Grade1+Social+Studies

Monday, February 6
We will continue learning vocabulary about people and places in the community, and we will start constructing our lapbooks.

Monday, January 30
This week we will begin our unit on the local community, starting with vocabulary of people and places.

Tuesday, January 24
This week we will be finishing our Important Canadians project, as described below. Next week we will begin our unit on the local community.

Monday, January 16
It has been my absolute pleasure to work with Mme. Martin's group of hard-working, fun-loving students this year. Our academic year is divided between the two main strands in social studies: Heritage and Citizenship, and Canada and World Connections.

Heritage and Citizenship - Relationships, Rules and Responsibilities
__Overall Expectations __ By the end of Grade 1, students will: • identify people with whom they have significant relationships, and the rules and responsibilities associated with people, places, and events in their lives and communities; • use a variety of resources and tools to gather, process, and communicate information about the rules people follow in daily life and the responsibilities of family members and other people in their school and community; <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">• explain how and why relationships, rules, and responsibilities may change over time, and in <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">different places.


 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Students made puppets and performed skits to explore different rules in school, at home, and in the community.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Students have completed a pictoral timeline project in which they depicted themselves during different important events in their lives.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Our current project is looking at important people in Canada's past and present. Students will design a coin that illustrates a person important to Canada's past on one side, and a person important to Canada's present on the other side. A link to the project exemplar from the Ministry of Education can be found here.

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Canada and World Connections - The Local Community
<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">__Overall Expectations__ <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">By the end of Grade 1, students will: <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">• recognize that communities consist of various physical features and community facilities that meet human needs; <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">• use a variety of resources and tools to gather, process, and communicate information about the distinguishing physical features and community facilities in their area; <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">• describe how people in the community interact with each other and the physical <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">environment to meet human needs.


 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">We will spend next term exploring parts of the local community. Please come back and visit for future weekly updates.