We are in full dress rehearsal mode getting ready for our Christmas concert. Our class concert will be on Wednesday, December 13th. We have one show at 1:00pm (please note tickets are not needed for this show) and the second show is at 6:30 pm (for the evening show each person attending must have a ticket. We sent two tickets home with each child this week. If you would like to request extra tickets please call the office). The dress code for the night is to wear anything black, white, red, and/or green (any combination of these colours is fine). See you then!
We would also like to thank all the kids this week for studying and working hard to remember their sight words. We are so proud of how well they all did on their spelling test. Our new words of the week are going to be: he, she, can, play, and to. If you would like some great ideas on practicing these sight words at home check out this great website: http://www.thejennyevolution.com/fun-ways-practice-sight-words/
In literacy this week we made puppets to retell our how and why story of the week which came from Ghana, titled Why Chickens and Hawks are Enemies. After learning to retell the story with puppets, kids partnered up to rewrite the stories together on paper. They did a really wonderful job of both remembering the story and working together.
\Our math centre rounds have been going great. On Thursday when we announced it was time for math centres the whole class cheered! Hooray for being excited about math! The snowman numbers matching puzzle has proved especially popular and this group wanted to show off how they finished the entire thing.
In science we are learning more about our five senses. We played guess the sound games to explore our hearing, and talked about what life would be like without our sense of hearing. We learned a few sign language signs (bathroom, listen, and help) and practiced twinkle twinkle little star in American sign language.
We also really put our sense of sight to the test. Looking at lots of optical illusions made our brains feel like they were getting a workout and noticed how even our senses can fool us. Our homemade 3D hand illusions turned out spectacular and all the children were amazed to see their hands popping right out of the page.
Thanks for another amazing week of grade 1. Have a great weekend. :)
- Mrs. Kenna, Ms. Cvach, and Ms. Pipo
- Mrs. Kenna, Ms. Cvach, and Ms. Pipo
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