Week Thirty-seven - Last Week of School!
Week Thirty-six - Summer Concert!
Happy Birthday Eliah and early birthdays to Amelia, Sasha, and Olivia! It was such a fun party!
Singing happy birthday to our birthday friends :)
Preparing for grade 2 by watching their Jeoparbee game. We already knew some answers!
Exploring the art exhibition.
Performing at the summer concert.
Performing at the summer concert.
Yooseok reading a book during our last library check-in time for the year.
Amelia working on her book study final product.
Sasha testing his science simple machine to see if it can help the elves carry their ingredients.
Girls researching how pulleys work to help them get ideas about how to construct their project.
Eliah, Olivia, and Yeeun researching how levers work for getting ideas about building their simple machine.
Somi working on illustrating her poetry book.
Week Thirty-five - Jeoparbee!
Mr. Hill helping to host our Jeoparbee game.
Excited to play Jeoparbee.
Everyone bowing as they completed their drama play. They were so good up on stage.
On stage for the drama play.
Sasha, Eliah, and Yooseok performing their parts in the drama play.
Seoyeon, Amelia, Olivia, and Yeeun performing their drama play.
Olivia looking at our materials for the science project.
Practicing for the summer concert.
Week Thirty-four - Poetic Expressions
Somi choosing someone to guess the answer to her riddle poem.
Seoyeon demonstrating to the others in the class how a pulley works.
Olivia helping to complete the class sort about different jobs in the government.
Sebastian, Amelia and Seoyeon working on their Adjectives sort.
Eliah and Sasha working on the addition challenge.
Yeeun listening to a wax museum figure (grade 2 student) talk about famous people in history.
Week Thirty-three - Term 5 Explorations!
Sasha and Yeeun exploring motion in science class.
Everyone exploring what makes motion - pushes and pulls.
Sebastian, Olivia and Yousif working on their "I Like" poems in writing.
Yooseok and Seoyeon signing up for the open-mic poetry reading.
Week Thirty-two - Book Fair!
Amelia and Somi choosing books at the book fair.
Seoyeon browsing through the books.
Happy birthday Somi and Yeeun!
Blowing out the candles. :)
Performing at the assembly.
Having fun during an interview.
Grade 5 students interviewing us about our favourite animal stories for their project.
Yeeun and Amelia showing off their drama props.
Yooseok working on dividing shapes into equal parts using other shapes.
Finished science project about how to solve human problems using animal parts.
Week Thirty-one - Culture and Diversity Day!
Our amazing representation of diversity in grade 1F!
Yeeun painting her paper umbrella from the Taiwan station.
Eliah showing off his boomerang from the Australia station.
Sebastian, Yousif and Eliah exploring capacity with rice and containers.
Seoyeon working on symmetry.
Olivia and Amelia helping Some measure her height in inches.
Yooseok sharing his number scroll.
The first five producers at their stores, getting ready for consumers.
Week Thirty - Sports Day!
Boys researching animal parts that can help them to help solve human problems.
Yooseok working on his reading summary.
Eliah excited to find smallest and largest numbers using three random numbers from 0-9.
Sasha playing in a game of cat and mouse in the parachute.
Yooseok and Yeeun showing red team spirit!
Excited for sports day!
Somi and Sebastian practicing making change with our school stores.
Seoyeon working on adding products in her school store.
Working on data collection through surveying others in an inside-outside circle.
Week Twenty-nine - Parent-Teacher Conferences
Yousif working on using his planning page to write his first draft.
Sasha and Olivia working on their science book about animal habitats.
Excited for Pooh bear coming back from Scotland so we can read the Scottish journals!
Week Twenty-eight - First Week Back From Spring Break
Olivia counting money using place value blocks to visualize the value of each coin.
Yooseok and Amelia enjoying free reading time.
Eliah working hard on designing his business sign.
Somi explaining how to use a hundred square to figure out how to make change from one dollar.
Yeeun writing as many reasons as she can to support her opinion.
Seoyeon presenting her business idea to the class.
Week Twenty-seven - Last Week Before Spring Break
Seoyeon writing one of our first tries at opinion writing making sure to explain her opinion with a strong reason.
Boys practicing exchanging coins into dollars.
Yeeun explaining lines of symmetry to the class.
