Thursday, January 30, 2020

Grade 1 Term 2 - Week 4

What we are learning about in Grade 1


Inquiry: People write in different ways to express ideas
Learner Profile: Communicator
Transdisciplinary Skill: Communication Skills - Expressing ourselves through art, making personal connections to a story, teaching the Grade 6 students about the elements of a story (characters, setting, plot)
Mathematics: Subtraction- Using different methods to solve a math problem: place value charts, 10 frames and number lines, base 10 blocks
Reading: Recognizing the structure and elements of a story, use sources of information and prior knowledge, personal stories and experiences to make meaning, guided reading, buddy reading
Writing: Explored the different elements of comic/manga (elements of a story, pictures that relate to the words, read from top to bottom, left to right, the use of speech bubbles


Inquiry with the Pre-K class (Coming up with descriptive words with the use of our 5 senses):




Adding the descriptive words to our Vocabulary Wall


Shared writing: Email to thank the Grade 6s for reading with us:
Dear Grade 6s,

Thank you for reading with us and reading difficult books for us. You're all so smart and fast at reading. We like you! Thank you for doing buddy reading with us. Thank you for teaching us how to read and we enjoyed our time with you. 

Now we have a question for you - How do you express yourself?

From,
Grade 1s

Their Grade 6 buddies all responded in the form of letters:




Buddy Reading with the Grade6s: made a poster to show the characters, setting and plot of the book we read:







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