Goodbye!!!

It's been such a wonderful year in Grade 1! Thank you to all of you for trusting me with your child and for allowing me to watch them learn and grow! I am always amazed at who they become by the end of the year! I'm excited to see them continue to grow!

If by chance you have forgotten anything, or rather, your child has forgotten anything, we will still be at the school Mon, Tues and Wed morning until about 12.

Have a fabulous summer!!!

Last Full Day!!!!

Tomorrow is a half day! Remember to pick up your child at 11am. They will have things to bring home. We sent some things yesterday and will send more today!

We said Farewell to the Grade 6's in an assembly this afternoon.

Tomorrow we will say goodbye to some teachers who will be leaving.

It has been a lovely year here in Grade 1. We have learned so much and will take most of it with us into Grade 2.

The end is almost near! As we get ready for Summer I want to stress the importance of reading Daily with your child. Please keep this up over the Summer and your child will be geared up and all ready for Grade 2.

We watched a bit of Inside Out today. We will finish it tomorrow.

Have a wonderful Wednesday!

Happy Summer Solstice!!!!

Sorry for the late post!!! The Internet is  being funny lately. Tomorrow is Dress as your Favourite Book Character!

We wrote letters to our Grade 2 teacher today. It was all about us. We have come a long way in our writing! You should be very proud!

June 22nd - Dress up as your Favourite Book Character

June 24th - Early Dismissal AND last day of Grade 1

Happy Summer Solstice!!!!

Today we finished our Zoo Enclosures and were able to bring them home. Have your child tell you all about them and the different components the enclosure needed.

We were able to go onto a Literacy Centre when our Zoo Enclosure was complete and most of us chose to work on puzzles. Puzzles are so good for your brain. Keep up the awesome work!

This afternoon we watched a presentation from the Social Media Club. They prepared videos on a variety of topics like, religious discrimination, bullying and a few others. They were very well done!

Mrs. Nelson read us a bunch of stories today as well. We are still reading Where the Red Fern Grows and we really hope we have time to get to the end. Mrs. Nelson may have to skip a couple parts!

Special Note***
On Wednesday the school will have a spirit day to end the year off with some Beluga pride. Earlier in the month we collected donations for the Fort McMurray forest fires and we raised over $700! Thanks to these generous donations we would like to extend the invitation to dress up for spirit day to everyone in the school to make sure no child is excluded from showing their Beluga spirit. If you would like, you can come to school on Wednesday dressed as your favourite book character!
- costumes may not included masks or any props that will distract from learning or cause issues at recess
- Costumes may not be gory or violent in nature and must adhere to the schools dress code

Important Info:

June 20th - Summer Solstice at 4:34 pm- Summer officially begins!!!!!!!!!

June 22nd - Dress up as your Favourite Book Character

June 24th - Early Dismissal AND last day of Grade 1

We Rock!!!!

Today we worked on our Zoo Enclosures...they are almost finished. Just a few tweaks more and they will be finished. 

We continued reading Where the Red Fern Grows.  It sure is good. I hope we finish it before school is over for the year! 

This afternoon we worked on a special Art project for someone special in our lives. 

THANK YOU to everyone who has returned their Library books. I think almost all of them have been returned! Great Job! This is the last week for Home Reading Books as well. We will collect all of those on Monday to ensure we have them all back for next year's Grade 1 students! 

June 19th - Father's Day 

June 20th - Summer Solstice at 4:34 pm- Summer officially begins!!!!!!!!!

June 22nd - Dress up as your Favourite Book Character

June 24th - Early Dismissal AND last day of Grade 1

Please remember to return all library books to school this week! We checked through our whole classroom for library books and found a couple of Mrs. Nelson's books that need to be returned!

Please try to find a rock about the size of 1 or 2 of your fists for tomorrow. I will try to get out to get a few extra myself, or if you find 2 please send them along! Thank you so much!

We are watching Mary Poppin's in Music class. It is hilarious! Today we heard the song "supercalifragilisticexpialidocious".

June 19th - Father's Day June 20th - Summer Solstice at 4:34 pm- Summer officially begins
June 22nd - Dress up as your Favourite Book Character
June 24th - Early Dismissal AND last day of Grade 1

It's a Zoo out there!!!!

We had a wonderful trip to the Calgary Zoo today! We saw lots of animals! Some of our favourites were: penguins, meerkats, hippos, lions, tigers, butterfly, snow leopard, the white black bear, zebra, giraffe, komodo dragon, red panda, rhino and of course we saw the cute baby gorilla, penguin and giraffe. So many babies at the Zoo!

Please return all library books. Overdue books will be charged and bills will be sent home this Friday.

Please bring in a rock about the size of 1 or 2 of your fists. We will need them by Thursday!!!!!!

June 19th - Father's Day and Mrs. Nelson's Birthday
June 20th - Summer Solstice at 4:34 pm- Summer officially begins
June 22nd - Dress up as your Favourite Book Character
June 24th - Early Dismissal AND last day of Grade 1

Sports Day!!!!!

Well we did it! We went ahead with Sports Day and it didn't turn out bad at all. The rain stayed away....so did the Sunshine! But it wasn't too horrible! We made the best of it and I think everyone had a fantastic time!

Mrs. Nelson is away again on Monday - sorry :-( ...Mrs. Oberhamer will be taking her place. We go to the Zoo on Tuesday! So if you haven't got your form in yet, please do so by Monday so you can come and have a great time with all the animals!!!!

We worked on our Zoo enclosures this morning for a bit and we will probably finish those next Wednesday!



