Transparent and Opaque

We are learning about shapes and we made a Christmas tree out of shapes. We played volleyball in gym today.  In volleyball, we hit the ball back and forth to each other and we volley the ball over our heads.We are still learning about colours and we learned about transparent and opaque.  Transparent means that you can see through it. Opaque means that you cannot see through it.  Transparent things are windows, plastic wrap, glasses.  Opaque things are door, wall, shirts, carpet.

Geometry

We have been reading a story about reindeer races and making sentences. Today we had to write the reindeer winner and colour a picture. Lots of people thought Tip would win the race.  We are learning about shapes.  Learning about shapes in math is called geometry. We played I Spy using shapes. We played Freeze Tag and British Bulldog at gym. We sang some songs in music.

Primary Colours like Kandinsky

Today we played Revenge Dodgeball with Ms Mahan's class.  It was so fun. We continued to work on colors and we did a painting like Kandinsky's circles.  We made circles using only primary colours which are blue, red and yellow and made orange, purple and green. We played Kahoot today using the ipads.  We had to make 10 combinations and we had questions that we had to answer fast like 5+5 and 10+0.

Remember to bring in the Christmas ticket form.

Primary Colours

We have been learning about colours!  Yellow and red make orange. Yellow and blue make green.  Blue and red make purple.  There are three important colours. They are called the primary colours. They are red, yellow and blue.
We are still making Friendly 10s and we played a concentration game using 10 combinations.
Mr. Chad fixed our speaker so now we can hear the birthdays, O'Canada and the announcers! 

Life in Grade 1

We have been making 10s in math.  We know that 8 + 2 makes 10, 10 + 0 makes 10. We played Go Fish for 10s. We wrote a book about fireflies in a jar and there were 10 and some flew away.
We had gym with Ms Mahan's grade 1s. We read a book called Goodnight Ipad and the mom threw away all the electronics!!!!! Yesterday we read a book called Stick and Stone and it was about friendship.

50 days of school

Today is the 50th day of school! We drank root beer floats and wrote about it on root beer float paper. They were yummy.  We dressed up in fifties outfits: our jeans were rolled up, suspenders, white t-shirts, leather jackets, poodle skirts, slicked back hair and combs in our pockets.  We used a 100 chart and counted to 50 by 1s, 2s, 5s and 10s!  We looked at pictures and sorted them into 50s or today!  TVs, phones and cars looked very different in the 50s.

A Locked Box!

We had to read the map!

The locks wouldn't open without the clue!

The secret codes!

Today we did a locked box which is kind of like an Escape Room.  We read If You Take a Mouse to School AND the mouse left us a note!  The note said the mouse had accidentally put the markers in a locked box.  We had to read clues and use a map to figure out how to unlock the box. We even had to read a secret code from a special pen on the H because it was the furthest north letter alphabet letter that we received in the mail.  We had to read rooms on a map, go look for clues around the school.

It was SO much fun! "It was the best activity EVER"

Highlights of High River

Highlights of High River

We began sharing our Highlights of High River projects! They are fantastic! Some people shared Minecraft buildings, Lego, drawings, posters, pictures and dioramas. We have learned a lot about High River. The Medicine Tree was important to the Blackfoot people. The school is a place for learning. Shepard Park has a park and it has an old house on it. Evelyn's is a good place for ice cream. We live near the mountains.
High River is a great place to live!

We remember!

We had our Remembrance Day assembly.  We recited the poem In Flander's Fields.  We had two soldiers and an RCMP officer join us at the assembly. The poem was written by John McCrae during the war.  Soldiers were hurt on the field and poppies began to grow. Lots of our parents came to watch us. We did amazing!

A reporter told us that our poem may be on SunCountry radio!

Our learning!

Looking at assessment!

Today we were the teachers! We marked some drawings by giving them a 1, 2, 3 or 4 stars.  A 1 star had scribbles, not very much writing, not many colours. A 2-star work had a couple of colours, nice colouring, a little bit of detail.  A 3-star work had lots of colours, wrote some good words on the lines, there was a little bit more detail.  A 4-star work had lots of details, really good work, lots of detail with correct colours,