September Learning

My First Day of Grade One Portraits.

For many, the first few days school can be both exciting and worrisome! Students enjoyed listening to the story, Alma & The Worry Stone. It is Alma’s first day at school and she is filled with anxiety and fright. When Alma found herself in anxiety’s brace, she pulled out her worry stone and found her brave face! After reading the story, we made our own Worry Stones out of Polymer Clay.

You're Finally Here!

Numeracy

Math talks help Grade 1 students think about numbers in different ways, share their ideas, and learn from each other. They build confidence, reasoning skills, and make math fun for everyone!

Learning Intention: Represent a quantity relative to another.

Learners played a game of WAR....comparing numbers to 10. The player with the greater quantity wins that round.

Learning Intention: Represent quantities using words, numerals, objects, or pictures.

We celebrated our 20th day of school by making Beaded Bracelets. Learners used tens frames to count out 20 beads.

Technology - Epic!

Earth Systems

Learning Intention: Observe seasonal changes in local environments over time.

This week we celebrated the first day of Fall! We chose our Class Tree, and will be observing its changes over the seasons.

We Belong To A Group

Self Portraits...Todd Parr Style

Devon Healing Medicine Grounds

nôcihtowipîsim-Breeding Moon

On our Terry Fox Walk, we stopped at the Devon Healing Medicine Grounds. Learners chose their own happy place, which we will be visiting as the seasons change.

September's Cree Moon is called nôcihtowipîsim - Breeding Moon. This month's land based challenges:

- - - - Find & connect to your own happy place.
      - Learn more about our relatives and friends (buffalos, berries, birds or beavers).

This Cree moon calendar comes from the direct teaching and guidance of Elders in the amiskwaciy wâskahikan (Edmonton, AB) area (Treaty 6).

Orange Shirt Day

Students participated in activities that honored National Day for Truth and Reconciliation. Through stories, videos and discussions, we learned a lot about why we wear an orange shirt and the Indigenous culture.

We read the story, My Suitcase: Nii Sookayis, by Christina Fox, a powerful story about her time in residential school. This book focuses on a suitcase that was taken from her with her beloved treasures inside. At the end of the book, she asks people to create their own suitcase and fill it with things they love. That's exactly what we did.

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