November 1st, 2018

Day after Halloween.... Welcome to NOVEMBER! 

Today during our inquiry into language arts we worked on the letter Rr. We learned the song for Rr and we wrote in our phonics journals. Ms. Gray gave us a class sticker because we all finished our phonics journals before we left for Gym!!! Woo!

After Gym we had indoor recess......... wish we could have gone outside to play. But we made the best of it...

After lunch we had so much fun practicing our patterns with a partner. We had centers where a group of friends was working with playdough creating patterns that Ms. Gray told them (AAB, AB, ABB, AABB, ABBA)... then we had centers where friends were working in partners to create a pattern and the other partner was completing the pattern. After the pattern was created, we would talk about the CORE of the pattern, which is the part that repeats. We really had fun and did not want Math to be over... but on to UOI.

During our UOI today we learned about the way your ear works... We watched an informational video about all of the parts of the ear and then we played a game to guess that sound. A LOT of our friends got them correct... except when a friend said "that sounds like my mom sleeping".... it was a growling dog... #someonesnores These kids make me laugh.

After our game we had another round of indoor recess... some of our friends did not even realize the gold in our own classroom... We blew through Ms. Gray's classroom like a tornado, tearing things off the wall, opening every box possible... The positive, I saw all of our friends take responsibility for our classroom and clean up after all of our visitors! #proudmoment I also overheard my friends asking visitors to use their manners and to use kind words please... "Could you please say that in a nicer way?"...

We practiced writing a list during our journal. We will be working on this tomorrow as well! We also started practicing for the Christmas Concert!!! We have SUCH a fun song! :)
We had a fantastic day! I can't wait to see what tomorrow brings!

Reminders:

1. Math test next week (Thursday) on patterns. I sent home a few different worksheets for practicing this... I will send home more practice over the weekend. I will be reading their test to them!!

2. Words of the Week due tomorrow & Show and Share!

Halloween!

HALLOWEEN!!

We started our day off with a fashion show to show off our costumes! After this, we talked about our costumes and then we started on our language work. Because it is HALLOWEEN, we did something fun for our Rr words today! :) We cut out 8 legs and a body for our Rr spiders! Then we wrote words that begin with Rr on the legs!

During Math we played a fun game where Ms. Gray would throw the dice and we would have to draw a bat, pumpkin, candy, mummy, spider, or moons. We had SO much fun! After this we worked on our Halloween packet of fun! We did some review and we did some new things! We had some patterning to do!

During UOI we used our sense of hearing to dance to the MONSTER MASH! Ms. Gray would play a Halloween song and we would freeze when we wouldn't hear the music anymore! Each time someone kept moving they were out! Their sense of hearing was not working properly... We played this a few times before we started to get ready for the fun house game!!

Reminders:

HAVE SO MUCH FUN TONIGHT!! :)

1. The packet that I sent home, does NOT need to be done today. Their ONLY homework tonight is to have SO, SO much fun trick-or-treating! :) 
2. They are required to know how to write a list (kindergarten benchmark). We will be practicing this all week!

• List Requirements:
1. title 
2. bullet points for each idea 
3. pictures

October 30th, 2018

Awesome Tuesday!!

During inquiry into language arts we wrote in our phonics journals and we practiced our letter Uu. We also worked on a letter Uu worksheet sounding out words such as bus, jug, sun, and mug... etc. Our friends worked very hard and we had almost everyone finish all of their morning work! It was a fantastic morning! :)

During math we practiced patterns!! We used candy as our manipulatives. Ms. Gray would make a pattern with the candy and she would call on someone to finish the pattern. Once we had the pattern we would tell Ms. Gray the core of the pattern. Each time, we would repeat what the core of the pattern means... without Ms. Gray asking! After we were done working as a whole group we each went back to our seats and worked individually on our workbooks. We made all different kinds of patterns. **I will be sending some extra work home to practice patterns tomorrow.**

