St. Veronica Elementary School
Welcome to
Ms. Franjic’s
Grade 1/2
Class!
October 2013
The Grade 1 Times
Information Items
Agenda
Please continue to sign and return your child’s agenda each day.
Gym and Library
Gym (Day 1 and Day 3) and Library (Day 4) will not be on a set day
each week, it will change weekly. We recommend that student’s
indoor shoes are running shoes so they are prepared for gym each
week. A reminder will be sent home in the agenda each week to
remind students to bring their library books the next day.
Scholastic Book Orders
Scholastic book orders will continue to be sent home on a monthly
basis. Should you wish to place an order, please make cheques
payable to Scholastic Book Clubs. No cash orders please.
At Home Reading
Please continue to read at home with your child on a daily basis and
track it on the form sent home.
Planning Time Teachers
Music- Taught by Mrs. Strachan
Science- Taught by Mrs. Garcia/ Mrs. DaSilva
Gym/ Health- Taught by Mr. Leclair
Mathematics
Number Sense and Numeration
Read, represent, compare, and order whole numbers to 50,
and use concrete materials to investigate fractions and
money amounts. Count forward to 100 and backwards
from 20. Solve problems involving the addition and
subtraction of single-digit whole numbers, using a variety
of strategies.
Next Unit…
Patterns and Relationships
Students will identify, describe, extend, and create
repeating patterns
Visit www.nelson.com for interactive activities related to
each grade 1 unit of study.
Social Studies
Heritage and Identity: Our Changing Roles and
Responsibilities
Students will be learning to:

Describe some of the ways in which people’s roles,
relationships, and responsibilities relate to who they
are and what their situation is, and how and why
changes in circumstances might affect people’s roles,
relationships, and responsibilities as well as their
sense of self.

Use the social studies inquiry process to investigate
some aspects of the interrelationship between their
identity/sense of self, their different roles,
relationships, and responsibilities, and various
situations in their daily lives.

Demonstrate an understanding that they and other
people have different roles, relationships, and
responsibilities, and that all people should be treated
with respect, regardless of their roles, relationships,
and responsibilities.
Language Arts
 Guided, Independent and Shared Reading
 Word Study/ Working with Words
Personal Narratives
Students will be learning to generate ideas about a potential
topic, using a variety of strategies and resources
Procedural Writing
Students will be learning to write short texts using several
simple forms.
Main Idea
Students will be learning to identify the main idea and
some additional elements of texts.
Text-to-Self Connections
Students will be learning to extend understanding of
texts by connecting the ideas in them to their own
knowledge and experience, to other familiar texts, and
to the world around them.
Virtue Education
This Month’s Virtue is Empathy
Empathy is the ability to put oneself in another’s shoes and the
capacity to feel what the other person is feeling. Students are
encouraged to exercise this virtue throughout the month of
October.