March Already?!?

Hi parents,

It's time for another update on all of the exciting happenings that are going on in our first grade classroom. We have been very hard at work with our "Under the Sea" unit and have learned a lot about under water creatures. We focused on new vocabulary, list writing, sound blends, using descriptive words and making inferences.

We used the "Poisson arc-en-ciel" books to teach us about friendship, sharing, making inferences about text and inferring the author's message. We also discussed characters, setting and plot in stories and identified the "problem" in several stories and the solution and conclusion to these problems.

In math, we focused on measurement and measuring new things such as temperature, weight, volume, time, etc. We then moved on to focus more specifically on time and how to tell time. Telling time on an analog clock is a very difficult concept to grasp and we will continue to work on this in the coming months. Here are some interesting ways you could practice the concept of time with your child at home:

 

Click on the link below for a free download of these time telling games!

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Make a life size clock! (Kids can even use their arms as the arms of the clock!)

 

Kids draw the hands, dance around until the music stops, find a desk, and write the time. Teacher checks, and they start over.

 

These “peek-a-boo” clocks are one of the best projects I have seen for telling time! This craft is giving students the opportunity to apply the concept of time in a different way which ultimately will expand their understanding of the skill give them the confidence to feel comfortable working with time. We made these in class and they proved to be very useful during all of our time telling activities.


In the next month, we will be starting a unit on Community Helpers (Les aides dans notre communaute) and we will be learning about the people and places that make our community so special.

** Reminders:

-Home reading books and math bags will not be going home during March Break.
-March Break is next week and there is no school for students from March 11th to March 15th.