Autumn, Patterns, and Movement

Here's a peek into what we have been up to in 1B:

The Fox and the Falling Leaves is a sweet story and one of our theme books. We completed an art project starring Fletcher and lovely watercolour leaves.

Autumn writing: Students wrote a poem called Farewell Summer, Hello Fall. We brainstormed ideas and students chose what they would include in their poem. In Grade One writing goals include: appropriate use of capital and lowercase letters, spacing, neatness, and punctuation (if needed). We have some very neat printers in 1B!

More writing: We are Thankful for... 

Finally, we read a story called There was an Old Lady who Swallowed a Pie. Students completed a sequencing activity and we created a class book, 'We know an Old Lady who swallowed a_____.' Students brought home a Thanksgiving Reader along with their regular Home Reading and 5 new Rainbow words.

New Math unit! We started a Patterning unit. Students identified patterns in the classroom, built and copied patterns. We learned patterns can be seen and also heard! We played a game where we created and repeated hand clapping patterns. 

In Science we started a new unit on the Senses.  We did an experiment using our 5 Senses with popcorn and enjoyed exploring our sense of touch using Feely bags.

In Phys. Ed. this week we participated in Movement stations. Lots of fun was had while we developed fundamental skills!