Welcome to the New School Year!!

It is awesome to be back at school. It is so fun to back our bags, meet new friends and start off a new grade. Grade one is a very exciting year. Your child will change so much over the year and you will be surprised how quickly they learn to read and write. We learn so many things each day. It is an exciting journey. I look forward to getting to know your children and learning about them this fall. Welcome to 1E!

Summer is HERE!!!

It has been an amazing year in grade one. I want to thank each and ever child for all of their hard work. You have all learned so much. You have grown so much and become such smart, kind little people. I am proud of you and know you are ready for grade two. Have a wonderful summer. Be sure to read lots and enjoy all of the summer sun. Please come and visit me next year. I will miss you so much. Mrs Effa

IT'S JUNE!!

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Geometry

The grade ones worked at cooperation and team work to create shape castles. we talked about the properties of shapes before we began. We discovered which shapes would slide and which would roll. They knew that they needed a base of shapes that were flat, straight and stackable. They used the curved shapes for the top. The castles were very detailed. We then drew our castle and wrote about the 3D shapes we used.

May

May has been a wonderful month. Thanks so much to all of the special ladies that came to our mother's day tea. The children really enjoyed hosting you in our classroom. It was great fun and created lots of special memories too! This month the children have been very excited to study the caterpillars that have come to stay in our classroom. We are observing their metamorphosis very closely. This weekend the caterpillars all made a chrysalis while we were gone for the weekend. Some of the chrysalis are moving as they hand upside down. They are transforming before our eyes. It is very exciting. The children are also really enjoying studying shapes. We are looking at shapes in our world and describing them. This week we will discover shapes using geoboards, tangrams, artwork, literature and a shape walk. It was really fun listening to the shapes show and tell. The children describes their shape for their classmates and will write about it. Our world is full of amazing shapes. I posted a few pictures of our last few days for you to see us "working hard and having fun"! Have a great week. Mrs Effa

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Easter Week

We have had a lot of fun this week learning poems and doing creative projects for Easter. Check out some of our pictures and have a wonderful Easter holiday with your family. Happy holidays from 1E!

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We have been busy in March

We have had a blast working with fairy tales this month. The students did lots of writing, creating and acting. Our favorite project was the castle making afternoon. What a busy happy room we were! We also really did a lot of work with our writing and character development. We compared characters and different versions of many different tales. We are becoming better readers and writers everyday. We also had a lot of fun working on measurement. We used scales and rulers to test out what was longer, shorter, heavier and lighter. We became very good at balancing scales and making predictions about our work. We even spent a couple classes measuring the area of many things in our classroom in sticky notes! Lots of fun. Thank you to the students for a great job at the student lead conferences. It is so fun to show off your hard work!Enjoy the warm weather and be sure to wear rubber boots for the warm wet weather that is coming! Check out our photos. Mrs Effa

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