a few weeks ago.  We saw different plants and blooms on flowers.  We also noticed more bugs as well!  We enjoyed hiding our frogs again, doing a plant and tree scavenger hunt and a bug hunt too.  Thank you once again to our parent volunteers who have helped to make these trips possible throughout this entire year.  Fish Creek is an important part of being at Andrew Sibbald School!  

Summer Solstice and National Indigenous People’s Day 

The end of this week brought us to recognizing the Summer Solstice as well as National Indigenous People’s Day.  We listened to the message of the Summer Solstice from Elder saa’kokoto about the messages and gifts the land gives us during this time of year.  We then went out into our Learning Grounds and did a Soundscape, of listening to the sounds all around us.  It was a wonderful time to connect with the land and our space. 

June 10-14

 June continues to roll along here and it was yet another busy and exciting week.  

Reminders for the Week Ahead:

Classroom Camp Day - Monday June 17 - see previous Messenger for further details

Tuesday June 18 - Pancake Breakfast - please ensure your child has something at home for breakfast before coming to school

Wednesday June 19 - Summer Solstice Walking Field Trip and Picnic - 11:00am- 2:00pm 

Here are some of the highlights from last week. 

Physical Education - Summer Games and Sports Day

We enjoyed learning about the Olympics coming up this summer and our countries that we were assigned for the events that took place this week during Phys Ed time.  Ms. Gardner’s class was France and Mrs. Kosior’s class was England.  We had fun shooting balls into buckets as a team on Monday, throwing discs as far as we could on Tuesday, doing a chicken toss on Wednesday and seeing how far we could jump on Thursday.  We really enjoyed all of the stations and events that were set up for Sports Day on Friday and connecting with our Grade 6 buddies who took such great care of us.  

     

 

Science/Literacy

Learning Intentions

I can use organizational tools to record information 

I can gather information from a variety of different places and sources 

I can ask questions to identify research topics 

I can record factual information in various ways 

I can show an animal in its environment

I can determine how the local environment meets the basic needs of an animal

I can discuss how an animal moves from place to place to meet its needs 

We have continued to expand on our understanding of learning about plants and animals and weaving this into writing skills as well.  This week we focused on the parts of a plant and how it provides different things as well as the needs of a plant in order to survive.  We have also been learning about 5 environments in Alberta, learning about different plants and animals in each and then recording this information in a visual to share.  

   

  

June 3-7

 Dear Parents

It's been another busy week in grade 1!  Take a look at what we have been learning about below!

Please note that we will hold our classroom talent show for all students to share their talent on Wednesday, June 12.  Participants chosen will present their talent on June 24 for the school.

Rock Your Locks 

This year marked our 20th anniversary of Andrew Sibbald’s participation in this event.  Money raised will go to help send children affected by cancer to Camp Kindle.  Funds are continuing to roll in so stay tuned for a final total.  Students from the whole school enjoyed supporting their peers in this event at the culminating assembly on Friday.

Literacy/Science

I can use organizational tools to record information 

I can gather information from a variety of different places and sources 

I can ask questions to identify research topics 

I can record factual information in various ways 

I can show an animal in its environment

I can determine how the local environment meets the basic needs of an animal

I can discuss how an animal moves from place to place to meet its needs 

This week, we dived into learning more about Coyotes and how they are connected to us and where we live.  We learned about what it looks like, what its basic needs are, its environment and adaptations.  Each day, we read information and had discussions about a topic.  We then recorded our information in our visual journals to show and represent our learning and understanding.  We have been very interested to learn more each day.  Take a look at some of our work!

         

Phonics

This week we reviewed some challenging sounds that we covered earlier this year, ED and Long U.  Please take a look at the home practice activities below and review them with your child.

Lacrosse

We had the opportunity to learn from an expert about the game of Lacrosse.  Coach Dan helped us to learn and build our skills around scooping, trapping, partner tossing, over hand toss, and cradling the ball.  These skill were taught in a full and interactive way with games such as Hungry Hungry Hippo and What Time is it Mr. Wolf.  

Learning Intentions

Engagement in various types of play supports motivation and confidence in physical activities

Demonstrate a variety of object-manipulation skills.

Math

In math we continued to look at partitioning groups.  Students looked at a collection of different objects and build an understanding that the concept of ½ can be applied to groups.  The following is a summary of the concepts so that you can better understand and support your child and their learning. 

Learning Intention 

Sharing involves partitioning a quantity into a certain number of groups.

Grouping involves partitioning a quantity into groups of a certain size

How Do You Find Fair Shares of Groups?

When showing halves with shapes, the whole shape is divided into 2 parts that have the same area.

For example, each of these sandwiches show halves, or 2 fair shares.

To show two fair shares, or halves, of a group of objects, the group is divided into two equal groups.

For example, these 6 flowers are shared fairly between two people. Each person gets 3 flowers. Three flowers is one-half of 6 flowers.

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Size of Fair Shares

A share size is more if the same number of people share more things.

For example, if 2 people share 8 mini pitas, each person would get 4 pitas.

If 2 people share 4 pitas, each person would get 2 pitas.

So, if 2 people share 8 pitas, each share is bigger than if 2 people share 4 pitas. That’s because they have more to share.

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Definitions

halves: two equal parts of something

one-half: one of two equal parts of a whole

whole: the combined amount when parts or quantities are joined