October 1-4

 Dear Parents, 

This week as a part of our school community, we have been learning about Terry Fox, a Canadian Hero.  Our grade one community took up this work by connecting Terry in his younger years and his “Magic Yet” by looking at his challenges and accomplishments to become a basketball player and long-distance runner.  Through stories, students learned about Terry’s life as a child, the discovery and his battle with cancer, and his goal to raise $1 for every Canadian to fund cancer research.  Students in our classroom community then focused on the contributions of Terry Fox and his “Magical Yet” to overcome challenges and achieve a goal.  We concluded our work by completing the Terry Fox run with our Andrew Sibbald school community and reflecting on our learning through a visual journal representation.  

Learning Intentions:  

-Students examine personal characteristics, feelings, and emotions and explore understanding of self.

-Students demonstrate how movement can support different types of physical activity.

-Create written messages with my drawings and words 

Literacy

During our focused literacy lessons, we learned about the letter “A” and the letter “M’.  During these lessons students learn the sounds the letter makes, learn the position of our mouths, lips and tongue when we make that sounds, practice isolating letters and sounds, blend those sounds together to make words, and looked at the lines that make up each letter when printing. Please practice these letter sounds at home, and find objects and items that start with A or M, or words that have A or M in them.  

Learning Intention:

-Letters represent sounds in words.

-​​Letter combinations represent units of sound within a word

Reminders:

-Walking Field Trip to Fish Creek on Wednesday, Oct 9