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Last Week of School!

Wow! Last full week of Grade 1! This has been a truly amazing year and we love having each and every one of your children in our class! Looking back In UFLI we did a vowel team review and practiced all of the vowel teams we have learned. If you are looking for something to practice over the summer this would be great!  We had a blast creating our animal habitats out of paint, paper and various materials that we may have brought in. We also created our animals out of plasticine. We hope you enjoyed our dioramas! In math we continued on with solving our zoo mystery and some students moved onto a new mystery about superheroes.  We celebrated the summer solstice by learning about Indigenous people that live way up north where there is sunlight for 24 hours on the first day of summer. It would be pretty neat to go outside at midnight and have it be light out! We also celebrated National Indigenous Peoples Day by reading a story called “Sometimes I Feel Like a Fox”. We learned a little bit a
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Time to do Research!

  Looking Back This week in UFLI we continued to talk about vowel teams. We learned that the long i sound can be spelled using 2 different vowel teams, ‘igh,’ ‘ie.’ We learned that igh is usually in the middle or at the end of a word and that ‘ie’ comes at the end of words. We did lots of practice in order to become more familiar with spelling words with this rule. There is only 1 reading passage in our UFLI folder this week in order to practice this skill. In science we started our animal research! We used the computer to go onto pebblego and look up our animal as well as using our non-fiction books to fill in our research page. We also went onto arthub to do a nice guided drawing of our animal. We will be finishing these up next week.  We also finished up our plant work by painting our root vegetables art. We turned our bean plants into a special something that we are bringing home today. In math, we worked on a mystery! An animal has escaped from the zoo and we need to figure out wh
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Farewell Ducklings!

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  Friday, June 7, 2024 Farewell to our adorable ducklings!  Thank you for all you have taught us! We had a wonderful final week with you. We will miss you! Looking Back   This week in UFLI we continued to talk about vowel teams. We learned that the long o sound can be spelled using 3 different vowel teams, ‘oa,’ ‘ow,’ and ‘oe.’ We discovered it is really tricky to know when to choose ‘oa’ or ‘ow’ and that ‘oe’ usually makes the long o sound at the end of a word. We did lots of practice in order to become more familiar with which words have ‘oa’ and which words have ‘ow.’ There is only 1 reading passage in our UFLI folder this week in order to practice this tricky skill. We sang a song about Plant Needs this week and talked about how we can care for a plant to keep it healthy and strong. We wrote a creative story about what would happen if we planted magic seeds and came up with many interesting ideas about what might grow. In science we drew and labelled the parts of our bean plant. We
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We have ducklings!

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We arrived to a big surprise on Monday morning! Two ducklings had hatched over the weekend and were peeping and peering out of the incubator ready to come out and play with us. A third little duck was beginning to hatch and we were able to watch it pop out of its shell on Monday as we were beginning our school day. On Tuesday, another duckling pipped (poked a hole in its shell) and by Wednesday morning it had hatched as well. We were so excited to name our ducklings and welcome them to our classrooms. Ask your child to tell you what their names are (Lemon, Chocolate Chip, Cocoa and Marshmallow).  Looking Back This week in UFLI we continued to talk about vowel teams. We learned that the long e sound can be spelled using 3 different vowel teams, ‘ee,’ ‘ea,’ and ‘ey.’ We discovered it is really tricky to know when to choose ‘ee’ or ‘ea’ and that ‘ey’ usually makes the long e sound at the end of a word. We did lots of practice in order to become more familiar with which words have ‘ee’ and
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We went to the zoo, zoo, zoo!

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Looking Back We had a short but busy week here in Grade 1! We had so much fun at the zoo on Wednesday! The weather held off for the most part and we had a great day learning about the arctic and explore the other animals.  This week in UFLI we began to talk about vowel teams. We learned that ‘ai’ and ‘ay’ both make the long /a/ sound. When we hear the long /a/ sound at the end of a word it’s ‘ay’. We discovered that it is really tricky to know when to use ‘ai’ or bossy e and we just need to practice so we become more familiar with the words we are spelling. There is only 1 reading passage in our UFLI folder this week as it was a short but busy week! We continued to research polar bears and learned all about what polar bears eat. Ask your child what they learned! We also candled our eggs for the last time before we had to lock down the incubator. We are on hatch watch starting on Monday! We are so excited to see how many ducklings we will get.  In math we continued to learn about balanc
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Happy Long Weekend!

Looking back This week in UFLI we continued our learning about r-controlled vowel sounds. We learned about ‘ir’ and ‘ur’ and how they both make the /er/ sound (and also ‘or’ if there is a ‘w’ in front of it). We also reviewed and practiced all the previous r controlled vowels we have learned. The roll and read game this week is a great way to practice all the r-controlled vowels.  We continued to work on our stories that have a problem and a solution. This week we wrote 2 ways our character tried to solve the problem but neither one worked. Next week we are hoping to finish them up!  In science we candled our eggs and had a good close look of what was happening inside. We even saw some movement in one of the eggs! We also started a polar bear research book to get ready for our learning at the zoo. We used a video and a book to learn about what polar bears look like. Did you know that a polar bear’s paw can be as big as a dinner plate!! In math we did a word problem asking how many more
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Happy Mother's Day!

Looking Back This week in UFLI we continued our learning about r-controlled vowel sounds. We reviewed and practiced the sounds /ar/, /or/, and /ore/. We also learned the /er/ sound. We learned that it can come in the middle or at the end of a word. We practiced reading and writing words such as herd, other, fern, sister. Please see your child’s orange UFLI folder for a game to practice these phonics skills and 2 short reading passages to read together. We learned a song about the past and began our learning in Social Studies about our community in the past. We looked at several pictures of things that we have now compared to what they used for the same function in the past. This sparked some very interesting questions and conversations. Keep your eyes open next week for a little project we would like your child to do to further enhance our learning about the past.  Thank you to all who have sent in a baby picture of your child for our “Guess Who?” game that we are hoping to do next wee
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