Posted in Notices & Updates

End of Year Message from our Principal and Vice Principal

This message was went out on Friday to Families at WEJ from our Principal and Vice Principal. I have posted it here as well so you can read it.

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Greetings WEJ Families,

We are writing to thank you for all that you have done to make this year as good as it could possibly be! You have been wonderfully supportive partners in learning as we found new ways to work and learn together.

Thanks to all our families who came and picked up their children’s belongings. We actually had 91% of the bags picked up! The remaining items will be stored at WEJ until school resumes in the fall.

We were excited to share our Leaving Ceremony video with all our grade 6 families this week. We hope that our grade 6 students enjoyed watching it with their families, seeing pictures of their friends and reading their thoughts on their time at WEJ.

We know that the fall is an uncertain time for all of us. The Board, Ministry of Education and Public Health will work together to create a plan for the OCDSB and individual schools. We will not know until sometime in August what our return to learning model will look like. We do know that the Ministry has indicated that parents will be surveyed and asked if you are planning to send your child to school or keep them in an at-home learning model. As we find out information in August, the Board will keep you informed and we will write with any additional updates that will help you to prepare for the fall.

The Ministry of Education has also recently announced that we will be implementing a new math curriculum starting in the fall. Our staff will begin their work to examine the new elements (e.g. mindsets and financial literacy). We will share information about the curriculum in future correspondence.

We hope that you and your family have a fabulous and healthy summer. We wish our departing families the very best as they move to their next schools and really look forward to working with our returning students and families in September.

All the best,

Colleen Irvin (Principal) and Sean Davidson (Vice Principal)

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Posted in Grade 1, Learn at Home

Learn at Home – Week of June 22nd

Hello Everyone!

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We made it! It is officially the last week of school. I wanted to say thank you to all of the students and parents that I have gotten to know over the last few weeks during this “Learn at Home” phase of the school year. I really appreciate how you all have been so supportive of myself and helping your child throughout this phase of the school year. I truly look forward to meeting your child in person hopefully back at WEJ this coming Fall.

Here are a few important things you need to know for this week:

Report Cards 

You will have access to your child’s report card online on Wednesday, June 25th, 2020. Your child’s report card is based on the 6 week period that they were at school which was from the beginning of February until right before the March break. If your child participated in the “Learn at Home” phase of the school year, there will be a comment about their participation on their report card as well. More details to follow in the next few days on how to access your child’s report card online.

Tish Chapman Award 

Every year at WEJ, the Tish Chapman Award is given to one student in each class who is an outstanding citizen. The student who receives this award is someone who consistently demonstrates the characteristics of an outstanding citizen in our school community – someone who is responsible, perseveres, is respectful, helpful and always kind to others. The Tish Chapman Award for 1B goes to….Ocelia! Congratulations Ocelia on being recognized for your outstanding citizenship in our class!

Work for the Week of June 22nd 2020

For our last week of learning at home, students will get a chance to complete some fun activities to remember their school year and look ahead to the summer months. Students will also get a chance to complete some review sheets in math.

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. If I could recommend anything to do this summer with your child it would be to read!

Writing

Students can reflect on their school year by completing this end of the year Memory Book! If you complete the last page of the booklet called “A Letter to the Next School of Fish” please share it with me and I will share it with the new students coming into the class next year!

End of Year Memory Booklet

Students can think ahead to what they might want to do this summer! They can create a bucket list of all of the things they might want to do and then check them off as you go throughout the summer.

Summer Bucket List

As a BONUS, students can attempt to put the following summer related words into alphabetical order.

Summer ABC Order

Here is a fun Summer themed word search to complete if you want!

Summer Wordsearch

MATH

Here are some sheets that students can complete as a review from concepts they have learned throughout the school year.

Grade 1 – Tens and Ones Review

Grade 1 – Math Review

OUR CLASS PET

The painted lady caterpillars are still in their chrysalis’ so I will keep you updated on any changes! They should begin to emerge out of their chrysalis’ and enter the world as a butterfly soon so I will let you know when that begins. Stay tuned!

