Feb. 13 - 17, 2023

Hello, Grade 1 Families, 

Learning Intention: I can practice words and actions that support friendship. I can describe the ways our community supports relationships with others.

We had a week of learning about love! How to show love for myself and others. We began by watching this short video where a little girl shows love for herself. We compliment others and tell them what a great job they are doing but we often forget to share the love with ourselves. Some students shared positive "heartprints" about themselves and others created a plan for giving themselves heartprints this week. Talk to your child about ways you share love with yourself.

A great kindness song we love to sing!

The second step in our learning was leaving "heartprints" for others. Inspired by the Kindergarten/Grade 2 assembly this week, we wrote kindness messages on hearts that will be hung on the school-wide kindness tree. We also partnered with our buddies and wrote kindness messages on paper to create a long, school-wide chain. 

If you would ever like to volunteer in the classroom, send me an email with your availability. We would love to have you!

Feb 6 - 10, 2023

Hello, Grade 1 Families, 

Learning Intention: I can be informed about how financial decision-making contributes to the well-being of individuals, groups, and communities. 

This week we participated in a teacher-led Junior Achievement program called "Our Families". We began our learning by discussing communities and families and what makes a family. This fits well with the writing we are doing about our fantastic families. 

Once we understood the meaning of "family" we discussed what a neighbourhood is and what businesses or buildings we normally find in a neighbourhood. As we progressed, we learned about needs vs wants and some of them can be both. Ask your child to share some different needs vs wants with you. Vocabulary such as "entrepreneur" was discussed and we came up with different examples of businesses we would want to start!  Ask your child what businesses we might find in a community.

We looked at a map and learned about a "key" (or legend) and what the compass rose tells us. 

Reminders:

- Wear PINK on Monday, February 13 for our Kindness assembly

- Wear PINK on Wednesday, February 22 for PINK Shirt Day