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March Updates

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  Hello Grade One Families, We've gotten some whispers of it already - spring is on the way. You heard it right!  March is the start of spring which also means the clocks spring forward, flowers bloom, and people get excited for the warmer months ahead. This goes the same with the Grade One class, we can't wait for a whole bunch of upcoming activities in our classroom. But first, here's a look back of what we did last February as one of our I Love to Read Month activities. I promised to give you a snapshot of our display board, so here you go. Below is a picture of our 'craftivity" that is based on the book called, "The Giving Tree" by Shel Siverstein. This month, our focus in Religion is on the Lent Season. We will be making a Lent Lapbook and completing the Lenten Calendar Challenge. We talked about ways of showing love for Jesus by doing something for Him each day. And so our challenge is to complete the "My 2025 Lenten Calendar", where they ...
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February Updates

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  Hello Grade One Families,           Just like that, another month has passed and Valentine's Day is just around the corner. This is a great time to discuss friendship with our kids, and build some social-emotional skills. In relation to this, the class will read a book called,  "The Giving Tree" , by Shel Silverstein., and we will be learning about sharing, loving and kindness. Along with this is a craft that we will be doing to integrate it with Art and I can't wait to share their "craftivity" which we will put on our bulletin board, SOON! Another ELA activity that we've been working on is the "Build a Snowman Phonics". In this activity, students are to complete different tasks focusing on CVC and silent E words, initial and ending blends, R-controlled vowels, long vowel patterns, and the digraphs and double consonants. After they complete a task, they earn the parts of a snowman like the hat, nose, scarf, etc. Not only that they're hav...
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January Updates

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  Happy New Year Grade One Families! Here's to an exceptional 2025 together! Cheers! I hope everyone had a relaxing and restful Christmas Break considering how busy we have been last month. This has been an amazing start to the year and I'm looking forward to a great one with the class. First, I would like to share with you how successful and meaningful the Culminating Activity of our Christmas Kindness Challenge was. On the last day of school just before the Christmas Break, we all sat in a circle to lay baby Jesus in the crib that the students have placed straws (real straws) in. We began by saying our Christmas Prayer then we sang the song, "Away in a Manger." It was a very special and joyful moment for us because we have felt the presence of Jesus in our hearts. It was truly an incredible experience that I am so proud to be doing with my Grade One students. This was taken during our Culminating Activity Moving on, this month, we will be looking at Characteristics ...
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December Updates

  Dear Grade One Families, The holidays are just around the corners, which means that there will be a lot of things happening in and out of the classroom. In ELA, we will focus on the long vowels and consonant-vowel-consonant pattern for phonics. This month, we will be doing a Christmas Reader's Theater where students get to practice and read aloud their lines for the plays, giving them an opportunity to build reading fluency and improve their communication skills. Not only do the students have the opportunity to practice specific phonics skills, they also get to make character headbands, necklaces or puppets. I am so thrilled for this activity! In Religion, we will be looking at learning about Advent as the season in which we get ready to celebrate Jesus Christ's birth at Christmas. To make it more meaningful for the first graders, we are making a Christmas Lapbook. These lapbooks are mini books of foldables about the same topic that are organized and kept together in a file f...
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