Grade 1 Week 11

What we are learning about in Grade 1

Inquiry: People develop an understanding of the Earth's position through exploration and discovery
Learner Profile: Open Minded
Transdisciplinary Skill: Research Skills (Communication skills next week)
Mathematics: 2D Shapes. Properties of 2D shapes (Sides, corners). Identifying, sorting, matching, making and discussing shapes using Mathematical language. Making connections to the shapes we may find in space.

Students created their own Shapes poster as a class 
(based on The Game of Shapes by Hervé Tullet's) and will be displayed in the classroom.

Reading: Reading Sight words, Reading comprehension, elements of Non fiction books (Title, contents page, facts, information, glossary, diagrams, illustration), Guided Reading
Writing: Writing sight words, Non Fiction writing, factual information reports
Shared Writing piece:

Our Field Trip to TenQ Space Museum

Yesterday, we went on a field trip to the TenQ space museum. We traveled by bus and it took almost 1 hour to get to TenQ. We ate lunch before going up to the space museum. We walked through a dark tunnel with a lot of stars and entered another room to watch a show. In the show, we saw the black hole, Earth, Jupiter, Neptune, astronaut and books. After the show, we played with some sphere robots. We controlled the sphere robots to go into a hole in the rocket. The first sphere to enter the hole wins. We also played with puzzles and created the Earth, Moon, Neptune, Uranus, Sun, the Milky Way and our own gold and silver planet. There were also a lot of toys in the museum and we even got to sit next to an alien. Before heading back on the bus, we even got to jump on the moon and left our footprints on the moon.

Spelling and Vocabulary: Consonant blends, Words Their Way assessments, spelling sight words

"Look at the Earth floating and spinning."

"The Earth is a circle and that planet on top looks like a semi-circle!"

The students got a chance to touch a piece of meteorite from Mars.

 Students exploring the different sizes of the planets in our solar system.

"This is the size of Saturn!"

 Students built a moon with magnetic puzzle pieces.

Left: Milky Way Right: Neptune, Uranus and stars

We had a great time at the TenQ Space Museum!