May 1 - 4 ~~~~~ Dinosaurs, Science and fun filled learning!

Scarlett celebrated her 6th birthday. Happy birthday Scarlett!

We created a dinosaur story with landscape, volcanoes, dinosaurs, a meteorite, the sun, black ash,trees, rocks, and water.

This math work job consisted of each child getting a baggie with items in it.  The children were to count the objects, and record the number of each object in their bag.

Read it, Build it, and write it.  Put a fish sight word at the top. Build the word with letter tiles and then print the sight word.

Gone Buggy - roll the dice, put that amount of bugs on your jar. If you roll the fly swatter remove one bug.  If you roll the bug spray all your bugs go back in the dish.  When the work job is over record how many of each color of bugs are in your jar.

Sink or Float.  First put your name on the sheet. Color and cut out the pictures of the items.  Take turns dropping an object into the water.  Glue the picture of the item under sink or float.

Benjamin is our Star of the Week this week. Congratulations Benjamin!

We have been talking about ten frames and part, part, whole.  This ten frame has six parts spiders, four parts empty boxes and when you put them together the whole amount is ten.

I read the book Ducks Don’t Get Wet by Augusta Goldin.  I said if the children found two feathers outside we would test out the experiment.  I took one feather and rubbed oil over it and we placed both feather in a container of water.  Both floated.

The life cycle of the frog is a popular puzzle.  Nevaeh and Benjamin worked hard to complete the puzzle.

Marbleworks is also a popular choice at learning centre time.  The tubes can be put together many ways.  It is interesting to watch the reaction when they drop the marble in the top and watch to  see if the marble will go through the tubes.

If the children would rather choose something from the shelf instead of the learning centres that are available this is fine.  Today the boys choice a container of dice.

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!