Monday November 2nd

Bonjour tout le monde! :)

I'm so excited to be able to post an update on our classroom blog! :)

What a great couple of weeks it's been in the classroom! This past month, the students have grown so much as Grade One students!

Literacy
Writing
We have been working on Recount Writing. Students have been helping to create vocabulary lists to help model our Recount Writing. Following the model that we have created together, students are writing their very own recounts of different events, such as books that we have read, their weekend, Thanksgiving and Halloween night! I am so proud of the great work that they are producing!
Oral
We are working away at speaking French in the classroom. Please encourage your child to be speaking French in the classroom using learned vocabulary.
Reading
Thank you for continuing to read with your child each night. Please work on sounding out their words, pointing to each word, and talking about what they read (recounting what they have read will help to reinforce the idea of recount writing that we are also working on). You can also talk about the pictures, what they see, how many words are in the sentence, the capitals, periods, etc in the sentence structure itself... the possibilities are endless!
On Mondays, I ask students to find their "good fit" book to take home with them for the week. A "good fit" book is one that they know MOST of the words and can read them accurately.

Math
We are moving into Data Management this week. We will be graphing in a variety of ways and learning how to ask questions about our graphs to describe our data. We will continue to practice counting to 100, representing numbers in various ways, and skip counting (by 5s, 10s, and eventually 2s) daily. Please practice counting activities and basic addition and subtraction math problems at home (ex. If you have 3 cookies and your sister has 2 cookies, how many cookies do we have in total? ... There are 10 dogs at the park. Three dogs go home. How many dogs are still at the park?... I have 4 pink cars and 7 red cars. How many more red cars are there than pink cars?)

Halloween
What a GREAT day we had on Friday!! I am so very proud of my class and the great job that they did on Friday. I had set up a variety of Halloween activities, crafts, literacy activities etc. The students learned and played so well together! It was so much fun! We walked the hallways during our parade, danced in the gym, and had lots of treats! -- After our activities, I played the Mission Impossible theme song while we all tidied up the room -- I have never seen the room look so clean!! They loved it!!

Upcoming Important Dates:
November 11th - Remembrance Day Assembly at 11:30 - Our class will be performing a song "Beau coquelicot" with Mme Garant's class
November 13th - I have arranged for a Police Officer to come speak with the Primary classes in our school
November 26th - I have arranged for a Fireman to come speak with the Primary classes in our school

I will send home a letter this week as I would love to get Montre et raconte started up again as well as the outline for a Timeline project for Social Studies.

Thank you for the continued support of your child's education and your patience throughout this past month.
Mme K. Forbes