Kenneth D. Taylor - Grade 1 - Ms. Moore

Dear Parents and Guardians,   Yesterday, the students were given a challenge to create the tallest tree using only cups! While completing the challenge, the students explored teamwork, planning and cooperation. Throughout the project, they discovered vocabulary, including balance and foundation. Ask your child to tell you about their discoveries! Reminders: Report Cards came home today. Please check your child's purple folder. Thursday, December 21 is an early dismissal for students NO school Friday, December 22 to January 7 for students

Dear Parents and Guardians, This week, we have focused a lot of our class work around the book "The Mitten" by Jan Brett. We began by watching the story in video form, and then read the book a short while later.  We began an art project where we designed our own mittens. We observed the mittens of a few students and noticed something - that each pair of mittens are an exact match! We discussed the word "symmetrical" and what would need to happen to make sure that our mittens matched. The students worked hard to make sure that their mittens were symmetrical and did their best drawing and colouring! Today, we began a new writing activity. We each wrote 5 clues about ourselves that we will attach to the mittens, and as a class we will try to guess who made the mittens based on the clues. We wrote our first draft today, and will be starting our good copy of our clues in the coming days. Our focus remains on proper use of punctuation (comma...

Dear Parents and Guardians, It is hard to believe it is December already!  We have been continuing to practice our sight words and our poems each day. It is very nice to see the students incorporating these words into their writing and spelling them correctly!  This week, we have spent a lot of time writing about "How to Make a Gingerbread Cookie." We wrote it over the course of three days, with the first day focused on title and materials, second day focused on the first two steps, and the third day focused on the rest of the steps. The students were asked to take their time on each step, incorporating their transitional and juicy (descriptive) words. Have your child point out the transitional and descriptive words in each of the following: We also began to explore punctuation, including proper use of commas, periods and capital letters.  In social studies, we continued our alphabet by exploring "H is for Helpful." We discussed the word ...