The students have been working hard on their recounts.  Each week they are completing a  rough draft involving their weekend.  They are organizing their recounts to ensure each writing piece includes the 5Ws and having an opening and closing sentence.  Ask your child the type of sentence he/she should end their recounts with.  As for math, the students are learning about symmetry.  Ask your child about the line of symmetry.  We have just started the unit, so they are exploring different objects that are symmetrical.

The grade one students started their new science unit: Energy.  We have started to discuss the different sources of energy and what energy is.  We are still in the very early stages of this unit as the students are trying to figure out what an energy source is.