Week 13

Dear All,

Here's some of our week in photos.

Looking for buds on a Chestnut tree

 We have also worked with the following:

 Swedish – The students continued working with “Leksaksfabriken/ The Toy Factory. The teachers also read aloud to the class from the book ”Varulvar (Werewolves) i Storkyrkan”.

 

Math – we are working with addition and subtraction and problem solving.

 



Chestnut tree buds

Science/NO – We are learning about spring. We have studied the buds on a chestnut tree and will sketch and watch their development.



English – we have finished Fantastic Mr Fox by Roald Dahl . We’re reading a text about deserts/learning about factual texts. The students have started journals to practice writing. We have started reading aloud in our smaller groups.

 

Wishing you a great weekend.

Boë, Jim, Pernilla and Sewe

 

Week 12 Class 1B

Hi All,

Hope you’ve had a good week. This week has been very busy; we’ve had development talks, we have finalized the winter theme, the bird theme has been very successful. We finished our work with Winter doing a study of the bullfinch/domherre.



Some 1B bullfinch drawings

Comparing our odd socks with each other.

We also celebrated "Rock Your Socks Day" which takes place on the same day as World Down Syndrome Day March 21. 

Some 1bs putting up their unique sock designs.

One of this week's fantastic class hosts

We encourage starting the day reading quietly.







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Week 11

Dear All,

Hope you’ve had a good week. This week we celebrated Jim's birthday. We had a great time together. Jim is so thankful for all the appreciation he felt that day. 

Thank you for coming by with love and well wishes. Faye was class host together with Jim. She did an outstanding job!

Our week has been good but busy. We are finishing our work with winter and beginning with spring soon. We will also begin with a theme called "För i tiden" or "Back in the Old Days".


"Miljö vecka"/"Environment Week" will also be observed soon. We will be doing a project using recycled goods. Could you please send "junk" such as bottle caps, toilet rolls,  egg and milk cartons etc with your child/children to school? We would really appreciate your help.

We have also worked with the following:

Swedish – The students continued working with “Leksaksfabriken/ The Toy Factory. The teachers also read aloud to the class from one of this semester’s Swedish novels.

Math – all the students have almost finished working with the class math book.

Science/NO – We are finishing our work with Winter.

English – we continued our work with Fantastic Mr Fox by Roald Dahl .

In the coming week

This week’s homework: for English we’re giving the students questions to answer about Mr Fox.  For Math the students will be given a subtraction worksheet.

Development talks will begin Week 12. The meetings will be 15 minutes long and we will be covering how well your child has achieved the goals that they established the last developmental meeting. The signup sheet has been posted in the classroom.

IF YOU HAVEN'T BOOKED YOURSELVES IN DEVELOPMENTAL TALKS PLEASE DO. WE PLAN TO HAVE IT ONLY FOR WEEK 12. IT WILL BE DIFFICULT OTHERWISE.

On Tuesday March 21, 2017 we'll celebrate "Rocka sockan".

The students can sport odd pairs of socks if they like that day:). This was started by a girl whose sister has Down's Syndrome. The use of odd socks is her way of showing that we're all unique but can still get along.

Wishing you a great weekend.

Boë, Jim, Pernilla and Sewe

Week 10

Dear All,

Hope you’ve had a good week and that you enjoyed the children’s winter break. The kids and staff are ecstatic about Jim’s return.

Our week has been good but busy. We are moving toward the end of working with the winter theme. We have been looking at facts about the Swedish wolf together.








Wednesday March 8, we celebrated “300 Days Smarter” and the Secret Toys project. We ended the day with a toy themed movie and snacked on popcorn.

We have also worked with the following:

Swedish – The students continued working with “Leksaksfabriken/ The Toy Factory. The teachers also read aloud to the class from one of this semester’s Swedish novels.

 

Math – we talked about greater than, less than and equals. We counted to 300! We refreshed our abacus skills.

Science/NO – We continued our work with the theme Winter.

English – we continued our work with Fantastic Mr Fox by Roald Dahl .

SO/Social Studies - we talked about International Women’s Day,  the suffragette movement .

