Kindness Search

Today we showed the class the puppet pay that we wrote.  They were really good.  If one of our group members was away we are going to do ours on Monday.
We finished lots of job like our skip counting webs, super hero tower and our skip counting apples.   We also worked on things like our beanstalk and our changes writing from yesterday.
We had an assembly.  It was about being kind.  At the end we had to look for clues to try to find the right classroom.  The clues were hard.

Jumping Ropes

Today in gym we played with the skipping ropes.  We were trying to jump it and walk with it.  Some of us could do it but  it was hard.
In Science we showed the class our vehicles that could carry Cinderella from her house to the ball.  It was hard to build them.  We learned that it is important to spend time building the big rocks and less time on the decorating because lots of our wheels would not turn.  We also learned important to make a plan first and to choose our supplies carefully.   We are bringing them home to show our parents tonight.
We made a new bean home.  Most of used paper towel and got it wet because we learned last time that that make a good bean home.

Bean Art

Today we read a book about Cindy Ellen.  It was like a Cinderlla story but it took place in the wild west .  They had a rodeo and square dance instead of a ball.  We read another about a Cinderella and a Prince that liked running in bare feet and climbing trees.  At the end of that story instead of getting married they ran off in a hot air balloon.
Tomorrow we are building a vehicle that  could carry a Cinderella from her house to the ball.   It has to have wheels and a place to hold Cinderella. We will build it at school but Ms. Mahan told us today in case we want to think about it tonight.
At the end of the day we made our bean art.  We added the right colour beans to make the art 3-D instead of 2-D.  When we were done we put it in a pan and put it in our desk.  We had to had to try fill up the whole paper with beans.  Tomorrow we are going to cover our art with dirt and see if it will grow.  We also opened a bean  to see what is inside.  Some of the parts were the seed coat, the root, leaves and the food.  At the end we labelled a picture with the right words.
In math we started talking about subtraction.  We used blocks and whiteboards.  We talked about the different names for subtracting like minus,  subtract and take away.

Happy Earth Day

Today is Earth Day so we went on a lake walk and picked up garbage.  Went slow so we could look carefully for all the pieces of garbage.  We also picked up garbage around our playground.
In gym we played tail tag.  We put a pinny in our pocket and then we tried to both protect our tail but also steal tails from other people.  We also played french fry tag.  If you got tagged you have to do 5 push ups with someone mirroring you.
We looked at our bean homes today and then we taped our bean in our journals and wrote about them.  Some of our homes stunk!  The most successful bean home was the wet paper towel.  His bean seed had sprouted.  Next week we will make a new bean home.

Robert Munsch Plays

Today we had a special assembly.  Some kids form the High School came to put on a few plays about Robert Munsch books.  One of the plays was about Stephanie's Ponytail, another was about Mortimia and the other was about The Paper Bag Princess.  All of them asked us to help them and were very funny.
We had some catch-up and one of our jobs was to write down 4 things that happened in one of the Jack and the bean stalk stories that we read.  We also finished our signs about what is good about synergizing and our giant by painting the background.

Homes for a Bean

Today we read a book about Jack and the Giant.  Jack traded his cow for some magic beans.  His mom was mad that she threw them out the window and they turned into a beanstalk.  Jack climbed it and found a castle at the top.  We practiced drawing a giant.  We colored him with pencil crayon or crayon and tomorrow we will paint the background.
Today we made a bean home.  We made them with bean seed and a plastic bag. Some of us used dirt, lots of us used water and some of us used rocks in the home.  We also made a castle on a skewer to see if our bean can grow up to the castle.
In math on we worked on whiteboards.  We practiced making big numbers by counting by 10s and then adding on.  We also used blocks to make the number.  In Science we shared our puppets with the rest of the class.  We showed what part moved and we learned that a brass fasteners are good for making things move.

Puppets

Today two Grade 3 student came to help us.  Whey came here because most of their class was at the music festival.  In gym we played a few tag games and then we played with the scoops.  We were all sweating because we had to run lots.
In Science we finished making our puppets.  We used brass fasteners to try to connect things.  We did big rocks and little rocks to catch up on our work today.  One of the big rocks were to finish making our coffee filter earth.  We used mostly blue because most of earth is water. After we sprayed water on it and the colours all blended together.  When it dried we glued on a picture of us so it looks like we are each holding the world. They look great.
Have a great long weekend everyone.

