Hello everyone!
Important reminder that tomorrow is Spring Picture Day!
We started our day with our Wow Word review. We got our new Wow Words. They are:
1. old
2. out
3. house
4. has
5. or
For our bonus words, we decided to focus on the /ou/ sound. Our words are:
1. mouse
2. couch
3. pouch
4. about
5. shout
We read our morning message and talked about how we have about 6 weeks left of grade 1! We did some sharing of how we're feeling about that. Many of us have mixed feelings about this big milestone. We are happy about summer break, proud and excited to be moving into grade 2, but also sad and nervous about the big changes that will happen. We talked about how we will be close by and can stop by to say "hi" to Ms. Byrne as we move around the school. We also talked about how our class list will change. We will have some of the same friends, some friends from Mrs. Young's class, and some friends from Mrs. Diduch's class. We're excited to get the chance to meet new friends, or reconnect with friends we may have had in our Kinder class!
We looked at a visual to help us remember which vowels teams follow the "When 2 vowels go walking, the first 1 does the talking" rule (ai, oa, ay, ee, ea-sometimes). We practiced the sounds of these vowel teams and some words that have those teams in them (tail, boat, today, see, team).
We went outside for recess and then had snack. While we ate snack, we listened to a story called "The 3 Little Aliens and the Big Bad Robot." Many of us noticed that this book was similar to the story of the 3 Little Pigs! We talked about how we were making a connection when we noticed that. Ask us what connections we were able to hear in the story!
We filled in our calendar and had literacy centres. Some of our reading groups got mixed around to match students with other students who are working on similar skills during guided reading.
After lunch, we had mindfulness time. Then, we practiced some of our 2 letter sounds.
In math, we took a quick break from 3D shapes to do some more practice with fact families. We watched a short video that explained what fact families are and how they worked. We practiced with some different fact families on our whiteboards with a partner.
We had our second recess, then we focused on our seedlings! We did some scientific observing to see how our seeds have changed over the weekend. All of us had at least 1 seed that had started to grow roots over the weekend! We took some time to draw the changes we could see in our seeds, and write about them in our journals! We learned that when scientists do experiments, they always record their observations as a part of the scientific process. We also noticed that Ms. Byrne added extra bags to the window. One bag had no paper towel, and the other had a dry paper towel. She also put a bag of seeds into her filing cabinet so that those seeds don't get any sunlight. We're going to see if the seeds in these bags grow in the same way ours do! This is called a "control" and is an important part of experiments as well. It helps scientists know which parts of their experiment had the most impact (ex: if the seeds in the filing cabinet don't grow, but the ones on the window do, we will have proof that sunlight is important for the seeds to grow!)
We had P.E. with Ms. Sterne today and we practiced our dance routines from last week.
Have a great evening!
-Ms. Byrne
Reminders:
Tuesday, May 17 - Spring Picture Day!
Friday, May 20 - P.D. Day - no school
Monday, May 23 - Holiday - no school
Wednesday, May 25 - Spring Concert - 6PM - we are so excited to welcome you back into the school to enjoy a Spring Concert! We have been working on a special project during our music classes that we will be sharing. K-2 will have their concert on May 25th, and grades 4-6 will have theirs on May 26th.
A Message from BHS Parent Council:
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There are still many beautiful plants, planters and hanging baskets for sale. You purchasing these plants will be a beautiful addition to your home as well as help support our children's school.
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