Jan 20 - 24

Hello Parents/Guardians! 

W.O.W (Words of the Week) Words: 

1. soon
2. our
3. ate
4. say
5. under

Weekly Highlights:

• This week we continued to learn about 2D shapes.  We practiced identifying how objects are different and the same in order to sort them into different groups.  We sorted using a variety of attributes such as: shape, size, design, number of sides, number of corners, etc. We practiced naming a variety of shapes and looked at how 2D shapes can be put together to create different pictures.  We enjoyed working with the tangram shapes and geoboards and be using these again next week.
• In Science we learned about what animals do in the winter.  We learned about the 3 ways that they survive the winter: adapt, hibernate, and migrate.  We watched videos, read books, and discussed our own experiences with animals in the winter.  We finished our winter people for our hallway bulletin board and have put them up.  They are looking great!
• Due to the bitter cold this week we spent all week inside.  We enjoyed some free time building, colouring, and reading.  We are looking forward to getting back outside next week!

Reminders:

Science Experiment: 

Next week the grade 1 students will be learning about their five senses. During the “taste” station they will have the opportunity to taste five different jelly beans and guess the flavour.

The ingredient list for the jelly beans is as follows;

Glucose, sugar syrup, modified corn starch, citric acid, natural and artificial flavour, shellac, salt, beeswax, carrauba wax, colour

If you do NOT want your child to participate in the jelly bean taste station please email your child’s teacher by Monday, January 20 to let them know.

Thank you,

The Grade 1 Team

Judy Cook  jbcook@cbe.ab.ca

Mel McGivern memcgivern@cbe.ab.ca

Heather Boston hgboston@cbe.ab.ca

Alyssa Pawlak ahpawlak@cbe.ab.ca

Vanessa Peirra vapereira@cbe.ab.ca

Field Trips:

Unfortunately, due to class sizes, my class is no longer going to the Glenbow Museum on Monday, February 24^th but we are now going with Ms. Peirra’s class on Tuesday, February 25^th. If you have your security clearance and would like to volunteer for this field trip please contact Kirsten Ledergerber at kcutress@hotmail.com.  Please watch the field trip forms which will be going home near the end of January.  The cost of the field trip is $20.00.  Please log into your Power School account to pay this fee.  If you have any issues with payment please contact the office at 403-777-6660. 

Simons Valley Reads/Mathletes:

We are excited to bring back two programs, Simons Valley Reads

and Simons Valley Mathletes. Both programs were a HUGE success because of volunteers such as you!  We are hoping to run an 8 week program of both SVS Reads and Mathletes starting January 28th for 1 hour a week.

Here is a brief description of the two programs (little different from last year) but just as impactful!

SVS Reads

To support our Grade One/ Two/ Three students, we are looking for parent

volunteers who would be able to come once a week for an

hour and work with two students. Volunteers would work with a student for 20 minutes each practicing high frequency words, sentence work and of course, reading a short story. All of the materials will be provided for you!

SVS Mathletes

The second program, Simons Valley Mathletes is a program designed to

help our grade 3 to 6 students develop proficiency in mathematics. The focus this year will be to strengthen basic math facts. With this program, as SVS Reads, we are looking for parent volunteers who would be able to come once a week for an hour and work with two students. Volunteers would work with each student for 20 minutes making numbers, practicing basic math facts and then playing a math game. All of the materials will be provided for you.

If you are interested in volunteering with either program, please contact us at ggdavidoff@cbe.ab.ca or bghordern@cbe.ab.ca before January 14th.

Ask Me About:

1. To look for these shapes in your environment: triangle, square, rectangle, pentagon, rhombus, hexagon, octagon.
2. Tell what what these words mean and give an example of an animal that does this:

1. hibernate 
2. adapt
3. migrate
2. Read, read, read!!