Miss Makris' Grade One Blog: 2014

Friday 19 December 2014

*Winter Fun!

The last two weeks have been fantastic and so much fun for our little ones!

Our cozy winter classroom


......snowfall

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Let the "Stocking filling game' begin....

Racing to find the hidden items for our stockings!

And the winners are.......


in room F12!

in room F11

Great job to all the students for filling their stockings!!

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It's story writing time.....

A holiday gift to our parents! We are proud authors are illustrators of our very own books!

Being an author takes a lot of hard work...

In both classes we created wonderful books!

Snowy the Snowman (F11)

and

The Christmas Problem (F12)

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Last day before winter break! Pajama party!!

What a fantastic last day! Happy Holidays to all and see you in the New Year!

Miss Makris

Friday 12 December 2014

*Museum Pointe-a-Callieres

Thursday, December 11, 2014

Fun and educational day at Museum Pointe-a-Callieres with the Grade 1 classes!!!

We watched a film and learned all about the history of Montreal, and then the children encountered four Christmas characters who explained how the holidays are celebrated in their parts of the world.

Who is the REAL Santa Claus?... :)

December 15

December 15, 2014

Homework F12

**Reminder: Library Every Monday!

Language Arts

**Home reading. Keep reading and recording in your reading logs!

-Read the story We Make a Snowman with your child and review it every night. They should be able to recognize the words that are underlined.

-No new vocabulary/family words* No new power words*

-Continue practicing and reviewing all previous power words (From the beginning up until page 15).

Mathematics:

-This week during school there will be several activities for the students to partake in. Therefore, we will finish Theme 4 in math, followed by a big review, however the test will only be during English week after the Holidays. We will have a review when we return as well, and the test will be sometime beginning to mid-week (to be determined).

-Review numbers 1-100. Skip count by 2’s, 5’s and 10’s on the number chart.

-Complete math worksheet (Handouts 4-3).

Extra Practice (graphs):

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Have a wonderful week!

Happy Holidays to all!

Miss Makris

Friday 5 December 2014

*Daily 5

Side note:

In grade 1, we have introduced and began to do Daily 5.

Daily 5 consists of:

Reading to self

Reading to someone

Word work

Writing

Working with media

Centers are set up for the students to get a variety of the English Language Arts components throughout the week.

For the media part of our Daily 5, we would like to incorporate the iPads where students will have access to different games and activities for reading and writing (i.e. Abracadabra, Starfall etc.). In order to make this possible in the classroom setting we are asking that the students bring in a pair of earphones labelled or in a Ziploc bag. This will help keep the classroom calm while other students are reading or writing.

Thank you in advance! We are looking forward to our calm, Daily 5 afternoons!

December 8

December 8, 2014

Homework F11

**Reminder: Library Every Monday!

Language Arts

**Home reading. Keep reading and recording in your reading logs!

-Read the story What can we do in the snow? with your child and review it every night. They should be able to recognize the words that are underlined.

-Read, write and practice “snow” vocabulary words (Yellow Reading duo-tang).

-Cut the pictures and glue them to match the words.

-Read and practice new Power Words on pages 14-15.