December 19th, 2018

The Wednesday That Feels Like Thursday! 

We started our day with morning meeting. After morning meeting Ms. Gray read us a story about a dog and a bird... after we read the story our friends lead the conversation and starting asking questions to each other to show their comprehension. (Characters, & the beginning, middle, and end...) Ms. Gray was very impressed with all of our friends. We are working on building the skills to demonstrate comprehension of a story that we just heard.

Gym, Recess, Lunch

During our inquiry into Math, we took our addition unit test! IT WENT GREAT! All of our friends did fabulous! When we were finished with this we began working on our door decorating!!

Recess, Snack, French, and Library!
During recess my friends made me a chocolate cake... and then made it even bigger! It tasted DELICIOUS! (One of my friends said, "don't eat too much or you'll get sick..." ............That is probably not the things that would make me sick...)

We had a great day and we were very busy doing lots of fun activities for the holidays! ;) Can't wait for you to see their special surprise!

Reminders:

-Bake Sale: Thursday, December 20th
-Casual day (red, green & white): Thursday, December 20th.
-Because I don't have the copy of the spelling words at home and I apparently forgot to write the correct ones on my blog (SO SORRY), I will postpone the test until we have everyone back at school (lots of friends sick or out of town)...
-Christmas Holiday begins on Friday, December 21st.

December 18th, 2018

Tuesday!

Ms. Gray is back!! Last week was a rough week but she is feeling a little better and back at school! We had so much fun today. We did a really fun Christmas craft and got to watch Ms. Gray use the glue-gun which was mesmerizing for most of our friends. Afterward we played with the dried glue and Ms. Gray showed us that once the hot glue leaves the glue-gun it dries and it is not still hot! We also looked at pictures of ourselves from the beginning of the school year... WE HAVE ALREADY CHANGED SO MUCH!! During UOI we learned about Neptune and during math practiced addition using 10 frames. We have our math test tomorrow and we showed Ms. Gray that we are ready to go!! During our journal we wrote which planet we picked for our summative project! 

Announcements:

• January 18th is hopefully going to be our field trip so don't order lunch for that day!
• Math Test tomorrow!
• Remind friends to keep washing their hands!! LOTS of germs going around!
• Bake Sale: Wednesday, December 19th & Thursday, December 20th.
• December spelling test & Casual day (red, green & white): Thursday, December 20th.
• Christmas Holiday begins on Friday, December 21st.

Last Weeks Blogs: 

(What I had done before I got sick...)

Thursday! 

We started off our day with morning meeting and a writing activity. We watched a video about Uranus and then we wrote our favourite fact about the planet in our journals. 

Wednesday

We started our day off with Ms. Bannon's class and Ms. Samuel's class having reading buddies. Then we had our friends stay for our morning meeting and our phonics lesson. We watched a cool video about the letter Yy that included a TON of new Yy words! 

After gym, recess and lunch we had French with mlle. Jessica and Ms. Bannon's class so that we could start our UOI movie together! During our UOI time we watched a movie with the other SK classes about Space Dogs travelling to the moon! We saw an astronaut floating around on the moon without any gravity! It was pretty entertaining and educational.

During our Math time on Wednesday we worked on our Christmas Packet of addition.

Christmas Concert Prep!!

CHRISTMAS CONCERT PREP DAY!

Today we practiced the Christmas Concert at the Dome! The kids had a fun time running around the field, watching others perform, and standing up on stage with all the lights on them! We even had a DJ spinning our track! :) It was so much fun!

Important Announcements:

1. Tomorrow we have the afternoon performance at 1:30 PM. The dome was not cold today. It was comfortable. -- Please have the students ready in their concert outfit for tomorrow's performance. Remember to be on time/early to school tomorrow morning! We are leaving for the dome to practice around 9:00 AM. :)

2. The evening performance may be a little colder...

• Students need to be dropped off (RETURN TO SCHOOL) to the classroom at 6:00 PM tomorrow evening for the evening performance! 
• Following the evening performance students are to be picked up back at St. Judes! Students are not permitted to leave with parents from the dome. :) 

3. For the Christmas Concert Outfit : If the students have a green or red track suit (sweatpants and matching top) or if you don't have that then jeans and a green or red sweatshirt/shirt/sweater will work! Any questions please ask. Anything "Christmas"... we had some friends wearing hats and sunglasses which looked absolutely awesome on stage... if you would like to send some sunglasses and a hat with them, please feel free to do that! :) 

Thursday & Friday!

Last week was a busy week!! We had so much going on this week with Parent/Teacher conferences and Christmas Concert prep!... I will post what we did Thursday and Friday over the next couple days with the photos!

Reminders/Announcements

1. Tomorrow we are going to be doing our Christmas Concert Rehearsal at the dome!

2. They are asked to wear their Christmas Concert outfit for tomorrow. Keep in mind that the dome is a little chilly on colder days so sending an extra long sleeve for under their clothes would be a good idea! 

3. For the Christmas Concert: Outfit -- If you have a green or red track suit (sweatpants and matching top) or if you don't have that then jeans and a green or red sweatshirt/shirt/sweater will work! Any questions please ask. 