Now - Zoo Field Trip Forms due!
June 14th - Grade 1 Field Trip to the Calgary Zoo
------could use a few more volunteers if you are able!
June 19th - Father's Day and Mrs. Nelson's Birthday
June 20th - Summer Solstice at 4:34 pm- Summer officially begins
June 22nd - Dress up as your Favourite Book Character
June 24th - Early Dismissal AND last day of Grade 1

What a great Wednesday! We worked through Literacy and Math Centres today and we moved our Music time to tomorrow for our awesome in class field trip!!!!

This afternoon we had Teacher's Pet come into our classroom to work on Social Studies. We explored the My World portion of the curriculum. It was FANTASTIC!!!! We learned about different communities, Rural and Urban communities, landmarks, rights and responsibilities. Each group was also able to put on a play with puppets to show how we can use democratic voice in our classroom and play time.

Please send a water bottle with your child as the days are getting hot and I want to make sure everyone has lots of water in them!

Now - Zoo Field Trip Forms due!
June 10th - Hot Lunch
June 10th - Sports Day
June 14th - Grade 1 Field Trip to the Calgary Zoo
------could use a few more volunteers if you are able!
June 19th - Father's Day and Mrs. Nelson's Birthday
June 20th - Summer Solstice at 4:34 pm- Summer officially begins
June 24th - Early Dismissal AND last day of Grade 1

Today we started our Zoo Enclosures! We will continue to work on them on Thursday! So far, so good!

New Spelling words are:
because - red word
funny
ride - word family
boat - word family
fast - word family

We planted grass seeds in soil. We predicted that it will take between 2 -7 days to see some grass! HOMEWORK!!!! Ask your parent's "Do you plant grass seeds every year?" 

We need ROCKS!!! About the size of our fist or bigger! Not bigger than 2 fists though! It's for a special secret project!

Note regarding Sports Day:

On Friday we will be having our Sports Day after lunch. Please make sure that you are wearing appropriate clothing and shoes to be outside all afternoon. Students are encouraged to bring water bottles and hats. If you choose to wear sunscreen please apply it at home in the morning. Some of the stations for Sports Day will include water. Students can choose whether they participate in these stations. They may bring a change of dry clothes for afterwards, otherwise they may come home wet. We are asking that everyone wears Sporty Spunky Socks on Friday. 

Now - Teacher's Pet field trip form due
June 8th - In-school field trip - My World with Teacher's PetJune 8th - Zoo Field Trip Forms due!
June 10th - Hot Lunch
June 10th - Sports Day
June 14th - Grade 1 Field Trip to the Calgary Zoo
June 19th - Father's Day and Mrs. Nelson's Birthday
June 20th - Summer Solstice at 4:34 pm- Summer officially begins
June 24th - Early Dismissal AND last day of Grade 1

Green Field Trip Forms are Due - the cost is $6 - we are in need of 2 more Volunteers!

Zoo Field Trip forms have been sent home and are due soon. We go next Tuesday! Please send those in as well!

Today we discussed Ramadan which started today! It lasts for a whole month. During this time people fast from sun rise to sun set and pray 5 times a day. We decided as a class that whoever would like to will fast during our recess break tomorrow. We will still have water, but no food. This is an optional activity for anyone who chooses to participate. Your child does not need to participate.

Note regarding Sports Day:

On Friday we will be having our Sports Day after lunch. Please make sure that you are wearing appropriate clothing and shoes to be outside all afternoon. Students are encouraged to bring water bottles and hats. If you choose to wear sunscreen please apply it at home in the morning. Some of the stations for Sports Day will include water. Students can choose whether they participate in these stations. They may bring a change of dry clothes for afterwards, otherwise they may come home wet. We are asking that everyone wears Sporty Spunky Socks on Friday. 

Now - Teacher's Pet field trip form due
June 8th - In-school field trip - My World with Teacher's Pet
June 8th - Zoo Field Trip Forms due!
June 10th - Hot Lunch
June 10th - Sports Day
June 14th - Grade 1 Field Trip to the Calgary Zoo
June 19th - Father's Day and Mrs. Nelson's Birthday
June 20th - Summer Solstice at 4:34 pm- Summer officially begins
June 24th - Early Dismissal AND last day of Grade 1

Yesterday and today Mrs. Nelson came in the morning. We had Ms. C in the afternoons. Mr. Nelson is doing really well and Mrs. Nelson was happy she could help him recover. Thank you to all your children for their patience in the irregular schedule.

Donations for Fort McMurray will be accepted until early next week!
We have been working on writing about our favourite characters for our special Spirit Day on June 22nd. Mrs. Nelson taught that we don't have to wear a costume we have bought, we can use things we already have. For example, if we want to dress up as Clifford the Big Red Dog, we should wear a red shirt and red pants. We can make dog ears and attach them to a hat or headband and paint our nose black! Tada!!!! We are Clifford! Try to be creative in your dress up.

EVERY STUDENT gets to dress up!!!! We shared our coins that were brought in and there was exactly enough for every single student in our class! That's pretty lucky! So because we shared our donations with each other, everyone gets to dress up on Spirit Day!

Zoo Field Trip forms came home yesterday! Please attach payment, fill them in and send them back to school. We need about 4 Volunteers for the Zoo! I think we have a couple already. We can have more as well, but minimum of 4.

Our in-class Teacher's Pet Field trip is coming up next Wednesday and we still need 3 Volunteers for that!

June 6th - Scholastic Orders due - last one this year! 
June 6th - Teacher's Pet field trip form dueJune 8th - In-school field trip - My World with Teacher's Pet
June 10th - Hot Lunch
June 10th - Sports Day
June 14th - Grade 1 Field Trip to the Calgary Zoo
June 19th - Father's Day and Mrs. Nelson's Birthday
June 20th - Summer Solstice at 4:34 pm- Summer officially begins
June 24th - Early Dismissal AND last day of Grade 1