Halloween Fun!

What a fun day we had!  In morning meeting we shared how we have been proactive this month.  We had some snacks that people brought to share, one of the snacks was cupcakes and there was cheese eyeballs, fruit, cookies and veggies.

We mixed colours with Jello and playdough.  We know when you mix red and blue it makes purple, blue and yellow make green and that yellow and red make orange  

After lunch we put our costumes on.  We went to the gym and we had a parade to show off our costumes to the rest of the school.  The Grade 4 and 5 Halloween leaders made some Halloween centers for us to do in the afternoon.  One of the centers was musical chairs, another one was tossing a hoop on 3 leaders.  We also wrapped some of the leaders in toilet paper to make them a mummy.
Hope everyone has a happy and safe Halloween.

Halloween is Tomorrow

Today we made a video of us reading our 5 little pumpkins book or reading our Fall colours book. We read a story about the spider and we know a mom spider lays over 1000 eggs.  We worked in our poetry book and we practiced the word like and then we read the like poem to ourselves, to a partner and then all together.
In Math we made a pattern crown or a pattern bracelet and then Ms. Mahan videoed us telling all the things we know about that pattern.  We worked on our pattern witches, the witches legs are patterns.  Some of us went on Mathletics if we were all done our other jobs.
We had morning meeting and shared what we are going to do for a costume tomorrow.  We know that tomorrow we are wearing our costumes and we are putting on our costumes after lunch.

Patterns Everywhere

We did morning meeting and we talked about our favorite treat because Halloween is coming in 4 days.  We did a pattern in the Draw and Tell app on the IPad and we practiced saying our pattern in different ways.  We also made witches legs with patterns and then we are going to add shoes and a skirt to her on Thursday.

In Science we drew rainbows with the colors in the right order and then we wrote some sentence about them.

We did read to self and we made it for more then 9 minutes today.  We had library and we read a book about cats.  We played a game in Gym called Pipsqueak and Walter.

Food Paint!

Today in morning meeting we went around in the circle and shared what we did to" Sharpen the Saw" this weekend.  We fianlly made it to 9 minutes in read to self!
In Science we made a spider web with white crayon then we painted it with paint that Ms. Mahan made.  One paint was made from coffee, one was from berries, one was from beets and one was from lettuce.  We made rainbows outside with prisms and then coloured over the rainbow that we made on the ground with sidewalk chalk.
We did gym and practiced looking sharp when Ms. Mahan blew the whistle and we played the pumpkin patch game.

We Have Homework

Today in morning meeting we shared what makes us happy. In read to self we only made it to 5 minutes.  We will practice sitting beside good reading partners on Monday.  We did "catch up" today one of the things we were catching up on was our 5 little pumpkins books, we also worked on our ABC matching book.  Some of us caught up on we our fall book and we did listening to reading.
 We read a story called "This Plus That" and a story called "It's Not Fair" both were by Amy Krouse Rosenthal. We did some writing about fall all by ourselves to practice sounding out words when we write.We were making more patterns in math. We are getting very good at showing patterns in different ways.
We have homework this weekend!  It is home reading.  We need to practice our reading by reading a book to our families.

8 Minutes!

We did read to self today and made it up to 8 minutes!  We had literacy centers and one of the things we did was matching capital letters to lowercase letters.  We also finished our guessing ghost so they can hang up in the hall and our parents can guess which one is us tomorrow and Thursday when they come to visit.
In Science got a fall page and we wrote down 4 things we know that happen when fall comes.  One was about animals, one was about people, one was about plants and the last one we could pick anything else we know about fall.
In math we made patterns on a sheet with colours and we practiced patterns with our bodies.  We also made patterns with bingo dabbers in our math journals.

We Read for 7 Minutes!

Today in  Morning Meeting we shared how we sharpened the saw this weekend.  We did read to self and we made it up to 7 minutes!  We also practiced reading some of the poems in our poetry book. We talked about the word me and wrote some sentences with me in them.
Now that our moon paintings have dried we made a fence to add to it and we put Halloween stickers on it.  It was fun.  Most of us finished out Pictures for our cards that we started on Friday.  We also cut out some pictures from magazines to make some colour posters for purple, pink and blue to hang in our room.  Some of us practiced mixing colours of orange to paint a pumpkin to look just like the one Ms. Mahan painted.
We played freeze tag in the gym.  We are almost to the top of the cottonball jar so we think we will get our Halloween party!

Pictures Are In!

Today in Art we got a piece of paper and we practiced drawing winter and Christmas stuff.  After, we got a big sheet of paper and we made a good copy.  Most of us are not done our good copy yet.  When we are done, Ms. Mahan is going to send them away and they will shrink them to turn our art into cards.
We did math centers today.  There was one about spiders where we have to look at the number and find the right web that matches that number.  We practicing subsidizing when we do that center too.
Some kids met with Ms Mahan, some went on Mathletics and some did patterns with bingo dobbers in their math journals.
In morning meeting we talked about our favorite sport and then we read a story called Little Oink about a pig who did not like to make a mess. In literacy rotations some of us cut out a ghost and made clues about us, some of us did Halloween word centers and some did Raz Kids.
We had to hand in all our IMC books in today because they are going to a new school and we will borrow some new ones soon.
We did Calendar and we know next week our parents get to come to school with us on Wednesday and Thursday night for Parent Teacher Interviews.  We also got our pictures today and if our families want to order pictures they need to do it by October 26th.
Have a great weekend!

