Fun with Literacy!

Students are working hard on writing during literacy time.  They are looking and reading different books for our inquiry on the post office.  They are writing sentences.  :)

This is a fun literacy game!  Students have a die and roll it and see what number it lands on.  Then they have to practice writing a sight word that corresponds to the dot(s)/number(s) on the die.

This is the same literacy activity with letters of the alphabet.  :)

Post Office Inquiry!

Students have been enjoying our post office inquiry so far!  They have been helping with the set up and are excited to have fun writing letters.  Check out our post office pictures.  :)

All materials are organized in labelled bins (paper for letters, postcards, envelopes, stamps, etc.)  

Students enjoy mailing their letters and postcards in our classroom mailbox.  At the end of each school day, we have students get the opportunity to read and share their mail with their classmates.

This is the writing area of our post office.  There are examples of sentences students can write in the white cup as well as making up their own.

Students came up with a lot of these sentences for our post office.

We put up names of all students and staff in the classroom to help with writing our letters and postcards.

Our Post Office Entrance.  :)

Frozen Yogurt and Spirit Day (Twin Day) :)

A friendly reminder :)

Frozen yogurt is being sold at first recess.  If you would like your child to have frozen yogurt, please send $1.00 to school in a zip lock bag labelled with your child's name.  Thanks!

Also, we have spirit day tomorrow.  It is twins day.  Students had the opportunity to discuss with one another about what they will wear for twin day.  :)

Making words is fun! :)

Measurement in Math!

We have started learning about measurement in math.  Students are learning to measure using non-standard units (e.g., snap cubes, math links, markers, crayons, counters) to measure a variety of objects.  Students have learned that it is very important to measure objects accurately and carefully.  They have communicated their results (e.g.This book is 10 snap cubes long).

Students can have fun measuring at home.  They can use non-standard measuring units (e.g., Q-tips, pencils, crayons, post-it notes).  They can measure how tall or how long an object is (e.g., kitchen table, television)  An example is our kitchen table is 20 pencils long.

We look forward to having more fun with measurement!  :)

More Literacy Fun!

Amazing work from a student!  Students stamped the pictures on paper and wrote the missing beginning, middle or last letter of a word.  

Literacy Centres

A student is writing sentences. :)

Students put three letter puzzle pieces together to make a word and then wrote down the words on paper.  :)

Fun with Literacy!

A student is writing the letters of the alphabet.  :)

A student using a whiteboard to write down words.  :)

Post Office Inquiry!

We are starting our new inquiry!  We will be learning about the post office.  Students are very excited to start turning our drama centre into a post office.  :)

Math Fun!

Students had fun with a new math activity.  There are different numbers from 2-10 on the snowman pictures.  Students are given 2 dice and they need to roll both dice.  Then they need to see how many dots they have in all on both dice and add the dots to get the number to build their tower.  Then they need to build a tower using the snap cube blocks.  Check out students work below.  :)

A friendly reminder that it is Walk to School day tomorrow.  :)

Winter Wonder Table :)

This is a picture of our Winter wonder table.  Students can draw pictures and write what they see, think and wonder about in the Winter time and what's on the Wonder table too.  :) 

Our Second Inquiry on Winter! :)

Students have been enjoying learning more about Winter.  

This is a picture displaying students' beautiful Winter art and decorations for our drama centre.  

More Literacy Centres! :)

Students had fun playing the uppercase and lowercase matching game. 

Students enjoyed playing Scrabble.  

2D and 3D Marshmallow Structures!

Students created a variety of 2D and 3D marshmallow structures.  :)

2D and 3D shapes!

Students have been busy learning about 2D and 3D shapes.  Here are some fun shape structures that students created.  :)

Light Table Fun!

Students have had fun using our cool light table with flourescent markers.  :)

An outside view of class :)

An outside view looking into our classroom.  Enjoy the inspirational posters on the back of the shelf. :)

Throwback picture from Halloween!

Our amazing pumpkin carving!  :)

Winter Art!

Students created beautiful Winter pictures and wrote a sentence to match their picture.  :)

Levelled Books and Puzzles :)

This shelving unit displays our levelled books and puzzles.

At the beginning of the year, students learned about bucket fillers and dippers.  This activity came from a book called How full is your bucket? For Kids.  Students also learned about the four agreements (rules) to follow in class (Appreciations/No Put Downs, Listening, Participation and Right to Pass, Mutual Respect (Yourself, Others, Things).  Students have also been learning about the character traits every month for our Pride assemblies.  Our book shelf is also displayed with a variety of books for children to look at and read.  :)

Tangram Fun!

This photo displays outline pictures students created using tangram pieces.  

Patterns in Math!

Here are some pictures of patterns that students made using a variety of manipulatives (snap cubes, tangram pieces, etc.)

Second Hockey Picture

This is another picture from our inquiry on Hockey.  :)

First Inquiry on Hockey

This is a picture from our first inquiry on Hockey.  :)

Students helped create the Air Canada Centre in our drama centre.  They learned about the game of Hockey and had fun reading books, playing Hockey, colouring Hockey pictures and designing their very own Hockey jersey.

Welcome Back!

We hope you had a great holiday break and a Happy New Year!  We will continue to post exciting learning taking place in the classroom.  :)