Dear Parents

We have had a busy week reflecting on our week at City Hall School and preparing to present our Celebration of Learning artifacts. 

-Reminders: Our grade 1 Celebration of Learning will be on May 28, 2025 from 9:00-9:30 am.  All grade 1’s will gather in Room 15 (Mrs. Kosior’s classroom) to share some of the highlights from all of our learning that has connected to City Hall School.  You will then have some time to explore and engage with your child, as they share some artifacts of their learning.  We hope you will be able to join us.  Grandparents are welcome too.  

-Sibbald’s Got Talent!  Our classroom Talent Show will be on Thursday afternoon.  This is an opportunity for any students who have prepared and practiced a skill or talent to share that with their peers.  From our classroom talent show we will submit 2 entries to our school wide talent show which will be on June 6 at 10 am.  Please note that you are able to make a video submissio to my email at cakosior@cbe.ab.ca.  Also please have all materials at school for your child to perform their talent on Thursday May 29.  Thank you!

Preparation for Celebration of Learning

This week we have been busy capturing our thoughts and creating our artifacts of learning.  Not to give too much away…please take a look at our sneak peek of pictures from this time.

Math

In math we have been working on more complex problems involving addition and subtraction.  You can use this summary as background information to support your child’s work in math.  

Learning Intentions:

I can solve addition and subtraction problems using a variety of strategies.

Solving Problems Involving Addition

Students might use any of these strategies to solve problems involving addition:

•	working with concrete models, such as 10-frames, number paths, or counters
•	counting on
•	relating an unknown situation to a known one

For example, if students realize that 5 + 5 is 10, they might solve 6 + 5 by thinking of it as 1 more than 5 + 5.

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Solving Problems Involving Subtraction

Students might use any of these strategies to solve problems involving subtraction:

•	working with concrete models, such as 10-frames, number paths, or counters
•	counting on or counting back
•	relating an unknown situation to a known one

For example, if students realize that 10 – 5 is 5, then they might think of 10 – 6 as 1 less than 10 – 5 because you are taking away 1 more or because the space from 6 to 10 on a number path is 1 less than the space from 5 to 10.

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Solving Problems With Many Steps

Some of the problems students will experience in this topic involve situations that combine addition and subtraction.

For example, if you had 8 counters and then got 4 more and then someone took 5 away, how many counters would you have?

•	You could think about 8 + 4 first, which is 12. Then you could think about 12 – 5, which is 7.
•	But you might realize that you are taking away 1 more than you add, so you would end up in the same place if you simply took 1 away from 8. 8 − 1 is 7.

Literacy

This week, we continue to look at word endings.  We learned about Y say I at the end of 1-syllable words.  This can be tricky!  The following is some home practice you may use to support your child’s learning.