Amelia working hard to classify animals by their characteristics.
Excited to be finished publishing and sharing our non-fiction writing.
Week Twenty-six - Job World
Sasha and Yooseok with their newly made pouches.
Sebastian and Eliah excited to try the job of a police officer.
The girls ready to make some flowers.
Somi working on making a 3D shape.
Having fun in drama class with Ms. Jana.
Talking about labelling our illustrations in writing.
Hard at work illustrating our non-fiction books.
Week Twenty-five - First Week of Term 4!
Yeeun building shapes during a Golden Time activity.
Sasha, Somi, and Amelia working on dot-painting for their Golden Time activity.
Olivia posing with the hexagon she made in math class.
Lots of polygons being created at this math station.
Making pictures from 2D shapes as a group and describing the attributes of the shapes in the picture.
Think-pair-share groups discussing what we want and what we need.
Week Twenty-four - Last Week of Term 3!
Grade 1F Students celebrating their AR goals with a book mark and an AR party!
Grade 1F boys playing soccer during indoor recess.
So proud of our completed math game board projects.
Amelia and Sebastian using their game board project to practice math facts.
Grade 1 students listening to Ms. Choo reading a book for them in the library.
Yousif and Somi editing each other's non-fiction stories.
Week Twenty-three - Jumping for Healthy Hearts!
Yooseok working on finding the relationships between pattern blocks in math.
Sasha working on his invention for social studies.
Olivia working on her path project - an addition and subtraction challenge board game.
Grade 4s presenting their health project while our grade 1F class is listening and participating.
Yeeun jumping during Jumping for Healthy Hearts.
Sebastian working hard to add money using quarters.
Somi sharing a chapter from her non-fiction writing with her friends.
Week Twenty-two - Book Week!
Listening to Mr. Sobol's (our visiting authour) story.
Listening to AR-Thon results through FP TV live during morning meeting.
Practicing addition math facts using a domino game.
Sasha and Seoyeon reading to an animal buddy.
Eliah and Chris having fun reading to the fish buddy.
Yeeun working hard to research properties of her gas through the online version of the Encyclopedia Brittanica.
Amazing book character costumes!
Yooseok researching facts about his writing topic and recording them in his graphic organizer.
Yooseok and Amelia listening to a book read in Spanish for Global Readers.
Yousif and Yeeun listening to a book read in Korean for Global Readers.
Amelia works on recalling information she has learned while reading her non-fiction book in group.
Yousif uses the smart table to record equivalent names in his name collection box.
Sebastian chooses a book for the book swap.
Purple group enjoying their AR-Thon prize for most improved class - popcorn!
Week Twenty-one - Week Before Seollal
100th day celebration!
Yeeun and Olivia adding to the 100 words list as part of the 100th day celebration.
Counting Fruit Loops for our 100 day necklaces as a part of our 100th day celebrations.
Yousif working on his number scroll to 100.
Sasha adding his cereal to his necklace, being careful to count by 10s.
Yooseok, Seoyeon, and Somi with their tall 100 cup tower.
Elias working on his scrabble spelling activity.
Playing Jeoparbee with Mr. Baker to help us reading questions.
Amelia finishes up her non-fiction writing book.
Working hard on our MAP tests.
Somi inquiring about the properties of a gas.
Week Twenty - History and Music Museum
Amazed about this old post office box, all the posters on the walls, and these narrow roads!
Somi using old paddles to iron instead of a modern iron.
Having fun exploring the old village!
Sasha peeking through the window of an old toy shop.
Using typewriters instead of Chromebooks in an old school.
Trying a xylophone-type instrument from the Philippines.
Yooseok excited to try a South American rattle.
Practicing for Jeoparbee.
Timing how quickly hand sanitizer pours into a different container.
Timing how quickly yogurt pours into a different container.
Olivia explaining some non-fiction reading strategies.
Sebastian working on his timeline for social studies.
Week Nineteen - Explorations!
Olivia and Eliah comparing masses of different objects.
Comparing masses of different objects.
Comparing masses of different objects using a balance.
Amelia and Yousif using place value blocks to help them add two-digit numbers.
Seoyeon looking at a liquid to see what properties she can find.
Amelia and Yeeun trying to find properties of their liquid.
Yooseok and Sebastian hard at work to find properties of their liquid.
