Week 3 with the coolest grade 1s ✨ Their kindness and imagination makes me so happy 🤍 Students worked together during Fun Friday to make a runway! So much fun in Grade 1 🤗

This Grade 1 used her free time to do a survey with her class about how everyone was feeling! She asked “are you feeling sleepy today or happy?” She recorded her answers using images ✏️

First number talk in grade 1!

We had some of our first successful DEAR quiet reading times this week. We are building reading stamina and using different strategies to understand what we are reading, like doing picture walks and looking for words we know 📖

If You Give A Mouse a Cookie story sequencing today for reader’s workshop. Class 1-1 worked as a whole class to sequence the story events then used their own placemats to represent their understanding of the story. Grade 1’s double checked using the class built sequence 🐭🍪

Grade 1s are learning to translate patterns! The way we show patterns are just like languages. We practiced translating from one type of pattern to another 🔺🟠🟪🔷

Some fall math centres in progress! I love overhearing their math conversations as they work in groups!

What does Level 4 look like in grade 1 counting? This student showed his numbers using a variety of different forms without prompting 🔢

To those we loved and lost, To those who served and never came home, To those who continue to serve, Today on #RemembranceDay, and every day in between, We will remember them.

As we mark the 11th day on the 11th month, let us remember all those that gave their lives so we may live ours freely. Yesterday we had our #rememberanceday assemblies and so many classes got to share speeches and beautiful art work. #LestWeForget2023

Best wishes, peace and happiness, to all families celebrating Diwali in our #HDSB community and beyond.

It’s good to remind ourselves that DEAR reading time doesn’t always have to be quiet! It can be enthusiastic and collaborative and students can be laughing and chatting through their stories while still practicing important skills!

Wow!! What amazing progress in Grade 1 writing! ✏️

Measuring the room using non-standard units of measurement. How do objects around the room compare to the length of our arms? 📏

Thankful for my amazing lunch monitors who created this fun display for our sounds of the week! ☀️☁️

Wednesday STEM activity to connect to our social studies topic today (our school as part of our community): design your dream school, including a name, design for the outdoor space, and map of the inside 🏫

Wishing those that observe this Holy Day in our community a blessed #GoodFriday. ✝️

Eid Mubarak! We wish all those celebrating Eid al-Fitr in our AJM community and beyond, peace, joy and happiness. #eidmubarak

Creating pictographs to show how AJM gets to school 🚌🚶🚲🚙

Class 1-1 did a survey about how they get to school in the morning and learned about ways to save the earth this week. #savetheplanet #earthday🌎 #startthemyoung #cleanuptheworld #weonlyhaveoneplanet