Wonderful Wednesdsay

What a busy day!  We read our Little Engine That Could booklets and retold the story to our partners.  We did Social Studies.  We read a book about teamwork.  We read a book about a girl building a magnificent thing.  It was an awesome book.  We did Social Studies and talked about activities that we share with others.  We drew a picture about things we do together with others as a group.  We decorated our book boxes.  We played a game at gym.  We did a poem.  We got brand new poetry books today.  We saw words and we read and colored an apple red and a frog green.  We "sneaked" into the music room with Mrs. H.J. and did a Go Noodle activity.  Our mascot is called Freckles Sinclair.   We shared our brown bags.  Mrs. H.J. brought her violin and played for us.  Her violin sang to us.   We had a Wonderful Wednesday in our grade one class!  Only one more sleep until the BBQ!

Dot Day!

It was Dot Day today! We used Dots in almost everything we did today.
We had library today and we read the book " The Dot".  It was about a girl who thought she couldn't do art then she became famous for painting dots. After, we tried to find peoples art work in the Library.  At the end of Library we got a special bookmark that we get to keep .
In science we coloured coffee filters and then we painted them with water and it made the colour mix and made them see through. We also made a target out of different sizes of dots in math.
In gym we ran to celebrate Terry Fox because the Terry Fox run is coming at our school.  We know he ran part way across Canada and that he had cancer.
We are excited that the Welcome BBQ is only 2 sleeps away!

Dot Day is Tomorrow

We glued the eyes on our "Brown Bear, Brown Bear" puppets and then we did a video of us re-telling the story "Brown Bear, Brown Bear What do you see?".  We did the videos with the iPads.  We got to take our puppets home at the end of the day to show our parents.
We finished our green books by putting the pages in the right order then some of us practiced being leaders by helping other kids finish their books too.
Today we started looking at some math centers that are all about learning our numbers.  In one of them we had to match the number of pompoms on a caterpillar to the number and number word.
We looked at the book Chrysanthemum again. We spelled her name by ourselves, it has 13 letters in it.  Then we practiced writing our  name and our friends names. They were all shorter than Chrysanthemum!
We read a Peter Reynolds book about a girl who liked to build stuff and then she built her own star to go in the sky.  It was called Sydney's Star.

Tomorrow is Library and dot day so don't forget to wear your dot clothes!

Painting

Today we learned about the sky and that it can be different colours like red, yellow, purple and blue.  We read about a girl who painted a colourful sky and then we water painted our own sky by dabbing watercolor paint and letting the water do the work.
We got our book boxes today! We each picked out 4 books that we want to read from our classroom library to put in them and then we decorated the our book box.  We have the same book box for the whole school year.
We had assembly about selling magazine and they told us that we can win prizes.  We have more information in our backpacks.  We also got our first book order and were very excited to show our parents.
Have a great weekend!

We See Green

Today we talked about the words 'green', 'see' and other words that have two ee's in them. The two e's are like two screening mice that are running away from a cat. They say "eeee".  We also made a book about green that we will practice reading tomorrow. 

We watched a story about two best friends who had a fight but then they became friends again. We later talked about how we want people in our class to treat us. 

We read a book about a brother and sister. The brother got an award and the sister wanted to get it too so she tried her best to do nice things.  Even though she made mistakes, she got the award in the end because she filled people's buckets. We read another book about a boy that had so many chores that he made 10 copies of himself to help him.  At the end of the story he decided doing less things and trying his best was better than a big list. 

In Math, we talked about the months and the seasons and we made a poster about our favourite season. 

Brown Bag Sharing

  We had a great day!
We had our morning meeting and during sharing time, lots of kids remembered to bring their brown bag with things that are important to them to show the rest of the class.  They brought lots of cool things.
We read about about a boy who used his imagination and pretended he could fly in a paper airplane. After we talked about using our imaginations, we also read the book "Panda Bear, Panda Bear What Do You See", and in the book he saw a bald eagle.
We did gonoodle for a body break.  A body break is when we dance and sing after we have been working hard.  In Science, we are going to be learning about colours so we went outside and looked at different colours on our school ground.
We went to the Library for the first time and we got to sit on the comfy couch to listen to the story.  We each got to take out two books and we need to bring them back next Tuesday.  We put some important papers in our folder that we hope moms and dads see.

Magic Playdoh

Today we read a book called Brown bear, Brown bear What Do You See? and we started to make a puppet that Miss Mahan says we will use to help us retell the story.
We also read a book about being nice to others and talked about how we like others to treat us.  We had lots of great ideas like we would like others to be nice, friendly, polite and share with us.
In the afternoon we played with Magic Playdoh.  The Magic Playdoh was white at the beginning but then it turned blue!  That means that we are going to have a great school year just like the poem said.
We had gym and we played a new game penguins and Polar bears and we had centers like animals, sticks and cars, and chains.