Welcome to the month of June! We only have this week and next for our Home Learning posted activities. I know the weather is getting nicer every day, but please do your best in finding some time to do some reading and math. I love taking a good book out on the deck to read. What better way to practice counting than out in the fresh air while riding your bike, jumping on a trampoline or just relaxing on a comfy lounge chair? Be creative! Find relaxing places to test your skills.

Reading-

Continue to read at least 15 minutes a day. Where do you like to read?

Reminder: Don’t forget to use your strategies to unlock unfamiliar words in text. See your reading duo tang to review the sheets on each strategy.

Select books that are a ‘good fit’! No more than five errors on one page.

Comprehension: Included in your reading duo tang are questions that parents can ask you during or after you read a book. Simply giving a retelling of the events that happened in the story is a good test of your comprehension.

Word Work-

Your last group of spelling words will be emailed to you.

We will review contractions this week.

Contractions- A contraction is a short way to write two words. It is written by putting two words together and leaving out a letter or letters. An apostrophe (‘) takes the place of the letter or letters that are left out.

 Example: can not- drop the letters n and o from not to make the word can’t

See the attachment in your email.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5xE-vw2ctqo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gubPH3WEurg

https://ca.ixl.com/ela/grade-1/match-the-contractions

Writing-

Suggestion 1- Writing prompts

If I could be on a TV show…

If children were in charge of the world…

Something I’m excited about is…

Friendship is important because…

Suggestion 2- What is a biography? A recount of someone’s life written by someone else.

First, research (google) biographies on a few of your favorite authors. Next, listen or read some stories by that author. Finally, put the information in your own words to create a biography about the author.

Have fun learning about your favorite author.

 After listening to a biography on Barbara Reid I read some of her books. When I finished I wrote a biography. I included my sample in your email.

Can you go a step further?

 Do a recording of you reading your finished product about your favorite author.  I’d love to hear it!!

Points to remember during and after your writing:

Leave a finger space between each word.

Begin sentences with a capital letter and end with a punctuation mark.

Reread often to check that everything makes sense.

Use some short and long sentences to ensure that your writing piece is fluent.

Check your spelling. Are the high frequency words spelled correctly?

Try to include some ‘wow’ words.

Math

We will be exploring 2-D and 3-D shapes this week:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=beTDz9HSNOM  

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VAWaV1upv6E 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3-QwWFkz5hw              

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pjU9EERoZfk         

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Ax0xLj3kKo 

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2cg-Uc556-Q  

Tangrams: a Chinese geometric puzzle consisting of a square cut into seven pieces that can be arranged to make various other shapes. Try the following link to play with tangram shapes.

https://www.abcya.com/games/tangrams

A 2-D and 3-D chart is in your email

2D activity

Trace rectangles, circles, squares, triangles and ovals onto heavy paper. Cut out each shape and put them in a bag. Put your hand in the bag and grab a shape. Do not peek! Can you name the shape? Can you count the number of sides? Can you count the number of vertices(corners)?

3D activity

Can you find small objects around your home that match a cube, cone, prism, pyramid and sphere? Follow the same procedure as you did for the first activity but with your 3D objects. This time also count the number of faces on each.

Check out the 2D and 3D questions on ixl.com

^{Good Morning Boys and Girls!}

^{I hope everyone had a nice weekend. It is great to have the barbecuing weather. I love it!}

Check out Nixon's fishing pictures on the home page!

^{Enjoy your suggestions for home learning this week:}

^Reading

 ^{Read at least 15 minutes. Why not check out some Robert Munsch Books in Audio Format at:} http://robertmunsch.com/books Use your imagination to visualize the stories. Drawing a picture(s) to illustrate your favorite part would be fun too.

Word Work

Look at all your sight words. Can you find all the words that begin with ‘wh?’ Do you know other ‘wh’ words?

Check out the words that begin with ‘th.’

Cut letters out of magazines to spell your words, Can you mix the letters up and respell your word?

-ed, -ing

Rule: A word to which an ending can be added is called a base word. The base word of fished is fish. The base word of fishing is fish.

Add the ed and ing endings to these base words:

fish-

toss-

fill-

box-

dress-

float-

sail-

help-

Can we add ed to sing?

