Hello Families!
We had a wonderful first week back in grade 1/2.
Important Dates:
Monday, Jan. 15 - Non - Instructional Day - No School
Monday. Jan. 22 - Friday, Jan. 26 - Lacrosse Residency
Monday, Jan. 29 - Thursday, Feb. 29 - Swimming Lessons (Grade 1 and 2)
Tuesday, Jan. 30 - Report cards available in MyCBE
Our learning:
Literacy:
- In writing, we learned about "move-along" words or transition words such as next, later, then, after that, and finally. We talked about how we can use these words to move our stories forward and practiced using them in our writing.
- We continued to practice writing event stories, we started with a plan and then used our plan to create our stories. We tried to include transition words in our stories this week.
- We practiced making words with a given set of letters and tried to figure out the "secret word" by using all the letters.
Math:
- In grade one, we learned about 3-D shapes. We learned to identify and sort 3-D shapes. We had a 3-D shape hunt in our classroom!
- The grade ones also created a visual journal page to show the difference between 2-D and 3-D shapes. We drew a variety of different 3-D objects such as oranges, books, earth, pencils, etc.
- In grade two, we have started to look at and explore 2D shapes.
- We have analyzed the defining attributes (ex. # of sides, # of vertices, etc.) of different shapes and sorted them using our own sorting rules based on their attributes.
Inquiry:
- We learned about different industries in the prairies. We learned that the primary industries in the prairies are agriculture and services. We drew a picture of common crops that are grown in the prairies.
- We learned how to draw "2024" in bubble letters and wrote about some of our goals for learning in the new year.
- We had time to explore our school's Indi robots today! Each mat gives the robots a different command, so today explored different ways we could make our robot move. Some of us were able to move our robots a pretty far distance. We had so much fun! (see some picture below)
Thanks for reading!
