January in Grade One

 

Happy New Year to all families of Grade One students !

It's been a very busy month for our students since we've returned to school this chilly, January after Christmas break.

Our English Language Arts program is continuing to expand and grow as students' reading is improving regularly with the help of parents' input by enforcing regular home reading and practising of sight words. Thank you families for your continued support of your child's literacy growth in these ways!  Additionally, we have started to implement both Literacy Centres as well as Numeracy Centres on alternating mornings with exciting, interactive groups that reinforce both literacy and numeracy skills! We're having so much fun in these literacy and numeracy groups, we don't even realize how much we're actually learning at the same time!

In Social Studies, we're finishing our unit on “All About Me” with our “About Me” bags that students filled and took turns presenting in front of their peers. We all learned more about each other through the sharing and presentation of our “About Me” bags!

We're also finishing our Science unit on our Five Senses with some blindfold activities to see if we can identify our peers based on their voices only as well as identifying different foods based on their smells! These blindfold activities have been so much fun!

In our Art classes, the students have enjoyed experimenting with oil pastels and cotton swabs to create snowmen and explosive fireworks with pastels and glitter to celebrate the New Year, 2026!  Additionally, the class created winter self portraits bundled in scarves and tuques! Their creativity in their artwork is quite beautiful and breathtaking!

In spite of all the indoor recesses due to our bitterly cold weather, the students are to be commended for how well they have been playing together and sharing the toys, puzzles and games during indoor recess! I'm so proud of them for their growth, both academically and socially!  

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