Merci on behalf of 1C!

Thank you all for coming last night to celebrate with your child their successes this year! It really shows me how invested you all are as parents in their learning and that is more support to me as a teacher than you can realize!

Just a reminder that we have a Junior ATB deposit day tomorrow. If you don't have an account for your child and are interested or have questions about the program feel free to ask me, as I am the teacher rep for Junior ATB.

Here's a few photos from Math today! We are learning to count in different ways (by 2,5 and 10). I tried giving them a few real life examples of when we'd count by grouping! If you encounter ways at home, share it with your child and maybe they can share what they counted with the class!

 



Have a great weekend and watchout for our February newsletter coming soon!

Student Led Conferences Tomorrow

Tomorrow we invite you into our classroom anytime between 4:30 and 6:30 to celebrate your child's progress so far this year! The students will be in charge of showing you through their portfolio. This should take between 10 and 15 minutes. At the end I ask that you have a discussion with your child to complete a reflection form. If you do not have time to complete this during your visit, I would ask that you complete it at home and then return it to school.

I look forward to seeing you all tomorrow!

Day 88 of Grade 1

Can you believe that your child is almost half way through their school year in Grade 1!

Here are a few items concerning next week:

- Student Led Conferences: Wednesday from 4:30 to 6:30
Come celebrate your child's successes so far this year! Let them guide you through their portfolio to look at their progress and celebrate their learning. This is drop in style as it is not a meeting with me, but with your child. At the end of the conference I would ask that you fill in a 2 stars and a wish with your child and leave it on your way out. I look forward to seeing you all and watching the kids as they take the reigns on showing you their work!

- Library is Thursday next week.

- Daily 5 update: We are starting our Écoute la lecture portion of Daily 5 next week. If you are able, I would ask that you send in a pair of headphones labelled with your childs name. We will be using these for this centre. Thanks in advance for those headphones I have already received!

Here is a look at our artwork this week! We made a 5 senses Bonhomme Carnaval, to represent our 5 senses but create excitement for our upcoming Carnaval week here at St. Thomas.

Have a great weekend!

Past, Present and Future

Well here goes the first blog post of the New Year! I have many exciting things to share!

Firstly items for this week:

Tuesday- Retro Day: Bring out the neon and bellbottom pants!
Wednesday- Mustache Day: What kind of crazy mustache can you come up with?
                  - Saintly Gardens 1:15 p.m.-2:15 p.m.
Thursday- Twin Day: Come dressed as one of your friends!
Friday- Seniors Day: What will you look like 60 years from now?
           - Mass at École St. Thomas at 9:30 a.m.

Today we had 17 participants in our Pyjama Day! Bravo 1C!!


Take Home Reading:

Today your child should have came home with an orange page explaining our new and improved Take Home Reading system. ALL students need to bring reading envelopes to school EVERY DAY. This method of doing Take Home Reading is the beginnings of teaching students the lifelong skill of choosing the ``just right`` books.

Here is the acronym in English: (In French we have our own called CRICC)

I- I pick a book
P- Purpose- What is my purpose for choosing this book?
I- Interest- Am I interested in this book?
C- Comprehend- Do I understand what I just read?
K- Know- Do I know most of the words?


L to J-

We got our 3rd All Time High last week in L to J spelling with 89/ 168!! Bravo 1C! I encourage you to continue to work the word list at home picking 3 to 5 words a week. If you need this list again, please let me know.