Grade 1

    Grade One has been very focused on practising our phonics and reading skills this month. Our Home Reading program is in full swing now as students have been bringing levelled books home to read daily to a parent each night to improve fluency. Please keep up with this everyday, parents! Additionally, we've worked on 4 Spelling units with a spelling test each Friday and we're working on complete sentence structures. We've changed our daily calendar activity to an independent calendar for each student with an AB pattern for the 1 to 31 days of October as well as creating a graph of the weather . We continue to reinforce counting as a class to 100 by one, twos, fives and tens using our 100 chart. We're also doing picture math for addition and subtraction making sure we watch for either an addition or subtraction sign when doing our calculating . In Social Studies , we continue to explore the concept of   “self” and ideas of how we fit into our family and the community...