Halloween Fun!

Today we had a parade in the gym to show the other classes our costumes.  After we had 11 centers in the gym that the Halloween leaders planned.  The centers were all over the school. One was a creepy maze through the library. Another one of the centers was to wrap a person up with toilet paper so they looked like a mummy.
We also did some fun activities in our class and one of them was to design our own bat wings and see if our bat would fly.  We also worked as a group to make a bridge with orange play dough, pipe cleaners and Q-tips. At the end we tested to see how strong our bridges were.

How am I Doing?

Today we did a self assessment where we were honest about how we are doing at school.  It had thumbs up, sideways or thumbs down on it. We had to colour one in for how we think we are doing.  At the end of day we glued it in our visual journal. We also read some Halloween book and had 3 rounds of daily 5.
In math the grade 2's practiced solving math problems.  The grade 1's made a little book where they practiced their numbers and their colour words.  We also came up with a new way of handing out whiteboard supplies.

Halloween is coming.

Today for our morning work the Grade 2's practiced their subtraction and then coloured a Frankenstein based on the answers.  The Grade 1's counted Halloween pictures and practiced writing their numbers.  We read a book about bone soup where a man made some soup with eyeballs, bones, mouse droppings and dandelions.  All the characters in the story liked the soup.  The characters were Halloween things like a witch and a giant.
In math the Grade 1's practiced counting and writing the number for different Halloween objects they found around the room.  While they were doing that the Grade 2's were practicing solving math word problems on the whiteboards.
In Art we made a painting of a moon.  We used white and 1 other colour. We made a moon and then made circles around the moon that slowly got darker.  We did this by slowly adding more of the colour to our white paint.  They looked really cool when they were done.
 

Bee Bots!

Today during Literacy we went outside and made a treasure map.  We had to look in the field and draw what we saw with a clip board and a pencil.  When we got inside we put the x to mark the spot where we are going to put our treasure and added the path we want the person to follow.  On Monday we are going to write the instructions that we want the person to follow to find our treasure.  Then we are really going to go on the treasure hunt using each others maps.
We got to experiment with the Bee Bots and the Goobi magnets.  We also practice our subitizing on the Ipads. It was a great day.  Happy weekend everyone.

Which Way?

Today we got a surprise because there was lots of Halloween decorations in our room.
We talked about North, South East and West and we did three activities relating to these directions. We also finished out monster writing.  We added lots of detail to our writing.  The Grade 1's did 5 sentences and the Grade 2's did more sentences.  The people who did not get their books yesterday went to library and got their books today.  
Today we had a fire drill.  We used the fire exit door that is close to our classroom. Some of us did exercises to keep warm outside because we could not stop and put on our jackets before we went out.  We tried to get out of the school as quickly as we could.
 Today we are bringing home a magazine order.  If we sell magazines is will raise money for the Learning Commons.

Monster Writing

Today we talked about a fire drill and we wrote one important thing that we have to do in a fire drill in our visual journal.  We drew a monster and then we wrote sentences about our monster underneath. On Thursday someone is going to read our writing and then draw the picture they see from reading our words.
Today we went to the library in 2 separate groups.  One group went to the learning commons to check out books and the other group switched their books in their book box in our class.  After 15 minuites we switched.
 Today we got our school pictures back. They are in our backpack.  Parents can order them online or send the envelope back to school.

Canada Chalk Pastel Art

Today we made 3 pictures using chalk pastels.  One picture was of a prairie, one was of the north and one was of the sea.    We did these pictures because we are learning about different places in Canada in Social.
This morning we did a word search about magnets.  In Science we got a little booklet about magnet centers that we are going to do tomorrow.  In one of the centers we have to try to pick out the magnetic stuff with a fishing rod.  In another you had to try to get the magnetic thing to the top of the jar.
Today we read a book about a pirate and his crew what talked a lot about letters.  We listened to our new leader of the week present her poster.  We learned that she likes to play soccer.

Fire Prevention Week

Today we used 3 colours of paint and painted a flame in our visual journal.  We did this because this week is fire prevention week.We are also each bringing home a form that we can fill out and then enter a draw at the office.
Today we read a story about colours making friends.  The main character was Brown and he complained all the time.  Light Green gave him some advice like he needed to smile and use kind words if he wanted to have more friends.

We are Thankful

Today we practiced reading together in groups with a Grade 1 and a Grade 2.  First the Grade 1's looked for words they knew on the page.  Next the Grade 2 read the page, then we read it together.  Lastly the Grade 1 partner tried to read it on their own. Today we practiced our printing using the letter A.  When we are printing we need to remember to start on the line and not make floating letters.  We also started making our own little books about things we are thankful for.
We read a book about a turkey who did not want Thanksgiving to come so he pretended to be different animals.  At the end he pretended to be the pizza man and delivered pizza on thanksgiving. Today we got a new seating plan.  We could be in groups of 2 or 3.  Each group had to have a girl and a boy and a person from each grade.

Soccer

Today we made  a tree on our pattern art.  We did this by blowing a blob of paint with a straw across the page.  Some people made bushes because their paint didn't spread very much.
We read another chapter of the BFG and we drew a picture that matched the words in the story.  This was helping us to make pictures in our head while we read.
We played soccer in PE.  We learned that in soccer we can only use your feet not your hands.  Another rule is you keep your hands to your self.

Translating Patterns

Today we had 4 centers in math they we Duck Duck Moose, Pete the Cat colouring, making a collage on Pic Kids and a soccer balls page.  In the centers we were practicing translating the patterns or telling the patterns in different ways.
We started reading the book The BFG today.  Some of us just listen but some of us drew pictures or wrote question in our journals while Ms. Mahan read.  Today we did daily 5 we did listening to reading, work on writing in our journal and practiced our reading.  We also got a new person in our class today.