During UOI we did a super fun activity! Yesterday we coloured our pumpkin seeds with food colouring. Today we used our senses to talk about the pumpkin seeds. We each got to touch, smell, hear and see the seeds. Ms. Gray asked us to use describing words for how the pumpkin seeds felt, what they could see, what they could smell, and what they could hear.
Pumpkin seeds feel: smooth, soft, rough, and some feel hard.
Pumpkin seeds look: pointy, some are broken, very colourful, some look dirty, some look rotten
Pumpkin seeds smell: like rotten toes, like popcorn, and some of our friends think they smell disgusting
Pumpkin seeds sound like: my mom cooking, my mom frying, sand and water, like the ocean/waves, like small rocks, or kicking sand

Reminders:

• Tomorrow is Halloween!! Character Dress Up / Harvest Day! 
• Students are encouraged to dress up in a costume or in fall colours! Remember that costumes should not include weapons, masks, or anything too scary for school. Please ensure your child's costume is school appropriate! 
• Remember while packing lunch for your child that we have friends in other classes that may have nut allergies or our siblings may have nut allergies... any contact with nuts (smelling or touching) could cause an allergic reaction. We have lunch in a common area where other classes each before and after us. Please try your best to send foods that do not include nuts directly. We appreciate that very much! Thank you! :)
• They are required to know how to write a list (kindergarten benchmark). We will be practicing this all week!
• List Requirements:
1. title 
2. bullet points for each idea 
3. pictures

October 29th, 2018

MONDAY!

During our inquiry into language we listened to the song for Uu and we practiced the sound for Uu. After that we sounded out words for Uu and made Ms. Gray draw some interesting drawings. After this we took 10 minutes to talk about the Christmas Concert and listened to the AWESOME song that we will be singing and dancing to! We are SUPER excited for this... Ms. Gray felt a little bit like it might be too early for Christmas but the song is very catchy so we have been jamming to it on and off all day! Our friends were extremely worried about not knowing the words... Ms. Gray explained that once we hear it a few times we won't be able to forget it! (Ask her husband...... Ms. Gray heard him singing it while doing some renovations this weekend! >>insert laughing emoji<< )

During our math lesson today we made Ms. Gray feel like the 1,000,000 bucks!! We kept saying how much fun our math lesson was... and saying over and over again how we LOVE Ms. Gray! First we each had a letter (A or B), we moved around the room and put ourselves in a pattern of AB. Then ABB... When we were done with that game we went back to our seats. Ms. Gray had all of our playdough on the table... and lots of cookie-stencils & playdough stencils. Ms. Gray would put a pattern on the board and we would make the pattern with the playdough! We ABSOLUTELY loved this the most, more than anything we have ever done before!


After our super fun math lesson, we listened to our fun senses song and danced the actions then we started to frame our beautiful artwork that we created for Fall for the hallway! While we were doing that we brainstormed different words that begin with the letters F, A, L, L and completed an acrostic poem! Ms. Gray taught us how to choose words that describe the season! We started with Favorite and ended with Love.... safe to say that Ms. Gray's obsession with Fall has rubbed off on our friends. :)

We had such an amazing day!! :)

REMINDERS:

1. Casual Day tomorrow!
2. BAKE SALE TOMORROW DURING LUNCH!!
3. Character Dress Up/Harvest Day is Wednesday! -- Remember no weapons, no masks, and no scary face paint. Costumes should be school appropriate!

October 26

We had a BUSY (messy)  Friday!

First we had our show & share! We had friends bring in items that have the letter in them, or begin with that letter...... We had one friends bring in an excavator, someone showed one of Ms. Gray's socks, a friend brought in her stickers and another friend brought in a metal... Then we had our spelling test!! We did well on our spelling test!

After we had gym, recess, and lunch we had some fun!! We finally painted our pumpkins! We found out that when we "accidentally" mix the colors together we get a very interesting color of brown.......... Some of our friends were able to keep their colors from mixing and their pumpkins are very colorful... others have some very pretty, brown pumpkins. One friend referred to this as his "rotten pumpkin!!" We talked about how this is a fall activity and this makes us happy!

Then we had our math lesson about patterns. We practiced all different types of patterns and circled the core. Then we made pretty bracelets using a pattern! Some of our sweet friends made the bracelets for their mom! :) While some of our friends were making some bracelets our other friends were painting pretty patterns on some white paper!

