Hello Parents,

 

I just want to say how fortunate I am to be teaching your children. They are truly a wonderful group!

 

 

The students are so excited about doing in-line skating! Please have your children bring a helmet if they have one. Thank you to all the parent volunteers who offered to volunteer this week.

 

Just a reminder that Friday is a PD day. There is no school. 

 

DONATIONS

 

In order to continue to encourage students to read, we will have a treasure box of little toys etc...for anyone who reads 10 or more books. At least 6 in French and 4 in English. This worked well last year and it really motivated students to read!

 

If anyone would like to donate to the treasure box for the next few months, it would be appreciated. If we receive enough toys, school supplies etc.. for the box, we will use it as an additional incentive to motivate students and reward them for reading. 

 

FRENCH

 

If a student speaks to me in French they receive a sticker. I'm always encouraging the students to speak to me in French. This seems to be working well so far for most of the students. 

 

We will make posters, and prepare for our presentations about our favorite winter activity. Some students have already prepared their presentations at home, but I will also be giving time in class as well. 

 

Sometime in late February or early March, the students will be presenting the play Goldilocks and the Three Bears in French. All of the students will be participating and parents are welcome to attend. We will begin to study this play in the coming week. The students are encouraged to memorize their lines.

 

ALLERGIES

 

Just a friendly reminder that we have a student with a severe peanut allergy. 

 

 

LIBRARY

 

Library is on Thursday.

 

SCIENCE

 

We are talking about the seasons and we are completing our unit on Senses. 

 

MATH

 

We continue to work on the same areas mentioned in the last posting. You will receive feedback on your child's progress in these areas in a few weeks.

 

Thank you,

 

Mme Celine

Dear Parents,


I would like to welcome our two new students Celina and Molly to our Grade 1 class. We now have 19 students in our class. We are so happy to have them join us.

The students have received a form for in-line skating. If you have not received it, please let me know. Please send it with your child this week. Thank you.

For the first week back, in addition to keeping our desks organized, we have been working on keeping our lockers neat and tidy. Each morning a student walks down the hallway to see if any items are lying on the floor. After snack and after lunch, the students are asked to check their own lockers to see if their lunch boxes are put neatly in their back packs. Each student has a poster in their locker entitled" Do I Have Everything". The students are asked to review the poster at the end of each day to see if they have all of their belongings with them and nothing is left in their lockers.

ELA
We reviewed and learned new English sounds and reviewed some sight words. We are using a program called 'Lively Letters'. Each letter sound has a story to go with it. We are working on our phonics booklets, and some English sight words.

FLA
In French, we will be learning new sounds. Each letter sound or group of sounds has a story.
To practice vocabulary for body parts, the students are labeling different parts of their paper human body. They will bring this home soon.

We talked about parts of a sentence (ie: subject, verb etc...) and we all made silly sentences to practice what we have learned.

We made a story with actions about what activities we do in the winter. The students composed their own stories about what they do in winter using their winter vocabulary words.

At the end of the month, the students will be presenting their 'Show and Tell' for the month of January. The topic is

January

J’aime la neige! (My favourite snow activity)

January  24th - A-F January 25th-G-M January 26th-30th-N-Z

RELIGION
We read two Bible stories: The Wedding at Cana and the Prodigal Son.

MATH
We are learning addition sentence math problems. Using centers we worked on counting by 2's, 5's and 10's, reading number words, identifying even and odd numbers, identifying numbers at a glance, addition with doubles and we continue working on simple addition equations. This week we will focus on identifying numbers 30-40.

MUSIC
We are singing the song 'C'est L'hiver' and we will be going over several songs this week.

New Grade One Blog

Hello Parents,

I hope everyone had a Merry Christmas, and I wish all of you a Happy New year.


Welcome to the Grade 1 blog. This blog will replace the newsletter you have been receiving in 2016. The purpose of this blog is to communicate to parents what we are learning in class.

I would like to thank all the parents for the wonderful Christmas gifts I received during the last week of school.


Please visit my blog the week of  January 16th for an update of what your children are doing in class. .

Madame Celine