Grade 1

Hello Grade One Families, HAPPY FALL! What a great start to the 2023-24 school year! It has been a pleasure to meet my Grade One families joining in our Meet the Teacher Night in early September. I can't wait to take this journey with you of educating and making learning fun for the First Graders. This month, my main focus is on teaching alphabet sounds and sight words, but throwing in some fun activities that are themed to make kiddos more engaged in learning new content. There will also be some guided reading and Daily 5 activities that are introduced where students work in five different literacy stations. In math, we have been working on Number Sense where students represent numbers in different ways like the written form, dots, objects, ten frames, fingers, etc. Looking back, last month, we made a beautiful art project in connection to the Truth and Reconciliation activity. We learned as a class that it is important to build respect, understanding, and empathy and that every o