January Updates

 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 and Needs of Living Things in Science. We will learn to use appropriate vocabulary related to their investigations of characteristics and needs of living things. Moreover, students will learn to ask questions that lead to explorations of living things, objects, and events in the immediate environment.

In Social Studies, we will be looking at Cluster 2: My Environment. The lessons include identifying our province and our country, the official languages of Canada, identifying characteristics of communities and some community helpers. As part of our activity, the class will be having a "Community Helper Dress Up Day", where students will be able to dress up like the community helper they want to be when they grow up. This is a good opportunity for students to share and teach the class where the community helper works, what they do for work, and how they help the community.

In ELA, we will continue with our Christmas Reader's Theater as we have two more plays left to do. And by the way, the Grade Ones were so engaged and excited to make their headband props and I'm so proud to see how good they are at reading their lines.
In Phonics, we will continue working on syllabication and will start learning the initial and final consonant blends. 

This would be all for now. Please stay tuned for more updates!


Yours in Christ,

Mrs. Talaroc


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