Winter Break!

Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays everyone! See you in the new year :)

Spirit Week in Grade 1

This week is spirit week.

Monday: Leighton Centre
Tuesday: Hat Day
Wednesday: Silly sock day
Thursday: Pajama Day
Friday: Festive shirt day

Have a great week everyone!

Leighton Centre

Today the grade 1 students spent the day out at the Leighton Art Centre. The weather was beautiful and the scenery was breathtaking. We learned many new art skills and learned about Mr. and Mrs. Leighton. Here are some photos of our day!

Glenbow Museum Trip

Yesterday Room 10 visited the Glenbow Museum. We had the opportunity to learn about the Blackfoot people and Medieval Life. We created our our tipis and are working on a miniature Museum for our classroom community.

STEM Night

Tonight is Maple Ridge Family STEM night. We hope to see everyone there, times are from 6:00-7:30 pm. We are collecting food bank items.

Remember tomorrow is a PD Day, no school for students!

3D Shape Challenges

Room 10 students are working on completing 3D shape challenges. We are building LEGO sleighs to help Santa that can hold at least six gift boxes, building 3D paper shapes, sketching shapes that we found in our food drive donation pile and creating winter scenes with our pattern blocks.

We are learning:
-Shape vocabulary
-fine motor skills
-problem solving skills
-looking closely at objects
-elements or attributes of 2D and 3D shapes
-artistic expression

Sorting 3-D shapes

Today in room 10 we were learning about shape attributes and how to sort or group different 3-D shapes. We can sort by the number of faces, edges, corners, points or rolling ability. We have been studying shapes in our world and the shapes that we are using to build our 3-D structures.

Glenbow Museum forms went home on Friday please return to Mrs. McCaw.

Maple Ridge STEM night is coming up, Thursday 6:00 pm-7:30 pm. Hope to see you there!

Shapes in our World

Room 10 explored with two and three dimensional shapes today within the classroom and in our outdoor space. The students noticed a variety of shapes within the natural objects such as the trees and stumps. They also noticed shapes that can be seen within the negative space such as in-between branches and the center of a tire.

We are learning:
-Shape terminology
-negative space
-building with shapes
-creative thinking
-looking with multiple perspectives