December 5th, 2018

Wonderful Wednesday 

Today we started our day with a story about a snowman with a cold... we then worked on sequencing the story to build our comprehension skills. After this we started to work on our letter Ww sounds but then we got pulled for our practice of the Christmas Concert! We LOVE doing our dance and showing off our awesome dance moves! :)

Then we had a great Gym class with Ms. Yustin and then we went to recess... We all wanted to stay in with Ms. Gray... some even said "I will miss you" to her as they left... I told them I will be watching them from the window and they will have fun.

After lunch we started working on our UOI Solar System... Today we learned all about JUPITER! We learned that not only is it the largest planet, but it takes 11 Earth years for 1 Jupiter year around the sun! We also learned that Jupiter rotates at a rate of 9 hrs, where the Earth takes 24 hrs to do a full rotation. We decided we would get VERY dizzy if we were on Jupiter. We learned more interesting facts about Jupiter, like why there is a big red dot on Jupiter... ask your kiddo what the big red dot on Jupiter is... I hope they remember! After we learned about Jupiter, we did an awesome art project of Jupiter with a paper plate and construction paper.

We worked in our Phonics Journals today learning about the letter Ww. We brainstormed LOTS of words that begin with Ww!

For Math today we had a quick lesson after French to learn about stories and addition. When there are two dinosaurs drinking from the lake and there are 5 dinosaurs eating grass... How many dinosaurs do we have all together? We had a few friends telling their own math stories and using their imagination!

Announcements/ Reminders

1. Christmas Concert is next Tuesday, December 11 at 6:30 PM. We have been working SO hard to prepare our song and dance for everyone! There is also a concert performance during the day at 1:30 PM!

2. Parent & Teacher interviews take place TOMORROW, Thursday, December 6th.  It is not mandatory. If you are unable to make your appointment, please email me and let me know. If you would like to move your time up, send me an email. I have quite a few gaps that I would be happy to move people up if they would like to! Also, students are not required to be at this meeting.

3. Bake Sale & Casual Day: Wednesday, December 19th.

4. Christmas Holiday begins on Friday, December 21st. :)

December 4th, 2018

Totally Tuesday! 

To start off our day we had Reading Buddies with Ms. Samuel & Ms. Bannon's classes! This was our first time doing this and we really enjoyed it! We read books about the planets and our new friends read us all different stories. We were laughing and enjoying every second of making new friends and hearing new stories. 

After this we got pulled to practice for the Christmas Concert! We have been working so hard on our dance and cannot wait for our parents to see it! 

During math, Ms. Gray would write a math "sentence" on her white board and our friends would write the answer on their white board and show Ms. Gray! We were rock-stars! Ms. Gray was very impressed with our addition. After our lesson and the worksheet, we all did the "challenge me" activity. 

During UOI we learned so much about mars today! We learned that there is a mountain on Mars that is even taller than the highest mountain on Earth!! We also learned that "back in the day" people believed that there was life on Mars (Martians) but since have found that there are no actual traces of life on Mars. We learned that Mars has two moons and that some astronomers believe were just comets that got pulled into Mars' gravitational pull and got stuck there! Very interesting stuff! After this we did an art activity making the planet Mars!  

Reminders/Announcements

1. Spelling Test & Math Test went home today!! Please sign and send back the math test! :)
2. For the Christmas Concert: Outfit -- If you have a green or red track suit (sweatpants and matching top) or if you don't have that then jeans and a green or red sweatshirt/shirt will work! Any questions please ask. I can send an example of some through email.
3. Looking forward to seeing everyone on Thursday! :) 

December 3rd, 2018

Monday Funday!

We had a friend win an award today!! The Thinker Award -- being a problem solver! :)

Today we started our day by learning about the letter Vv. We learned the new song for Vv and then we brainstormed a bunch of words that begin with the letter Vv! We were very creative with some of our words. We even incorporated FRENCH into this because of our friends included two words that begin with Vv in French. (Vendredi (Friday) and Vert (Green)) After this we wrote in our phonics journals!

During Math we started our Addition Unit! We began by working with partners and using our big squishy dice to roll a number and then add it with another number. We really love throwing the dice around and seeing what number appears! After this we worked in our workbook breaking apart numbers.

During our UOI we watched a video about the different parts of the Earth. What we see is the Earth's crust... Like a pizza, the Earth has crust that goes all the way around... Under the crust is the mantle and then the outer core and then the inner core! After we learned about all of the layers of the Earth, we painted our Earth. While it was drying we went to recess, snack, french and then we practiced the finale for the Christmas Concert! (Don't forget, the Christmas Concert is December 11!)

After this Ms. Gray worked on the Christmas Clap dance with us a little more. We worked in groups of 4 to practice. Ms. Gray was very impressed with our performance!

Announcements/Reminders

1. Please avoid allowing students to bring in toys for recess that could potentially be used as weapons. It makes it difficult to have to take away toys because they are being used in ways that they are not intended. Thanks so much!
2. Math Test and Spelling Tests will be sent home this week.
3. Parent/Teacher interviews Thursday!
4. For the Christmas Concert: Outfit -- If you have a green or red track suit (sweatpants and matching top) or if you don't have that then jeans and a green or red sweatshirt/shirt will work! Any questions please ask. I can send an example of some through email.