Sept 12, 2012

This morning we got to start our day with some fun Apple Schools activity circuits in the gym.  We did side bends, hopscotch, gorilla walk, bench squats, elephant walk, inchworm walk, and bean bag toss.

In phonics today we learned two new word families (keys): ick, ask.
Some words we made are: kick, pick, lick, cask, mask, and Alaska.

In Health we continued to discuss feelings.  Today we taked about feeling proud and how doing good things and working hard makes as feel good - PROUD!  We even learned how a little red monster we all now feels pride sometimes and sang about it with his friends the Goo Goo Dolls.

Later in the day we were really excited to start using computers.  To help me out in the classroom, it would be great if students could practice the following at home:

1. Open the internet
2. Delete the address in the address bar
3. Input the following address:  tiny.cc/1E
4. Press Enter
5. Once our class site has loaded, click on the "Computer Class" link on the sidebar.

This afternoon in Social Studies we learned about different communities we live in - from large to small.

The World

Canada

Alberta

City

Sept 11, 2012

Today in phonics we reviewed the letters, sight words and word families (keys) we have learned so far.

You can review them at home in the following ways:

Letters (Ss, Aa, Tt, Ii, Pp, Nn, Cc, Kk)

• Jolly Phonic Songs (click here)
• Slideshows (click here and follow the directions)
• Action Cards (click here and scroll down to the bottom of the page to download)

Sight Words (I, the, he, she)

• Slideshows (click here)
• Flashcards (click here and download flashcards at the bottom of the page)

Word Families (at, it, ap, ip, an, in, ack)

• Slideshows (click here)
• Flashcards (click here and download flashcards at the bottom of the page)

In Social Studies we talked about how:

A Community = A Place + The People Who Live, Work and Play There

In Math we reviewed the numbers 9 and 10.  We played a fun matching game.  Here are some pics:

Sept 10, 2012

Well we're back at it for another week.  Tonight's homework is the #3 pages in the pink Home Reading booklet.


Today we learned the letters Cc and Kk.
When we learned these letters we pretended that we were clicking castanets. 

Check out the Jolly Phonics Link on our website to practice the songs.

https://sites.google.com/a/fmcsd.ab.ca/grade-1/jolly-phonics

We played a CK game online that you can check out by clicking here.

We also learned the word family (key) ack.
We made words like wack, lack, Jack, back and sack.

We had our first whole school Liturgy today.  Father Francis came in and talked to us about a new school year and about how a school is a place to learn just as a church is a place to worship.  We then sang our favourite closing song, Lord I Lift Your Name on High.  Check it out below:

Have a great night and don't forget to join us for Meet the Teacher night this Thursday.

Sept 7, 2012

We had a great week this week.  The kids are starting to get used to full days and all the new routines.


Today we learned the letter Nn.

When we learned this letter we pretended that we were flying airplanes.

Check out the Jolly Phonics Link on our website to practice the songs.

https://sites.google.com/a/fmcsd.ab.ca/grade-1/jolly-phonics

We also learned two word families (keys) an and in .

We made words like ant, and, man, inside, ink, and fin.

We also played some great games online when we were learning our word families today.  Check them out below:

This afternoon we had a fun DPA hour where we got to learn a bunch of new Daily Physical Activity games.  Here are a couple of pictures:

Have a great weekend!

Sept 6, 2012

We had a great day today.

Today we learned the letter Pp .

When we learned this letter we pretended that we were puffing out candles on a birthday cake.

Check out the Jolly Phonics Link on our website to practice the songs.

https://sites.google.com/a/fmcsd.ab.ca/grade-1/jolly-phonics

We also learned two word families (keys) ap and ip.

We made words like map, tap, lip and hip.

We also played some great games online when we were learning our word families today.  Check them out below:

In Art today we listened to the story Matthew's Dream by Leo Lionni.  Check it out below:

We then made our own abstract art just like Matthew.

In LA today we created a list of school words.  We thought of all the fun things we like to do at school.

Have a great night!

Sept 5, 2012

Today we learned the letter Ii.

When we learned this letter we pretended that we were Inky the mouse pulling on our whiskers.

Check out the Jolly Phonics Link on our website to practice the songs.

https://sites.google.com/a/fmcsd.ab.ca/grade-1/jolly-phonics

We also learned the it  word family (key).

We made words like sit, bit, fit, lit, mitt and hit.

In health today we talked about feelings.  A great book that you can check out at home is Game Day by Tiki and Ronde Barber.  It is available on Tumble Books which you can access through the Fort McMurray Public Library website.

In Social today we continued to discuss our St. Anne School community.  We went on a tour of our school.  We learned the location of lots of different places.  Here is the map we coloured:

Have a great night!!! 

Sept 4, 2012

I hope everyone had a great long weekend.  Tonight is our first night of  homework.  Please review the homework letter as well as the letter in the front of the pink home reading book so that you know what to do.

 Today we learned the letter Tt.

When we learned this letter we pretended that we were watching a tennis game.

Check out the Jolly Phonics Link on our website to practice the songs.

https://sites.google.com/a/fmcsd.ab.ca/grade-1/jolly-phonics

We also learned the at word family (key).

We made words like sat, cat, hat, fat, and bat.

Check out the fun Starfall game we played by clicking on the link below:

http://www.starfall.com/n/make-a-word/at/load.htm?f

In Social we learned about different types of communities.  We watched the movie “City, Suburban and Rural Communities”.  We learned that we live in the community of Fort McMurray and we go to St. Anne School.

In math today we reviewed the numbers 4 and 5.  The number 5 is especially hard to swrite because it's very tricky, but we practiced and got good at it.

Have a great night!