Almadina Language Charter Academy
Mountain View Elementary
International Collaboration Project
with
D.A.V. Public School Sector - 14 Gurgaon
Table of Contents
3. Welcome from the Grade 1 Team at Almadina
4. Alberta Program of Studies - Overview
5. Alberta Program of Studies - General Learner Expectations
6. Alberta Program of Studies - Specific Learner Expectations
7. Mrs. Tanya Pollett - Fall Art
8. Mrs. Tanya Pollett - Fall Art
9. Mrs. Tanya Pollett - Fall Art
10. Mrs. Tanya Pollett - Snowman Name Art
11. Mrs. Tanya Pollett - Winter Art
12. Ms. Ginette Lee - 4 Seasons Tree Art
13. Ms. Ginette Lee - 4 Seasons Tree Art
14. Ms. Ginette Lee - 4 Seasons Tree Art
15. Ms. Ginette Lee - 4 Seasons Tree Art
16. Mrs. Amanda Sondergaard - Snowflake Art
17. Mrs. Amanda Sondergaard - Snowflake Art
18. Mrs. Amanda Sondergaard - Snowflake Art
19. Mrs. Amanda Sondergaard - Snowmen at Night
20. Mrs. Amanda Sondergaard - Snowmen at Night
21. Mrs. Amanda Sondergaard - 4 Seasons Tree Art
22. Mrs. Amanda Sondergaard - Seasons Journal Entries
23. Ms. Ziya Khandani - Hibernation/Migration/Adaptation Art
24. Ms. Ziya Khandani - Snowy Owls Art
25. Ms. Ziya Khandani – Snowy Owls Written Work
26. Ms. Ziya Khandani – Winter Snow Globes
27. Ms. Ziya Khandani – Winter Math Game
28. Ms. Ziya Khandani - Winter Math Game
29. Ms. Amanda Hutchinson – Winter Bulletin Board
30. Ms. Amanda Hutchinson – Snowman Name Art
31. Ms. Amanda Hutchinson – Snowman Name Art
32. Ms. Amanda Hutchinson - Hibernating Bears
33. Ms. Amanda Hutchinson - Hibernating Bears
34. Ms. Amanda Hutchinson – Hot Chocolate
35. Mrs. Amy Kinsey – Fall Art
36. Mrs. Amy Kinsey – Seasons Art
37 Mrs. Amy Kinsey – Seasons Culminating Activity
38. Mrs. Amy Kinsey – Seasons Culminating Activity
39. Mrs. Amy Kinsey – Seasons Culminating Activity
40. Thank you!
Welcome!
Hello!
We are honoured and grateful to work together with
your school to share and learn new ideas.
Here at Almadina, we begin our Seasons Unit at the
beginning of the school year (in September).
Throughout this presentation, you will find
key objectives, art work, bulletin board displays and
cross-curricular activities.
In our email, we have attached templates of some of
these activities.
We hope you enjoy them!
Warm Regards,
Grade 1 Team
Mountain View Elementary
Almadina Language Charter Academy
Alberta Program of Studies
Overview
Students learn that changes in their environment occur in a regular pattern known as the seasons.
They explore weather change, and how the ups and downs of weather affect their own lives.
Looking beyond themselves and beyond the immediate weather, students are guided to discover
that there are larger patterns of change that affect the life habits of many living things. The
interactions among different parts of the environment, and the recurrence of change as part of a
cycle, are important science ideas that are introduced in this topic.
General Learner Expectations
Students will:
1–6 Describe seasonal changes, and interpret
the effects of seasonal changes on living things.
Specific Learner Expectations
Students will:
1. Describe the regular and predictable cycle of seasonal changes:
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changes in sunlight
•
changes in weather.
2.Identify and describe examples of plant and animal changes that occur on a seasonal basis:
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changes in form and appearance
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changes in location of living things
changes in activity; e.g., students should recognize that many living things go into a dormant period during
winter and survive under a blanket of snow as a seed, egg or
hibernating animal• production of young on a seasonal basis.
3. Identify human preparations for seasonal change and identify activities that are done on a seasonal
basis.
4. Record observable seasonal changes over a period of time.
Mrs. Tanya Pollett
Fall Art - Scarecrows
Mrs. Tanya Pollett
Grade Ones explore the season, Fall, with Scarecrows. We completed a scarecrow pastel art and wrote about
scarecrows in our journals.
“If I were a scarecrow, I would scare away _________.”
Mrs. Tanya Pollett
Mrs. Tanya Pollett
Snowman
Name
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Mrs. Tanya Pollett
Snowman Art
Tearaway Snowman Art
Penguin Craft
Ms. Ginette Lee
Trees during the four seasons...
Ms. Ginette Lee
Trees during
the four
seasons...
Ms. Ginette Lee
Trees during
the four
seasons...
Ms. Ginette Lee
Trees during the four seasons...
Mrs. Amanda Sondergaard
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Mrs. Amanda Sondergaard
Mrs. Amanda Sondergaard
Title: Snowflake Coffee Filter Art.
Students learned how to mix and blend
colours together using
watercolour paint. They also learned
how each snowflake is unique, and cut
their snowflakes using different
patterns.
Mrs. Amanda Sondergaard
Snowmen at Night
Snowmen at Night.
Students first listened
to the story Snowmen
at Night By Caralyn
Buehner and then
created their own
addition problems.
Students started with
ten snowflakes and had
to add additional
snowflakes to the
number ten. 10 +
____=_____
Mrs. Amanda Sondergaard
Write Up:
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Mrs. Amanda Sondergaard
Journal Entries: Favourite Seasons
Ms. Ziya Khandani
Hibernation/Migration/Adaptation
Art
Where do the animals go in the
winter?
Ms. Ziya Khandani
Snowy Owl Art
Ms. Ziya Khandani
Snowy Owl
Written Work
Snowy Owls eat
lemmings and mice.
Snowy Owls live in the
Arctic Tundra.
When lemmings are
scarce, Snowy Owls
can migrate to the
south.
Ms. Ziya Khandani
Winter Snow Globes
Ms. Ziya Khandani
Winter Math Game:
Greater Than
vs.
Less Than
Step 1: Pick two
snowballs from the
bucket.
Step 2: Decide which
number is smaller and
which number is bigger.
Step 3: Throw the
smaller number in the
smaller circle and the
greater number in the
bigger circle.
Ms. Ziya Khandani
Winter Math Game:
Skip Counting by 2s
Sort the snowman circles into
a skip counting by 2 sequence.
Use the magnets to help
create your snowman.
Ms. Amanda Hutchinson
Winter is here!
Ms. Amanda Hutchinson
Snowman Name Art
Ms. Amanda Hutchinson
Ms. Amanda Hutchinson
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Mrs. Amy Kinsey
Fall Activity:
Fall Math Art – Students created their own math problem
by drawing a tree and cutting and gluing some Fall coloured
leaves on the tree and some on the ground. They then had
to fill in the blanks in their subtraction sentence using their
own picture (There were _____ leaves on the tree. ______
leaves fell off the tree. How many leaves are left?
_____+_____=______).
Mrs. Amy Kinsey
Seasons Art:
The students used sponge painting to illustrate the
changes of the tree (one season in each window pane).
They selected the correct colours for the leaves,
flowers and snow on the tree each season.
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Thank you!
We have now completed our Science Unit on Seasons.
In an additional email, you will find the following templates:
Snowman Name Art
Penguin Craft
Trees during the 4 Seasons
Hibernation/Migration/Adaptation Template