FRENCH – From Mme. Sullivan

Bonjour tout le monde!

Congratulations on making it through to the end of the year. You have all worked very hard and you should be proud of yourselves for continuing the work at home program. I encourage everyone to review some of the activities and the videos over the summer so you are ready for the fall.

Your last activity for the year is a Madlib. If you’ve never done one it’s basically making a funny story. At the top of the page is a list of numbers, each one is asking you to think of an adjective, noun, verb etc. Please fill in this first page BEFORE looking at the second page. The more creative your answers, the funnier your story will be. Once you’ve filled in all the numbers with an appropriate word, go down to the second page and copy the number one word into the blank with the number one at the end. Keep matching up the blanks with the words you wrote until all the blanks are filled in. Then read your story, and laugh!

Mad Lib petit chat

Have a great summer and we’ll see you all in September, one way or another.

Mme Sullivan

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I hope you all have a great last week of learning!

Ms. Argue 🙂

Posted in Grade 1, Notices & Updates

The Bean & Sunflower Seeds are in the MAIL!

Hello All!

I just wanted to let you know that your child’s bean or sunflower seeds are in the mail! Please keep an eye out in your mail for an envelope from me next week with a card and the seeds that your child requested to plant.

If you didn’t get a chance to request a bean or sunflower seed it is not too late! You can send me an email at: laura.argue@ocdsb.ca along with your child’s choice and mailing address and I can pop one in the mail for you.

I hope everyone is having a great day and staying cool in this heat!

Ms. Argue 🙂

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Picking up Students Belongings at WEJ this week!

This message was went out this morning to Familes at WEJ from our Principal and Vice Principal. I have posted it here in case you need to refer to it or if for some reason you did not receive it.

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Greetings WEJ Families,

We are finalizing our preparation for the retrieval of student materials that starts tomorrow.  Today is a good day to make your sign for your window of your car. It could look like this one I made as a sample.

Please state the name of each child, grade and teacher. If your teacher gave you a number (like the bottom one in my photo), please include it. Don’t worry if they did not give you a number.

If you opted to get a refund cheque for hot lunches/milk program, the cheque will be taped to the outside of your child’s bag. Grade 6 Leaving Certificates are inside the bag. If you get an item in your bag that does not belong to you, we apologize as we were trying our best. Please keep it in a safe spot and it can be returned to our Lost and Found when we return to school.

Please gather up all the items that belong to the school (except chromebooks) and place them in a bag. You can get out of your car and place the bag in a bin we will have for this purpose.

As a reminder, here are the times that you will come to the school (in car or on foot):

  • Tuesday, June 16 from  8:00-10:30  Last names beginning with A – C
  • Tuesday, June 16 from  11:00 – 1:30  Last names beginning with D – H
  • Tuesday, June 16 from  2:00 – 4:30  Last names beginning with I – L
  • Wednesday, June 17 from  8:00-10:30  Last names beginning with M – R
  • Wednesday, June 17 from  11:00 – 1:30  Last names beginning with S – V
  • Wednesday, June 17 from  2:00 – 4:30  Last names beginning with W – Z

Thanks so much for your help,

Colleen Irvin (Principal) and Sean Davidson (Vice Principal)

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Please let me know if you have any questions!

Ms. Argue 🙂

Posted in Grade 1, Learn at Home

Learn at Home – Week of June 15th

Hello Everyone!

I hope you all had another great weekend!

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 15th 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.

This week, students can listen to the read aloud, “Finding Kindness?” by Deborah Underwood. Here is a video of the book being read (by the actual author!) so that your child can listen to it. Please click on the link to watch and listen to the story.

Throughout the book, the author talks about what kindess can be and give examples. The amazing illustrations created by Irene Chan help students see the acts of kindness come to life. Students will recall some of the acts of kindness that they talked about and illustrated in this book.

