Wednesday, October 15, 2014

Glue and pastel leaf Art

We have been doing lots of great activities to celebrate fall (automne). We have been sorting leaves, writing about fall and doing some cool Art projects too!  See below for some of the neat projects we have made the past couple of weeks.














Friday, October 10, 2014

Happy Thanksgiving! Joyeuses Action de Grâce!

This week we talked about many things we are thankful for.  Here are some of the fun activities we did...

We made these turkeys with our sub, Mme Bergen!

       


Our turkey glyphs/Le glyphe de dindon





Joyeuses Action de Grace! Happy Thanksgiving!


Turkey Wheels


 Working hard and having fun!






T.I.A.

We had our first Learning Through the Integrated Arts this week.  Our class is working with visual artist Mme Broughton. We used clay to make balls. We had to make 10 rows with 10 balls in each row. That's 100 balls! Check back in a couple of weeks to see what we are going to do next time with all the balls we made. 



Monday, October 6, 2014

Fieldtrip Information

Dear Parents and Guardians,

The grade one team is excited to announce our field trips for this year. We have planned 3 full day bussed field trips to 4 exciting activities. The excursions were planned to meet many curricular outcomes in all subject areas. Please find the information below. The total cost for the year is $24.50. Please submit a cheque payable to École Robert Browning or cash for the full amount by Friday October 17. In the event this poses a problem for your family, please let your child's classroom teacher know promptly to make alternate arrangements. Volunteer requests will occur closer to the date of each outing. 

December
Full Day field trip
MTYP - Peter Pan (featuring FRED PENNER!) 
English Language Arts: Listening and Viewing
Art: Valuing Drama Experience: observe, reflect, respond
&
Children's Museum - Math Mission
Mathematics: problem solving
Français: Vocabulary, comprehension, oral expression

February/March
Full Day field trip
Fort Whyte Alive - Winter Carnival Day
Science: Characteristics of living things and The 5 senses
Social Studies: My community, The natural environment, Cultural expression

May/June
Full Day field trip
Assiniboine Park and Nature Playground - Summer Fun Day
Health: Healthy lifestyle practices
Social Studies: I belong and Connecting with others

Any parent volunteers will require a Criminal Record Check and Child Abuse Registry Check in order to join us on any field trip

Friday, October 3, 2014

Sorting leaves, toys and gummy bears!

Not only did we sort our leaves this week, we also practiced sorting with little toys and manipulatives.



We all did a great job at sorting different objects and to celebrate our hard work we finished the week off by sorting gummy bears! We started by sorting, then we counted how many bears of each colour we had. Once we coloured in our graph, we got to eat the gummy bears! Yum!





What gummy bear flavour was your favourite?






Thursday, October 2, 2014

Leaves are falling everywhere!

Last weekend we collected leaves and brought them to school on Monday. All week we have been doing some fun activities with the leaves.

We sorted leaves by shape, colour and size. 





We looked at the lines that make up a leaf and then tried drawing our own leaves. 




We even had some fun making leaf rubbings. 








3 Star Colouring

This week we talked about always trying our best in the classroom and when doing our work.  When we colour this year we are going to try and remember what we discussed about 3 star colouring. We decided on three things we should always remember when colouring: colouring in the lines, using the right colours and no white spaces.

Mme Lines saw some pretty awesome colouring this week! Bravo les élèves!