January 29 - February 2 ~~~~ The Mitten , Groundhog Day, and 3D Robots!!!

Grayson and Maddy celebrated their

6th Birthday! Happy Birthday!

Harper wrote the morning message.

Great spacing!

This work job involved making your own

The Mitten story to take home. First you choose

An envelope, trace the mitten onto it,

Be sure to add your name and finally

color and cut out the characters.

Roll the character cube, which

character will race to the top first?

Using word tiles to make the

names of the animals in the Mitten

and The Hat.  Then using buttons

decorate mittens.

This work job involved counting how

Many of each object would fit into a m

Mitten.  The children used a number line

To check to see if they were forming

The numbers correctly.

February 1st, after lunch we were discussing

Groundhog Day. We learned a little song.

Then the children created their own little

Groundhogs.

Our 3D Robot Project Day finally

arrived this is what the mat looked

like as we started.  Thank you for all

the items that you sent in.

As the creation making began,

the only rule was that if you

were making a robot you needed

to have a body, a head, legs, and

arms.  You could add any other

details you wished.

Our finished robots!  The children so

enjoyed making the 3D Robots.

Lots of creativity, fine motor and problem

solving as the children worked.

We set up a 3D Shape Museum.  I will

be sending an e-mail to the staff at school

to see if they and their students could take a

few minutes to view and write a comment on

the 3D Museum Creations. We will leave the

Museum up until parent teacher interviews.

If you could take a minute to write a comment

In the book that would be appreciated.  You will

Also be taking your child’ 3D shape home with

You. We invited Mr. MacDonald up to see the

fun, filled learning that was occurring in the class.

Some learning centre pictures!

January 22 - 26 ~~~ The Snowy Day!

We had lots of fun learning with the book

The Snowy Day by Ezra Jack Keats this week.

Art and literacy all in one fun activity!

Retelling with the Snowy Day!

This work job consisted of labeling Peter,

the character in the story.  Children needed

to figure out the beginning sounds for this job!

Working on individual Snowy Day booklets!

Drawing what Peter did on a snowy day

and drawing what you like to do on a snowy day.

Clipboard cruising with words

from The Snowy Day!

Some learning centre activities!

Each Friday the students read their

guided reading books to the class.

They use my microphone, and

they are beginning to use nice

expression when reading.

I encourage them to use their

pointer power and their re-read power.

Family Literacy Day!!!  

The class was converted into cozy reading areas.

The children really enjoyed sharing their books with their friends.

Here we are in front of our Literacy display…

Good Books Keep Popping up!

Lots of books were read!!!

Mr. Doran read to our class and

Mrs. Arsenault also read to our class.  

I read to Mrs. Arsenault’s class!

The students created measuring snakes

and then they had to find items in the class

the same length, shorter and longer than their snake.

The students have been taking turns

writing the morning message.  

Great messages by Holden, Emily, Emma and Bransen!

January 15 - 19 ~~~ Winter

Caleb had his 6th Birthday!  Happy birthday Caleb!  
He thought he should get something out of the treasure basket to celebrate!

Our literacy popcorn is definitely popping up! 
 The children are doing a great job of telling
 the class about the books that have been read.

We made some colorful snowflakes. 
 The students picked their favorite color of construction paper
 and were able to choose two colors of glitter to add some sparkle.

This winter work job consisted of a snowman, multiple hats 
with a number on each one and a container of buttons. 
 Choose a hat, add that amount of buttons to the snowman.

 We were
 working on rhyming drawings the children 
were all moved to individual areas in the room and
 as I read the instructions they filled in the rhyme
 and drew that part. 
The first day the drawings were quite small so
 I discussed how I would like the children to fill their paper and the next day
 there was quite a difference.

We also made Shivery Snowmen, mixing shaving cream 
and white glue and adding a few sparkles for the body.  
Then we set out lots of odds and ends for the extra details.  Lots of fun!!!

Printing winter words.  Look at the picture find the
winter word and print it in the boxes.

Snowman Shake … shake two sight word cubes 
and print the words. Which sight words will race to the finish?

Color the snowman by color code,  roll the sight word dice,
 color the word part the code color.

Sharing books with a partner, looking for sight words in the books.

Griffin and Grace had a turn to write
 the morning message.

  The container of fancy words comes in handy
 when deciding what kind of a day you would like the class to have.

We were working on heavier, lighter and
 almost the same using the scales. 
 The children had fun learning, and predicting which item would be the heaviest.

Some learning centre time pictures!