May 4-8

It's Education Week!

Monday: Peer Teaching! Our 3 Peer Teachers (Kadie, Cole, and Brayden), will be teaching groups of students from other classes all about Planting. While the rest of the class will be attending 3 sessions led by other Peer Teachers. Some of the sessions include: paper folding, flags, interesting animals, and basketball. It is sure to be a great day of learning for all!

Tuesday: Volunteers from the Lion's Club will be coming to read to us.

Wednesday: Early Dismissal 2:15pm

Friday: Assembly 8:45am

May Special Events!

We have 3 In-school Fieldtrips in May!

May 12th: Clay Guy
May 14th: Author Visit 'The Gingerbread Teacher'
May 27th: Teachers' Pet 'Build a Zoo'

Please visit Powerschool to give permission/pay for these special activities. Thank you!

May Long Weekend/Midterm Break is May 15-18th.

Bike Safety is upcoming May 25-29. Students will need a bike and helmet. We have a few at school. You can help prepare  for this week by practicing at home and helping your child feel confident on his/her bike. We will require volunteers for this week to bike with us. Let me know if you are able to join us!

Curriculum Update for May/June

ELA: Our focus from now until the end of the year will be Fairytales, Storytelling, and Reader's Theatre. We will continue our Daily 5 with Guided Reading and Writing. Our Word Work will change as we have complete all our Rainbow Words, yay! We are going to be using the Words Their Way spelling program for the final 2 months of Grade 1. Students will be doing word sorts at their level. Sorts include sorting words by their beginning sounds, vowels, or endings.

Math: We will be finishing our Measurement this week by exploring area, capacity, and weight. The final two units of study in Grade One are 2D/3D shapes and Addition and Subtraction to 20.

Science: We will finish our planting unit, do a building things unit, and then finish up with a taking care of animals mini-unit, as well as finish looking at Seasonal Changes!

Social: We are continuing our study of our Community and then will look at Changes in our Community over Time as we study a bit of History.

We will be very busy during the final months of school! Rest up!