New Book Orders

Today we did some writing about rural in our social alphabet book.  We wrote "R is for Rural.  Rural means that a place has..." and then we finished the sentence.  We know there is lots of wheat in rural places so some of is wrote that.  On the other side we made the ground for a picture with Q-tips.  We also took the tape off our rural watercolour painting that we did last week and they look beautiful.
In gym we played a game when you got tagged you turned into a Christmas tree and then to be free someone needed to go under your legs and say what they want for Christmas.  Ms. Mahan gave us all of your work from Novemeber back today and we picked what we wanted to go in our frame.  We helped by handing out all the papers to the right person.
We got a new book order today and they are due back on Friday so we can get our books in time for Christmas.

Rural painting

Today we did a painting of hills, ground and mountains and sky because we are learning about farms.  We know another name for farms is rural.  We did some writing in our journal and some of us choose to write about a time when we were embarrassed!  In math we did sorting centers and practiced sorting in different ways.
In gym we played a game called "The Great Wall" and the kids that got tagged stood on the line and the people who are not it had to run past the wall without getting tagged.  It was hard.  We also played dodge ball but if we got hit by the ball we went to the side and did 10 jumping jacks to get back in the game.

Blowing Bubbles

Today we made a poster or planned what we are going to say in a video to teach little kids about a number between 5-10.  Tomorrow we will make the videos.  We also got to chew gum and blow bubbles at school! After we wrote down the steps we need to take to blow a bubble.  We drew our faces and blew up a pink balloon to hang up on the wall with our writing.
In morning meeting we shared what we did to sharpen the saw on the weekend.  We also practiced following maps to find the letters again.  The group that did not get to use the map to find the letters on Friday got their turn today.
Some of us made some straight, wiggly and pointy lines on a paper for an art project we are going to do tomorrow.  In the gym we played a game that we try to act like animals.  We pretend the gym is that animals cage.  We also did read to self but we only made it to 7 minutes.  We need to remember to keep our eyes on our book not on the group that Ms. Mahan is reading with.
Ms Mahan put some tape with our names on it on our boot shelf today so we always have a spot to put our boots.  She also asked us to ask our parents write our names on our boots so we don't have anymore boot mix ups at recess.
 

Reading Maps!

Today we had an assembly about the 7 habits. We watched a few videos and had to say if the animals were doing habit 1 or habit 2.  We also made a collage about a group that we belong to.  We cut out or drew lots of pictures about that group and then shared our collage with the rest of the class.
We made a map of the school and then we went on a hunt to find different letters to spell the word "belong".  The people that made the map went with the people hunting to give hints.  When we got all the letters and spelled the word we got a tidbit as our treasure.

Root Beer Floats

Today was the 50th day of school and we did 50's stuff all day!
In morning meeting we shared what we know about the 1950's  We played a game with 50 records on it and dice.  We rolled the dice and then we colored the number of records that match the dice.  We coloured  jukeboxes with colour words on them.  We know that you used to put money in a jukebox and it played music in the 1950's.
We made a  root beer float because that what they had as a snack in the 1950's.  We wrote a book about how to make them. Some of us added pictures to our books.We did a word search about 50's words  too.
We read a book called "The Earth Book" and it talked about ways we can save the earth like putting our scraps in the recycling.
There is an assembly tomorrow afternoon about the 7 habits.

Germs!

Today we talked about washing our hands and how germs spread.  We used glitter to show how germs spread.  All the glitter started on Ms. Mahan's hands but the glitter germs spread to almost all of us. After we wrote the step of how to wash our hands.    

Today we had library and we read a Christmas book.  The Christmas books are out now so lots of us checked them out!  We had catch up and almost all of us finished our goals balloons and our Peace is book pages.We played sharks and minnows in PE and we did read to self for 10 min.

Tomorrow is 50's day!

Our Cards Here!

Today our cards came in and they are shrunk!  We were so excited to see them!  Our parents can order them and they are only 2 dollars each.  The orders are due next week.  

Today  we talked about feeling.  We wrote what the feeling is, drew what the head would look like if you felt that way and acted out what you body would be doing if you felt that way.  We read a story about a ladybug who helped a farmer so they wouldn't take the prize cow.  After we read the story we made a map too.  We wrote letters and words on our map too.

