Grade 1 Term 2 Week 8

What we are learning about in Grade 1

Inquiry: People develop simple machines for different purposes

Learner Profile: Inquirer, Thinker
Transdisciplinary Skill: 
1. Research Skills - Using different tools to aid us in our learning and exploration of the world around us
2. Thinking skills - Making connections between what we're learning in our inquiry to our surroundings, exploring with different materials and inquiring into why certain materials change the results of our experiment

Mathematics: Using our fact family knowledge and applying it to numbers from 10, 20, 50, 100

Reading: Practiced activating our prior knowledge about a topic and adding new knowledge to the topic through reading, started reading non-fiction procedural texts (books, digital books and videos)
Writing: Non-fiction procedural writing for their scientific experiments - paper helicopter, and topics of interest, story cube writing

Highlights of the week:

Collaboration with Grade 2 STEM project - 

Paper helicopters 

(exploring with air resistance, and how the size, weight and different materials affect the helicopter)

Playing a math game on the computer to find the pattern in fact families, some of us were able to do addition and subtraction number sentences to make 100!

 Exploring with static electricity after reading a book about electricity