Kenneth D. Taylor - Grade 1 - Ms. Moore

Dear parents and guardians, This week has been very busy and full of great learning opportunities. On Monday, we wrote in our journals. The students are now expected to be writing at least 8-10 sentences in the allotted time and to be editing their work for sight words, spelling errors, punctuation, and whether or not their sentences make sense. We are also working on adding more descriptive language instead of just listing things. For example, a student might write 3 or 4 sentences about their trip to the park before talking about what they had for dinner. We have been doing some work with the story "If you Give a Mouse a Cookie" this week. First, we read the story and our wall story. Then, we did a sequencing activity where we put all of the events in order. We also discussed cause and effect. Ask your child what a cause and an effect is as well as give you an example. We spent two full mornings on this so they should know it off by heart!! We covered two ...

Hello Everyone!   We have had a very fun week of swimming! It has been fabulous watching the students become more confident in the water. Thank you for your support in sending the students to school in their bathing suits - it made the transition to the pool very smooth. It was great to see you all at Student-Led Conferences; your children have been working so hard this year and the progress they have made is amazing! They should be very proud of their work. We had a magic show this week! The main focus of the magic show was friendship.  F - Feelings. We consider peoples feelings when making decisions. R - Real. We behave authentically with our peers. I - Invite. We need to invite people into our lives to make friends. E - Encourage. We help our friends be the best they can be. N - Name. We need to learn as many names as possible. D - Dependable. We are there for our friends in good times and bad. S - Smile. True friends learn to smile often. ...

Dear parents and guardians, Sorry for the delay in posting! April has been a very busy month so far and we have had lots of great learning experiences. In language arts, we have: - written our weekly journal entry - practiced our sight words and poetry (children should know about 70 words) - participated in literacy centres focused around reading, writing, and editing our work (we have a new story writing centre where students fill in the blanks to create their own story. Ask your child about it!) - enjoyed all of our brand new books!!!! Ask your child which one they enjoyed the most (See below) In math, we have: - continued to work in our workbooks on addition and subtraction - learned new strategies for solving subtraction questions In social studies, we have: - learned about the Indigenous people of Canada and their ways of living. Ask your child what they learned about the Indigenous way of life! In art, we have: - completed our very f...