Grade 1 Mrs Fell/Mrs Watson MTS

  May. 25-29 Looking Back: We had a great time at the Calgary Zoo on Thursday! We had so much fun observing the different animals and learning all about penguins!   This week in UFLI we learned about something called a final stable syllable. This is a syllable that comes at the end of a word and always makes the same sound. This week we focussed on the final stable syllable -le. We practiced reading and writing words like “apple, puzzle, jungle, uncle” etc.) We also reviewed different ending patterns of words. These are the ending patterns we have learned so far: -ILD, -IND, -OLD, -OST, -OLT, y spells /i/, y spells /e/ and -LE at the end of a word. Our new heart word this week was people.  Our bean plants have been growing a lot and are very tall! This week we observed our plants and learned about the different parts of a plant. We sketched our bean plants and labelled the seed, roots, stem, leaves and buds. We noticed lots of cool things like veins on the leaves and...

  May. 19-22 Looking Back: This week in UFLI we learned about the different sounds that letter Y can make at the end of a word. We learned that when letter Y comes at the end of a one syllable word, it makes the long /i/ sound, like at the end of the words “my” and “fly”. We learned that Y can also make the long /e/ sound at the end of long words with two or more syllables, like “baby” and “puppy”. Our new heart words this week were four and fourth.  In science we started a new unit about energy and movement. We learned about direction, speed and pathway. We used our knowledge of different pathways (straight, curvy, zig zag, spiral) to describe how animals move.  In Social Studies we learned about the difference between sharing and trading. We also discussed different ways people trade, such as buying and bartering. We learned that buying and selling uses money and bartering is the exchange of goods and services.  Our plants have been growing! Take a look at how tal...

  Looking Back: Happy May Long Weekend!  See everyone on Tuesday! In this UFLI lesson, students learned about the spelling patterns -tch and -dge at the end of words. These patterns are used after a short vowel sound . For example, students explored words such as catch, patch, and bridge . They practiced listening for sounds, reading words, spelling words, and using sentence patterns. Students learned that: -tch is often used after a short vowel to spell the /ch/ sound (e.g., match, itch ). -dge is often used after a short vowel to spell the /j/ sound (e.g., badge, edge ). Through games, word building, reading practice, and writing activities, students strengthened their phonics and decoding skills while building confidence in reading and spelling unfamiliar words.  Take some time this week to practice reading the Decodables and Roll and Read in your UFLi folder.  We learned 3 new sight words this week: woman, women and move.  In Math, we finished up our ad...

  Looking Back: It was Mental Health Week at MTS! This week we had discussions focused around mental health and we talked about different ways to take care of ourselves. We also wore our hats on Wednesday for “Hats on for Mental Health.”  This week in UFLI we learned about open and closed syllables. We reviewed that a syllable is a word or a part of a word with one vowel sound. We learned that closed syllables end with a consonant sound (VC) and make the vowel sound short. ( hop, kick, fast) . We also learned that an open syllable ends with a vowel sound and does not have any consonant following it (V). In these words, the vowel sound is long. ( hi, go she). We also reviewed compound words this week and practiced writing the first and second syllable in a word before combining them. Ex.) sun + set (sunset). Our new heart words this week were friend and because.   In math this week, we focused on number bonds and using the part-part-whole number model. We practiced solving...

  April 27-May1 Looking Back: In UFLI  we learned 3 new rules for making longer words (-es, -ed and -ing). We learned that adding -es to the end of words that end in -ch, -sh, -s, -x, and -z makes the sound /is/.  The ending -ed, has 3 sounds (-d, -id, and -t) and you can add -ing to your words.  Practice reading these words with the roll and read this week.  Students learned 6 new heart words this week, two, does, many, any, been and into.  We have sent home two decodables to read this week.  Your reading challenge is to try to read for 6 minutes everyday! In Math, students continued to practice their addition and subtraction facts.  We have been talking about accuracy (getting the right answer) and fluency (being able to recall facts quickly).  As well, we began exploring the idea of related facts through fact families and number bonds.  Students saw the connection between addition and subtraction. In Science, we planted some vegetable...