November 28th, 2025
It was a pleasure to meet with you all and discuss the progress of your children :) We have a wonderful class this year and everyone is working hard to learn all they can in Grade 1.
As always, if you have any questions or concerns, please email me at tmburch@cbe.ab.ca
Have a wonderful weekend!
Tracey Burch
**Just a reminder that our Christmas/Winter performance will be on December 11th at 1:30pm.
Week of November 17th - 21st
We said goodbye to a classmate today who is moving to another school and he brought us all gummy bears as a goodbye gift! We'll miss him!
We celebrated Metis week and completed some Metis dot art today - you will all have a chance to see it this week at parent-teacher conferences! Booking opens tomorrow and will run Thursday 3:30 - 7:30 and Friday from 8:00 - 12:00. I look forward to seeing you all - kids are welcome to come as well!
We started to learn how to write "I see" sentences this week and worked on our ability to sound out words phonetically. I was so proud of the kids and their ability to write difficult words. We are working on reading and writing CVC words and have been reading decodable passages.
In math, we are finishing up our number representation unit and are moving onto addition to 10.
Hope you all have a wonderful weekend!
Mrs. Burch
Week of November 3rd - 7th
We survived the super moon this week!
We are learning how to represent numbers to 20 in many different ways and have been practicing our tally marks and tens frames.
We celebrated our 30th day of school and Zero the Hero hid 30 pumpkins around the room....he almost fooled us but we managed to find the last one after about 10 minutes of looking.
Just a reminder to dress for the weather - we go outside everyday and I know the snow caught a few of us by surprise on Friday.
We have been doing a lot of great reading in class. I am going to be giving your child a folder for their backpack. When we complete our UFLI decodable passages and our 'roll and read' games, the kids will put them into their folders to bring home to practice. Please have them read to you and practice reading CVC (consonant/vowel/consonant) words. These are words then can sound out easily with a short vowel sound in the middle.
Have a wonderful Fall Break and I'll see you soon at parent - teacher conferences :)
Tracey Burch
October 31st
Welcome back and Happy Halloween!! It was so awesome to see all the great costumes today! I wish you all a fun and safe night of trick-or-treating!
We had a great 3 days back and got right to work learning about Fall, CVC words, ten frames and tally marks. We even got to have buddies today.
Some things coming up next week:
1. PICTURE DAY will be on Tuesday, November 4th.
2. On Thursday morning the kids will be attending a short Remembrance day assembly in the gym.
Just a reminder that it will be FALL Break from Monday, November 10th to Wednesday November 12th. We'll welcome back the kids on Thursday, November 13th.
As always, please email with any questions or concerns at tmburch78@gmail.com
Cheers,
Tracey Burch
Week of October 1st - 3rd
A short but busy week.
We had buddies for the first time! We are buddies with Mrs. Phelan's grade 4 class. We don't assign buddies because that causes issues if someone is away. We encourage the kids to have a different buddy each week so they all get to know each other better. This week we went out and played playground games together like 4-square and kick ball.
I hope to see you all soon!
I told the kids to read 10 minutes a day, practice their numbers to 20 and play outside every day:)
Cheers,
Tracey Burch
Week of September 22-26th
Thank you to all who attended the dance performance yesterday - I am so proud of how hard the kids worked and they put on a great show!
It was a busy week - we had a couple of guest teachers in the classroom so I could complete government testing. They kids treated the guest teacher with kindness and helped them through our daily routines.
Gym may continue to be outside with the gorgeous weather we've been having to please dress your child appropriately. It is cool in the mornings but very warm in the afternoon.
Just a reminder that there is no school on Monday, September 29th or Tuesday, September 30th. I will see you all on Wednesday, October 1st.
Have a wonderful weekend!
Tracey Burch
Week of September 15th - 19th
Hello Grade 1 parents,
Another busy week of school has passed. We have been hard at work in our dance residency with Ms. Alara. We will be having a performance for parents to come and watch on Thursday afternoon. I believe we are 12:30 - 1:45 however, please call the office to check the time.
We have worked through another week of literacy and math bins.
In literacy we have been focusing on the vowels and their short sounds and in math we are working on number formation and representing numbers with tally marks.
Just a reminder that next week there is NO SCHOOL on Monday, September 29th or Tuesday, September 30th.
Hope you are all enjoying this beautiful weather we're having and getting outside to play!
Cheers,
Mrs. Burch
