We are Engineers!

We had a very exciting day. We had a special visitor today and she  was an engineer.  An engineer solves problems for their job.  We know when we are building we are engineers.  She told us that most of the time her ideas don't work the first time so she has to keep trying.   She gave us a challenge to build a tower with only news paper and tape.  It was very fun! 
In the afternoon we went for a walk around the community to leave bucket filling note on our neighbors doors.  One of them said "I want to share a smile with you, another said you are loved and another said, I like your house.  We even had gym outside today because it was so nice outside,.
We practiced reading some Elephant and Piggie Books with a partner and we talked more about words that have the magic e in them today.  We know when there is a magic e at the end of the word it makes the a,e,i,o orr u say its own name.
We are bringing home some questions to ask our moms and dads about when we were little. 

On the Day We Were Born

Today in gym we played a game where we had to try to get all the treasure from the other teams basket into ours but the other team was also trying to get all of the treasure out of our basket into theirs.  If we got tagged on the other teams side we had to be frozen until one of our team mates saved us.  In Music we learned a new song about going in and out of the window.  Ask us to sing it for you tonight.
We read a story called "On the day You Were born"  Then we told Ms. Mahan some questions we have about the day we were born. She typed up so we can take them home and ask our parents later this week.
We started writing a letter to baby bear from Goldilocks.  Tomorrow we will write a letter to him apologizing for all the things we broke.

New Chair for Little Bear.

In Science we pretended to be Goldilocks and built a chair for the littlest bear because Goldilocks broke her chair in the story.  Some of us used carboard, some of use Plasticine and some of us used Lego.  We learned that blocks worked the best because they are easy to connect in different ways.  Popsicle sticks  and cardboard did not work very well because they were hard to make stand up. 
We ready the story Woolber and who liked to be different.  We drew a picture to match the main idea of the story and wrote a sentence to match. 
Today we had some new centers in gym including Pickle Ball, shooting at baskets, the climbing wall, skipping and frisbees.  They were lots of fun. 

We Can Make a Difference

Today we talked about Earth Day we learned that we need to take care of the planet because lots of people are doing mean things to it like throwing garbage on the ground.  One thing we can do it to not throw our garbage in the garbage can.  We wrote about all the things we can do to protect the earth and it is hanging in the hall with  picture of us holding the earth.  Some of the ideas we wrote about were riding our bike and not always driving  because cars make air pollution.

Our Beautiful Earth

Today we talked bout the Earth.  We made a picture of our world with green and blue marker on a coffee filter and then we sprayed it with water water to make the colour's go together.  Ms. Mahan also took our picture so it will look like we are holding the earth in our hands.  We are doing this because Earth day is in 4 days. 
We read a book about the 3 bears and Goldilocks but someone was rewinding and fast forwarding the story in the book so it was all in the wrong order. So we tried to put all the things that happened in the story in the right order.
We read another book  called LA La La.  The only word in the story was La so we used the Ipads and added the words that we thought should have been on the pages. 

All about Sheep

Today we did lots of learning related to the book "Woolbur."  We had a partner A and partner B. One partner looked at a picture on the Smartboard and then described it to the other partner.  Partner B asked them more questions about it like what is the texture, the shapes, and the colours. We were talked about what we already know about sheep.  We made some predictions about what will happen next in the book with pictures and sentences.
We also read a book about Junk-Pile Jennifer who collected lots of junk but at the end she was able to fix a spaceship will all her junk!  We think we should all start saving junk just like her!   We played badminton in PE.  We are getting very good at hitting it back and forth between ourselves and out friends.  We are also getting to be very good at sportsmanship and being leaders in gym.

We Love Cosmic Kids

Today we started playing badminton in PE. We got a racket and a birdie and practiced hitting the birdie to our partner.  The first hit is called a serve.  If it falls on the ground it is a new serve
We did a cosmic kids brainbreak about spider man today.  We love cosmic kids
In math we practiced making different equations that equal the same number in different ways.  We wrote things like 1+5=6 and 2+4=6 and 3+3=6.  We also made our equations with blocks.