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.
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.
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
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