Elmer is not an ordinary elephant. . .

Grade 1 is not ordinary either! We are all different – that makes us special. We are happy we are not all the same! Just like a puzzle, we need all of our differences to fit together and make our class special. when we don’t have all the different parts somehow,...

Grade Ones Shine Bright!

Sharing their unique star qualities, kind words and helping hearts, look at the Grade Ones who are making their community and world a good place to be! They have also been making inquiries and collecting data. In Reading and writing, we have been thinking about...

Reading, writing and researching in Grade 1

It is another short week – but there is so much learning happening in Grade 1. We wrote ‘yum’ and ‘yuk’ stories to help us think about trying something new and being open minded. We read about Carla’s Sandwich and thought about how being different is creative...

Helping Hands

As we read and talked about the Little Red Hen story, we also wrote a list of how our helping hands are going to help at home. We loved making our Little Red Hen handprint. We also chose a few topics to collect data about at home and are sharing this information with...

Sending happy hearts from a Grade 1

We know helping others to do things can really make our work easier. We have been thinking a lot about using kind words and helping hands to be caring. We know kind words can make things easier too. We know even small kind things can make someone’s day. We gave some...

Kindness in Grade One

” If someone makes a mistake, we say it’s ok, we all learn from our mistakes!”- Emma Ravic G1. We have had a wonderful week writing certificate pledges of how we will be kind. We also had fun collecting data about our learning buddies: their...