Come Learn the Story of Your Body, Buddies!

Hello Grade 1's & Parents/Guardians,
 

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Educating our students on the human body is essential for students to comprehend the importance of staying physically active and maintaining a healthy lifestyle. This week, we will begin our unit on the Human Body. Don't worry grade 1's, never fear...a new web resource is here!

"Parts of the Body" is a fun & interactive game that will assist your child's comprehension of the make-up of the human body which covers the following strand in the grade 1 curriculum:

A.3.3 Identify the location and function of major parts of the human body, including sense organs (e.g., lungs are in my chest and are used for breathing; teeth are in my mouth and are used for eating; hair is on my head for protection from the cold; ears are on the sides of my head and are used for hearing).

PARENTS: What this means is that by the end of grade one, your child will be able to identify and locate the major body parts and be able to describe their specific functions.

TASK: Complete the following sentence: "I liked this game because...".
Be sure to explain why you liked it.

Next class, I will be handing out a worksheet where you will have to connect major body organs to the human body. Enjoy learning about the major parts of your body grade 1's!

Miss Zehairi☺

RIIIIING - Time is Ticking!

Dear Fellow Grade 1's & Parents/Guardians,

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Our Grade 1 class has begun the unit on Number Sense and Numeration. As part of the Grade 1 Mathematics curriculum, students will learn about the concept of time and be able to read analogue clocks to identify time in everyday settings. I have provided a useful website which assists to cover the following curriculum expectation:

B.1.7 Read demonstration digital and analogue clocks, and use them to identify benchmark times and to tell and write time to the hour and half-hour in everyday settings.

PARENTS: What this means is that by the end of grade one, your child will be able to read and understand time, and be able to write time to the hour (:00) and to the half-hour (:30). Also, your child will be to develop a sense of time and be able to tell you at what time during the day (morning, noon, and night) certain activities take place.

In order to help students explore and understand the concept of time, please visit IXL Math (1) where you and your child can play an educational game that will help your child become familiar with reading and understanding time as represented both on digital and analogue clocks.

Students will also be learning how to identify benchmark times throughout the day, e.g., would a bedtime story be read to you at 3:00 or 9:00? IXL Math (2) will help you and your child understand the concept of time in relation to everyday events.

In addition, this Internet site provides audio playback to the questions they pose. This is a great way for students to not only have the questions read aloud but to also complete these games on their own.

TASK: Try and answer all the problems correctly in the shortest amount of time. Record the time it took, the total number of correct problems, and your SmartScore. Also, have your parents help you to describe the strategy you used to answer the questions correctly.

Time is ticking Grade 1's. Enjoy learning while playing these educational games!

Tick, tick, tick, tock.

What time is it on the clock?

Miss Zehairi ☺

Getting Down With Language Arts!

Greetings Grade 1's & Parents/Guardians,

Read to Succeed!

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As you are aware, literacy programs are an essential tool to develop your child's reading and writing comprehension skills. This week, we will be beginning our unit on narrative writing (fun!). I have posted three of my favourite Internet links that I believe will be beneficial to your learning and expansion of reading and writing comprehension.

The first website is called "Kids Zone"; this website provides alphabet and phonics recognition games to aid your child's writing skills.

• TASK: Under Alphabet and Phonics, click on "Alphabet Recognition Games" and choose one of the three games to play with your parents. With your parents, comment on which game you chose and what you liked about it.

The second website is called "Dosity"; this website offers printable worksheets, games and activities related to phonics, reading and writing skills, alphabet, vocabulary, grammar, and spelling.

• TASK: Under Phonics, click on "see more Phonics". Scroll down to the very bottom and work on the "an" and "ar" worksheets. Please write 3 more words for each family of words - "an" and "ar".

The final website I wish to share is called "Scholastic"; this website offers educational games that include some of your child's favourite characters, such as Clifford and Emily Elizabeth. This website will help build your child`s early reading skills as well as enhancing their spelling, vocabulary, grammar, and punctuation.

• TASK: Under Language Arts 1-2, click on "Clifford Interactive Storyboards" and choose one of the four stories to read with your parents. What was the story about? What was your favourite part? 

I urge both parents and my grade 1's to explore these three fun and education websites. Happy Spelling!

Miss Zehairi☺

Discovering A New Way of Learning!

Hi Grade 1's & Parents/Guardians,

Learning is a fundamental process that not only takes place in the classroom but can also take place in the comfort of your very own home! "Discovery Kids" is one of my favourite links for everyone to explore! This fun and interactive website offers numerous educational resources to help students acquire information and build knowledge through games, puzzles, activities, and informative facts.
  

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TASK: On Discovery Kids, click on the "Tell Me" tab and explore one of the topics on that page. Within that topic, you can choose to learn about many exciting facts and answers to commonly asked questions. Choose one and write 3 things that you learned about that chosen topic.

So Grade 1's, have fun learning about the many discoveries of our world- it is just one click away!

Happy exploring grade 1's!

Miss Zehairi ☺

A Day in the Life of a Teacher...Well, At Least for Goofy!!!☺

Just thought I'd share a cute and funny video to watch.
Enjoy!!

Miss Zehairi ☺

Welcome Grade 1's to Miss Zehairi's Class!

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A Warm Welcome to My Grade 1 Class & Parents/Guardians!

Welcome to Miss Zehairi's blog! I am looking forward to integrating all the wonders technology has to offer with our class in order to enhance your learning and engage your thinking. Throughout the year, I will be posting various helpful educational links, websites and interactive games to assist my fabulous grade 1's throughout their educational journey.

I hope you find these innovative technological tools useful to ensure your child is successful in their future endeavours.

Let the blogging begin!

Miss Zehairi ☺