Kenneth D. Taylor - Grade 1 - Ms. Moore

Dear Parents and Guardians, This week has been very exciting so far! On Monday, we worked on our journals. Our main areas of focus in writing right now are as follows: - proper use of capital letters - proper use of end punctuation - proper use of the digraphs "th", "sh", and "ch" - properly spelled sight words - and as always, finger spaces! For the last two weeks, we have sent home a green journal titled "Letters to Home". The idea is that your child can share with you what they have done during the week, while the book provides you with information regarding the progression of their writing. We ask that you please respond to your child in the journal and send it back each Monday. Today, we had an in-school field trip! A mechanical engineer came in to teach us about building materials and structures. What a great way to kick off our "Building Things" unit! We made and tested Lego bridges (we EXCEEDED expectati...

Dear Parents and Guardians,   Here are a few of the curricular concepts we will be working on this week. 😀   Language Arts/Literacy: Digraphs- we are working on the sounds that ch, sh and th make. Here are some songs to help you practice at home: CH:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FWg2uzAuSe4 SH:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HfMtsRVZWfE TH:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o3INXFPrfJM Writing- the gingerbread people we made have disappeared! We are currently working on creating "Missing" posters to help us locate them. We discussed creating a clear, attention grabbing introduction and a detailed description of our gingerbread person. Literacy Centres- the students have been working on Raz-Kids on the iPads. They have also been playing rhyming games, sorting words based on digraphs, practicing their poetry and exploring new guided reading books with their teacher. Math: Number Lines- the students have been using number line...

Dear Parents and Guardians, We had a very exciting day today! We had Richard Young the Magician come into our class and teach us all about our senses! He showed us some very cool tricks and had us all amazed! He taught us about the human senses and how we can protect our vision, hearing, and sense of smell. He also explained that different animals rely more heavily on different senses and that it impacts the way that they live. Ask your child how they can protect their vision, hearing, and sense of smell, and how other animals use their senses differently than humans. Here are some pictures from our day: Reminders: - We are collecting empty wrapping paper rolls for a project. If you have any left over, please send them to school. We are also collecting empty Pringles containers for another project :). - Please ensure you are sending your child to school with appropriate winter clothing such as gloves, toques, scarves, snowpants, boots, and a w...

Dear parents and guardians, Welcome back! It is hard to believe how much we have learned already since we have been back! We are continuing to review our sight words and have been working hard to spell them correctly during writing tasks. Please review the words with your child a few at a time, mixing up the order so that they are reading the words rather than memorizing the list.  We have been working with the consonant digraph "ch" this week. We are learning to read words with the "ch" sound at the beginning or the end of the word. Practice with this skill will help the students read words quickly and more fluently. Please have your child point out words that contain "ch" or "tch" during daily home reading.  We began a new centre routine this week. Ask your child about the centres and what they are doing at each.  In math, we have been working on solving addition problems quickly and efficiently, using mental ...