Our week for April 15-19, 2024

 April Showers bring May flowers!  Please dress for the weather as we are outside weather permitting for two recesses.  Please make sure we have extra clothes at school at all times too.

Here are some reminders for our upcoming week.

1) Monday is Day 1 of our cycle.

2) Library is on Thursday - Day 4 of our cycle.

3) Our MWW words for Lesson # 52 are: (nk) and heart words

pink link tank bunk trunk thank there where

Our sentences are:

Where is the bank?

There is a rink for the kids.

Our Decodable Reader is called Stink in the Bank

We will be focussing on Comprehension to Text.  We will be orally answering questions about the text as well as some of our Reading Groups will be answering questions in complete sentences too.

Please remember to have your child Read and Log daily.

4) Yearbook applications for the front and back cover are due back by Friday April 19.  I have extra applications if you need another one.

5) Our Friday Letter and our Assessment Folders went home on Friday.  Please take some time and read through our work. We are working on Writing Goals in the classroom.  We know what our Writing Goals are and we are working on them daily in class.  

We are learning to Think it, Say it, Write it and Re-read to make sense.  We are learning to use a Writer's checklist too.  See below for an example.

To all those who celebrate Vaisakhi, wishing you and your family a very happy celebration.

If you have any questions or concerns, please do not hesitate to call or ask.

Have a wonderful weekend with your children.

Mrs. Petramala ☔

Our week for April 8-12, 2024

 Attention Parents:  Early Dismissal on Monday April 8 @ 12:40 pm due to the expected Solar Eclipse.

We will be coming home with a short read aloud about a Solar Eclipse.  We will read it to you as our homework on Monday night.  Please be safe.  

Ontario Science Centre has a great video that you can enjoy together as a family.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NfGv1nm9nLo

Here are some reminders for our upcoming week.

1) Monday is Day 1 of our cycle.

2) Library is on Thursday - Day 4

3) Our MWW words for Lesson # 51 are:  ng words and heart words

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Our sentences are:  1. This song is not long. 2. Would you sing for me?

Our Decodable Reader is called King and Ash Sing.

Please have your child read a few times throughout the week for phrasing and expression.  

We will be focussing on these comprehension questions. 

Who brings a book of songs?

How do we know King’s mom likes the song?

How many songs did they sing?

What kind of song do you like to sing?

We will be building our oral fluency and then be building on to complete sentences.

Our MWW worksheet is due back by Friday each week.

4) Our Friday Letters went home too.  Please read through about our week and feel free to comment too!

5) Calling all ARTISTS!  Yearbook cover applications are in the Library.  If your child would like to help design a cover for our Yearbook, (Front or back) all applications are due back by April 19. Winning designs will be on the cover or back cover.  

6) Happy Eid to all who celebrate on April 10. Eid Mubarak.

If you have any questions or concerns, please do not hesitate to call or ask.

Have a wonderful weekend with your children.

Mrs. Petramala 🌞

Our week for April 2-5, 2024

 Hello Grade One Families:

Please note there will be no school on Friday March 29, 2024 (Good Friday) and Monday April 1, 2024 (Easter Monday). School will resume on Tuesday April 2, 2024.  

We will be having a SPIRIT WEEK all week next week too!

Tuesday- Red and Gold Day

Wednesday- What's your passion?  What do you love day?

Thursday- Rainbow/Tie Dye Day

Friday- PJ/Comfy Day

Here are some reminders for our upcoming week.

1) Tuesday is Day 2 of our cycle.

2) Wednesday is Walk to School Day.  We will have a whole school DPA @ 9:20 am sharp.  

3) Thursday is Library (Day 4) of our cycle.

4) Our Assessment Folders went home today.  Please read through with your child and see all the amazing work we have been doing.  Please send back on Tuesday with their Friday Letter too! 

4) We will have an early dismissal on April 8 @ 12:40 pm due to the Solar Eclipse.  Please make arrangements prior to this day as care is only provided for Day Care students.  

5) April 11 is Movie Night @ Rick Hansen.  Please refer to the Family memos that have been electronically sent home previously from our school.

If you have any questions or concerns, please do not hesitate to call or ask.

Happy Easter to all who celebrate.

Have a very HOPPY weekend with your children.

Mrs. Petramala🐰

Our week for March 25- 28

Hello Grade One Families:

We will not be having any MWW words for the next 2 weeks as it is short weeks for both.  We will resume our MWW words the week of April 8.

Here are some reminders for our upcoming week.

1) Monday is Day 3 of our cycle.

2) Library is on Tuesday Day 4.

3) Please dress your child for the weather.  We are outside weather permitting for 2 recesses.

4) We have entered a new unit in Math.  Adding Strategies.  One of the aspects we will explore are Brain Benders/Word Problems.  An example we tried this week was:

We are learning to explain our thinking using, pictures, numbers and words.  We will explore many stratgies to add and subtract in this unit.  A unit letter will go home this week.  Here are some strategies we will be exploring:

Use addition and subtraction within 20 to solve word problems involving situations of adding to, taking from, putting together, taking apart, and comparing, with unknowns in all positions, e.g., by using objects, drawings, and equations with a symbol for the unknown number to represent the problem.

Apply properties of operations as strategies to add and subtract. If 8 + 3 = 11 is known, then 3 + 8 = 11 is also known. (Commutative property of addition.) To add 2 + 6 + 4, the second two numbers can be added to make a ten, so 2 + 6 + 4 = 2 + 10 = 12. (Associative property of addition.)

Add and subtract within 20, demonstrating fluency for addition and subtraction within 10. Use strategies such as counting on; making ten (e.g., 8 + 6 = 8 + 2 + 4 = 10 + 4 = 14); decomposing a number leading to a ten (e.g., 13 - 4 = 13 - 3 - 1 = 10 - 1 = 9); using the relationship between addition and subtraction (e.g., knowing that 8 + 4 = 12, one knows 12 - 8 = 4); and creating equivalent but easier or known sums (e.g., adding 6 + 7 by creating the known equivalent 6 + 6 + 1 = 12 + 1 = 13).

Here is a great free website to help build math skills.

https://www.mathplayground.com/grade_1_games.htm

5) Our Poetry Folder went home. Please have your child read, complete and return on Monday.

If you have any questions or concerns, please do not hesitate to call or ask.

Have a wonderful weekend with your children.

Mrs. Petramala🀦

 

Hello Grade One Families:

Wishing you all a very happy and healthy March Break!  School resumes on Monday March 18, 2024.  

Here are some reminders for our week when we return.

1) Monday March 18 is a Day 3 of our cycle.

2) Library is on Tuesday Day 4

3) Please have extra clothes at school at all times for those occasional accidents or when we get wet at recess.

4) Our MWW words for Lesson # 50 are: wh/ph digraph words and heart words

which when whisk Phil graph could would should

Our sentences are:

1) I could whip it up.

2) When should we go? 

Our Decodable Reader is called On a Whim

5) Nowruz celebration in the Library on Tuesday @ 1pm.  

If you have any questions or concerns, please do not hesitate to call or ask.

Have a great Break!  Wishing all our families who celebrate Ramadan. Ramadan Mubarak!

Enjoy making memories with your children!

Mrs. Petramala 🌞

Happy International Women's Day too!