Writing-

Try to spend at least fifteen minutes a day to enhance your writing skills.

You may enjoy writing a friendly letter to someone. I’m sure there’s a friend or family member that would love to hear from you!

Tip: Reread to see that everything makes sense.

Heading-(write the date on the top right hand corner of your page.)

Greeting- (Write who the letter is for. Down and to the left of your page. Don’t forget a comma.)

Body- This is the main part of the letter and is the longest part of your letter. You would usually start out talking about the person to whom you're sending the letter (it's polite). Then you might want to give some information about you and why you're writing. This can all go in one paragraph, or, if it's too long and doesn't "go" in one paragraph, make the decision to separate it.Change paragraphs and indent each time you change the topic you're talking about. Remember to wrap it up. (We will learn more about paragraphing in grade two.)

Closing- Choose an appropriate closing. Make sure this lines up with the heading. Only the first word is capitalized. (bottom of the page and to the right)

Signature- Write your name.

I will send you a friendly letter in our email so you can see one completed in the above format.

Math

 Let’s do a number of the day. (We did these at school) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lAQ2HTqTl2w

The video doesn’t show a lot of ways, but it does give a few ideas. I have listed other ways:

Pick any number 1-20 (Use higher numbers later in the week.)

-          Write the number that comes before and after your number

-          Show your number in tally marks

-          Show your number using base 10 blocks

-          Is your number odd or even?

-          Show your number with ten frames

-          Draw a number line. Add unit marks equal distance apart. It will depend on your number what number you give to each unit. (If my number is low or in teens I might mark it by counting it by 1s. Higher numbers I may choose to count by 2s, 5s or 10s.

-write the number 1 less, 1 more, 2 less and 2 more than your number

-For numbers to 18 write 1 addition fact and 1 subtraction fact

-count up to your number

-count backward to 0 starting from your number

-write your number as a word

We are going to try some work with ‘representing a number by a variety of equal groups.’

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XAkZvfKpv60

1.       You need 12 items to use for counters

2.       Arrange the counters into groups of 2

3.       What is your total (count by 2s)

4.       Now group by 3s, 4s and 6s

5.       What was your total each time?

6.       Did you count by 3s, 4s and 6s?

Try this with other numbers throughout the week.  

Next, we will ‘represent a number in a variety of equal groups with singles.’ (That means you will have some left over or extra ones.)

1.      You need 17 items to use for counters

2.      Arrange the counters into groups of 2s.

3.      What is your total number of counters. (count by 2s)

Did you notice that you had 1 single or 1 left over? Your total does not change though.

4.      Now group by 3s and 5s.

Try this with other numbers throughout the week.

Can you draw pictures to represent your numbers? I will email you the examples I did for the numbers 14 and 18.

Thought you might enjoy these review games from work we did this year.

https://ca.ixl.com/math/grade-1/even-or-odd

https://www.abcya.com/games/comparing_number_values

Don't forget to check your email!

Good Morning Grade One

I hope everyone has been enjoying the warmer days. Now that the ground is drier I was able to clean up some of the debris that collected over the winter. The sounds of the ducks and loons out on the river is delightful! I hope you enjoy your home learning experiences this week. Don’t forget to check your email for additional notes. Have a wonderful week.

Happy Birthday to Braydie on May 9th!!

Reading

Read at least 15 minutes every day.

Continue to choose both fiction and non-fiction books to read. Explore the many sites that have books that are easily accessible.

If you have a library card you can access books from the public library at the following link:

https://www2.gnb.ca/content/gnb/en/departments/nbpl/electronic.html

Word Work

Alphabetical Order- Putting a group of words in ABC order. In the following game you can enter your own words and then rearrange them to put them in alphabetical order or you can use a provided word list that the program will select. (Try using your sight words)

If there is more than one word that begins with the same letter then you must look at the second letter in the words. You follow the same procedure if the first 3 letters are the same and so on.

