Sunday, 8 December 2013

Classroom Happenings

Last week was a busy one in Grade One. We celebrated the conclusion of Channukah with our Grade 7 buddies by making dreidels, we created counting by 5s flowers (which came home on Friday in the children's
home folders) and we started our unit on storybook characters who teach us real life lessons. The below photographs show the students in 1C retelling the story of Wemberly Worried using picture cues:











What a fantastic start to Grade One! We are going to have a fun year!

Teachers and parents really enjoyed looking at your 'The Best Part of Me' project!

Here are a few pictures from the project, can you guess who the pictures belong to?








Last week was a busy one in Grade One. We celebrated the conclusion of Channukah with our Grade 7 buddies by making dreidels, we created counting by 5s flowers (which came home on Friday in the children's
home folders) and we started our unit on storybook characters who teach us real life lessons. The below photographs show the students in 1C retelling the story of Wemberly Worried using picture cues:











What a fantastic start to Grade One! We are going to have a fun year!

Teachers and parents really enjoyed looking at your 'The Best Part of Me' project!

Here are a few pictures from the project, can you guess who the pictures belong to?








Sunday, 1 December 2013

We're Reading For Beads and Focused on High Reading Success

According to leading literacy expert, Richard Allington's research, "extensive reading is critical to the development of reading proficiency (Krashen 2001; Stanovich, 2000). Extensive practice provides the opportunity for students to consolidate the skills and strategies teachers often work so hard to develop...By successful reading, I mean reading experiences where students perform with a high level of reading accuracy, fluency, and comprehension. When a nine-year-old misses as few as two or three words in each one hundred running words of a text, the text may be too hard for effective practice. That text may be appropriate for instructional purposes but developing readers need much more high-success reading than they need instructional difficulty reading. It is the high accuracy, fluent, and easily comprehended reading that provides the opportunities to integrate complex skills and strategies into an automatic, independent reading process".

Starting this week: during our book exchange time, the students will pick a partner to read to in an effort to maximize their reading opportunities.



 

An Art Lesson For Parents


An Art Lesson for Parents
If you have read to your child recently, draw a body; for you have begun to build a very basic part of him.

If you have read to your child about a child like himself, a neighborhood like yours, or a family like yours, put arms on the body; for you have helped your child to find a place in the world and to reach out and embrace this world.

If you and your child have used reading for a specific purpose: to look up a phone number, to read a recipe, to follow a map, to discover an advertised product, draw a head on your child's shoulder; for you have given him a key for unlocking information.

If you read to your child about something far from him, different customs, values, or environments, then put legs on him; for you have given him a way to walk into the world.

If you read a comic, a funny story, or enjoyed a poem together, you have given your child something extra that will add color to his life.

Finish your drawing by putting clothes on your child; for you have given your child warmth, color and style
You have put beauty into your child's life.
-Author Unknown
According to leading literacy expert, Richard Allington's research, "extensive reading is critical to the development of reading proficiency (Krashen 2001; Stanovich, 2000). Extensive practice provides the opportunity for students to consolidate the skills and strategies teachers often work so hard to develop...By successful reading, I mean reading experiences where students perform with a high level of reading accuracy, fluency, and comprehension. When a nine-year-old misses as few as two or three words in each one hundred running words of a text, the text may be too hard for effective practice. That text may be appropriate for instructional purposes but developing readers need much more high-success reading than they need instructional difficulty reading. It is the high accuracy, fluent, and easily comprehended reading that provides the opportunities to integrate complex skills and strategies into an automatic, independent reading process".

Starting this week: during our book exchange time, the students will pick a partner to read to in an effort to maximize their reading opportunities.



 

An Art Lesson For Parents


An Art Lesson for Parents
If you have read to your child recently, draw a body; for you have begun to build a very basic part of him.

If you have read to your child about a child like himself, a neighborhood like yours, or a family like yours, put arms on the body; for you have helped your child to find a place in the world and to reach out and embrace this world.

If you and your child have used reading for a specific purpose: to look up a phone number, to read a recipe, to follow a map, to discover an advertised product, draw a head on your child's shoulder; for you have given him a key for unlocking information.

If you read to your child about something far from him, different customs, values, or environments, then put legs on him; for you have given him a way to walk into the world.

If you read a comic, a funny story, or enjoyed a poem together, you have given your child something extra that will add color to his life.

Finish your drawing by putting clothes on your child; for you have given your child warmth, color and style
You have put beauty into your child's life.
-Author Unknown

Thursday, 7 November 2013

Remembrance Day Poppies


Grade One learned about Remembrance Day this week. Here they are making colourful poppies and writing about this important day.











Grade One learned about Remembrance Day this week. Here they are making colourful poppies and writing about this important day.










Wednesday, 23 October 2013

Short "i" Fun!

In phonics, we have moved onto our next vowel - short "i". Today the students in 1C had lots of fun exploring short "i" in a number of ways. In Grade One we always aim to appeal to a variety of learning styles and we endeavour to incorporate a number of varied activities into our daily practice, including activities that speak to kinesthetic learners, activities that integrate technology into our learning and activities that also allow for paper and pencil learning to take place.



 Max, Levy and Aaron make Short i words using letter cards!


Katie, Celie, Yuval and Olivia go fishing for short "i" words/images


Tali, Callie, Julia and Eden 'build' short i words!


Jack works on a computer game focusing on short "i"



 David and Sam write words and sentences with short i! 


