Grade 1 Mrs Fell/Mrs Watson MTS

Looking Back: In UFLI this week, we learned all about letters /C/ and /U/. We practiced printing both uppercase and lowercase letters. We are getting really good at using the lines on our page! We learned the sound for letter Cc/Uu and drew pictures in our journals of things that start with this letter sound. See if your child can tell you what they drew! Our new heart words this week were “to” and “do”. This week, we also learned a new way to play our “Roll and Read” game, which has been added to our UFLI folders. This game can be played at home to help practice decoding skills and reading words.  Wondering how you can support reading at home?  Every week, we put 3 new tasks into students' blue duotangs.  Decodable Passages - These passages use skills taught during the week and previously covered concepts.  Practice reading these at home, independently or with support is a great way to review and practice our reading skills.  Think of this as our home reading ...

Looking Back: In UFLI this week, we learned all about letter /Dd/. We practiced printing both uppercase and lowercase letters. We are getting really good at using the lines on our page! We learned the sound for letter Dd and drew pictures in our journals of things that start with this letter sound. See if your child can tell you what they drew! Our new heart word this week was “said”. This week we also learned how to play a new “Roll and Read” game which has been added to our UFLI folders. This game can be played at home to help practice decoding skills and reading words.  In Social Studies this week, we began exploring the topic of Identity and Belonging.  Students discussed attributes that make us who we are.  Some ideas they came up with were what we like, our families, activities we do, and groups we belong to.  Students drew their own ideas on a page in their visual journals. We have been practicing counting, reading and writing numbers to 20. We have been learn...

Looking Back: In literacy this week, we learned about two different letter sounds. The first one was nasalized “a”. We learned that this is a tricky sound that the letter a can make when it is followed by the letter “m” or “n”. It can be found in words like ham, fan, and ant. See if your child can tell you a word that has this tricky sound! We also learned a new vowel this week: letter “O”. Students practiced printing uppercase and lowercase letters and drew picture of things that begin with the letter “Oo” in their books.  *UFLI folders have been sent home in student backpacks. They contain three new sheets (a weekly overview and 2 new decodable passages). See if your child can practice reading the new passages to someone at home. Folders can be returned to school every Thursday. Thank-you!  This week in math, we had a special visit from Zero the Hero for our 30th day of school! He brought us a special challenge with number lines this week. We learned that a number line is a ...

It has been an exciting week!  Students were excited about returning to school, catching up with their friends and Halloween! For those of you heading out Trick or Treating this evening, have fun and be safe! In Math this week, we played some math games and practiced counting to 100.  As well, we did some pumpkin math.  Students helped measure the height, circumference and weight.  As well, we guessed how many seeds are in our pumpkin.  Students learned that a pumpkin can float when we tested it.  We will continue learning about pumpkins next week! In literacy this week we learned all about the letter Nn! We learned how to make the sound and practiced reading and writing words that start and end with this letter.Students practiced printing uppercase and lowercase letters and drew a narwhal in their books.  Our new heart word this week was “ is ”.  *UFLI folders have been sent home in student backpacks. They contain a weekly overview and one new de...

  Hello families! It was a short but busy week in grade one! Here are some of the learning highlights from our week together:  For literacy we were excited to learn a new vowel…. The letter ‘i’! Now we can read and spell even more words! We read our first decodable passages in class this week and they are in our blue folders to practice over the next week. Thank you for your support in this valuable practice time together.  In math we continued our learning with representing numbers to 20 with tally marks. We completed a fun “Write the Room” activity to practice reading tally marks. Zero the Hero also paid us a visit for the 20th day of school! He brought us a new “Robot Race to 20” math game to play. See if your child can tell you how the game is played! Students in Mrs. Watson’s class were excited to meet their buddies in Mrs. Coleman’s grade three class. See if your child can tell you the name of their buddy!  Students spent some reflective time outside as we lear...