Ex.1: boy, girl, and---- the correct ABC order is- and, boy, girl

Ex.2: play, spring, panda--- the correct order is – panda, play, spring

Panda and play begin with same letter, so we look at the second letter in each word. The letter ‘a’ comes before the letter ‘l’ and that is why ‘panda’ comes before ‘play’.

https://www.abcya.com/games/alphabetize

Continue to strive to be ‘Sight Word Stars!’ Review! Review! Don’t forget about your duo tang that has the sight word sheets in it.

Try using cereal, pasta or play doh, to practice printing your words. (Adult permission)

https://ca.ixl.com/ela/grade-1/complete-the-sentence-with-the-correct-sight-word

Vowels

Let’s look at words that have ‘2 vowels together’ this week.

Rule: In a word where two vowels are together, the first vowel usually makes a long vowel sound, and the second makes a short vowel sound. I emailed some sentences that you can complete orally or on paper. Enjoy the song on the following link!

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k-n_LHGseNk

Writing

If you are looking for ideas to write about you could try a few of these:

A Sport, A Favorite Game, Birthday Fun, The Surprise or Writing a Letter to Mom for Mother's Day…

Tips: Don’t try to write your story in one sitting.

Day 1- Plan your story. Remember to think about who, what, when where, why

Day2- Do your introduction (How can I ‘hook’ my reader? You might start with a question.? Ex: Do you have a cat? I do

Day 3- Begin a detail. Elaborate.

I wouldn’t just write this for a detail- ‘Tigo has long grey hair.’ I would write, ‘Tigo has long grey hair that he manages to get all over me! Whenever he knows I’m leaving the house he will curl up against me and put hair all over my clothes!!’

Day 4- Add another detail and remember to elaborate.

Day 5- Add another detail…

Continue to do this until you feel you have included all the details that make your story a wow story!

Final Day- Closing! We need to ‘wrap up our story’ which means ‘we don’t jump away from the story.’ Sometimes we might close with a ‘feeling’ you have about your topic. A closing isn’t stating ’the end.’

If I was writing about Tigo I might end with the following:

My cat Tigo does some funny and annoying things, but he is great company and I love him!!

Tips: Reread your story each day to see if it sounds ‘fluent.’ Did you use some short and long sentences? Does everything make sense?

Do you have capital letters at the beginning of sentences and for names?

Do you have correct end punctuation?

Do you have finger spaces between words?

Did you check your spelling? Are the sight words spelled correctly?

Does your story have a ‘title?’

Math

Continue to review any previous work.

Our new work this week will be learning how to use the mental math strategy of adding using doubles. This works really well when you know your doubles in a snap. I included some examples in your email and I have also added some links here. I hope you enjoy adding with ‘near doubles.’ I love using doubles!!!!

How to add using ‘near doubles:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9TsO04MTnBM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GNJGO9_LWA4

Practice:

 https://ca.ixl.com/math/grade-1/add-using-doubles-plus-one

 https://ca.ixl.com/math/grade-1/add-using-doubles-minus-one

Guess the Number- The following is a great game that everyone enjoyed playing at school this year.

https://www.abcya.com/games/guess_the_number

I sent a 100 chart in your email which is helpful to use when playing this game.

Have fun learning to use ‘near doubles’ to add.

If you have any questions I am only an email away. I will respond back by email or phone! Have a fun work learning, playing and making new discoveries!

Gr. One Home Schooling Week of April 20^th

Hi Boys and Girls,

I hope everyone had a great weekend and had some time to play outside in this nice weather. I was able to go for some refreshing walks. It’s so nice to see the water flowing in the rivers again and hear the birds singing. Spring is here at last! Feel free to email me if you any have any questions or just want to send me a note.  Enjoy your week. 

Reading-

Read at least 15 minutes a day.

Tip: Reading aloud introduces new words, grammar and concepts that you may not use during regular reading. An average child’s picture book may have around 500 words. These add up fast!

Parents: Please refer to the document I posted from the District Literacy Team. It has some great suggestions for Speaking/Listening, Reading /Viewing and Writing/Representing that your child may enjoy doing.

Cool and Fun Idea: Since I haven’t been able to visit my Granddaughter Aida, I started doing a video of me reading a story to her. She loves listening to these stories. I think it would be fun if you had someone at home video you reading a story to someone that you haven’t been able to visit!! I bet a relative, neighbor, teacher or friend would love listening to a story read by ‘you!!’