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 – Finding Kindness

Writing

Students have completed the Grade 1 High Frequency Word List! This was something that Mrs. Nia had been doing throughout the year and last week was our last set of words! So this week, I am posting the full list of words that students have learned throughout the year. For the last 2 weeks of school, students can pick which words they would like to work with or just see how many they can remember! Practicing spelling these words and recognizing them will be a great benefit as students head into grade 2 in the fall. Here is the list:

Grade 1 High Frequency Words

Here are some ways that you can practice and learn about them:

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Our writing activity this week will compliment the book that your child has just listened to all about kindness.

In the book, “Finding Kindess” the author and illustrator do a great job showing us some great ways to be kind to one another. On the sheet provided, students will come up with a few ways that they can show kindness to others.

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:

Acts of Kindness

MATH

This week we are going to continue to review addition and subtraction and word problems. 

The first worksheets review addition and subtraction:

Summer Addition & Subtraction Practice

The next worksheets allow students to practice their addition and subtraction facts and apply them when solving a word problem. When solving a word problem, students are reminded to use pictures, numbers and words to help them. You can use different strategies to help you solve the problem like using your fingers to count up or down, using a number line, using a 10-frame or using manipulatives like counters.

Addition Word Problems

Subtraction Word Problems

Please let me know if you have any questions!

OUR CLASS PET

Over the last 2 weeks, I have recieved so many great ideas on what type of class pet you thought I should get for the class! Here are some of great ideas that students in our class suggested:

  • Cat ~ Suggested by Aseel
  • Turtle ~ Suggested by Tony
  • Goldfish ~ Suggested by Saketh
  • Puppy ~ Suggested by Ocelia & Rashmi
  • Fish ~ Suggested by Jeremy
  • Bird ~ Sugguested by Henry
  • Dog ~ Suggested by Kiara
  • Hamster ~ Suggested by Juliet

So….here is the big reveal….the pet that Ms. Argue chose to get the class was…PAINTED LADY CATERPILLARS!

The painted lady caterpillars arrived at our house and within days starting turning into their chrysalis. Here is a picture of them in their container:

I will keep you upated on their progress! In 7-10 days they wil emerge into a beautiful butterfly!

Here is a link in case you want to find out more about the Painted Lady Butterfly. Click on the link below for more information.

https://www.butterflyidentification.com/painted-lady.htm

FRENCH – From Mme. Sullivan

Bonjour tout le monde,

I hope that you and your family are doing well. We are almost there… less than two weeks left to go before our summer vacation begins. WOO HOO!! You CAN do it!! You are doing GREAT!!

This week I have made a video for you to practice ¨Les contraires¨ (opposites). Mme will say a word and you will need to say its opposite. After a few seconds, I will give you the answer. You can see if you were right!! After watching the entire video, you can do the same to your brother, your sister, your mom or your dad. Say a word and see if they can say its opposite. If they say its opposite in English, you can teach them the French word. See how many they can get right! Bonne chance!

This week I have attached a wordsearch for you to do.

LPC word search

If you would like you may also use this website to make your own word search. On the lines write  5-8 important words from the play ¨Le petit chat cherche une famille¨. For example, chat, chien, maison, hamster, lapin, garçon, etc. When you are done, send your completed word search to Mme and next week I will post them so students in your class can print them and see if they can find your words. This will be a super fun activity!

https://www.superteacherworksheets.com/generator-word-search.html

Keep smiling and enjoy your week! Looks like it is going to be a beautiful one!

Mme Sullivan

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That is all for now! Please let me know if you have any questions.

I hope you all have a great week and happy learning!

Ms. Argue 🙂

Posted in Notices & Updates

A Message from our Principal and Vice Principal

This message was went out yesterday afternoon to Familes at WEJ from our Principal and Vice Principal. I have posted it here in case you need to refer to it or if for some reason you did not receive it.

