Happy Long Weekend!

I hope everyone had a great long weekend!  :)

Subtraction Fun!

Students have enjoyed learning about subtraction.  Here are some fun pictures from the Smartboard.  

Ripley's Aquarium! :)

Our trip to Ripley's Aquarium was a great success!  Everyone enjoyed learning more about sea life and this will definitely add to our class inquiry for under the sea.

Check out some cool pictures and video from our trip!

  Enjoy!

Beautiful ocean view!

Students had the opportunity to enjoy the scents of three sea creatures. 

Students got to make their very own shark. 

This is a real shark's mouth.

Very cool jellyfish!

This video is from the Diver presentation.  We had the opportunity to see how the diver feeds and interacts with the sea life as well as learn some amazing things!  :)

Second Book Fair :)

The book fair will begin tomorrow (Tuesday, May 12)  The book fair will end on Thursday, May 14.

Students will have the opportunity to visit the book fair on Wednesday,May 13 for browsing and creating their wish list.

Students will be able to purchase items on Thursday May 14.

The book fair is also open before school from 8:45-9:10 a.m. and after school from 3:40-4:15 p.m.

Happy reading!  :)

Happy Mother's Day!

Wishing all the Mothers a very Happy Mother's Day today.  :) 

Frozen Yogurt and Popcorn Day! :)

This is a friendly reminder that it is frozen yogurt and popcorn day tomorrow.  :)

Walk to School Day!

This is a friendly reminder that it is Walk to School day tomorrow.  Make sure to wear red and white to school tomorrow to support Canada and the Paralympics.  :)

Celebrating Earth Day April 22! :)

Students enjoyed learning about the importance of taking care of the Earth.

A beautiful flower made from beans.  :)

Earth Day Headband :)

A student practicing writing Earth Day words.

Amazing Earth Day journals.

Earth Day bingo fun!  :)

Scientists in the School Workshop :)

We were very lucky to have a great workshop from Scientists in the School on Thursday, April 16. We learned all about bugs.  The name of the workshop was Backyard Bugs.  The description of the  workshop is below:

‘Bee’ an entomologist! Meet the insect family and discover their unique anatomy. Develop a new appreciation of bugs by investigating how bugs behave, eat, see and smell. Help a butterfly play hide and seek using camouflage. See the world through the eyes of a dragonfly. Identify interesting backyard bugs and make an insect to take home.

Students really enjoyed getting the hands-on experiences through 4 different learning stations.  Check out some of our pictures below:

Students had the opportunity to create their very own insect as well as learn about their body parts.

Students were able to research about different insects.

Students learned more about butterflies and created their very own butterfly.

Students were able to look at pictures with the microscopes.

World Awareness Day :)

We celebrated World Autism Awareness Day on Thursday April 2.  We talked about celebrating our unique individual qualities as well as differences.  We discussed about showing respect and being nice to everyone all the time despite having any differences.  Everyone received a blue ribbon to wear.  I showed students an I am me and Arthur video.  I have included the links below.  We also made our very own paper person in art that will be displayed in the school.  I read a story called Since We're Friends too.  

Autism Awareness ribbon

This is an example of  the paper person created for Autism Awareness Day.

I am Me Video

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KZsEr1fhgWY

Arthur Video

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s9eATBV-_lg

Literacy Update

Amazing sea animals.

Students writing sentences related to our inquiry.

Students looking at under the sea words.

Students busy writing sentences during centres.

Students had so much fun matching the Easter eggs with the alphabet (matching lowercase and uppercase letters together) as well as matching sight words together.  

Students did a great job writing words.

Our new inquiry has begun!  We are excited to be learning about our new inquiry:  Under the Sea.  We have been working hard on creating our very own Ripley's Aquarium in our classroom.  Check out our work so far.  :)

Our very own Ripley's Aquarium sign created by students.

Our collection of sea animals, plants and sea shells on display.

Our cool 3D under the sea poster. 

Fun with sand.  Our sand bin full of alphabet shells and sea life.