Ms. Mahan's mom came to visit us today and she used to be a grade 1 teacher too.  She taught for a very long time.  She was excited to meet us.  We bounced basketballs in gym and we threw them in the net. We did read to self but we only made it to 4 minutes.  We will practice more tomorrow.  

Plickers

Today we did a new thing called Plickers.  To use them, Ms. Mahan read a question and we said our answers by turning our cards in different ways.  Miss Mahan would scan our cards with her phone to put our answers in the computer.  When our card had been scanned it put a check beside our name.
We did read to self and we made it to 11 minutes.  We did some Mathletics and we played  2 different freeze tag games in gym.  We did a self assessment about our work habits.  In the self assessment we coloured the target red if we rarely did it, green if we always did it and yellow if we sometimes did it.
Don't forget book orders are due on Monday.

Picture Retakes are Tomorrow!

Today we had library and we got our new books.  We read a book in a different language with numbers and we practiced saying those numbers the different language.  We did read to self and we made it up to 10 and a half minutes!  We also wrote 2 sentences about how we are proactive.
We practiced writing the numbers in different ways, like as a picture, as a word and as a number.
The dental lady came and put flouride on some of our teeth and it tasted like bubbleegum!
Don't forget picture retakes are tomorrow!

We Remember

We an important assembly for Remembrance Day today.  We put our wreaths at the front and we sang Oh Canada.  We watched a video about soldiers and a man came to talk about soldiers too.  There was a police officer who wore her special occasion red outfit and that carried the Canada flag into the gym.
We painted tinfoil, saran wrap, tissue paper and normal paper with purple paint.  We found out paint does not stick nicely to tin foil and plastic.
We had PE at a different time today because of the assembly. We went outside for an early recess and played with the big snowballs.

Poppy Art

Today we finished our hot air balloons. We wrote goals on the bottom brown part and then attached it to the top balloon with pipe cleaners.  We wrote one sentence about what we want to be when we grow up on the basket and one sentence  about what we need to learn now so we can do that job.

We did science rotations.  At one center we looked at some liquids in bags.  We wrote down if they were transparent or opaque.  We looked at things like soap, oils, milk.  If we could see through we wrote transparent if we couldn't see through we wrote opaque.  

In another center we did thick and thin painting with liquid paint.  To make the paint thin we used more water. In the last center we did coloured the word Thank you to match the sample on the board. We used oil pastels or paint pucks.  We coloured stems on our poppies with green oil pastel, they are hanging in the hall

In gym we played a game to practice control.  We threw a bean bag in the air and caught it with a paddle or a scoop.  

Todd Parr Drawing

In Social we are learning about our school so we did a walk around the school to explore rooms in our school.  In gym we did a walk around the lake with Mrs. Saunderson's class.  We did this because people were talking about student council elections in the gym at our normal gym time.
We did a Todd Parr drawing where we practiced following Ms. Mahan directions and drew what she drew.  We made it bright and colorful just like Todd Parr. We practiced read to self and we made it 9 min again!
We made a poppy for our Remembrance Day wreath to remember the soldiers that died.  We used the chalk pastels we used our fingers to help us colour.  In morning meeting we shared whats your favourite part of having a family.

Fire Drill

Today we painted a sunset to practice making thick and thin paint.  We also practiced drawing poppies because Remembrance Day is coming next week
In morning meeting we shared what where we would rather go to the beach or the mountains.  We did read to self and we made it to 9 minuites again today and we had library. We read a book about a witch called "Straga Nona" and 2 Todd Parr books.
We had a fire drill and we all lined up really fast and then Ms. Mahan  checked off our names to make sure we were all safe. We put lots of stuff in our black folders today with a note from Ms. Mahan.  We put our favorite thing in the blue basket to go in our frame on the wall.

Thick and Thin Paint

Today in morning meeting we shared how we sharpened the saw on the weekend.
In Science we practiced how to make paint thick and thin.  We know we can make it thick by using a little bit of water and lots of paint. We make it thin by using a little paint and more water.  We also practiced mixing colours with paint. We mixed blue and red and it made purple, yellow and blue made green, and yellow and red made orange.
Most of us finished out ABC upper case and lower case books today.  We also did a self assessment about how we think we did in our unit about patterns. Then we wrote some numbers and number words on whiteboards.