Language:

  • Daily message board: secret word, high frequency words, guess who?
  • Weekly journals
  • Daily phonics workbook: letter formation, beginning and ending consonants,
    followed by vowel and three letter family words, blends, and diagraphs
  • Daily printing
  • Weekly guided reading program
  • Weekly group reading: I can read folders
  • Book share
  • Projects incorporating monthly theme/unit
  • Creative story telling
  • Word boxes: high frequency words
  • Simple punctuation (e.g. capitals, periods, question marks etc.
    within a sentence)

Mathematics:
  • 100 day chart (upon completion, 100 day celebration)
  • Recognizing and printing whole numbers 1-20
  • Counting 1-100
  • Counting by 2’s, 5’s, 10’s to 100
  • Missing numbers
  • Exploring patterns and relationships within patterns
  • Associating numbers with their values
  • Counting and recording
  • Graphing and sorting data
  • Patterning
  • Estimating and comparing length, capacity and mass
  • Introduction to math symbols
  • Introduction to number lines and other hands on manipulatives
  • Introduction to fractions, whole, halves, thirds, and quarters
  • Introduction to Canadian coins, pennies, nickels dimes, and quarters
  • Introduction to base ten program


Creative Arts and Theatre:

  • A culmination of our learning experiences is exhibited in creative masterpieces, based on monthly units such as: Rainforests, Authors and Illustrators, Polar Bears and Penguins, Castles and Knights etc.
  • Takes place on Friday afternoons
  • Acting out stories, characters, poems
  • Creative expression through music dance and song