Kenneth D. Taylor - Grade 1 - Ms. Moore

Dear parents and guardians, Wow! We have had a couple of very busy weeks filled with exciting learning! I apologize for the delay in making a new blog post...the weather and long commute has been keeping me busy! Last week, we had the Leighton Art Centre visit our classroom. The students were great listeners and ambassadors for Kenneth D. Taylor school. I was VERY proud of their respectful behaviour and hard work! During the presentation, the students had the opportunity to practice drawing figures, create a wire sculpture and experiment with an image transfer using wax crayons. In literacy, we have continued to create our gingerbread people stories. Most of the students have finished their first draft and are now working on their good copies. While completing their final copy, the students are focussing on spelling words properly and forming letters correctly. We are very excited to start displaying the amazing stories in the hall soon!  Ask...

Dear parents and guardians, We made it through the snowy week! The kids have been working so hard on their gingerbread story writing! We have been practicing hard to edit our sentences and make sure that what we are writing makes sense. I wanted to share some photos of the students reading their work to each other and providing feedback on whether the work makes sense, areas of strength, and areas for improvement. Have a wonderful weekend. Stay warm and safe :). A couple of reminders: - field trip forms need to be signed and returned if you would like your child to participate on Tuesday. Otherwise, they will engage in learning opportunities in another grade 1 classroom. - NO SCHOOL on Thursday, February 15th and Friday, February 16th due to Teacher's Convention. There is also no school on Monday, February 12th for Family Day. - I will be sending home a list of student names on Monday for Valentines cards. If you choose to have your child participate in a card e...

Dear Parents and Guardians, Here is an update from the CBE regarding the winter weather warning: We have had a jam packed week of learning so far! We are continuing to work on our sight words. Seeing as we are about half way through the year, students should be able to recite at least 50 of the first 100 words quickly (2 seconds or less) . Students are making great progress in this area and it is really helping them with their reading and writing. One Monday, we worked on our journals. Here are some examples: We began story writing this week in regards to our missing gingerbread people (that have all been found!).  As a class, we worked on an introduction. Like good writers to, we then went back and edited our work for proper punctuation as well as re-worded things that did not make sense. Our class is really focusing on independently making edits to their work by circling the word that they want to edit and writing the edit above. We have...

Dear parents and guardians, Happy Groundhog Day 🌺🌻☃⛄ On Tuesday, we had our school nurse come to teach us about the importance of hand washing. We learned that you need to sing your ABC's when you wash your hands and that you have to remember to wash your wrists as well! Ask your child to tell you about the awesome experiment they got to do. On Wednesday, we learned about the sound "sh" makes. We also explored some words that have "sh" inside of them. The students were challenged to pick a "sh" word and to write a sentence about it. The sentence also had to include descriptive words. We also completed a science experiment on the sense of touch. Ask your child to tell you some descriptive words they used. (soft, fuzzy, hard, etc...) Yesterday, we learned about Groundhog Day. Throughout the day we read poems and listened to lots of stories. We also learned how to draw a groundhog and wrote about what weather we would like for the...