Doubles and Near Doubles

Today the grade 1's learned about doubles like 1+1 =2.  We know that the answers are just like counting by 2's.  The grade 2's learned about near doubles where we can add 1 to one of the numbers in the equation and then we just need to add 1 to the answer too like 6+6 =12 so 6+7=13.
Today at gym we learned a new game that is the opposite of line tag where we had to jump over the lines instead of running on them.  If we got tagged or if we stepped on a line we had to do a different exercise.

Plastic and Straw Boats

Today we made a boat out of straws and and plastic wrap. We think that a good boat has walls around the outside.  We also think that a big boat could hold more because it was more steady.  The big boats all held 15 Jellybeans.  We learned that you need to spread out the weight so it does not tip over.
Today we practiced adding number using a 10 frame.  We know that one 10 frame has to be full before you start a new one.  In math we learned how to find the number in the middle of the addition equations and solve story problems.

We are Ready to Dance

Today we did our dance in front of the school and we saw everybody else dances.   Now we are excited to come back to school tonight at 6:30 and show our dance to all the parents.  We need to wear white or yellow.
We are also very excited because we are going to watch "James and the Giant Peach" and wear our PJ's tomorrow.  We are also going to bring our stuffies and blankets if we want.   We can even bring James and the Giant Peach snacks.

James and the Giant Peach

Today we learned about about "James and the Giant Peach" because we are trying to finish the book before our "James and the Giant Peach" party on Thursday.  We get to wear our PJ's and bring stuffies for the party.  We can also bring peach snacks.
We had the laptops and we practiced doing internet research about animals on the learning commons website.  We learned some things about spiders like some spiderlings eat their mother when she dies.  GROSS!
Tomorrow is the family dance and we are supposed to wear yellow or white.

Pattern Easter Eggs

Today we were learning about Ukrainian Easter eggs and the patterns in them.  We each got a bag of shapes and started to design our own Ukrainian Easter Egg. We learned the last few step of our dance with Miss Nicky.  Tomorrow we will practice it again so we are ready to show our parents on Wednesday night.
We started researching for our life cycle of an animal from James and the Giant peach.  The lady bug people picked pupa and larva as some of their stages of the life cycle.  We used some different sights and some books to help us choose the categories for the life cycle.
Tomorrow is the day for our home reading draw this month.

Easter is Coming

Today we made a bunny art by cutting out a bunny shapeand then painting around the outside.  Then we took the bunny off  and then we glued a fuzzy bunny tail on the white shape it left.  We also made a giant peach  by putting strips of paper in a circle to make them look like a 3D peach.   On Monday we will finish it by turning it into our favorite scene from the book.  
We picked an animals from" James and he Giant Peach" that we want to research and we went to the library and pulled books about those animals from the non fiction section.  We also looked on Raz Kid, World book online and Bookflix to see if we can find more information about their lifecycles.

We are Multicultural

Today we learned about life cycles and then we picked an animal from "James and the Giant Peach" that we want to learn more about their life cycle.
We  learned about the word multicultural.  We learned that our class is very multi cultural because we have lots of different beliefs, languages and beliefs in our class.