Mrs. Young's blog

 Today we started with writing in our journals about what we hope to do this summer.  We did calendar and we had literacy centers.  We did Mathletics and Raz Kids on the iPads.  After lunch we did mindfulness.  We had gym.  We worked on our Grade 1 memory books. Please return home reading books or send $5.00 to replace them. Tomorrow is the last day of school. Report cards will be available online tomorrow through your child's CBE account.  Please contact me if you have any questions.

Yesterday we started by writing in our journals.  We had our last drumming session.  We did calendar.  We had literacy centers.  We started a grade one memory book.  After lunch we did mindfulness and changed our home reading books for the last time.  We had gym.  We made origami flowers for our seasons medicine wheel.  We drew a picture of what animals, plants and people do in the summer. Today we started with quiet reading.  We did calendar and we had literacy centers.  We had our last word review.  Please check your child's backpack to see how they did.   We had a whole school celebration of our work with the Drumming Residency. If you have not returned your child's home reading book (book in the yellow folder), please do so on Monday.  If it is lost, please send $5.00 so it can be replaced. We are bringing some of our work home today.  Please empty your child's backpack so we have room to bring the rest of our work home next week. Tuesday, June 28th is the last day of s

 Yesterday we started with quiet reading.  We returned our library books to the library. We did calendar and we had literacy centers. We wrote the middle of our stories.  This is the part that has the problem.  After lunch we did mindfulness and we changed our home reading books.  We had gym and then we went to the drumming residency.  We did Mathletics anf RaxKids on the iPads. Today we started with quiet reading.  We did calendar and we had literacy centers.  We finished our stories by writing the solution to our problem.  We did mindfulness and we changed our home reading books.  We had gym with Mrs. Sterne.  We talked about how we know it's summer by observing the land using our 5 senses.  We wrote about it. Home Reading books are due back by Friday. Tuesday, June 28th is the last day of school.

Today we started with quiet reading and we changed our book bin books.  We had our first day of the Drumming Residency.  We did calendar.  We had literacy centers and we did word work.  We have new words.  They are: Group A: friend, next, try, from, made ("try" has a word family) Group B:  were, wish, birthday, give, present, green ("wish" has a word family) Group C:  ("ew" words) - knew, chew, threw, drew, sew Group D: do, after, today, here Our word review will be on Friday.  After lunch we did mindfulness and we changed our home reading books.  All home reading books are due back on Friday.  We had gym.  We learned about what plants, animals and people do in the summer.

Yesterday we started with quiet reading.  We did calendar and we sang some counting songs.  We had literacy centers.  We started the beginning of the story we are writing.  We introduced the characters and the setting of our story.  After lunch some of us finished our writing while the rest of us did mindfulness and we changed our home reading books.  We had gym with Mrs. Sterne.  We made a special pop up card for someone special.  Today we started with quiet reading.  We did calendar.  We had literacy centers and we did our word review.  Please continue practicing all word wall words.  We had gym.  We went to the the grade 6 celebration.

Yesterday we started with quiet reading and we changed our library books.  We had music with Mr. Wiens.  We did calendar.  We started a plan so we can write a story.  We decided on characters, the setting, the problem and the solution.  We did mindfulness and we changed our home reading books.  We had gym.  We had literacy centers.  We started an experiment in science.  We put celery in a cup with food colouring.  We made a hypothesis about what we think will happen.   Today we started with quiet reading and catch up time.  We did calendar.  We had literacy centers.  We looked at what happened to our celery and wrote about it.  After lunch we did mindfulness and we changed our home reading books.  We had gym.  We did a survey before the drumming residency that the school is doing next week.  We did Mathletics and RazKids on the iPads.

