September 23 - 27

Student Learning: 

It was a busy week of grade one! We explored seasonal changes and learned about Terry Fox. 

Our Terry Fox run took place on Wednesday. We set a goal to keep running or walking for the entire time. 

We raised $99.65 for the Terry Fox Foundation! Thank you for all of your kind donations. Today, we talked about how to figure out how much money we raised. We sorted the money into types and then counted how much we had altogether. 

Ask your child to share how we sorted the money or how we counted the money. 

This week we also looked at seasonal changes as part of the Science curriculum. Here are some of the stories we shared: 

We then used the leaves that were brought in to create an object. Ask your child to share what they created. 

Updates: 

• Book orders went home and are due on October 10th. 
• We will be going on another pond walk on Friday, October 4th. 
• With the unpredictable Alberta weather, please ensure your child is dressed to be outside. We will go out every day unless it is pouring rain or colder than - 20 degrees. 
• On Monday, September 30th, the green and blue team will take part in Orange Shirt Day. Students are invited to wear an orange shirt or another article of orange clothing. This is in recognition that we respect everyone. 

Have a lovely and restful weekend! Stay warm : )  

Sept 16-19 Update

Student Learning

-Thank-you all for attending conferences this week.  We are looking forward to working with all of you this year!
-This past week we were ARTISTS! We focused on learning the shapes of the sunflowers in a sketch, then bringing these skills to our watercolours. They are beautiful and we will be posting them on IRIS soon.
-Also we are building our independent writing skills by using sentence starters and adding our own thoughts and ideas.  This week we used: I can and I have my.
-We are continuing to use math vocabulary to describe patterns. Ask your child to share a characteristics of a pattern (it will be repeated)
-This week we learned how to access Get Epic an online library.
Here is our classroom codes to read at home

Mrs. Kenney: zzg5505
Mrs. Harrold ckb4702


Upcoming Events

-We will be going on a pond walk to observe seasonal changes on Tuesday Sept 24.  Please dress accordingly. We will also be collecting leaves to build a leaf creature.
-To help with building a leaf creature, please bring in extra leaves for Wednesday Sept 25
-Picture Day Thursday Sept 26
-Please bring your pictures for SS (things that they enjoy, what is important to them) by Monday Sept 23

Please see message about Terry Fox from Mrs. Miller below

Toonies for Terry 

Auburn Bay School will be participating in the Terry Fox Run on Wednesday, September 25th. As we lead up to our run, classes will be working towards increasing their stamina in Phys. Ed while fundraising money for cancer research. Please bring in Toonies for Terry to your classroom teacher as we spread cancer awareness.

On the day of the run, it is important that students wear appropriate outside shoes for walking/running along with dressing appropriately for the weather that day. Parents are welcome to join us for this event out on the soccer field at 1:45 PM on Wednesday, September 25th. The Terry Fox Run will last approximately 15 minutes and students will line up with their homeroom teacher to go back inside for the remainder of the afternoon when we have finished. We kindly ask parents to wait outside while this is happening and to pick up your child from their normal dismissal spot.

Our First Full Week of Grade One is Complete

Student Learning: 

• In math, we have started our work on sorting and patterns. Ask your child to share their understanding of the math words: attribute and core. 
• Dot Day was a success! Stand by as the grade ones work together to create a Kandinsky inspired tree out of the dots that were created on Friday. 

Classroom Updates: 

• We will be working on a special cover for our Visual Sketch Journal. For this cover, we are asking for families to send in 7 - 8 photos of your child, their family and photos of any items that are special to them. This may be photographs or they can be pictures printed from the internet that show these special items. If you are unable to print the pictures, you may email your child's teacher and we can print them for you. These photos will be used in their visual journal and will be connected to the Social Studies curriculum. Please send photos in a small plastic bag labelled with your child's name by Monday, September 16th.
• Thank you to everyone who has sent in the beginning of the year forms. If you have not yet, please send them back to school as soon as possible. 
• Conferences will be on Thursday, September 19th and Friday, September 20th. Conference booking opens on Sunday and may be done through your Power School account. 
• Due to conferences, students will be dismissed on Thursday, September 19th at 12:00pm and there is not school on Friday, September 20th. 

Have a wonderful, restful weekend!

Our first week of grade one is complete! A few notes for the upcoming weeks:

• We will be creating our classroom alphabet out of loose parts. If there are any small bits around your home that you would be willing to donate to the classroom, please send them in a small plastic bag by Friday, September 13th. Loose parts could include paper clips, nuts, bolts, beads, pebbles, string, etc. Please know these parts will be shared with the class and we will have extras for all students to use. 
• We will be working on a special cover for our Visual Sketch Journal. For this cover, we are asking for families to send in 7 - 8 photos of your child, their family and photos of any items that are special to them. These photos will be used in their visual journal and will be connected to the Social Studies curriculum. Please send photos in a small plastic bag labelled with your child's name by Monday, September 16th.

Thank you for a fantastic first week and have a great weekend!