Today we baked a gingerbread man and he came ALIVE! We chased him around the school, made wanted posters to try and catch him and eventually made a trap and we caught him! Then we got to work on our re-telling of the gingerbread man story! Check out some of our pics! We are currently working on a unit in Social Studies called “Belonging in My World.” In it, we are learning about:
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NO MORE THAN 4 ITEMS PLEASE - Please no TOYS! Please see the attached calendar to see when your child is to bring his/her special sharing. Below is a calendar of when your child's sharing day is. We have currently finished up our fall unit in science and we will be starting our belonging unit in social studies (stay tuned for details about some belonging sharing that will be coming up). We are working on letter chunks in LA and soon we will start our writing project about schema (making connections with things we know about). In math we are finishing up our patterns unit and we are continuing to work on our number sense with representing numbers to 20 and counting backwards from 20.
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We have been settling in really well to grade one and we finally have gotten used to being at school ALL DAY long! In science we are continuing learning about colors and mixing colors and in language arts we are reviewing our letters and practicing our printing. In math we are working on counting to twenty and recognizing and printing numbers to twenty. Next week is shaping up to be a busy week. Here is all the events you need to know: Monday September 24th - Picture Day! Please come to school looking your best for picture day! Wednesday, September 26th - Terry Fox Run at 10:00am We will be completing our Terry Fox run outside with the whole school! Wednesday September 26th - Book Orders due Scholastic book orders were sent home with your child on Friday. If you would like to order a book please have forms back to me by Wednesday. Thursday September 27th - Orange Shirt Day Please wear and orange shirt, or anything orange or you could even just bring an orange snack in your lunch. For more info on orange shirt day and why we do it click HERE Friday September 28th - No School Professional development day Tuesday, October 2nd - Send in Home reading Logs I will be collecting home reading logs, so please ensure they are in your child's book bag that day! Friday. October 5th - Steve Harmer Magic Show Steve Harmer comes to our school every year and does an amazing show where we learning how to be better friends! Monday October 8th - No School Thanksgiving Day! Also, today our login in cards for RAZ kids went home. This is a great way to have access to LOTS of books and it reads it to the kids and then they can read it by themselves and answer questions. Reading books on RAZ kids counts towards your home reading logs as well. If you have any questions on how to log in, please let me know! Just a reminder that book bags need to come back to school every day.I am starting to send papers home and this ensures they get home instead of ending up in a pile in their locker. Also if they do not bring their book bag back, they are not switching out their home reading books which is very important. Thank you for help with this! Have an awesome weekend and please let me know if you have any questions or concerns! Welcome to our grade one classroom!
My name is Mrs. Czar and I am so excited to work with you and your child this year! This is my 5th year teaching grade one at IREC and I LOVE it! I live in Red Deer with my husband Mac. We love working together on our house and taking our boat to the lake in the summer. Grade one is a BIG year as we learn how to READ!!!! Stayed tuned for our home reading program which will launch around the end of September. Some big things to know for this year: -I do send send home monthly calendars, all important will be found here on the classroom blog -My main communication is through email and the app Remind. Please make sure I have your current email and to sign up for Remind (it is an app that allows me to send text message updates to your phone). Click HERE to sign up! -School starts at 8:00am and finishes at 2:40pm -You will need to send in a pencil box or a pencil case with your child (our class is the only one who needs them, so they were not on the supply list). Please send them in right away, as we do need them! -We DO NOT have access to a microwave in our classroom, so please do not send any heat up foods. -We will be jumping right into our color unit in September and we will be having color days to help us learn all about the colors and the rainbow! Here is the Schedule: |
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