This week has been colourful!

We had our first "Book Check Out" Library class. Thanks Mrs. Hicks for your wonderful reading! This year Grade 1's are allowed to take out TWO books! Everyone was so excited. Our classroom rule is to try to keep one book at school and one can go home. This is so they have a book at their level to read during downtime in the classroom, as well as, always be able to return one book a week. Library books can be the best components in hide and seek at home!

In Language Arts we are continuing to practice our Jolly Phonics Letter sounds. We have completed our first group: s, a, t, i , p, and n. It would be extra helpful for your child to practice their letter sounds at home to help when we start writing our own words and sentences. They should know the motions of the Snake (s), Ants (a), Tennis Game (t), Inky Mouse (i), Puff (p) and Nnnnn Airplane.

The students have been doing some shared reading and word writing. On Tuesday they had some free time to practice reading their work with a partner.

In Math we have talked about adding and subtracting numbers. We know that when we add we're putting numbers together and when we subtract we are taking away from a number.
Using hoola hoops we acted out some math problems for the class to have a physical showing of addition and subtraction problems.

Thursday was BLUE DAY! We read a poem about the colour Blue, found the word blue in our poem and drew pictures and wrote words of things in our world that are blue!

As a craft we made Blue Bow Ties! They're so adorable!!!

In Science we have started talking about the colours in our world. We went on a colour walk all around inside and outside our school and talked about where we see colours. Together we wrote out some colour sentences from our walk.
As a mix of Math and Science, we made a graph of all our favourite colours. Like a book, graph's have titles that tell us about the information on the graph. It was pretty obvious what our most loved colour was!

Have a lovely weekend!