Today we started with writing about our weekend in our journals and we changed our book bin books.  We did calendar.  We practiced our reading skills by reading to a partner. We had literacy centers and we did word work.  We have new word wall words. They are: Group A: how, into, night, could, about ("night" has a word family) Group B:baby, mother, people, nice, family, father ("nice" has a word family) Group C: "dge" words - edge, bridge, fudge, ledge, fridge Group D: today, here, him, he, are After lunch we did mindfulness and we changed our home reading books.  We had gym.  We did a math sheet that had both addition and subtraction questions.  We could decide what strategy we would use to solve the problems.  We built some structures with our lego.  We built a bridge and then a house.  We did "museum walks" (walking around looking at what others are doing) to help us get ideas and solve problems.

Yesterday we started with quiet reading.  We did calendar and we had literacy centers.  We did a making words activity.   We used the letters a, u, d, h, r, s, t, y to make words.  We made a word using all the letters (Thursday).  We did a mindfulness survey.  After lunch we did mindfulness and we changed our home reading books.  We had gym.  We did a school wide smudge and then we did partner reading. Today we started with quiet reading.  We did calendar and we had gym.  We did literacy centers and we had our word review.  Check your child's backpack to see how they did.  We did an art project where we used paper to construct structures.  We think they are better than some of the sculptures around Calgary!

Yesterday we started with quiet reading and we changed our library books.  We did calendar and we practiced counting in different ways.  We had literacy centers.   We wrote about what plants and animals need to grow and survive.  After lunch we did mindfulness and we changed our home reading books.  We had gym with Mrs. Sterne.  We are playing kickball.n We wrote our numbers to 100 for the last time in grade one.  We did some building challenges using our Lego.  We learned about building a solid base.   Today we started with quiet reading.  We had music with Mr. Weins.  We did calendar and we practiced making patterns.  We had literacy centers.  We wrote about what we are optimistic about for the summer for our school wide smudge tomorrow. After lunch we did mindfulness and we changed our home reading books.  We had gym.  We did one final bean plant observation.  We are bringing our plants home today.  We did Mathletics and RazKids on the iPads.

 Today we started with writing in our journals about what we did on the weekend or about Sports Day last Friday.  We changed our book bin books.  We did calendar and we practiced our 2D and 3D shapes.  We had literacy centers and word work.  We have new word wall words (last weeks will be on this weeks word review.  Our new words are: Group A: once, time, last, be , this ("last" has a word family) Group B: any, many, from, park, ride, game ("park" and "ride" have word families) Group C: run, so, him, he, was Group D: "igh" words: knight, bright, high, sight, flight Our word review will be on Friday.  We did mindfulness and we changed our home reading books.  We had gym.  We did our last basic facts test.  We did an observation of our bean plants.  We learned about what plants and animals need to survive.

 Yesterday we started with quiet reading and we got ready for our Teacher's Pet presentation.  We had music with Mr. Wiens.  We had a lot of fun making our animal habitat.  We got to choose an animal and make an enclosure for it.  We had to include things like; a shelter, food, a fence with a gate, a sleeping area, tress and toys.  We used different materials to build the items in our enclosure.  After lunch we did mindfulness and we changed our home reading books.  We had gym.  We did calendar and we had literacy centers.  We worked on word problems using the "I do, we do, you do" strategy. Today we had play/sports day.  We were outside taking part in different activities.  We had a lot of fun! We did not do our word review today.

 How is it June already??? Yesterday we started with quiet reading and we changed our library books.  We did calendar and we practiced patterns.  We had literacy centers.  We did a writing activity about Mr. Hebert.  We did mindfulness and we changed our home reading books.  We practiced underhand throwing in gym.  We graphed our May weather.  We did Mathletics and RazKids on the iPads. Today we started with a writing activity.  We could write in our journals about whatever we wanted.  We wrote at least 3 sentences. We did calendar. We had literacy centers.  We did a making words activity.  We had the letters a, e, e, h, i, p, n, t.  We made 2, 3, 4, 5, and 6 letter words.  We made the "secret word" using all the letters.  We did mindfulness and we changed our home reading books.  We had gym with Mrs. Sterne.  We worked on a word problem in math.  We used the "I do, we do, you do" strategy.  First Mrs. Young does a problem, then we do one together, last we do one on