On Tuesday the school had a Winter Wizardry Math Day. Parents were invited to join their child to see some of the activities we do during Math class each day. The Grade 1 students have been working on 2-dimensional shapes in math. We started our session with a Number Talk lesson. Then students played a variety of games for each math period in the morning and afternoon. Thank you to those parents and grandparents that could come.
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In math the student created a snowman based on various criteria. Students had to build and colour their snowman based on whether they like hot cocoa or not, how old they are, whether they like cold weather or hot weathers and so on. Once their snowman were made, we compiled the class data together. Students then had to graph the class data and answer questions based on their data choices. This fun activity is being used for our Data Management strand in math. This past week we started a new math unit on measurement. This unit allows the students to show the actual measurement of items in the classroom using non-standard measuring tools. The student's decided on objects in pictures that were longer/shorter and used 5 unifix cubes to find objects in the classroom that were longer, shorter or about equal in length to the unifix cubes. Every Friday the students practice making tally marks by counting their golden tickets that they have received throughout the week for good behaviour. The tickets are then counted by 5's in order to find out how many they received for the week. This is great practice in counting by 5's and counting on from a set number. Two skills students need to master in grade one. The student's last week of December was very busy. Each day the students were encouraged to dress a different way. A core group of the class showed great creativity in the way they expressed themselves each day. These students earned themselves 50 points for their house league team each day. In math the students worked on patterning making Christmas candy canes out of beads. They also worked on some data management activities involving taking surveys of who liked candy canes and what part of the gingerbread man cookies they ate first. We will continue to work on our gingerbread man graphing results in January as well as reviewing the many various gingerbread man picture books for reading. In writing the students studied the book "Santa's Stuck". The students composed ways in which they would unstuck Santa from the chimney. The students also decorated the cookies they had made with Miss Nancy. Great fun was had by all! |
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June 2019
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