Millarville’s Cool News

The Grade One class is completing the first unit of inquiry, How We Organize Ourselves. Our central idea is “Environmental print provides people with information about the world.” We have been reading “environmental print” in our homes, school and community. We read traffic and safety signs, store signs and food labels. We are reading books and all the words on the walls in our school.
We have been looking for patterns in the world around us, too. We used our five senses in experiments and talked about using our senses at Thanksgiving time. Yum!
We are making our traditional Grade One quilt with help from the ladies from the Country Lane Quilting Guild.
We developed our essential agreements at the beginning of the year: hands are for helping, be respectful, listen and look at the speaker, care for other people. We have built a solid foundation for learning and working together for the year ahead!