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.

Pumpkin Exploration

The students will now be the ones blogging. Here's what they had to say about our pumpkin exploration. We found out what was inside the pumpkin.  It was orange slime and seeds. We counted the seeds.  One pumpkin had 430 seeds and the other had 360 seeds. We decided that counting by 10's was the most efficient way.  We made a bunch of groups of 10. We also counted the lines on our pumpkins. We weighed our pumpkins. We have decided to try and grow a stem.  Stay tune to see what happens. 

Grade 1 Elections

With the Canadian elections taking place today,  I decided this would be a great teaching opportunity.
We began our elections by meeting our candidates, Scaredy Squirrel, Spike the Hedgehog and Spot the Dog.  We then sat through the campaign speeches. Finally, the time had come to vote.  One by one we went to the voting station and voted for the best class Prime Minister. Once everyone had a chance to vote for their favourite candidate,we had to decide how to count the votes.  We then incorporated some math and discussed how we could use a tally to help us get the results. We practiced counting by 5's.  It was a close race but Spike the Hedgehog won by 3 votes.

  Meet our new class Prime Minister, Spike the Hedgehog. 

Pattern

Over the last few days we wrapped up our patterning unit.  We really enjoyed sorting stuff , playing musical patterns and creating various patterns with changing attribute.  To wrap up the unit we read the book "Pattern Fish"by Trudy Harris, then we created our own under the sea pictures with many different patterns.  Check them out!! See how many patterns you can find.

Celebration

All four grade 1 classes got together this morning to give thanks. We prayed, laughed and ate some delicious fruit salad together. What wonderful way to begin our day. 

Happy Thanksgiving!

Clean up the capital

Today the students took their learning outside.  We worked together and had fun cleaning up our school yard. We learned about the importance of a clean and safe environment.

St. Emily Retreat

Yesterday was are school wide retreat, the students enjoyed a morning of singing and dancing. Everyone had a great time, while learning about the importance of loving each other.