We have had a wonderful time celebrating culture week. I am proud to announce that the grade 1 culture week flag was the school winner. Our little ones are VERY proud of themselves and their hard team work! They also looked so lovely in their cultural clothes. In Math, we have been working with coins again, this time on making change. We opened our 'school store' and have been taking turns 'buying things' and working as the clerk to provide change. The students are getting much better at this skill, but it requires a great deal of practice. I encourage you to let your child manage some money at local shops, to see why these types of transactions are meaningful. We have also been looking at place value, identifying numbers in the ones, tens, and hundreds place, and using this knowledge to add and subtract two digit numbers, without regrouping. We have been asking students word problems with these numbers, in order for them to better understand how Math is applicable in their everyday lives. In Language Arts, we have been learning about making text-to-world connections. We read the story 'The Great Kapok Tree' and were able to come up with some many great connections using the knowledge we have about the world. During our Unit of Inquiry Lessons, we have moved beyond being good citizens and identifying our communities. We are now talking about the buildings in our communities, the people who work/live there, and the tools they use. We began by identifying helpers and researching their jobs to find out adjectives that describe how they are, verbs that describe what they can do, and nouns that each helper has. We rotated through a variety of helpers on posters, and used post it notes to write down our newly acquired knowledge. We also played a game where cards with helpers, and tools were distributed evenly to students, they had to spin a spinner, and when it landed on a helper that matched their cards, they had to discard them on the building where the helper works. The student to discard all of their cards was the winner. This was a great game-based collaborative learning opportunity.
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