Madame Martins Grade One

Newsletter
January 2017

Happy New Year!!! I hope that you all had a restful and
happy holiday season! It is wonderful to see all of the
happy smiles again!
January CurriculumMathematics: We will wrap up our exploration of 2D shapes, continue to count up to 70
by 1s, 2s, 5s and 10s, recognize, represent and write numbers to 30 and order
random numbers.

Students will decompose numbers up to ten (addition and

subtraction using ten frames). Name and count coins.

Music: Students will be formally taught our national anthem lHymne national du Canada
(Please see the attached photocopy and have your child practice at home)
Visual Arts: primary and secondary colours, horizon line
Health Education: Children will explore the different food groups and the makings of
healthy food choices.
Oral Language Structures:
Pendant la fin de semaine
En hiver, je porte
En hiver, je peux
En hiver, je veux
Je joue
Je fais
Je vois(sur/sous/ ct de)
Quand je glisse/fais du ski/joue dehors, je vois

Presentations Personelles
Throughout the month of January, students will present an oral presentation. This
presentation will be about your child. The outline will be completed in class and then sent
home for extra practice. Your son and daughter should practice so that he/she can almost
present with little support from the paper. Eye contact, proper and clear pronunciation and
use of a strong voice is encouraged.

janvier: Les Prsentations Personelles

Sunday

Monday

Tuesday

Wednesday

Thursday

Friday

Saturday

10

11

12

13

14

15

16

17

18

19

20

21

Romy

Genevieve

Jaime

Liberty

Natalie

Findley
27

22

29

23

24

25

26

Griffin

Chase

Alistair

James

Aussie

Nyah

Isly

Cassidy

30

31

Micah

Marcail

Kaylan

Grayson

Wyatt

Bennett

28

Reading: continue phonemic development continuum

sight words (reading without hesitation)
Individualized Guided Reading program continues
Demonstrate understanding of the main ideas in stories read to them
Prior to reading a story, children can activate their prior knowledge on a subject,
make predictions and ask questions to confirm their understanding.
Read simple texts and pattern books
The students will be introduced how to demonstrate their understanding of a text by
retelling a story including the main ideas. We will be using the familiar story of the
Little Gingerbread man.

We have been reading various versions Bonhomme de pain

depice so the children are comfortable with the events in this story.
The Retell structures are:
1. Quelquun veut...(somebody wants...); Alors...(so...); Mais...(but...);A la fin...(in the end)
2. Au debut...(In the beginning...); Au milieu...(in the middle...);
A la fin...(in the end...)
3.En premier...(First...); Ensuite...(then...); Finalement...(finally)

Writing: complete journal using the different oral language structures

:begin to sound out words they want to write by stretching each sound
:proper letter formation, neatness
:use the hand success criteria to self-assess their own work and peer assess a
friends work before submitting journals
:recognize that plural nouns require an s at the end of the word

Speaking French
Many students are trying hard to speak in French with one another
in class. I encourage students to speak in French as much as

possible. They should only be using limited English from this point
on.