MIss Nicki is Here!

Today was our first day of Dance with Miss Nicky.  We did galloping, star jumps and tuck jumps. Miss Nicky also taught us how to do a knee pop and lots of stretches.  
Today we did some big rocks and little rocks in Math.  Our big rocks were our math work about doubles.  We recorded the stories that we wrote in our mini book.  We had to find a quiet space to make our video on an iPad.
Today some of us have our student led conferences and we are excited.

Student Led Conferences are Tonight

Today in science and we looked through magazines for things made with different building supplies like plastic and wood.  In PE we did more dancing.  We did the Chicken Dance and the YMCA and we tried a tricky dance called the Cadillac Ranch.  In library and we read a book about a teacher who who read a book and the character came to life!
Today we looked through our folder on the IPad and we picked two things that we are most proud of to show our parents at student led conferences tonight or tomorrow night.  Those of us that have student led conferences have all of our stuff ready for them to come visit and we are excited to show it all off.

What We Are...

Today we went outside for our body break and so we could take pictures of what "we are" as a class. The pictures are hanging up on the wall so we can show them to you tomorrow at student led conferences. In math we practiced adding doubles. We did them on whiteboards. We were really good at the 1+1, 2+2, 3+3, 4+4, 5+5 doubles but the 6+6, 7+7, 8+8, 9+9 are still hard for us to remember. We think we could practiced them at home tonight so we can get faster at them. We all made sure we have 4 good fit books so we are ready to read them to our parents tomorrow or Thursday at student led conferences.

Let the Dancing Begin

Today in gym we started a new unit about dance.  We played Dance tag where you had to dance if you got tagged and you were free when another person came and copied your dance move for 10 seconds .  We also learned the chicken dance and the YMCA .  At the end we had a few min of free dance time.   Miss Nicki is coming on Thursday and she will teach us a class dance that we will show everyone at the  family dance. 

Today we got all of our work from February and we put our favourite in the basket so it can go in our picture frame.  The rest went in our backpack to go home with a note to our parents.  We made a picture  of what we think we will look like when we grow up and are community helpers.  They are going to hang in the hallway with our writing.

We started practicing what we are going to do when our parents come for student led conference.  One of the things we will do is make a estimate of the amout of candies in a jar.  We will also teach them a math game with called "Tick Tock Roll a Clock".

Adding

Today we did some catch up.  We needed to finish making our Barbie furniture video.  We had to tell what parts our furniture had, why we used the materials we choose and show how it works.  Another center was finishing up to page 4 of our story.
We did math rotations like yesterday.  One center was mathletics, one was adding face off, math games and math centers.  In gym we made groups with 6 people and then we made a magic snake and tried dribbling between all of the people in our snake.

Basketball Skills

Today we worked on our adding kites.  The top part says a number and then the bows on the string say 2 numbers that add up to the number on the kite.  We read a book called the foot book and lots of us think that we could read the book by ourselves.
Today was our last day using basketball.  We played tag with the basketballs and we learned to pivot and turn our body so that it was in between the tagger and the ball.  There was a bake sale at lunch.  There was lots of food there and there was a long line.  They raised $211 to help the Calgary Zoo.

March is Here

Today in morning meeting we share what we would wish for if we caught a leprechaun.  We did that because today is March first and St. Patrick's day and Easter are in March.  In Daily 5 we made a sheet to track which of the daily 5 we do each day so we can make sure we are practicing all of them.

We all finished our Barbie furniture and all of our picture planning for our books.  Almost everyone's Barbie furniture worked and held Barbie up.    In Music we made a video of mallets, glockenspiels and fairy godmothers to show our parents at student led conferences next week. Parents can book their student led conferences on the computer to come in and see us show off.  

Tomorrow there is a bake sale at school and the money goes to the Calgary Zoo.