Yousif smelling his group's liquid to find more properties.
Sebastian and Amelia thinking of 'ine' word family words during reading group.
Yooseok and Yeeun working on story re-telling with focus on the beginning, middle and end.
Week Eighteen - First Week Back
Yousif's cool castle creation from Friday's Golden Time.
Sebastian working hard to sort matter into solids, liquids, or gases.
Yeeun and Yooseok working hard to make numbers using the place value mat.
Sasha sharing his table of contents for his non-fiction book with his friends.
Olivia previewing her library books using reading strategies for tricky words.
Yooseok solving and explaining a math problem to the class.
Eliah participating during our 'matter' experiment.
Girls working hard to think of things we use now and how they were different in the past.
Week Seventeen - Last Week Before Christmas Break
Olivia listening to Yousif's story during writing celebrations.
Sebastian presenting his process of making Christmas wrapping paper to G1B and G1F students.
Somi finishing up her writing project.
Sasha's mini-snowman on the playground.
Completed wrapping paper project!
Breaskfast as a class on Friday morning!
Week Sixteen - Winter Concert!
Girls working hard to research their project.
Yooseok working hard to create a map key for his world.
Boys waiting for the parents to come in before the Winter concert.
On stage at the winter concert. They all did such an amazing job!
Elias creating his final wrapping paper design on the computer to be ready for printing.
Week Fifteen - Seoul Children's Museum
It was a fun afternoon for a birthday. Happy birthday Yousif!
Yeeun and Somi working on partnered reading during reading class.
Seoyeon, Somi, and Olivia playing Halli Galli during indoor recess.
Sasha working hard using a ruler to draw his pattern for his math project.
Sebastian found a pattern at the Children's Museum.
Olivia created her own pattern at the Children's Museum.
Amelia found an idea for her pattern.
Yooseok found a color pattern.
Elias used the skills we learned in Term 1 to grow plants in the garden.
Sasha, Eliah and Yooseok found color patterns and patterns in motion with this fun game.
We had a fun time!
Week Fourteen - Thanksgiving!
Grade 1F posing with their Thanksgiving turkeys. Each tail feather had a person or thing we are thankful for and why. It was a great activity!
Elias working hard on the Thanksgiving turkey's tail feathers.
Grade 1B and 1F made treats to share with each other for Thanksgiving!
Seoyeon making half of the banana-nutella sandwich to share with 1B.
Olivia making the nutella half of the sandwich.
Somi hugging Pooh Bear to say goodbye before he heads off to his next adventure.
Some friends put padding to help Pooh Bear feel comfortable for his travel to Scotland.
Yooseok and Yousif working on their 'me on the map' activity.
Somi and Olivia researching patterns for their Christmas wrapping paper project.
Sebastian and Yeeun using Google to research patterns.
Sasha reading to his reading buddy and finding tricky words to jump in his tricky word book.
Somi practicing jumping tricky words by phonemes.
Yeeun using jumping strategies to help her solve tricky words.
Week Thirteen - Science Fun!
Seoyeon working on a counting pennies, nickels and dimes activity.
Somi helping us count pennies, nickels, and dimes.
Sasha reading a book to Olivia during library time.
Yeeun and Seoyeon peer-reading their stories to help each other add details to their writing.
Olivia and Eliah presenting what they know about weather and seasons to the class.
Amelia working on her outline for her "how to" writing.
Sebastian excited to see the result of his Skittle erosion experiment.
Yooseok curious to see the result of the Skittles erosion experiment.
Yousif working on his Growth Mindset book pages: tackling challenges with a positive mindset.
Week Twelve - We Love Songs!
Sasha and Yousif using a magnifying glass to see properties of rocks to help us classify them.
Olivia, Yousif and Somi working on their how-to writing outlines with Ms. Kim.
Yousif working on his land and water match activity.
Yeeun using her Chromebook to match times to clocks as we learn about half-hours.
Sasha, Somi and Yeeun working on a math game.
Week Eleven - Halloween/ Spirit Week
All grade 1 students posing for a photo outside the main office. We all look so cute!
Watching carefully as Mr. Hill carves the class pumpkin.
Yousif smelling the pumpkin to tell us what it smells like and passing it to Eliah for his turn.
