ONEDERFULONES: Week 13-14 December 7th, 2018

Here is an update on what we have been working on these days. There is never a dull moment around here but you can be sure we are always learning!

We finished up our science Colour unit this week with a couple science experiments. We took some observations and made some conclusions. We also wrote in our Science Journal a summary of all the things we remember about colour.

We worked on a couple different art projects over the last two weeks. One was a collaborative art project where students worked in partners to make shooting stars. The had to cut out tracers and work with one another to hold the star in place as they drew around it with chalk and spread the chalk out around the tracer. They were very happy with the end result.

We continued with our Owl topic too, doing so many cool things. We finished off our information booklet, with all the owl vocabulary that we learned. Students wrote definitions and drew pictures to remind them about all these tricky words.

We read the story Owl Babies and used it for inspiration for our next art project...

And then as a summary we wrote a paragraph and students needed to include anything they knew about owls. We used this project to learn about a "rough draft" and a good copy. It was quite the process but we worked on making sure our sight words were spelled correctly and we sounded out anything else. If students could read me back what they wrote no changes were made to their spelling. Students also had to remember to use capital letters, periods and finger spaces. Grade 1 is hard work but we are getting into the groove of things now! I don't want to post too many pictures of the owl books because the students are very excited to read and share them at home with you! We will also be sharing them around the school next week. They are OWL EXPERTS!!!

In other areas of Language Arts students are getting so good at our daily language arts routine. Students are very excited about reading and we love hearing one another read. It is a pretty exciting time for the Grade 1's as we see them really making progress in their reading and fluency. No one gets more excited than me as we hear students read out loud with confidence!

I'm sure you have all heard about our recent "TRIP." We prepared for a few days this week by making suit cases, passports and scrapbooks and today we loaded the train to our first stop in our own Country of Canada. Next week we will be boarding the plane to Hawaii, Germany, Mexico and a few others. We are also excited to hear about your family Christmas Traditions next week.

We also wrote a quick letter to Santa. We didn't ask for any toys though, we just told him a few things about ourselves. We will see if he has time to write back!

In Math we have been focusing on numbers to 20, working on the terms greater than, less than and equal too. We have been working on number lines and with 100's charts to develop our number sense. Students have been working on skip counting. We have also really been talking about numbers that are one or two more than another and one or two less! We love Math in 1B!

We collected over 200 items for the Christmas Elves Project this week. We sorted our items in groups of 2's, 5's and 10's and practised counting them! Way to go 1B Families, that is a lot of donations!