WELCOME TO 1A!

Welcome back to a new school year.  I'm excited to be working with you and your child.  A brief information package was sent home in your child's agenda in the front pocket.  Please take some time to review it as there is important information about some of the rules and procedures for the classroom.  If you could also ensure all forms are returned to school at your earliest convenience, it would be much appreciated.

I look forward to a great year!

Until next post,

Ms. Kim

Welcome back everyone! I hope you all enjoyed your March break. As you probably know, the students have finished letter writing in our Language Program as they completed their culminating task of writing a letter and sending off Flat Stanley.  Please note that the letters have been sent, so check with the recipient to see if they have received it. The students have also finished their brief unit on Symmetry.  We will review once more sometime this week.  However, we will begin our new unit: Time.  The students are expected to know to the hour and half our.  As for Science and Social Studies, the students continue to work on the project.  This project is based on the teaching methods I have learned from the numerous workshops I have taken this year.  It is an initiative that TDSB is implementing which is based on more of an inquiry based approach to learning.  It helps students to have a deeper understanding of the topic and begin to solve problems using different perspectives. Already, they have learned the strategy "Pro-Pro", which is looking at opposing views by only analyze the positives of both and creating a third model based on the positives of both.

The students continue to work on letter writing during their writing block.  They are quite familiar with the different parts of a letter and are now beginning to add detail to the body of their letters.  We will soon start the Flat Stanley Project to finish the unit.  All of the information about Flat Stanley will be sent at the end of the week.  In math, the students have been learning different addition strategies such as doubles and counting on.  Ask your child to explain both these strategies to you.  The students should have been reviewing these at home on IXL.  In Social Studies and Science, we have been working on structures and the local community.  The students will be conducting an inquiry "project" to help improve the school's garbage and recycling needs as the culminating task for both structures and the local community.

Happy Snowy Monday!

The students have started their new writing unit: Letter Writing.  They have been learning that there are 5 parts to a letter.  Ask your child if she/he can label the parts: Heading, Salutation, Body, Closure and Signature.  We have been busy writing to teachers and we will be writing letters to different people, such as our learning buddies.  In Math, the students have been making number books.  The books compose and decompose numbers to 20.  That is, the book shows how numbers can be shown in different ways.  We will be working on number sentences (addition) this week.  We have also started our Science unit on Structures.  See if your child can identify a few structures at home.

Hello everyone,

I apologize for the late update!

Most students have finished their presentations on their procedures.  The procedure with the rubric will be coming home at the end of this week.  You should have also seen your child bring home their math unit on measurement with their evaluation mark. This week, we will begin our new writing unit on letter writing and continue to retell stories and make connections during our reading block.  In math, the students have been working on two and three dimensional shapes and figures.  Your child should have brought home a cube and square-based pyramid made our of toothpicks and marshmallows along with a paper cube.  We have introduced the different shapes and figures as there are many to learn.  We will however, be looking at the different edges, vertices, and faces as we progress in the unit.  This week, the students should complete IXL I.1 and I.2.  These two strands will help identify the 2D and 3D shapes/figures.  We have also started addition in math by looking at all the different ways to add to a particular number.  Ask your child all the ways to add to the number 4 (0+4, 1+3, 2+2, 3+1, and 4+0). In our Local Community unit, the students have been identifying significant community helpers and how they satisfy our needs and wants.  They made riddles to guess particular community helpers.  The riddles will go home at the end of the week.