In the coming week

This week’s homework: for English we’re giving the students questions to answer about Mr Fox.  For Math the students will be given an equal, greater than and less than worksheet. We need the homework handed in on Wednesdays at the latest, so we can correct it before  Friday.

Development talks will begin Week 12. The meetings will be 15 minutes long and we will be covering how well your child has achieved the goals that they established the last developmental meeting. The signup sheet will be posted in the classroom on Monday, March 13.

March 17 is Saint Patrick’s Day. Feel free to where something green.

 
Wishing you a great weekend!

Boë, Jim, Pernilla and Sewe

 

 

 

Week 8

We are still working on our Winter theme. Here's a Picture of a scene we studied of  what Swedish Winter can look like.

Dear All,

Hope you’ve had a good week. We have worked with the following:

Swedish – The students continued working with “Leksaksfabriken/ The Toy Factory.  The head of  the toy factory has asked the students to bring  a "secret toy" to school. The "secret toy" will be kept in a "secret box". The student will describe it in Swedish to the class and let their classmates guess what it is.

Math – we worked with problem solving using addition and subtraction.

 

Science/NO – we continued our work with the theme Winter.

Where do the animals go in winter?

English – we continued with Fantastic Mr Fox by Roald Dahl as our read aloud. We are going to use the book for class discussions and to inspire our writing.

After the Winter break:

There is no homework for the break. The students were, however, given an assignment due March 15, 2017. For this assignment, the students have been given a ditto with six birds that don't migrate from Sweden during the Winter. The students have been asked to see if they can look out for these birds, become "bird watchers".

We will celebrate 300 Days of School March 8, 2017. The students can play with their secret toys on this day but are otherwise not to bring toys from home to school.

Wishing you a great winter break/sportlov.
See you again March 6, 2017.



Kind regards,

Boë, Jim, Ninna and Sewe

 

 

 

 



Field Trips and Weekly Letter w7

On the way to Östermalms IP

Fun on the ice

Creations at the Moderna Museet by us



After the tour the class got to use their work shop to create

Dear All,

 

Hope you’ve had a good week. Ours has been very busy!

 

We were away from school on two field trips. On Wednesday February 15, we went to a work shop at The Museum of Modern Art in Skeppsholmen. The theme was “Color”; we looked at works of art by Henri Matisse, Moki and Don Cherry, Robert Rauschenberg and a few others. We then went to the children’s art studio and created paintings of our own. On Thursday February 16 in glorious weather, we went to Östermalm’s idrottsplats to skate/have gym class with Magnus the gym teacher.  

 

We have also worked with the following:

 

Swedish – The students continued working with “Leksaksfabriken/ The Toy Factory. The teachers also read aloud to the class from one of this semester’s Swedish novels.

 

Math – we did a test to check on where the students are in the subject

 

Science/NO – We continued our work with the theme Winter.

 

English – we are using Fantastic Mr Fox by Roald Dahl as our read aloud. We are going to use the book for class discussions and to inspire our writing.

In the coming week

 

This week’s homework: for English we’ve given the students questions to answer about Mr Fox.  For Math the students have been given a problem solving worksheet.

 

Winter vacation/sportlov commences after next week – February 27,  2017. We begin school again March 6, 2017. Jim will be back by then.

 

Wishing you a great weekend.

 

Kind regards,

Boë, Jim, Ninna and Sewe

Happy Valentine and Welcome to the Class Blog



Our Teacher Boë's Art Experiment we will be doing in the Winter Project.

Things in the Classroom

At the Entrance of the Classroom we find this

This is the Profile Picture

The Guardian

A parrot on the wall

This morning we received a Valentine Call from Jim and he showed us the nice surroundings of his whereabouts. When he asked the class if they have been behaving he got both YES and NO for an answer. He said he belived that was true.  (It IS - but Mostly your behaviour is Excellent!)
After Sportlovet/The Sports Break he will be back!


The whole school sang "All you need is Love" in the schoolyard at the morning break  and in the afternoon Boë treated the class with a nice Valentine Surprise!


This week we are giving the class a test to diagnose the students skills in maths. We need to find out what level each student is at with the mathematics, and this is not only about counting, it is also about reading and understanding the Swedish and the English terminology around the subjects we are doing in the first grade.


"Over and out!"
/Substitute Teacher Ninna