December 1 - 12

Asking questions and tallying the answers.  ex:  Do you have a cat?

Pick a letter card say it's name or have your friends help you with it's name.  If you pick a surprise card you may need to sing a song!

Put the number of buttons on Pete's coat that is on the card.

Putting sentences together by looking at the sentence strips and then putting the words in order.

Pete the cat puzzle.

Count the items and clip a clothespin on the number.

Sequence the cats from biggest to smallest or smallest to biggest.

Match the color of Pete's shoes!

Using buttons how many ways can you sort them? Ex;  by color, shape, size, number of button holes, etc

Using a magnifying glass find the hidden words and record them on the recording sheet.

Roll the dice and move your car that many spaces.  Which car will race to the end?

More button sorting.

Cali is our new star of the week!

The Gingerbread Man is Everywhere!

Create your own gingerbread man!

Use playdough add detail to the gingerbread man!

Each day we cut a slice off of Santa's beard to see how many days are left until Christmas!

Sequence the families by size.

Clipboard cruising find the words written on Gingerbread men!

We changed the Lego and now we  build with the bridges, boats and cannons we have discovered!

Roll the dice and color that number on the gingerbread man!

The new Gingerbread Man Family Puzzle.

Tanner getting ready to create his own Gingerbread Man!

Do you have a cat?

Josh's finished Gingerbread Man!

Using ten frames to count out items!

Measuring - this Pete the Cat book is 4 gingerbread men wide.

Jordan decorating our class tree. The children have decorated it many times!

Putting the gingerbread man number cards in order from 0-20.

Our Christmas Class Photo!

 Our Christmas Class Photo including the teachers!

Pete the Cat aka: Mr. Lynch dropped in to visit and dance with the class.  Thank you Mr. Lynch!

Some Show and Tell highlights!

The Christmas Concert, you children did a fantastic job!  Your beautiful ornaments looked great!

Our hallway tree is beginning to look like Christmas!

November 24 - 28

Lauryn's our new Star of the Week!

Jack had lots of pictures and stories to share about his trip to Flordia!

Some of our colorful helper jobs! Pushing in the chairs, Getting Rulee, Feeding Swimmy, Counting to see who is here.

Erasing the white board, Using the sight words to make a sentence. Fishing our new sight words.

Literacy work job - Pete the Cat Puzzle!

Mr. MacDonald dropped in to read a book to the class. Jordan loaned his library book Pete Saves Christmas for Mr, MacDonald to read,  Thank you Jordan.

Pete is everywhere!  Each day when the children arrive the small Pete is hiding somewhere in the room.  He was hard to find with just his head peeking out on Friday!

Josh brought me in a special treat.  A gingerbread cookie that he decorated himself.  Thank you Josh the cookie was delicious!

Some learning centre fun!

We did math activities with our grade 4 buddies this week.  Snakes and Ladders, Board games, Sponge Bob Ant in pants, Hopscotch, Gone Buggy, Pick up Sticks, Number puzzle, and more.....

Literacy workjob ... labeling Pete the Cat!

Creating words with playdough!

Roll and color the number.

How many syllables do you hear in the words 1, 2, or 3?

Roll and color - what color of shoes will Pete wear?  What color raced to the top?

Help Pete through the maze.

Connect the numbers to make Pete.  Look at the number line on the sheet for help.

Guided Drawing ... Listen and do to draw your own Pete the Cat!  The concentration is amazing!

Some of activites being sent home overnight.  Class books:  My Friends, Class name syllable book, Halloween Book, My Name Map book and Mrs. Wishy Washy Story Sack and Apple Story Sack.  It takes quite a long time for everyone to have a turn.  Coming soon- Pete the Cat Story Sack.

Labeling Pete the Cat!

Working on our Pete Cat art!

Our finished Pete The Cat... the children worked really hard and the cats are awesome!

Our Pete the Cat drawings!