Halloween

Today was Halloween so we had a fun Halloween party.  We got to play some fun games that the Halloween leaders planned like pin the spider on the web and musical chairs.
We got to make popcorn hands during our senses party using our sense of smell and sight
We got to go on a costume parade to show the whole school our costumes and to give the school high fives.

Pumpkin Day

Today we got to carve pumpkins. We cleaned out the gut and seed with our hands and spoons. We decided as a group what to put on as the eyes, mouth and noses.  We counted the seeds by counting by 10's. One group had 353 seeds in our pumpkins.We checked to see if the pumpkins would float.  They did float because there is some air inside.  We also counted the lines on our pumpkins.

We even did our own drawing of a pumpkin with oil pastel.

Can You Hear The Match?

In Science we tried to match sounds. One sound was in a  balloon so we couldn't see it and the other was in a bag. We had to use our ears to find the match.   It was fun.  In Health we talked about food that is good for us and food that is not good for us to eat everyday.
We started filling our envelopes because we are going to mail our R letters on next week.  We opened the letter X in the mail from Ontario today. 
We learned a fun song in Music called I don't know. We also sang a song called Apples and baneenees.  Ask us to sing them for you. 

We can Subitize!

In math we learned a new game that used dice and colouring.  It helped us practice how to subitize.  We know that subitizing is when you look at a number and know what it is without even counting.
We opened 2 more letters today from other schools.  We talked about how their towns are different than High River.  One was from Saskatchewan and they have farms and grain elevators in their town.  We wrote a sentence about what makes our community different than those communities on our whiteboards. 
We got our class picture today. It is in our backpack. 
Tonight Ms. Mahan is very excited to talk to some of our parents.

Pattern legs!

Today we finished our pattern witches legs in Art by adding a spider and decorations.  We also took off the tape for our tree art that we started on Friday and added little lines to make them into Aspen trees. 
Most of us finished finding all of the letters on our ABC treasure hunt.  We made a capital R and used chalk pastels to turn it into a river to get ready to send our letter to the other schools.  We have lots of letters to open tomorrow.
In math most of us finished our pattern crowns and are wearing them home.   We all finished our pattern jobs in Mathletics and made our pattern block pictures.

We are Proactive!

We finished our pattern centers today and we rocked it!    We also wrote 2 ideas about how we are proactive on our proactive man.  We wrote things like we can think of games to play at recess.  Some of us wrote we can help others and we can say sorry.
We used chalk pastels to make a 2 leaves  and we worked on a picture of Marshall for a colouring contest because it is a fire prevention week.
Today we learned a new song in Music about a spider.  We taught the other grade 1's a new game in PE.

A is here!

Today we learned a new song about spiders in music. We made a sentence from a story Ms. Mahan read to us. We know a sentence needs a capital letter and a period.
We are almost done our patterns unit so today we did some math pattern centers so show Ms. Mahan all we know.  One Center was to paint witches legs with a pattern and another was to make a pattern out of stickers on a crown.  We also made a pattern with beads to make a bracelet and practiced patterns in Mathletics.
We got 2 more letters in the mail, A and Y.  One came from Ontario and one was from Quebec.  They are both far from us.

Community

Today we made a leaf art picture. We made a big leaf and little leaf pieces out of a coffee filter that we sprayed so the colours mixed.   We did some patterns on a new app called Mathletics and we coloured a thanksgiving picture that helped us practice our numbers and colour words.
We watched a movie about ants about getting along in their community and then made a list of the rules that we think are important in our class community. 
We got a new Book order today. 

Snowy Day

Today we drew a pot and added 3 things that have the "ck" sound at the end into it to make our yuck stew.  We also listened to the song purple stew and they added crazy things to their pot too.  We practiced reading words and colour words to make a turkey
In math we made patterns with bugs and blocks.  Some of us made a pattern with 4 different things in it!
We had our pictures and 2 inside recesses because it was so yucky outside.