The students had a lot of fun dressing up for sick day and creating a letter to their parents of persuasive writing explaining to them why they should have stayed home from school today.
On one dark, dark, night the grade one students of IREC met up with one of the scary creatures you see on the wall! As an introduction to our Visualization Unit, that the grade 1 team planned together, students listened to a descriptive story about meeting a monster in the woods. They then worked in groups to create different body parts based on the information they got from the story. We put all of the parts together to create a collective visualization of the monster! All of the grade one classes got together to compare the similarities and differences between all of the monsters. It was a great project to build cooperative learning as well as reflection of the final product.
What better way to explore the primary colors than to learn about Piet Mondrian. This artist began his early painting career by creating landscapes, but eventually transformed his art to explore the more basic elements of art. His works consisted of using the primary colors and specifically vertical and horizontal lines. After listening to Greg Percy's "Mondrian Song," the students set about to create our own Mondrian Masterpieces. We first used rulers to draw horizontal and vertical lines. Next we outlined them with black wax crayon. Last, we painted them with tempera paint in the primary colors. Nice work, Grade 1! In the beginning lessons on reading primarily focus on modeling and identifying reading behaviors. Focusing first on what readers do, prepares children for learning how they do it. "Reading with Meaning," by Debbie Miller Our students have been reading detectives, watching closely and reporting back to us what they notice about readers. Take a look at what they have discovered. |
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March 2014
February Events
Feb 26 - Hot Lunch - Piccolo's Feb 27 - 100th Day Dress Up Day Feb 28 - Family Night @ Red Deer Rebels Mar 3 - Speech & Occupational Therapy Club Mar 4 - School Council Meeting Mar 5 - Grade one Field Trip to Grimms Fairytale Play Mar 5 - Farm Safety Mar 7 - PD Day - No School for Students Mar 12 - Farm Safety Mar 12 - Hot Lunch - Griffin's Hideout Categories
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