In phonics, we have moved onto our next vowel - short "i". Today the students in 1C had lots of fun exploring short "i" in a number of ways. In Grade One we always aim to appeal to a variety of learning styles and we endeavour to incorporate a number of varied activities into our daily practice, including activities that speak to kinesthetic learners, activities that integrate technology into our learning and activities that also allow for paper and pencil learning to take place.



 Max, Levy and Aaron make Short i words using letter cards!


Katie, Celie, Yuval and Olivia go fishing for short "i" words/images


Tali, Callie, Julia and Eden 'build' short i words!


Jack works on a computer game focusing on short "i"



 David and Sam write words and sentences with short i! 


Thursday, 3 October 2013

Fun with our Grade 7 Buddies!

















Monday, 30 September 2013

Show and Tell

Mia really loved showing us her brand new doll! It is very special to her. 



David showed us his brilliant sand art! He gave so many details and presented incredibly well. 



Aaron presented an amazingly interesting show and tell last week. Sorry I was sick and didn't see it Aaron!


 Sharlotte was a confident and cheerful speaker today. She showed us her American Girl doll, the accessories and a lovely book! 



Tali presented a beautiful show and tell, her brother Yuhudi being the subject. Tali says she was a cheeky toddler! Great job Tali!







For Show and Tell today, Yuval brought her amazing plasticine creations and her special frog toy.



Callie brought her baby brother Michael to school for Show and Tell!



Katie shows us her very special sparkly butterfly brooch.



Jack shows us his super-cool duct tape creation! It's a monster wallet!



Max proudly shows his  lego ship!





Julia shows us her American Girl and book!




Mia really loved showing us her brand new doll! It is very special to her. 



David showed us his brilliant sand art! He gave so many details and presented incredibly well. 



Aaron presented an amazingly interesting show and tell last week. Sorry I was sick and didn't see it Aaron!


 Sharlotte was a confident and cheerful speaker today. She showed us her American Girl doll, the accessories and a lovely book! 



Tali presented a beautiful show and tell, her brother Yuhudi being the subject. Tali says she was a cheeky toddler! Great job Tali!







For Show and Tell today, Yuval brought her amazing plasticine creations and her special frog toy.



Callie brought her baby brother Michael to school for Show and Tell!



Katie shows us her very special sparkly butterfly brooch.



Jack shows us his super-cool duct tape creation! It's a monster wallet!



Max proudly shows his  lego ship!





Julia shows us her American Girl and book!




The Learning has Begun!




Although September has seen many short weeks and some of our learning has followed a stop-start pattern, the learning in 1C has most definitely begun. This term in Math, our focus will centre on NUMBER CONCEPTS. Pulled directly from the Math prescribed learning outcomes for Grade One, the areas we will focus on most in term one are:


o   Saying the number sequence, 0 to 100 by 1s, 2s, 5s and 10s.
o   Recognizing, at a glance, and naming arrangements of up to 10 objects.
o   ‘Counting on’ to determine the number of objects in one or more sets.
o   Representing numbers to 10, concretely and pictorially.
o   Estimating quantities by comparison.
o   Saying one more, two more, one less and two less than a given number up to 20.
o   Demonstrating an understanding of addition and subtraction of numbers to 12 with the use of manipulatives.
o   Creating, extending, reproducing and describing repeating patterns.
 A very important expectation in early numeracy competence involves students being able to SUBITIZE (to perceive the number of a group of items at a glance and without counting -  with a sense of immediacy and automatically). We are practicing this skill by learning to use 10 frames.Incorporating technology into our Math lessons is an important component of our learning. Moreover, group-work facilitates collaboration and cooperative learning, both important catalysts to successful learning. 

Please see our photos below! 





Callie and Julia enjoy making dotty number stories!





David tests Levy's number skills!



Olivia and Eden have fun testing each others' "subitizing" skills using dot cards and ten frames!


Celie and Max practice "subitizing"!


Maya and Katie make repeating patterns on the carpet while Aaron plays an online ten frame game! 


Tali being creative with dot stamps!


Yuval makes dotty number sentences!



Sharlotte and Justin test each other's "subitizing" skills!



Although September has seen many short weeks and some of our learning has followed a stop-start pattern, the learning in 1C has most definitely begun. This term in Math, our focus will centre on NUMBER CONCEPTS. Pulled directly from the Math prescribed learning outcomes for Grade One, the areas we will focus on most in term one are:


o   Saying the number sequence, 0 to 100 by 1s, 2s, 5s and 10s.
o   Recognizing, at a glance, and naming arrangements of up to 10 objects.
o   ‘Counting on’ to determine the number of objects in one or more sets.
o   Representing numbers to 10, concretely and pictorially.
o   Estimating quantities by comparison.
o   Saying one more, two more, one less and two less than a given number up to 20.
o   Demonstrating an understanding of addition and subtraction of numbers to 12 with the use of manipulatives.
o   Creating, extending, reproducing and describing repeating patterns.
 A very important expectation in early numeracy competence involves students being able to SUBITIZE (to perceive the number of a group of items at a glance and without counting -  with a sense of immediacy and automatically). We are practicing this skill by learning to use 10 frames.Incorporating technology into our Math lessons is an important component of our learning. Moreover, group-work facilitates collaboration and cooperative learning, both important catalysts to successful learning. 

Please see our photos below! 





Callie and Julia enjoy making dotty number stories!





David tests Levy's number skills!



Olivia and Eden have fun testing each others' "subitizing" skills using dot cards and ten frames!


Celie and Max practice "subitizing"!


Maya and Katie make repeating patterns on the carpet while Aaron plays an online ten frame game! 


Tali being creative with dot stamps!


Yuval makes dotty number sentences!



Sharlotte and Justin test each other's "subitizing" skills!
 
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