Week at a Glance

November 24th-28th

November 17th-21st

FNMI

On Tuesday afternoon, our Grade 1 class welcomed Felice Gladue from Metis alive into our room. Felice taught our class traditional Metis songs, dance, and stories. Our students learned to play the spoons, participated in the broom and teacup dance and also made our own set of spoons and a Metis themed infinity necklace.

Agriculture

On Tuesday and Thursday morning, we spent time outside in the barnyard learning from Mrs. Besler. She went over barnyard safety and rules we need to follow to keep students safe when interacting with the animals. Grade 1's learnt about the chore kids do to help prepare the animals for winter. Students learnt about some adaptions that animals have to help their survive and adapt to our cold winters.

Wellness

This week, students completed their final swimming lessons. Grade 1's were excited to spend time playing games, going on the water slide, and in the hot tub during their final lesson.

November 3rd to November 7th

Our Grade 9 buddies helped us complete a Remembrance Day project for the front bulletin board just outside our Grade 1 classroom.

Week 7 of swimming lessons at the LRC. Grade 1 has one more week to go! Week 8 will take place the Thursday after Fall Break.

Our class took magnifying glasses outside to explore objects in nature this week using our senses of sight, hearing, touch and smell. With a partner, each student had the opportunity to explore the wooded area behind our schoolyard and focus on investigating the properties of objects we found there.

October 27th to October 31st

This week our Grade 1 class wrapped up our research project on turkeys. With the help of Miss Samantha, and through our own observations as a class, we learned the following facts about our feathered friends:

turkeys can jump & fly short distances
turkeys have excellent eyesight and can see in colour
male turkeys are called Jakes & Toms
female turkeys are called Hens
turkeys can have up to 6000 feathers!

We said goodbye to the turkeys (with the exception of Walter & Henrietta) and broiler chickens before Miss Samantha took them off to be processed on Wednesday. Our class discussed how lucky we are to have the opportunity to raise animals for food at New Humble Community School.

During our Halloween celebration on Friday, our class investigated pumpkins and predicted whether or not they would sink or float. We then took each of our pumpkins to the kitchen and Mr. Jeff helped us test whether or not our predictions were accurate!

October 20th to October 24th

Barnyard Numbers Scavenger Hunt

Grade 1 and Grade 9 headed out to the barnyard on a scavenger hunt Tuesday! A few of the tasks students were required to complete are as follows:

Find the animal that moos. How many hooves are in the pen?
Find an animal for which a group is called a flock. Count the animals and write the number.
I'm not a spoon, but I help with hay. Farmers use me every day. Find me and count my tines.

Swimming Lessons Week 5!

October 15th, 16th & 17th

With the help of Miss Samantha, our class started a research project on turkeys. We will spend the next few weeks learning all about them! Gobble, gobble!

Outside in the barnyard listening to Miss Samantha answer our turkey questions.

Week of October 6th to October 10th

We have been learning about sorting and patterns in math. This week our class made AB patterns using objects we found in nature such as rocks, twigs, moss, leaves and pinecones.

Our class has completed a variety of Fall & Thanksgiving themed art and crafts so far this month. Here are a few samples of our amazing work!

Things are going "swimmingly" over at the Leduc Recreation Centre. Our class completed Week 3 of swimming lessons on Thursday, October 9th. On to Week 4!

Week of September 29th to October 3rd

Grade 1 headed out into the bushes behind the playground on Wednesday to participate in a Fall Scavenger Hunt with our Grade 9 Buddies!

Some of the items on our list were:

bird nest
moss
yellow leaf
fallen log
feather
ladybug
pinecone

Week of September 22nd to September 26th

On Tuesday, September 23rd in the afternoon our whole school participated in the Terry Fox Run benefitting Cancer Research.

This week our Grade 1 classroom completed a watercolour art project which involved drawing a sunflower with black marker and painting the sunflower and background with watercolour paints.

We began swimming lessons at the Leduc Recreation Centre! We will continue to swim every week for the next 8 weeks.

Week of September 15th to September 18th

Getting ready to peel & cut up potatoes.

Getting down to work!

Mr. Jeff demonstrating how to peel and chop.

With the help of Mr. Jeff and Miss Lisa, Grade 1 washed, peeled & chopped the potatoes we harvested from the garden and turned them into home fries. Yummy!!!

Listening to the story of how potato seedlings are grown in a greenhouse & planted on the farm.

On Thursday, September 18th, New Humble Community School travelled by bus to Great North Seed Potatoes for a tour of their facilities. Students were treated to a lunch of perogies, french fries and potato salad and then shown around the property by employees of the farm who explained how potatoes are grown, tended to and harvested. A special treat at the end of the tour was getting to harvest potatoes ourselves!

Week of September 8th to September 12th

This week our Grade 1 visited the school barnyard and garden with our Grade 9 buddies!

Our Grade 1 Classroom and Ms. Martinoff's Grade 9 class are buddies this year. So far we have read together and gone over the rules of the barnyard when visiting the livestock.