January 20 - 24 ~~~ Finishing up The Snowy Day and beginning The Mitten~~ will finish the mitten this week.

Our wall of learning 

from The Snowy Day!

Our Literacy Snowman… 

so exciting to see children and

families reading books together!

I finally put up my Christmas 

gift from Chloe. I believe this

 suits each of my students.

Thanks Chloe!

Retelling the story the mitten.  

The children did an excellent

 job of capturing the story.

Our learning wall from The Mitten.

 Our first attempt at guided writing.

 The children drew the picture. I individually 

 assisted with the writing. We were working

 on printing from left to right, beginning 

with a capital letter, leaving spaces, referring

 to jolly phonics for the sounds that were heard,

 tall, small, and hanging letters and ending with

 a punctuation.

Creative mittens … decorate the mittens

 any way you wish using the available materials.

How many cubes, bears, blocks, 

shells, and cars will fit into a mitten.

 Record your findings.

Trace a mitten onto an envelope,

 color the characters from the story. 

Take home and retell the story to your family.

The mitten board game.

Our wall of art …. 

mittens , mittens everywhere!!!

We had lots of fun acting out 

the story a few times.  Lots of

 laughter when it came to the part 

where the bear sneezed and the

 animals all flew out of the mitten.

 Thank you to Chelsey and Bailey

 for helping hold up our pretend mitten.

A very special thank you to Mrs. McCarville

 and Mrs. Elward for buying some round sleds.

  Mrs. McCarville has been outside daily helping

 the children enjoy the sleds on the hill.  All I

 could hear was laughing and joyful screaming

 as the children came sliding down the hill.

Some learning centre pictures.

Landon was our first Star of the Week.

  He did some extra helper activities

 and got to use my building kit.

The Snowy Day

Snowflake Art!

We took several days to 

complete our Snowman Glyphs.

 We discovered that we have 

winter things we like in common.

Our snowman science project!

Creating our snowmen.

Upon creation

End of the day.

The next morning.

Our literacy snowman is

 growing. Lots of good 

books are being read.

Some outdoor pictures!

The Snowy Day … we had a 

lot of fun this week with this

 Story. We will finish up on

 Monday before beginning 

The Mitten by Jan Brett.

We began our Snowy Day Art

 using shaving cream, glue,

 and glitter for the snow. 

We will add Peter to the Art on Monday.

Outcomes we worked on.

We have been learning how

 to read together. Sitting 

side by side, place the book

 in between both people.

 Seesaw reading where one

 person reads the other listens 

then switch. Discussing/sharing 

a wow page. Adding a pinch of

 you if the page reminds you of 

something that you did or saw

 you tell the other person about it.

We have been reading our guided 

readers in class individually using 

the microphone, partner reading,

 group reading,  and reading with 

our book buddies.

Clipboard cruising … looking for

 words from the book The Snowy Day.

Working on our Snowy Day books.

Color and label Pete.

Draw something Pete did outside. 

Draw something you like to do 

outside on a snowy day.

Some learning centre pictures.

Nolan and Landon came 

running over to show me 

what they discovered. 

By using a semi circle and 

three triangular shaped blocks 

they created a complete circle. 

The excitement!!!

The dental hygienist was in

 to discuss taking care of 

your teeth. Showed a dental video 

and left everyone a toothbrush and a sticker.

After discussing shapes and 

learning about the Inuksuk we

 worked together to create a

 couple  of Inuksuks in class.

Winter & Family Literacy Day!

We are working on describing 

shapes in Math Makes Sense.

Ted Johnson was in to share 

some ways to describe shapes 

and discuss how some shapes 

have some of the same features. 

He showed the class how different

 3D shapes by unfolding his set of 3D shapes.

In our big math book, 

we discussed an Inuksuk

 and types  of shapes would

 be best to use when we build one.

Ted brought his own 

Inuksuk to show the children.

Guided Reading… I read and

 modelled crisp pointing to 

each word, the children did

 some buddy reading, they 

also read individually using 

the microphone. The children

 used their pointer finger under

 each word, looked at the pictures 

For word clues and also read with expression!!!

Snowman hat and button count.

  Choose a hat to put on the

 snowman. Add that amount of buttons.

Snowman Shake … shake the 

word cubes, record the sight

 words. Which word will race

 across the sheet first?

Create your own snowflake.

 Decorate any way you wish.

Winter clipboard cruising.

Our Literacy Day - 

Watching Frosty Grow with 

Good Books Project… he has 

started to grow. The children

 did a great job of re-telling 

something from the book that 

was read to them.

After learning about the Inuksuk …

 Nolan worked hard building

with the foam blocks. He had

 to figure out which blocks would stack.