Practicing the long 'e' song to help us sort long and short e words for reading.
Yeeun making a q-tip skeleton for her Halloween craft.
Olivia having fun bowling during their halloween activities.
Yooseok climbing through the spider web. Looks hard!
Everyone in our awesome Halloween costumes!
Yeeun, Amelia, Yooseok, and Yousif working hard on their social studies group sort.
The handsome matching twins - Eliah and Sebastian!
The sleepy pajama triplets - Sasha, Yousif, and Yooseok!
The adorable friendly twins - Seoyeon and Yeeun!
The cheerful loving triplets - Somi, Olivia and Amelia!
Misfit Monday madness!
Week Ten - Field Trip to Seoul Grand Park Zoo
Grade 1F students excited to enter Seoul Grand Park Zoo!
Girls having fun using mirrors to look at the changing leaves during our nature walk.
Somi and Yeeun having fun during snack.
Sebastian and Yousif on the train ride to the zoo.
Our landform island mini-projects.
Sebastian, Sasha and Seoyeon working together on their landform island.
Sebastian and Yeeun helping Ms. Fursova make a smoothie for our first try at "how to" writing.
Olivia, Amelia and Seoyeon making a rainbow pattern with pattern blocks in math class.
Yooseok having a blast playing with a balloon during indoor recess.
Week Nine - End of Term 1
Olivia sharing her published book with Sebastian as a part of their writing celebrations.
We all got our hands dirty with Mr. Hill when we harvested sweet potatoes!
Eliah found a large bunch of sweet potatoes!
Sebastian hard at work solving a word problem Amelia created for him.
Some practicing reading to her reading buddy.
Sasha, Somi, Seoyeon, Sebastian, and Yeeun hard at work finishing their social studies projects.
Week Eight - Jog-a-Fest!
Everyone ready and excited for Jog-a-Fest!
Yooseok designing his team shirt for Jog-a-Fest.
Seoyeon carefully observing the changes her plant has to record in her SeeSaw activity.
Playing Jeopardy to review what we have learned in science.
Sasha and Yousif playing Roll, Draw, Change to practice changing pennies to nickels.
Week Seven - Book Fair!
Somi and Sebastian looking for books they want to buy from the book fair.
Yeeun uploading her social studies project video onto SeeSaw.
Sebastian sharing his small moment story with the class.
Grade 1F with their planted seeds.
Grade 1F safely evacuated during the fire drill.
Week Six - Last Week Before Chuseok Break
Celebrating Seoyeon's birthday.
Yooseok and Seoyeon playing Top-It in math rotations.
Eliah sharing his experience of moving to another country in Social Studies.
Yeeun adjusting her camera to fit her plant book when uploading it to SeeSaw.
Week Five - Library Day Week
Listening to Ms. Fursova read during Library Day.
Amelia reading with her family during Library Day.
Somi practicing making a square with a geo-board.
Making our own thermometers.
Sasha making a man out of blocks during Golden Time.
Eliah practicing making words with the phoneme 'br' in guided reading groups.
Week Four - First Week of Spelling
Olivia chooses a leaf to use for the Golden Time science experiment to see how water travels up a stem.
Sebastian uses the Smart Table to upload his answer to the tally mark activity on SeeSaw.
Sebastian, Olivia, Amelia, and Yeeun carefully observe our classroom plant for plant parts.
Yousif, Eliah, and Seoyeon play a number line game in their math group.
Week Three - Birthday Party Week!
We celebrated Yooseok's birthday on Friday! It was a lot of fun!
Amelia shares her writing with the class.
Yousif, Yooseok and Yeeun extend their science learning by reading non-fiction books about living things.
In this week's science experiment, we poured water into a plant and a rock and waited to observe the difference so we could compare living and non-living things.
We made shelf markers in the library to help us organize the books. It was fun to personalize and design it!
Week Two - Routines and Resources
Introduction to the library and check-out system (students can check-out books every Wednesday with an opportunity to exchange books briefly on Friday).
Introduction to Chromebooks - we will use these for math practice, uploading to digital portfolios through SeeSaw, and reading practice through Raz-Kids, and more!
Week One - Welcome to Grade 1F!
Grade 1F morning meeting.
Golden time science experiment - making slime!
Getting to know you activity with some independent reading for early finishers.