January 19 - 23

Our Literacy Snowball Snowman is almost complete.   Please continue to send in snowballs.  Draw some snowballs if you have used up your ten.  Thank you reading with your child is so important!

Jillian was our new star of the week! 

Josh had his 6th Birthday!  Happy Birthday Josh!

We were learning about building with 3D shapes and the Inuksuk was introduced, the children worked hard to build their own Inuksuk's meaning " likeness of a person."

Our sock snowmen ... each one has their own personality. Thank you for sending in the colored socks for the hats!

Shake the snowman, print the sight words on the cubes.

Creating our own Winter Fun books!

We thought we had another twin in our classroom.  Great t-shirts Colton and Jack!

Find the tiles to make the winter words!

Some learning centre time fun!

Reading their guided reading books. The children are doing a wonderful job reading, pointing to the words and using lots of expression.

Fabulous Friday at snack time .... lots of social conversations going on here!

January 12 - 16

Our Shivery Snow Paint Snowmen!

Liam DesRoche was our Star of The Week!

Snowmen Snowball Names - we discovered 4 people have 4 letters in their names, 5 people have 5 letters, 4 people have 6 letters, 3 people have 7 letters and 1 person has 8 letters in their name.

Jordan had a birthday on January 2nd, Happy 6th Birthday Jordan!

Put the correct number of buttons/eraser on the snowman for buttons. The number is on the snowman's hat!

Some of the girls decided to put on a show,  they drew the set on the whiteboard, arranged chairs, had programs and money, and even playdough popcorn!  Great show girls!

Roll the dice , find the sight word on the snowman, color the sight word the color on the color code!

Roll the dice find the number on the snowman, color that part of the snowman the color on the color code.

Working on Snowflake Snowmen!  Lots of cutting, coloring and gluing involved in this art project!

The finished Snowflake Snowmen!

Some learning centre fun!

Lauryn and Benjamin reading their guided reading book to the class.  Each week on Friday the children will be reading to the class.  Mr. MacDonald came to hear the children read today.  The children were quite excited to read they used my FM microphone.  Great reading boys and girls.  If there is not any school on a Friday please return the books on Thursday!

January 5 - 9

We made a list of activities to complete on Fabulous Friday!  At the end of the day we checked off the items we had completed.  It was a very busy day!

The whiteboard is being used by the children to draw and write.  Great looking reindeer Jillian!

The children have discovered they can make many things using the snap together blocks!

We made new white snow Flubber! 

Our new green Playdough!

Roll a dice cover that amount of snowmen with gems or small erasers!

Snowmen we made the head and then added a snowball for each letter in our name.  We will compare who has how many letters in their name next week!

Making our own snowman with the letters in our name!

Sentences that are on paper snowballs.  Unroll and print the sentences.  We are working on leaving spaces between each word.

Sight words are printed on starfoam ball.  Choose a snowball.  How many letters are in the word.  Cut out that amount of snowballs and print the sight word with a one letter on each snowball.  Glue onto the recording sheet.

Thursday we all drew an outline of a snowman.  Friday we made Shivery Snow Paint and then we put it on our snowman outlines and added other items for details!  They look awesome!

Watching Frosty Grow With Good Books is beginning to take shape. The children are able to tell the class what their book was all about, who read it to them and then they say if it is a book they would recommend for other children to read! We are looking forward to Jan 27th - Family Literacy Day! 

Josh was our new Star of the Week!

Gym time activities, you can see how the children are working hard to develop large and small muscles, turn taking, listening to directions, cooperation, and  having lots of fun! Thank you Mrs. MacNeill for taking the pictures!

December 15 - 23

We spread some Christmas Cheer by visiting Miscouche Villa with Ms. Gogan's class and Ms. Mac!

The Gingerbread Man arrived in class one day and then disappeared only leaving a note behind.  He returned again on Monday December 22 and was shared by everyone in the class.  Delicious!

Making our own Gingerbread Man Art!

Clipboard cruising with the sight words on gingerbread men!

Sight words are hidden in the picture.  Use a magnifying glass to find and record the words!

Using playdough add details to the pictures!

Baking, decorating and finally eating Gingerbread cookies with Mr. Acorn's home economics class!

We treated our grade 4 book, computer and math buddies with gingerbread cookies.  All that needed to be done was to decorate and eat the cookies!

Painting some salt dough Christmas ornaments!

Roll the dice color that number on your gingerbread man.

Reading and measuring on the chart poems!

Arranging the gingerbread man numbers in proper sequence.

Working together on the Gingerbread Man Family puzzle!

Roll the dice, place that number of items in the tin.  Record on your sheet - which number raced to the top?

The gift wrapping station was used each and everyday!  Thank you so much for all the items that you sent it.

Mr. Acorn's class helped the children make your tea light ornaments.  We shut off the light and turned them all on.  We thought they were very pretty!

The children were quite surprised to see they could turn 3 hearts into a Christmas tree decoration!

How many Gingerbread men long is the kleenex box?

More counting and recording!

Sequence all the gingerbread families by size!

What a wonderful bridge!

We had our very own Santa's Little Helper in the class!

Mr. MacDonald came to visit and read a Christmas story!

We made cards and an ornament for some special people in the school.  We delivered and sang We Wish You a Merry Christmas!

We had a sing song on the last day of school.  Mr. Doran brought a guitar for me as well. The children did an awesome job of singing.  We invited grade 1, 2, and grade 4 to our sing song.

To end the sing song Ms. Johnson read A Canadian 12 Days of Christmas to the group!