Hello everyone!
I hope you all had another great weekend and enjoyed the beautiful weather and had a chance to get outside!
Here is a little update about what has been happening at WEJ. Teachers are being allowed into the school during staggered times and are packing up students belongings. Mrs. Nia went into the class on Friday and placed all students belongings into clear plastic bags and they have now been placed in the gym. Parents and students will be able to pick up their belongings during the week of June 15th. There will be more details coming shortly so stay tuned.
Here is the message that was sent out from our Principal and Vice Principal at the end of last week:
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Greetings WEJ Families,
We are busy starting to prepare student items to be retrieved by our community. Staff have started to enter the building and are doing their best to gather student belongings and school work and place it in a clear garbage bag, ready for you to pick up.
On Tuesday, June 16th and Wednesday, June 17th we will be open for families to drive by and get their child’s items. We also ask that you start looking around your home for library books, school books and other items that you can drop off at the school when you come to pick up.
Details will be coming out next week…watch for them. Here is a photo of our progress with this task!

Have a great weekend,
Colleen Irvin (Principal) and Sean Davidson (Vice Principal)
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Here is the work for your child to complete this week. Please let me know if you have any questions or concerns as I’m always here to help! You can email me at laura.argue@ocdsb.ca. Please remember that you know your child best so please decide what you and your child can complete.
Work for the Week of June 8th 2020
LANGUAGE ARTS
Reading
Students can continue to practice reading any books that they have at home. Students can also continue to read on Raz-Kids or on EPIC. You can read to your child and they can read to you daily with whatever books you have in your home or with whatever online reading program you and your child enjoy using.
This week’s read aloud is a bit of a hint or clue to what our class pet might be!! This week, students can listen to the read aloud, “The Very Hungry Caterpillar” by Eric Carle. Here is a video of the book being read so that your child can listen to it. Please click on the link to watch and listen to the story.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sqpWHU778_Y
Throughout the book, the very hungry caterpillar eats through a lot of different types of food! Students will write out some of the names of the foods that the caterpillar ate through. Students will then decide what food they think is the caterpillar’s favourite!
Students can complete this worksheet to answer the questions from above. I have attached a word document that you can print out and use or you can just re-create what I have written in the picture below on any paper that you might have at home.
Click on the link below to open the word document:
Reading Response – The Very Hungry Caterpillar

Writing
We will be continuing with our words of the week! This week’s words are the last words on our Grade 1 High Frequency Word List! They are: walk, were, when
Here are some ways that you can practice and learn about them:

Our writing activity this week will compliment the book that your child has just listened to about the very hungry caterpillar.
In the book, “The Very Hungry Caterpillar” the caterpillar does not have a name! On the sheet provided, students will come up with a name for the caterpillar and explain why they chose that name! You can talk to your child about how you got your own name or how you gave them their name to give them some ideas!
Students can complete this worksheet and give the caterpillar a name! I have attached a word document that you can print out and use or you can just re-create what I have written in the picture below on any paper that you might have at home.
Click on the link below to open the word document:
Name the Caterpillar in Eric Carle’s Book

MATH
We have finished up our Money unit and will be using the remainder of the time to review concepts that students have already learned about but earlier in the school year.
This week we are going to review word problems and refresh our memory on how to solve them using pictures, numbers and words.
When you are solving word problems that involve addition and subtraction, you can use many different strategies to help you solve the problem – your fingers, a number line, a 10-frame, manipultives like counters or anything else you can think of!
For the first couple of word problems, you will use 10-frames and a number line to help you. Here are some examples below showing you how to answer the questions.


Here are the questions that you can try!
Grade 1 – Summer Time Word Problems
The next set of problems asks you to solve the problem by using pictures, numbers and words.
Here is an example of a word problem being solved by showing your work (pictures) writing a number sentence (numbers) and writing the answer in a sentence (words).

Here are the questions that you can try!
Grade 1 – Math Word Problems
Please let me know if you have any questions with these word problems!
FRENCH – From Mme Sullivan
Bonjour tout le monde,
We are closing in on the end of the school year, and I am now working on report cards. If you would like the work that your child has done over the last several weeks to be reflected on the report card please forward me a copy of the work at monica.sullivan@ocdsb.ca. Remember that you are under no obligation to do so and that marks will not go lower than what they were at the beginning of the school closure period.
This week’s activity is Mets les mots en ordre. Put the words in order. Each sentence is jumbled, you need to organize the words into a proper sentence and draw a picture to show you understand the sentence. One trick is to look for the capital letter to start the sentence.
Cllick on the link below for the activity:
LPC activité 8
Everyone is also encouraged to review the play, song and dance. If you have any questions, or would like feedback on the assignment, please let me know at monica.sullivan@ocdsb.ca.
Have a fabulous week!
Mme Sullivan
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That is all for now! Please let me know if you have any questions!
Thanks and happy learning!
Ms. Argue 🙂