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Dear W. Erskine Johnston Families,

The horrific death of George Floyd in the U.S. as well as the resultant riots and calls for justice, have had a significant impact on all of us. These actions have brought the issue of racism to the forefront of our discussions in our homes, learning environments, communities and nation. These conversations have been difficult and uncomfortable as we look inwards and forwards in our efforts to be strong and fight against racism in our school, in the OCDSB and in our community.

Our Director Camille Williams-Taylor spoke for us when she stated, “We are committed to challenging ourselves to examine privilege and question how we can make changes to remove bias and barriers that get in the way of personal, academic and professional success.”

As educators at WEJ, we are committed to the essential concepts of belonging, equity, inclusive education and diversity. We must also continue to work to be anti-racist in our teaching practices. Our commitment to break down barriers and understand and identify bias is important in how we address our students and communities.

At WEJ, we feel that every student has the right to a learning environment of dignity and respect, free from harassment and discrimination. As a school it is our responsibility to support human rights and value social justice and anti-racism efforts.

We will commit to continuing to educate ourselves, engaging in conversations with our staff, students and families. We know that we all have more work to do. Our Director also stated, “We need to learn and unlearn and most importantly, teach our children to be accepting and compassionate people who call out and stand together against racism.” At WEJ, we are truly committed to that task.

Sincerely,

Colleen Irvin (Principal) and Sean Davidson (Vice Principal)

Posted in Grade 1, Notices & Updates

Picking up Students Belongings at WEJ

This message was went out today to Familes at WEJ from our Principal and Vice Principal. I have posted it here in case you need to refer to it or if for some reason you did not receive it.

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Greetings WEJ Families,

Our staff continue to gather students materials to the best of their ability and prepare them for pick-up. We have a student population of 705 so the gathering and redistribution is a very large task.

We have prepared a schedule for families to drive through, pick up their children’s belongings and drop off any materials belonging to the school. Please come at the time listed below based on the first letter of your LAST NAME.

 

Tuesday, June 16 from 8:00-10:30                 Last names beginning with A – C

Tuesday, June 16 from 11:00 – 1:30               Last names beginning with D – H

Tuesday, June 16 from 2:00 – 4:30                 Last names beginning with I – L

Wednesday, June 17 from 8:00-10:30          Last names beginning with M – R

Wednesday, June 17 from 11:00 – 1:30          Last names beginning with S – V

Wednesday, June 17 from 2:00 – 4:30            Last names beginning with W – Z

 

In order to have this run smoothly, we ask that you follow these steps:

Prior to Your Scheduled Pick-up Time

  1. Complete the survey to tell us if you are coming to pick up your child’s belongings at the time indicated in the schedule above. WEJ Pick Up Response Form
  2. Prepare a piece of paper you can hold up in your car window. In BIG letters, print the name of the child(ren), their teacher’s name(s), and their grade(s). If your teacher gives you a student number (e.g. #1, #2 etc.), please include it.
  3. Gather all the items belonging to the school, label them with your child’s name and teacher and place them in a bag (items would include library books, read at home books, textbooks, etc.). Chromebooks distributed since March 13 may remain at your home until we return to school.

On the Day of Your Pick Up

  1. Pack your sign and school items to return in the car.
  2. Families can go to either of our two drive through pick-up stations; the front doors of the school or the bus lanes. We would like it if cars come throughout each time block to minimize wait times.
  3. Place the sign in the window for the staff member to see. They will radio your children’s names into our gym.
  4. Have a person from your car place the bag of items to return in the box/bin provided.
  5. Pop your trunk and staff will place the bag(s) of your children’s materials directly in your trunk.

We hope that this process goes as smoothly as possible. There may be some mistakes and we apologize for that in advance. We will be doing our best to get your items to you. The Board has indicated that for safety reasons there will be no Lost and Found at this time and that we will store the items until school resumes.

We thank you for your understanding and really appreciate your help in this process.