Counting Big Groups

Today we practiced counting large group. We skip counted by 10's and 5's to make it easier to count that high.  We were pretty good at it with blocks but it was harder to count the big groups on paper.  Some of us tried to skip count by 2's but it was too hard for us to count past 20.
Today in Library we read a book about a lonely seahorse and all the animals in the book were made of vegetables and fruits.  In Library some of us were having troubles making good choices.  We decided if that happens next week we will practice how to act at recess.
Today in Science we made a puppet.  We decided our puppet need to move, it had to look like an animal or person, it needed to have a place for us to hold it and needed to have decorations and look nice.  We will finish them tomorrow.
Book orders are due tomorrow.

Taking Care of the Earth

Today we had a later morning meeting because we made our own tiger story by adding describing words to a story Ms. Mahan read to us.  Each of our stories was different.  We we did little rocks and big rocks in math to try to catch up on our skip counting and numbers to 100 jobs.  One of the big rocks was to find mistakes in a 100 chart.
Today we watched a video about how to take Earth and we wrote about some of the things we can do on Earth Day to take care of High River.

Spring in our Step

Today we went for a spring walk with Mrs. Saunderson's class.  We used something called Urban Poles.  We needed to make them the right size and then we walked around the lake.
Today we read a story about a boy that wanted to have a safe place to walk with his dog because the place because where he walked had broken glass and liter.  After we read the book we tried to put the things that happened in order on our own.
Today we drew a wolf and then we wrote as many W words as we can think of in a list.  After that we practiced writing w's in our printing book.  We talked about some animals that hibernate and we learned that wolves do not hibernate then just getting thinker fir.  We learned that foxes don't hibernate either.

Spring Reading

Today we did a short spring walk abut we did not make it around the lake because it was so windy.  We took pictures of trees and bushes because they are turning green now that it is spring.  Some of us took pictures of the grass because it is getting greener in the spring too.  We worked in groups to read a book about spring.
In our journals this morning we drew a viper and then we wrote a scary story or what we are scared of underneath it.  We also read a story called "Stuck" about a boy who got his kite stuck in a tree.  He threw lots of stuff into the tree and they all got stuck too.  He even  threw up an orangutan and a big boat they got stuck too!
 Today in gym we did some badminton and we practiced hitting the birdie by ourselves and then we tried to hit it to a partner.  The morning attendance  question was do you like popcorn or pretzels.  More of us liked popcorn than pretzels.  In morning meeting we shared our favorite plant because we are talking a lot about spring this week.
We brought home all of our work from march today and we got a new book order.

Making Plurals

Today we read the Lorax and then we folded a piece of paper to make a booklet.  In the booklet we wrote things we can do to protect the air, ground, trees and water.  We also learned about how to make words plural. Plural means more than one.  We learned that if a word ends with y you have to change the y to an i and add es.  Some other words you add an es and for other words you just add an s.
In math we made an apple and a caterpillar that will help us skip count by 10's to 100.  We also read a book about counting goats by Mem Fox.  It was really funny and we all laughed a lot.

Welcome Back!

Today in gym we started playing badminton.  We learned we have to hold the racket like we are shaking someones hand.  We even got to try to hit a birdie and keep it in the air as long as we could.  We played a new game called Easter Bunny tag with a noodle. If we got tagged we had to go down like an egg.
Today we read a book about a boy who went fishing with his papa.  They caught 5 fish and they ate them for supper.  We are reading three different books and then picking our favorite author.  It is to help pick the author for next years Global Read Aloud.
In math we did a race to 50 where we worked with a partner to write all the numbers to 50 in order.  We took turns writing numbers and we timed ourselves to see how long it took.  We also played connect 4 and made a video of each of us counting to 50
We got a new seating plan where we got to pick our groups and our groups name.  We are working together as a group to earn ticks by being kind to others.  We can even give other groups ticks.