A new look for our class blog

Our class blog is moving! Please refer to our new blog site http://msketcheson.edublogs.com for updates on the learning going on in our grade 1 classroom.

Please note, I will no longer be updating this blog. I will leave this blog up as I transition to the Edublogs website.

Finished dream sticks

Today we worked on sketching and labelling our dream sticks, making sure to include lots of details!

We also used watercolours to show the different colours we saw in fall leaves.

Dream Sticks

As part of our investigation into dreams, the grade ones have been creating dream sticks- and they look beautiful! Each string on their stick represents something special to them. More pictures to come as we hang them in the classroom.

Counting our classroom

We are moving into looking at numbers and counting. Today, our first activity was a challenge: students were asked to 'count the room'. They worked hard to count how many chairs,desks,carpet squares and turtles (!) were in the room.

Happy thanksgiving!

Wishing all of our grade 1 families a happy long weekend!

5 senses with Scuba Charlotte

We had a great presentation this morning! Students became 'scientists' and moved through 5 stations to learn about their 5 senses.

Thank you very much to the parent volunteers who helped run the stations! 

We will continue to bring in activities like these throughout the year where help is always appreciated!

Silent Sits outside

As part of our work getting ready for Nature School, we brainstormed today about what a 'silent sit' looks like and sounds like. Students came up with a checklist to see how they did after 3 minutes of sitting outside looking for 5 different fall colours.

We used hula hoops to define our sit spot, and we did a great job! After we came in, we used our sketchbooks to draw the colours we saw.