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.