French Counting Book

French Counting Book
Here is a book we are working on. Ask your child to read it to you!

Writing Workshop

Writing Workshop
We started using COLLECTIONS bags for writing ideas. They are filled with theme-related items and word cards for writing.

Castle and knights bag....

Princess bag.....

Bug bag......

Mermaid bag (well, she's a headless mermaid now, so that makes it even more exciting)....

Barbara Reid

Barbara Reid
We have completed most of our plasticine pieces. I hope you can find a special frame for them to go on a wall at home.





Math

Math
We are using apples and trees to make all the combinations for 6.

Doubles

Doubles
We are working hard at learning our doubles. Please practise your cards at home.


Doubles game with the smartboard

Polar Express Day!

Polar Express Day!
The conductor is punching our tickets







There was a bell under our seat!

We are watching the movie. Mrs.Macey made her famous popcorn for us!

Gingerbread Houses

Gingerbread Houses









Look at our December calendar!

December Dates

11th - Making gingerbread houses

15th - Making pasta craft

18th - Polar Express Day - please send a drink (no pop)

21st - Christmas concert

22nd - Christmas breakfast - bring plate, cup, utensils. 2:30
dismissal

We are making our gingerbread houses on Friday, December 11th!

We are making our gingerbread houses on Friday, December 11th!

My School Song

J'aime l'ecole
J'aime l'ecole
un, deux, trois, quatre.
J'aime l'ecole
J'aime l'ecole
un, deux, trois.

J'aime l'ecole
J'aime l'ecole
cinq, six, sept, huit, neuf.
J'aime l'ecole
J'aime l'ecole
huit, neuf, dix.

Ou est la salle de classe?
Ou est la cour?
Ou est la salle de classe?
Ou est la cour?

J'aime l'ecole
J'aime l'ecole
un, deux, trois, quatre
J'aime l'ecole
J'aime l'ecole
Au revoir.

use objects you have at home to solve this problem (cereal, pasta, buttons, etc.)

Have your child model for you how we use objects to solve problems like this. This is the problem-solving strategy we are working on right now.

Problem Solver: Using Objects as a strategy

Here is the problem solver we did today using 2 colors of beads:

Jane had a bag of 10 jellybeans. She traded her friend Jim for some of his gummybears. For every 2 jellybeans she gave Jim, she got 3 gummybears. She traded until all of her jellybeans were gone. How many gummybears did she get?

We worked in pairs using objects to solve the problem.

We worked in pairs using objects to solve the problem.


Where The Wild Things Are

We are working on a "WILD THINGS" project.

We are working on a "WILD THINGS" project.


We listen to classical music when we paint to get our creative juices flowing.



Here we are experimenting with watercolor paint and paper.

Thank-you very much to those who sent treats for our Halloween Day at school!

Thank-you very much to those who sent treats for our Halloween Day at school!

More Guided Reading

More Guided Reading


This guided reading group is using their toolbox to find the color words in their books. They are printing each color word on a sticky.
We then each came up and put our words under the correct heading.

Authors

Has your child told you that they love to write?

Well, that's because we are authors! We read wonderful literature of all kinds many times daily, and we also spend a lot of time writing. We love to share our stories in our Author's Chair!

Ask your child about a story they have written and they may even bring it home to read to you if they remember to bring their writing book back the next day. We use them every day and we always need them at school.

Here is a hilarious book we LOVE about Chester the author.

Halloween!

Halloween!

Halloween

We will be dressing up in our costumes and having Halloween activities at school on Friday, October 30th.
If you would like to send a treat for the afternoon, please make a note in the agenda. Thank-you!

Author's Chair

Author's Chair
Here is our very special Author's Chair. We share our stories using a microphone when we have finished writing them.

Guided Reading

Guided Reading
This is our Toolbox we keep in our guided reading bookbags. We use sticky notes to look for specific things in stories and write them down.


This student is searching for information in her guided reading book. She is reading for a specific purpose.

Mrs. Macey bought a cricut!

Mrs. Macey bought a cricut!
Have you heard about our new cricut? We have been using this special cutting machine in the classroom. We LOVE it!




Ten Frames

Ten Frames
The first thing we made is our ten frame sets. Each student picked a design and color of paper for their set. The cricut cut them out!


We made vegetable soup!

We made vegetable soup!

We all had jobs to do - washing, peeling, and adding to the pot.

We all had jobs to do - washing, peeling, and adding to the pot.

We added some freshly ground pepper.

We added some freshly ground pepper.

In science we are learning about the parts of plants.

In science we are learning about the parts of plants.
We looked at each vegetable we added and decided if we were eating the root, stem, leaves, or fruit.

We each had a turn stirring the soup and adding some love in.

In goes the water.....

Voila!

Voila!
Our vegetable soup had onions, celery, tomatoes, carrots, potatoes, and pasta.

Yummy!

Yummy!

Thursday, September 17, 2009

Welcome to a new school year!

We have only been in school for 9 days, and we have been so busy!

I will be putting information on the blog regularly - please check it frequently for information.

There may be a few very busy times where I am not updating as much, so please bear with me!
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Here is our first visual art project. We created leaf creatures.

Here is our first visual art project. We created leaf creatures.