Word Work-

Work on your sight words. I've included a link below that has a cute game. 

https://www.abcya.com/games/out_of_sight_words

Spelling-

I will email your new words for this week. Let’s exercise this week with our new words. Stand up for each consonant letter and sit down for each vowel. Have fun learning! What other exercises can you do while going over your words?

Vowels

https://ca.ixl.com/ela/grade-1/choose-the-silent-e-word-that-matches-the-picture

Writing-

Continue writing in some format each day. This week you might like to write notes to friends or family members that you are not able to visit right now. Another idea that you might like to try: Choose a favorite picture that you have and write abut it.

Remember: the literacy document has some cool suggestions too

Math

Students should continue to review previous skills from time to time.

I heard that many of you enjoyed last week’s word problems that I emailed to you. Awesome!

This week I would like you to try to create a few addition and subtraction story problems orally. Then, try writing them down. I will email an outline which you may find helpful. I know you can do it!! Be creative! Be silly!!

I will also email you some more facts to go over! Can you find the partners?

Ex: 9+7=16                      16-9=7

       7+9=16                     16-7=9

Does anyone recall what these facts are called? (A fact family!)

Enjoy the following:

 https://ca.ixl.com/math/grade-1/addition-word-problems-sums-up-to-18

 https://ca.ixl.com/math/grade-1/subtraction-word-problems-numbers-up-to-18

 Don’t forget dreambox lessons! Have fun learning!!

Reading

Read 15 minutes each day. Read your own books or ones on the sites that I suggested last week. 

Tip: Try to choose 'good-fit' books so you do not get frustrated. That means, it is important to read books that are not too difficult or too easy. Remember, if you don't know five or more books on any one page, then the book is too hard. 

Extra fun: If you go for a drive or a walk check out all of the 'signs' along the way. 

Parents: In your child’s 'reading log' there is a list of good questions to ask your child about the books he/she reads. I will also include a link on the web link page that you can use.

Word Work- Continue working on your sight words. Here are a few links to some short activities you can try.

https://ca.ixl.com/ela/grade-1/choose-the-sight-word-that-you-hear

https://www.education.com/game/sight-words-bingo/

Spelling- I will email you our words for this week. 

Print each word on your paper in creative ways…

-with a pencil, a crayon, a pen, a marker

-print them in different sizes

-if possible use a computer, i-pad or other device to text each word

Have fun!!

Remember to complete one whole word at a time. Printing one letter repeatedly does not help you to learn to spell the whole word.

Fun With Vowels- Check out the web links on short vowels.

Feel free to explore other short vowel exercises on the ixl.com link.

Writing-Continue doing some writing each day. Refer to your email for some suggested ‘leads’ and ‘endings’ for your stories. Some ideas to write about: My Pet, My Family, A Funny Time and Spring!! 

Hi Boys and Girls, 

I see many of you have successfully logged into the 'epic' reading program. I hope you find a variety of books that you enjoy reading.

Check the new link to the 'rivet' reading program that I also mentioned to your parent yesterday. This will give you even more books to enjoy! Have fun!!

Read each day- 15 minutes. Remember to refer to the strategies that are in your reading booklet. Read to Someone, Read to Self or Read to your pet or favorite teddy bear!!

Sight Words- This week I'd like you to review the sight words in your duo tang that are on the 'roll and write' pages. Have fun! We need to know these to successfully read and write!!

Writing- I'd like you to start a journal. Write about a fun or interesting thing you do or see each day. Spring is in the air so there are lots of new things we see and hear outside eah day.

-use complete sentences

-pay attention to letter spacing, punctuation and spelling

- try to use a few fancy words

Math- Let's begin reviewing some of the big things we have worked on this year. 

-counting forward and backward to 100. Don't forget '0.' Use different start and end points. ex: 22-37; 73-61

-read number words to 20

-count by2s to 20, 5s  and 10s to 100

Play outside every day! Get some fresh air! I started getting outside and it feels great!!

Have fun learning at home with your family!!

Check out the web links! More to come!