Mixing Colours

We logged into Mathletics for the first time.  For some of us logging in was easy and for some of us it was hard. We practiced some patterns in Mathletics. Ms Mahan showed us some new Halloween math centers that we will try tomorrow
We practiced reading to self today and we dropped down to 5 this morning but went back up to 6 this afternoon.  We are practicing building our Stamina.  We also did Elmer and Brown Bear centers this morning in Language Arts.
We talked more about being proactive, keeping our hands to ourselves and that you are in charge of you.  We made some art by mixing different colours with white and black.  The white circle was the moon. We had gym and we played Snake Island and Superhero Freeze Tag.

Our black folders are full!

In morning meeting we shared what we did over Thanksgiving weekend.  We practiced read to self and we read for 6 minutes!  That is the longest we have ever read to self for. We wrote Halloween words in our journals.  We put our ice cream scoops together by putting them in order so the lightest was at the bottom and the darkest at the top and we put the scoops in a cone.

We had library today and we switched our books and read a story called Scared Stiff.  In our class we read a story about a two people who were fighting over whether the picture was a duck or a rabbit. The picture was an optical illusion.

We have lots of things in our take home folder today.  We have a new book order on the school bus side.  The book order is due on October 22.  We have the work we did September on the leave at home side with a yellow note from Ms. Mahan.  But the thing we are most proud of from our September work are hanging in a frame on our wall!

We are Thankful!

Today in science we talked about how to make colours lighter and darker by painting ice cream scoops.  We added black to make the colour darker and white to make it lighter  We also practiced our colour words by colouring dogs the colour that the word said.
We practiced our words I, see and can.  We drew an eye when we saw the word I,  if we saw the word see we drew two eyes, and if we saw the word can we drew a can.  We are getting pretty good at reading those words.  We also made turkeys where we wrote words or pictures of things we are thankful for.
We had library and exchanged our books.  In math we did math centers to practice our numbers. We also practiced printing our numbers correctly in our yellow printing book.
 Have a great long weekend everyone.  Don't forget we have library on Tuesday!

Wonderful Wednesday - October 7th

We had a great day in 1M today.  We started with our morning meeting.  After the meeting, we did the first of three practice sessions to increase our read-to-self stamina.  The first time didn't go too well.  Some of us forgot that we have to stay in one spot....  The next two tries were much better.  Our best time was 3:38.  Yeah! 
We reviewed Habit One right after the morning meeting. What a difference it made to our day.  We had much more success with being proactive.  Many of us were caught doing the right thing when no one was watching!  We know that we are the boss of ourselves and that we need to always try and make good decisions. 
Today in health class we talked about the holiday of Thanksgiving and what we are thankful for.  Some of the examples were being thankful for our families, food, our school, our friends, our toys, living in Canada, the earth and our celebrations.  Did we remember to show you the turkeys that we made today in class? 
Mrs. H.J. read a book to us called Fried Feathers for Thanksgiving. 
We worked in our poetry books and did some Social Studies work. 

Ow!

We learned about "ow" words today. We made a flower out of paper and we wrote words on the petals that had the "ow" sound like brown, powder and owl.  We practiced cutting with our thumb in the little hole too!
We read a book called "Spoon" about a spoon feeling like his life was not fun but then he remembered all the fun things he can do that the other kitchen stuff can't. We practiced more read to self and we worked on remembering to keep our eyes on the book, reading, the whole time.  It was hard but we are working on building our stamina.
We had an extra recess again today because the pictures were still happening in the library.  We will have library on Thursday instead.  We played a new game in gym called ball tag.
We looked at the leadership board today and some of us even applied for leadership job like milk leaders and recess leaders.
We wore our PJ's today and it was awesome.  We voted and next time we fill the bucket we get to have a Halloween dance and science party.

Picture Day

In morning meeting we talked about what we did to sharpen the saw on the weekend.
In daily 5 we practiced read to self.  We each have a reading chart where we are colour in the squares to keep track of the minutes we read for.   This is called Stamina.  We know stamina is doing something even if it is hard.  The first time we practiced we read for 4 minutes but the second time we only for one minute because we were not staying in one spot.
We talked about the word "The"  and wrote and drew about it in our journal. We went outside and we talked about fall.  We drew a picture of one of the trees on our playground. We coloured our leaves green and gold because the leaves are changing colours.  Some leaves were even falling off the tree. We went out side for an extra recess because we were getting our picture taken during gym time.

Don't forget there is library tomorrow!

The Jar is Full!

In morning meeting this morning we picked what we like better Halloween or Thanksgiving because we started October today and both those holidays are this month.  We did daily 5.  Part of it was read to self where read by ourselves in our brain.  We also did listen to reading with the Ipads and our headphones.

We read a story called "Al Pha's bet" about a man named Al Pha.  In the story the king asked the people to put the letters in order.  The king liked the way his order sounded so he named the alphabet after him. It was just a pretend story.  We sorted out our papers from work we did this month and picked out the thing we were most proud of to go in a frame on the wall.  

We read another book about a Miss Mingo who taught animals.  In the story they practiced for their fire drill. We practiced for the fire drill too.  When the siren sounds we stop, line up fast, be quiet and follow Miss Mahan to our meeting spot outside.

The most exciting thing was we filled the cottonball jar so we are having our PJ and Teddy party on Tuesday!