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Grade One
entary School
Rich Valley Elem
As we rolled out of 2016 and into 2017 I hope
everyone had a very enjoyable Christmas and a
Happy New Year. I also hope you were able to
Swimming for Gr. 1 Jan. 23-27
spend some quality time with your family and friends. I enjoyed Christmas with my family and especially enjoyed the time with my grandchildren. I would like to thank everyone for the nice gifts I received during
the last couple of days before the Christmas break. Now that the ChristMath
mas break is over it is back to the old grind stone. It took the students
In math we continued addi- and I a couple of days to get back into the swing of things, but we have all
tion to twenty and are con- settled in and are ready to take on the challenges 2017 has to bring.
tinuing to concentrate on two
Language Arts
big ideas when we are readScience
During Daily 5 the students are
ing math word problems,
continuing to practice sight words,
In science we began a new unit
“What do we know?” (from
tool sounds and word families as
titled “Building Things.” The
the wording of the problem)
students are currently designing
and “What do we need to
well as work on writing. For a few
and preparing to build a home.
find out?” The students had
weeks now the students have been
We discussed what would make a
to make calculations for
playing a game called, “Make A
good home and set the criteria
problems such as, “There are
Word.” The students are given
for a home. The students have
10 marbles in a box. Some
five or six letters and need to
created a plan for the design of
are green. Some are yellow.
make a tool sound, word family or
their home and made a list of
There are 2 more yellow
word based on my request. I may
materials they will need to build
marbles than green marbles.
ask
them
to
make
a
tool
sound
and
their home. They are very
How many yellow marbles are
then
create
a
word
from
that
tool
excited about this project!
there?” The students use
sound
using
other
letters
on
their
math racks and mental math
Important Dates:
strategies to solve these
types of problems.
desk. At the very end we have
what
is
called
the
“Mystery
Word.” The students need to use
all the letters on their desk to
make a word. This week the students were introduced to the –ice
Have a great weekend!
Mr. Peterson and Mrs. Hove
word family and we read a story
titled Chicken Soup with Rice and
Mice.