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New Countries

New Countries The children have been working on creating a new country. The content focus was around natural and human-made features. The natural features were to be natural colours while the human-made features could be any colour. We talked about the parts of the body of animals and they created their own animal that is suited to live in their country.  We definitely could have kept working on these projects for many more days. If your child is interested in continuing adding to the project I would ask where is the animal going to find food and how do people get around in your country.  Museum trip Thank you to those parents who are free to join us this week at the museum. The bus is leaving at 8:45 to get us in to Victoria for our 10 am visit time. Please make an effort to be on time on Thursday so we can load the busses.  For those that have indicated that they can join us, you are welcome to meet at the class to arrange carpooling so that you do not have to all driv

We are still going strong!

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Math We are continuing with subtraction activities first thing in the morning. We are using Lego to model subtraction, e.g. physically taking pieces away from the whole group, and we are practicing writing the subtraction equation accurately with - and =.  We are also working on geometry. For grade 1 that means that we are looking at shapes and describing their features such as: colour, size, thickness and actual shape. We will continue to sort shapes next week and we will take a tour of the school looking at objects and seeing what shapes make up that object. We did a fun activity last week to help with the idea of sides of shapes. The students used popsicle sticks to make shapes and then drove a car around the outside of the shape and each time the car had to turn, that is the end of a side (not necessarily at each stick.) Both the geometry and the subtraction centres are up on Ed Inform for you to look at in more detail.  14 sticks and 14 sides! Many sticks