Cubes, spheres, cones, cylinders, rectangular prisms and pyramids...can your child identify 3-D shapes around the house? We have discussed edges, faces and vertices as well as length, height and width. Send your child on a 3-D scavenger hunt and see what they can collect.
Tomorrow is Winter Walk Day...be sure to send students with mittens, boots and snowpants!
Our class enjoyed the book "You Can't Taste a Pickle with your Ear" by Harriet Ziefert today. We used all five senses to explore the classroom and talk about our sensory experiences. We focused on taste today, completing a group activity to classify sweet, sour, bitter and salty foods. Ask your child if they remember what the class favourite was (I bet you can guess)!
Winter Walk Day happens at Woodlands School on Wednesday February 1st. We will mark this day by spending the last part of our afternoon outside enjoying the fresh air and observing our animals and trees as they make it through the last part of winter. Please be sure that your child is dressed for the weather!
We experimented with drawing mandalas today to practice for an art project next week. Mandalas are perfectly symmetrical, and are drawn in circular patterns. It is very calming to draw mandalas! it was a lot of trial and error today but we are excited to hone our skills and produce something beautiful for our hallway bulletin board.
Bundle up and enjoy the winter wonderland this weekend!
Students are loving our gymnastics unit in gym this week. We have a range of activities that allow the children to balance, roll, climb, and jump while navigating trestles, beams, ladders and mats safely.
Thank you for continuing to read at night with your child to help them succeed in their home reading program!
Ms. Madsen was our guest teacher today, allowing me time to do one-to-one assessments of numeracy and literacy skills with the class. One thing really stood out for me today as something we could all use a little more practice in: writing numbers accurately, both in their formation and with correct place value. This is something that each student could benefit from by practicing at home. Kids love using dry erase boards and markers, smelly markers, making shapes from playdough and drawing on sand trays (sugar works too). Setting out a number line for your child to copy with lots of fun materials will help them grow in number-writing accuracy!
Ask your child if they can show you how to make a symmetry tree...we had some lovely examples today.
We learned about lines of symmetry today. Exploring symmetry is a ton of fun! Ask your child if they can tell you about the centres we did today...
Our weaving project went home today and we were all so pleased with the result! Every child felt successful and that they had produced something beautiful.
180 'school days' ago, we started our journey in Grade One together...and now it all wraps up tomorrow with our last day of school! ...
