Our Week for Oct. 20- Nov. 3

Hello Grade One Families:

This week we had fun at Groove Dance.  Ask us all about it!  We will also be having a Dance on Friday too.  Our Dance time is from 10-10:45 am.  Wednesday will be Walk to School and it's a Spirit Day- Fun Hat Day!  

Here are some other reminders for our upcoming week.

1) Monday is Day 2 of our cycle.

2) Halloween is on Tuesday.  We can come in our costumes all day if we want.  Please refer to the letter that was handed out last week.  We can wear Fall Colours too!  We will be engaging in curriculum related Halloween activities all day.

3) Library is on Wednesday Day 4.  Please return Library books that day as we will not have book exchange for a few weeks as the Library will be setting up for the Scholastic Book Fair.  Scholastic Book Fair is during the week of November 13-17.  More to follow shortly.

4) November newsletter will be going home on Wednesday.  Please note that there will be no MWW (Making Words Work) on short weeks.  Those are weeks with PA Days or Holidays.  :)

5) Our MWW words for Lesson # 40 are:  Short 'e' words and Heart words

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Our MWW worksheet is due back by Friday.

6) Our Poetry Folder went home today.  Please have your child read to you with their best phrasing and expression.  If they are going out on Halloween they can draw their costume on the back page.  Please return on Monday.

7) Our Friday Letter went home today too.  We wrote together our Recount using our new transition words (First, Then, Next, Finally) We are learning to Think it, Say it, Write it, and Re-read to make sense.

8) Photo Retake Day is on November 7.

9) Progress Report Cards will be distributed electronically to your child's gapps account around November 9.  Interviews are the pm of November 16 and November 17 am.  Sign up will be on EDSBY.  

If you have any questions or concerns, please do not hesitate to call or write in your child's agenda. 

Have a wonderful weekend with your children.

Mrs. Petramala 🎃

Our Week for Oct.23-27

 Hello Grade One Families:

Your child went home with their Assessment Folders this week.  Please look through all the amazing work we have done so far.  Please sign and return the Rubrics enclosed.  Also, please return the folder on Monday too.  We will be working on our individual Reading and Writing targets soon.  We have finished our first Math Unit on Patterning and Sorting.  We are now learning how to represent numbers in different ways.  We are learning to explain our Math thinking using Pictures, Numbers and Words.

Here are some reminders for our upcoming week.

1) Monday is Day 2 of our cycle.

2) Our MWW words for Lesson #39 are Short U words and heart words

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Our MWW worksheet is due back by Friday every week.

3) Our blue Reading Folder can be left at home.  We have one at school too.  Each week your child will be getting one or two Decodable Texts to read depending on our level.  Please read every day for at least 10 minutes.  It is actually a seen text when we bring it home on Monday.  We have already read it at school.  We coral read it every Monday and go through our decoding strategies with the text as a whole class.

A great free online website for Decodables is: Just Right Reader 

https://justrightreader.com/pages/decodables-e-library

This is the same address as I put on the Curriculum Night package.  This site is available all day long.  

4) Library is on Wednesday Day 4.

5) Gym is on Day 4 and Day 5

If you have any questions or concerns, please do not hesitate to call or write in their agendas.

Have a wonderful weekend with your children.

Mrs. Petramala😀

Our week for Oct. 16-19

 Hello Grade One Families:

October 19 is Spirit Day, a day started in 2010 by Brittany McMillan, a Canadian teenager. 

It has become an annual event in October when millions of North Americans wear purple to show their support for 2SLGBTQI+ youth and take a stand against bullying. Students, schools, organizations, corporations, media professionals, celebrities, parents, and families wear purple to convey that 2SLGBTQI+ youth are to be celebrated and respected for who they are. The purple stripe on the pride flag represents spirit, giving this day its name.

We will wear PURPLE on Thursday.

Here are some reminders for our upcoming week.

1) Monday is Day 3 of our cycle

2) Library is on Tuesday Day 4

3) We went home with our Poetry Folders on Thursday.  Our Poetry Folder is due back completed on Monday.  

4) Please return our Friday Letter too, we are learning to write a Recount of our week using a Graphic organizer.  We are learning to Think it, Say it, Write it and Re-read so our writing makes sense.

5) For Lesson #38 it is a review week in our Making Words Work.  We will be reviewing all words learned so far.  Our MWW worksheet will focus on Alphabetical order.  Our worksheet will be due back by Thursday this week.

6) Friday is a PA Day, there is no school that day.

I will be sending home later this week their Assessment Folders.  All work will be able to stay at home.  There will be some Grading Rubrics that you will need to sign and return.  I conference daily with the students on strengths, weaknesses and next steps in every subject.  We will be working on specific learning goals for Reading and Writing shortly.  

If you have any questions or concerns, please do not hesitate to call or write in your child's agenda.

Have a wonderful weekend with your children.

Mrs. Petramala🍂

Our week for October 10-13

 Hello Grade One Families:

We had a great time at our Terry Fox Walk today.  Ask us all about it!  

Here are some reminders for our upcoming week.

1) Tuesday is Day 4 of our cycle and it's Library too.  Please return the Library books in the large zip lock bag

2) Our MWW words for Lesson #37 are Short 'o' words and Heart Words

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Our focus sentences are:

1. He has a job.

2. Mom got me a dog.

Our MWW worksheet will be due back by Friday.  

3) Our Decodable Reader is called It's Hot.  Please put in their Reading Folder at home.  We read this passage and work with the words all week long in our Making Words Work lessons.  

Reading 10 minutes/day is minimum and helps support our decoding skills, fluency, expression and comprehension.  In our Curriculum Package that went home on Tuesday night there are some websites that have free Decodable Texts available to read too.  Don't forget to log their reading too on their October Monthly Reading Log Sheet.

3) Please return the Friday Letter folder too.  We wrote about Terry Fox.

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

Have a wonderful Thanksgiving weekend with your children.

Mrs. Petramala🦃

Our week for October 2-6

 Hello Grade One Families:

We had a great week of learning together.  Please remember that their MWW (Making Words Work) Folder is due back every Friday completed.  A new worksheet will be distributed every week.  Here are some reminders for our upcoming week.

1) Monday is Day 4 of our cycle and it's Library.  Please return Library books in their large ziplock bag so we can get new ones.

2) Our October Reading Log went home today.  We are learning to read for at least 10 minutes/day.  We are learning to use our decoding strategies too!  Reading Logs are encouraged to be returned after 20 days of reading.  Have fun!

3) Our Friday Letter went home too.  Please read with your child about our week.  We are learning to do a Recount of our week.  We started with a graphic organizer today.

4) Our MWW words for Lesson #36 are Short 'i' words and Heart words

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Our worksheet is due back by Friday.  If your child has no time at home to complete they are welcome to complete at school as their MWW words are written on Monday into their agenda.

5) Our Decodable Text will come home to be put in our Blue Reading Folder to read nightly at home for 10min/night.  It is called Gil and His Pig.   We read our Decodable Texts each Monday as a whole class.  We read individually every day and Buddy Read too!  We work with the words in our MWW lessons.  

6) Tuesday is Meet the Staff and Family BBQ.  Meet the Staff is from 6:30-7:30 pm.  Our Room is 214.

7) Photo Day is Wednesday October 4 and it is Walk to School Wednesday.  

8) Friday is our Terry Fox Walk/Run.  Please have your child dressed appropriately to be outside for our walk.

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

Looking forward to seeing you all on Tuesday!

Have a great weekend with your children!

Mrs. Petramala🌞