April 24 - 27 ~~~~ More Dinosaurs!!!

This work job involved using baking soda and vinegar and creating an erupting volcano!  Lots of excitement at this work job!

Color by code and discover a dinosaur hidden in the picture.

This dinosaur puzzle was part of the volcano work job.  Complete the puzzle and then go and erupt a volcano!

Dinosaur board game.  Collect four dinosaur eggs and then try to get into the nest.

Mrs.Dickieson was back to discuss another reading strategy. Read the pictures and the words.  The children were avid listeners and went right to work using the strategy.

The children were given a cupcake liner, a piece of construction paper, a google eye and markers.  

Look… at the dinosaurs they created!!!

Nevaeh Kropt is our Star of the Week next week.  Congratulations Nevaeh!

Some learning centre fun pictures!

Mother’s Day and Father’s Day is coming up soon.  We will be concentrating on family rather than Mother’s and Father’s Day.  I will put some materials with Mother’s Day and Father’s Day on it in the arts area during learning centre time. The children will have an opportunity to chose this centre if they wish.

April 18 - 21 ~~~~~ Dinosaurs

• Michael Cameron was our Star of the Week! Congratulations Michael.

• Fill your dinosaur with pattern blocks. Count and record how many of each block you used.

• Mrs. Dickieson was back to discuss “adding a pinch of you” in the stories you read. This is when you are reading a book and it may have a cat and you remember and share that your cat looks like the cat in the book and tell some things about your cat.

• Dinosaur footprints with pictures were around the room they were numbered from 1 - 10.  You had a page with the blank dinosaur footprints numbered from 1-10. You looked at each picture and printed the sounds you could hear.  Ex; cat - you may print, c, ct, or maybe you heard all the sounds cat. Some students found this very challenging.

• Roll and record which dinosaur would race to the top.

• There were three dinosaur puzzles in this work job that the students worked together to build.

• Some learning centre pictures.  Lots going on!!!

• We learned about Earth day and made Mr. Earth. New vocabulary= reduce, reuse, and recycle

Easter - April 10 - 14

The children enjoyed decorating our display table for Easter!

Happy Easter everyone we hope you enjoyed the handprint flower Easter cards!

The children decorated cups for mini Easter baskets.  They especially enjoyed putting the grass in the cups!

Mrs. Dickieson was back today she talked about re-reading for more information.

Here are the children re-reading and sharing what more they noticed.

A tisket a tasket a little Easter basket .  _______ had a word for her friend and  on her way she dropped it.  In each egg was a sight word and whoever the egg was given to identified the sight word and then they delivered an egg with a sight word for their friend.

Making Easter headbands - I’m Some Bunny Special!

Bunny Freeze dance!

Snack time with our Easter treats.  Special thank you to Isabella, Nevaeh F., Nevaeh K, and Scarlett for the treats.  Special thank you to Benjamin for the Easter painting project for each student.

The I Spy puzzle

Alex DesRoche was our Star of the Week! Congratulations Alex!

Chenoa Merx turned 6. Happy Birthday Chenoa!

Here we are all wearing our tops inside out to raise awareness for Autism.

Bunny Measurement.  Measure how many carrots tall the bunny is as well as measuring how many carrots wide are his feet.

Stack the bunnies on platforms. Roll the cube and try to remove that color of a bunny without the platform falling down.

Making our Easter bunnies for our Wall of Art.  Lots of cutting and gluing for this craft.

Color by code. We are working on fine motor control and doing our best work!

Our Wall of Art - Easter Bunnies!

April 3- 6 ~~~~ Our First Week of Our Easter Theme

Brooklynn Doucette was our Star of the Week!  Congratulations Brooklynn!

We have been discussing families.  They come in all different sizes and are made up of different people.The children identified and described who belongs in their families and earlier we had discussed family traditions when you sent in your family tradition posters.  This is part of our Family Social Studies Curriculum.

2.1 identify and describe their family and 2.2 recognize that families have varied traditions, rituals and celebrations.

Count the eggs in the bag. Record the number and decorate the eggs.

Count how many of each egg pattern you find. Record the number and decorate the eggs.

Connect the letters to create an Easter picture.  Color your picture.

Color the Easter egg by code.

Storm Basketball players were here on Wednesday.  We made some posters to cheer on the team.  Michael Cameron’s name was drawn to play against the Storm team.  He was very excited he said  “I have some good moves”.

Mrs. Dickieson was back and we had lots of fun learning about partner reading, and discussing “wow” pages in books.

The children were given sticky notes and each read a book to a partner and put some stickers in the pages they identified as “wow” pages

Mrs. Dickeson also brought a letter addressed to me.  It was from Reader Man. We had sent him thank you notes for all the materials he sent with Mrs. Dickieson to make our Pointer power pointers.

Inside the letter were thank you notes to all the students for using their reading powers.  Here is Nevaeh K. with her thank you note!

Some learning centre activities.  I took a bird’s eye view of the the structure Patrick had build using the small blocks.

Michael worked really hard building with the blocks.