Mrs. Rak

Grade 1 at St. Raphael🍎 HCDSB📚

[Mrs. Rak @MrsJRak]

Goodbye X/Twitter! 👋

This account is now closed. Thank you for being part of our learning journey! Follow along on Instagram for Grade 1 updates and highlights @mrsrak_hcdsb 🌱✏️💛

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@MrsMackea @HCDSB @ADayatStRaphs Thank you!! The best little Grade 1 humans🥹🙏

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As part of our school-wide Black History Month initiative, our Grade 1s learned about an incredible mathematician named Katherine Johnson and shared some highlights with our school🚀📐🤍 @HCDSB

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Happy 100th Day of School! We celebrated 100 days of learning and having fun in Grade 1 💯

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Our Grade 1s learned to sort 3D shapes by edges, vertices, and faces, and learned how to build 3D shapes out of marshmallows and nets👍🧊

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Merry Christmas from our Grade 1 class🎄💚 Wishing you many blessings of peace, love, and happiness✝️

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These little lights of mine were ✨shining✨ at our Christmas Concert! A big thank you to our families for joining in the 3D nativity scene Joy Day craft 🎄

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Hooray for teamwork, communication, and following a procedure 👏 The Grade 1s built and coded their own snowmobile to help Leo see the polar bears ❄️ We 🩵 Lego Robotics! @hcdsbsteam

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It’s not a treasure hunt, it’s a ✨measure hunt✨! Our Grade 1s searched for polar animals and Christmas items around the room, then counted how many blocks or units tall they are🎄📏

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Today was a snowman-themed Monday! We shared predictions on what will happen in the book, “Snowmen At Night”, made a procedure for how to build a snowman, and unlocked a secret snowman message ☃️

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We are learning about Kelso’s Choices with @TUniackeCYC! It’s a fun and engaging conflict resolution tool 🐸

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Look at these sweet kiddos✨ Our Grade 1s performed a song about kindness for #BullyingAwarenessWeek ❤️

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Today’s Kindness Assembly taught us the importance of being kind in all that we do and say🤍 A big thank you to @TUniackeCYC, the student council, the choir, Mrs. Forbes and Mrs. Capretta’s Kinders, and @MrsJRak’s Grade 1s for leading our school this #BullyingAwarenessWeek✨

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We love our Sticker Story literacy centre! After modelling a story then co-creating a class sticker story, our Grade 1 students got creative with their own writing 📝

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🪩Look what you made me do🐍🪩 Our Grade 1s love our weekly Swiftie Friday recess dance parties, especially amidst @taylorswift13 coming to Toronto 🇨🇦 I spy some custom friendship bracelets too👀

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Honouring those who served and continue to serve for us ❤️ We are grateful and we remember #RemembranceDay

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The ✨Art Gallery of Burlington✨ guided our Grade 1s through their exhibits today and then led us in creating some beautiful clay snowpeople sculptures 🖌️

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A reminder of our upcoming dates this November 👏

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We are learning about the beauty of The Creation Story🌎 Ask us to read our own booklets tonight at home! #HCDSBbelieve @HCDSB

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Boo from @ADayatStRaphs 👻 Happy Halloween from our Grade 1 bunch🎃

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We learned about Yayoi Kusama and created our own pumpkin dot art 🎃 We also visited the pumpkin patch at the front of our school 🧡