I have a 10 minutes maximum homework rule! If homework takes longer than 10 minutes, please put it away even if it is not finished. After 10 minutes, your child will be tired and probably frustrated.
Monday September 14th
Bonjour!
Welcome to our first update of the 2026/2027 school year! I am so excited to have your child in my class! Each week there will be three sections to my updates.
A few things to mention:
I'm looking forward to meeting as many of you as possible and finally putting a name to the face at our Meet the Teacher this Wednesday September 16th. My classroom is room 107C. When you enter through the main doors, head down the stairs and turn left at the Winnie the Pooh wall. My room is the first door on your left, you go down a little hallway to get to my little door at the back. There are three sessions. This gives parents time to get to different sessions if they have more than one child in the school. The times are as follows:
6:00-6:15 - Kindergarten
6:20-6:35 - Grade 1 (that's us!)
6:40-6:55 - Grade 1
Terry Fox walk will be happening next Friday.
A quick blurb about a big part of our day and that's our phonics based program (Traitement Alphabétique). I have seen how much this program helps students achieve goals and really learn how to read. It focuses on breaking down words into sounds and being able to hear all sounds in words as well as write them. It is all phonics based. We actually started the first part of it last week and will continue for the next 5ish weeks. Right now it is a review of letters and sounds and learning how to write the alphabet in lowercase. We don't write in uppercase in grade 1 unless it's at the beginning of a sentence and the first letter in our name.
There has been a little confusion on which door we use when entering the building in the mornings (off the bus or being dropped off). Our class is to use the doors down the hill. They are to go past the main doors and enter the next door that they see. NOT their kindergarten door from last year, they have gone too far if they get to that door.
This week we will continue to work on our routines sush as lining up, walking in the halls, raising our hands, waiting our turn and controlling classroom volume.
I also try to have my Google site updated by Sunday evening (Monday after school by the latest) and I'll send out an email usually Sunday evening to let you know.
My email address is mabutler@edu.pe.ca and I check it as often as I can. If you have any questions or concerns please send me a message!
This week in the following subjects:
Reading: This week we will continue to review letters and sounds of the alphabet. We will also start putting consonants and vowels together to make blends. This will get us going in the right direction to help us read some books.
Sounds of the week: *we work on 2 sounds a day
a (as in acrobat)
t (as in Tu pues LuLu)
n (as in nez)
u (as in Tu pues LuLu)
m (as in macaroni)
d (as in descendre)
Writing: This week we will start our writing block by practicing our printing of lowercase letters. We will talk about letter formation, lowercase letters and when to use them. Many have been rushing and simply not following direction, which leads to a lot of letters being erased and having to start over. We will also work on creating sentences. We use modeled sentences, find the words needed to make the sentence and put it together by adding a vocabulary word at the end. It's called our "Fantastic Sentences".
Math: This week we will be doing some counting. Right now we are counting forward from 1-10 but this week we'll add in counting backwards from 10-1. We have to make sure we know these numbers the best as they help us with bigger numbers to 100. We're going to also look at certain numbers, how to properly write them and how to say them correctly in French. We will also work on finding mistakes in a number line and fill in the missing numbers.
Integrated Studies: Our science, social studies, technology and art curriculums have been integrated into units. One of our units talks about how everyone is different, unique and have different interest. It fits really well with many back to school activities that can be used to create a positive and good working classroom.
Homework: There will be no homework this week. Once I have a good review of where students are with letters and sounds, I'll start to send home some activities (I'm thinking next week).
Dates to remember:
Septembre 16th - Meet the Teacher (6:20-6:35 is our time)
September 25th - Terry Fox Run
September 29th - Orange Shirt day
Septembre 30th - National Day of Truth and Reconciliation (No School)
I hope everyone has a great week!
Mme Melissa