Mrs. Jolicoeur and Mrs. O'Donnell's Grade 1
Welcome to our class website! Here you will find curriculum highlights, important information, upcoming events, homework details, and links to websites for helpful resources and extra practice.
Tuesday, May 31, 2016
Tuesday, April 5, 2016
Our wonders!
Coding |
Coding without technology. |
Coding using "Scratch Jr." |
Measuring with our homemade rulers. |
Measuring Mrs. J. |
We read this book about a class stranded on an island. Then we used the knowledge we had about shapes and structure to build something to get back them back on land. |
Exploring perimeter |
Wednesday, February 3, 2016
Last month we discovered 2D shapes and symmetry. We explored the shapes using a variety of learning activities such as playing guessing games, sorting shapes, going on a scavenger hunt. We also created Epiphany pictures using only shapes. We had a blast exploring symmetry. We played copy cat with a partner and created amazing designs.
Joel found some coloured ice outside at recess. That got us wondering about ice and crystals. We began an inquiry on crystals and ice. It's only been a few weeks but we've already made many great discoveries. Did you know that water freezes at 0C or that when ice from outside melts there is stuff in it? Gross! We also discovered that you can colour water to make coulourful ice cubes.
We have also created a 100 hundreds chart and found some patterns hiding in the chart. We found counting by 1's. (Juliana), counting by 2's (Kamar), skip counting by 10's (Oliver), skip counting by 5's (Jake). We have also been using are double strategy to help us solve other math problems.
Monday, December 14, 2015
How Time Flies!!!
We have been so busy this month that we haven't had a chance to blog about all the cool and exciting things we have been up to. We figured out that we are now 67 days smarter. We have been very busy at our math work stations inquiring about different number combinations, counting by 2's to 50 and 5's and 10's to 100. We turned the book area into a bookstore to help us learn about money. Everyone wanted to be the cashier. We also learned about time to the hour. We had to do jumping jacks to find out of long a minute was. Last week, we participated in the hour of code. We are becoming junior computer programmer. It was a blast! Check out the pictures of us in actions.
Working with numbers |
Number train |
Coding with Scratch Jr. |
Hour of Code. |
Wednesday, November 18, 2015
Meet our new class robots
Tuesday, November 10, 2015
Thursday, October 29, 2015
Math Work Station
Every morning we spend 15 minutes at our math work stations. We play games to help us learn how to add and take away. We learn to count by 5's and 10's. We are also learning to use different math strategies such as doubles, grouping and more/less. We also learn through technology by playing cool games like Dreambox and Mathletics.
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