Dec 14 - 19

Learning Intentions: 

I can read and understand a story by identifying characters and events, and by making personal connections. 

I can use reading, writing, drawing, and sorting activities to share my ideas and thoughts. 

I can collect, organize, and display information using pictures, symbols, and graphs. 

I can create and interpret a glyph to show information about myself and our class. 

I can design, build, and solve problems with others while counting, sorting, and graphing materials. 

As we wrap up 2025, our class has been busy finishing our Gingerbread multi-curricular unit. It has been a wonderful way to bring learning together in a creative and engaging way. We enjoyed a week of holiday tunes, singing and dancing together as a whole school.

In Literacy, students rotated through a final set of gingerbread-themed centres. These included roll-and-draw activities to design their own gingerbread people, a reading and writing centre in which students filled in missing words, a character-sorting activity based on the story, and a read-and-reflect centre where students made personal connections to the text. These centres supported reading comprehension, sentence structure, vocabulary, and creative expression while allowing students to work independently and collaboratively. 

In Math, students created a gingerbread glyph, a visual representation of information using symbols. Each feature of the gingerbread person (such as buttons, decorations, or colours) showed something specific about the student or their choices. We then used the glyphs to practice graphing, comparing and analyzing class data in a hands-on way. 

Our final project brought everything together as students designed and built a gingerbread house that could stand independently. Once completed, students graphed and discussed the materials and candies used in their structures, reinforcing concepts of counting, sorting, and representing data.

Dec 8 -12

Learning Intentions: 

I can work with a group. 

I can follow step-by-step instructions to create art. 

I can read and listen to stories and make connections. 

I can use my knowledge of letter sounds to solve a puzzle. 

I can create complete sentences. 

I can show my learning through multiple literacies. 

This week, the students began their first rotation through the literacy centers. The students worked in groups to complete the following tasks: Winter Code Breaker; guided drawings of a Gingerbread Person and house; listening to and reading various Gingerbread stories; making connections and sharing their thoughts on the book; and, finally, creating fun holiday sentences through a game. The students will continue to explore literacy centers throughout the year. They are working on staying at their center, working the whole time, working with their teammates and completing their tasks. 

Learning Intentions: 

I can record data using tally marks. 

I can ask my classmates survey questions to collect data. 

I can use data to make bar graphs. 

I can use data to make pictographs.

I can create a question, survey my classmates, graph the results and draw conclusions (Gr 2). 

This week, the Grade 1s and 2s both continued their exploration of data in math. They continue to practice various skills, such as recording data in tally marks when surveying their peers and presenting data using graphs, including bar graphs, pictographs, and dot graphs. They are continuing to explore how to draw conclusions from the data, such as "What is the difference between how many people chose snowflake over tree?" They will finish their learning on statistics by the end of next week, with more hands-on activities and a quick check-in to assess their learning. 

Supporting Students at Home 

Spelling: We will pause our weekly spelling until the new year! 

Math: As we explore data and statistics, please encourage your child to find ways to explore this unit at home. Ask your child to make a tally chart and count how many items are in the fridge. On the Christmas tree? Please have your child ask family members a would you rather question and have them record their answers.