Colleen Irvin (Principal) and Sean Davidson (Vice Principal)

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Please let me know if you have any questions!

Thanks again!

Ms. Argue 🙂

Posted in Grade 1, Learn at Home

Learn at Home – Week of June 8th

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:

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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 🙂

Posted in Grade 1, Learn at Home

Learn at Home – Week of June 1st

Hello All!

I hope you all had a great weekend!

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.

This week I added a BONUS section to the Language Arts and Math work – please do not feel obligated to complete this but if you are looking for something else for your child to complete, I wanted to offer some ideas.

Work for the Week of June 1st, 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, students can listen to the read aloud, “What Pet Should I Get?” by Dr. Seuss. 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=nNVIRNUsdjw

At the end of this book, the characters leave the pet shop with a pet but…the reader does not know what they chose! You will get your child to guess what pet they think the characters took home and give a reason why.

Students can complete this worksheet to answer the above question. 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 – What Pet Should I Get?

BONUS – If you have a pet, take a picture of you and your pet and send it to me! If you don’t have a pet (like Ms. Argue), you can draw a picture of a pet that you would love to have and take a picture of yourself holding it! Or if you have a stuffed animal that is like the pet you would like to have, you could take a picture of that and send it to me too!

Writing

We will be continuing with our words of the week! This week’s words are PET themed: dog, cat, puppy, kitten, rabbit, bunny

Here are some ways that you can practice and learn about them:

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Our writing activity this week will compliment the book that your child has just listened to about what pet they would choose.

Some of you might know from reading about me on the “About Ms. Argue” page on that my mom was a teacher. My mom always enjoyed bringing nature into her classroom. She would always bring home her unusual class pets over the school holidays and long weekends. Some of the pets that we had included minnows, crayfish, monarch caterpillars, chicks and ducks!

Before the Ministry of Education decided to close schools for the remainder of the school year, I decided that I would get a class pet for my new grade 1 students! I am still planning on receiving this “pet” for our class and will look after “them” at home. For this assignment, your child will suggest a pet that they think Ms. Argue should get for the class! Here is the worksheet 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:

What PET should Ms. Argue GET?

I am so interested to see what pets the students think I should get for our grade 1 class! Send me your ideas and I will post next week about the pet that I have chosen.

MATH

This week in math, students will be finishing up our money unit. This week students will review the penny, nickel, dime, quarter, loonie and toonie and the values that they represent. They will also use their knowledge and apply it to represent different amonts of money.

Here are the worksheets that students can work on to review these concepts:

Cut and Paste Coins

Colour the coins

Piggy Bank-Counting Money Practice

Grade 1 – Coin Book

BONUS – Create your own word problem related to money and send it to Ms. Argue to try and answer! You can make it as easy or as hard as you want! I can’t wait to accept the challenge of trying to answer your math problem!

Here is my word problem related to money. Feel free to challenge yourself to try and answer it.

FRENCH – From Mme. Sullivan

Bonjour tout le monde!

Can you believe it’s June and that summer is almost here. We’re in the homestretch!

This week I am sending you Activity #7 which is called – Choisis le bon mot – Choose the correct word.  Students are asked to read the sentence, circle the correct word and write the word on the line. All the sentences relate to things that happened in the play. I have included the answers at the end of the package for you to check your child’s work. This activity can be completed by printing it out, or just copy the sentences on a seperate piece of paper. If you would like feedback on your child’s work, please take a picture and email it to Mme Sullivan at monica.sullivan@ocdsb.ca.

LPC activite 7

If you were able to make a video of yourself performing the song and dance or the play, I would love to see it and maybe share it with other friends in Grade 1 at WEJ. For those of you that did, thank you so much. I really enjoyed watching them!! Don’t forget to keep reviewing the play and the song every week so you remember all the vocabulary.

Have a great week and be safe!

Mme Sullivan

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That is all for this week! Please let me know if you have any questions!

Thanks and happy learning!

Ms. Argue 🙂