February 13th

Hi Parents,

Happy 100 days of school! We did it! :) We are more then half way done grade one!

This week was a short but busy week.

We continued to practice our skills through literacy and math centers.

We also solved a snowman math problem this week. Our question was "A snowman wears 9 buttons. Some are on his face and some are on his belly. How many ways could the snowman wear his buttons? Show using number bonds".  After we had solved this problem we shared the different ways we came up with the answer. We discovered that there were many different ways to solve this problem and more then one answer.

Our words of the week this week were: down, off, over, up
Our words of the week next week are: an, do, into, them 


We also were given another mystery word to solve in making words. This time it was an 8 letter word. We practiced making 2 letter, 3 letter, 4 letter and 5 letter words. We finally discovered the mystery word was STRENGTH.

Last week we created our own characters and wrote a character description about them. This week we used our descriptions to help us create a puppet of our character. We read over our descriptions and then drew our character on a piece of paper. Next, we cut them out and added a popsicle stick. We even had to some time to play with them and start to create our own stories.

Today was our 100th day of school! To help us celebrate we wrote about all the things we have learned in the last 100 days of school. We also made 100 day glasses and drew a self portrait of what we think we will look like when we are 100.
We also celebrated Valentines day today! Along with the other grade one classes in our hallway, we tried to come up with 100 acts of kindness. We were each given a heart, which we wrote and drew pictures of things we can do that show kindness.
We also, decorated our Valentine's bags and handed out our Valentine's day cards to each other!

Reminders:

If you have not already, please fill in, sign and send back swimming forms by Tuesday February 19th. We will be sending the ability form information to the pool so we need to have all forms back by then.

We are still looking for volunteers to help in the change rooms during our week of swimming, especially male volunteers. If you have your CBE police clearance and are available to volunteer please email me and I will send home a volunteer form. 

Thursday February 14th and Friday February 15th is Teacher's Convention. No School

Monday February 18th is Family Day-No School

Thursday February 21st is our field trip to Fort Calgary