Then, once everyone got a chance to do both centers, we got our outside clothes on and lined up. Ms. Gray gave us TWO stickers if we were silent in the hallway while the other classes were learning. We went outside and collected leaves for a new project! We earned 5 stickers for our behavior in the hallway!! So proud of them!

We then went to recess, snack, and French! Then... the "FUN" continued!... FALL FUN! Painting our leaves!!! We used our leaves to make a special art project that will go in the hallway! Our friends did such a fantastic job following directions. Their art projects look great! I had some friends that got paint on their noses... It was ADORABLE! We quickly washed it off and then got ready for music!


We had a fun day of singing silly songs, playing instruments, and dancing around to Mr. Flower playing and singing! :)

Reminders:

• October 30 is casual day. (Tuesday)
• October 31 is character dress up day (Wednesday) -- please remember no weapons or scary costumes. 
• I put their spelling test in their agenda. :)
• At some point this weekend -- If you could have your kiddo plug their nose while they eat something... (This is our experiment as I introduce the 5 senses! I want to see if anyone realizes what happens to your sense of taste!...)
• HAVE A GREAT WEEKEND!! :) 

October 25

Picture Day!

During our inquiry into language arts we practiced our letter Ee. We sang the song and we wrote in our phonics journals. We practiced our spelling words and sounded out "site" words. Site words are high frequency words that we see every day. We got called for pictures during our language arts time! We all looked stunning for our photos! :)

During our inquiry into math we studied different patterns. Ms. Gray displayed a pattern and my friends had to write on their white boards what the CORE of the pattern is. After this we got to make patterns with our paint dabbers. We made ABBA, ABC, and ABCD patterns! We also used manipulatives to do some of our workbook math pages. Math was busy today!

During our unit of inquiry we talked about our 5 senses. We did a KWL chart for our senses. We learned a catchy new song about the 5 senses! "See it, Hear it, Smell it, Taste it, Touch it .... 5 senses!" Ms. Gray had previously introduced these so she was very interested to see what our friends remembered. She connected our senses to SCIENCE! We made some observations about when our eyes are not working well, that our other senses work harder. We also came up with a question and a hypothesis.... "What will happen if I plug my nose when I eat 5 bites of my dinner?"
Some of our hypotheses: ..."Your nose will explode"... "You will not be able to breathe."... and a few other silly ones. After, we talked about feelings. How our emotions can be effected by the change in the weather or what we see outside... How does Fall make you feel? We wrote about this in our journals today!

Reminders:

1. Spelling test tomorrow!!
2. Words of the week journal due tomorrow!

October 24

Wednesday!!

During our inquiry into language arts today we learned a new song for Ee!! The song was about cracking eggs and the action was pretending to crack and egg and then opening it in a pan! We practiced the song and sang along with the video. Once we did that we started to brainstorm words that begin with the letter Ee. We were coming up with a bunch of words that have Ee in them... but not words that begin with the letter... We have two friends in our class that have E as the first letter in their name! After this, we wrote in our phonics journals. Some of our friends drew pictures of our friends in our class with the letter E. :)

During UOI we finished up our pumpkin investigation. Each student got to see whether or not their pumpkin sinks or floats. We made an observation and made a hypothesis (educated guess for what is going to happen): Example: "Because my pumpkin is heavy, my pumpkin will sink." Then, we did our experiment. Ms. Gray filled a bucket full of water, and each of us dropped our pumpkin in the water! This was awesome! Some of our friends were disappointed that their educated guess was proven wrong by our experiment... some even started blowing their pumpkin to try to get it to sink! We have some silly friends! :)
We decided that we want to draw a face on our pumpkin for Ms. Gray to carve. We came up with lots of different ideas for which eyes, nose and mouth our pumpkin should have! We talked about how we don't do this during the summer... carving pumpkins and going to a pumpkin patch is an activity that we do during the fall!





During Math we counted by 10's ALL THE WAY TO 490!!!!! We separated our pumpkin seeds into groups of ten, then Ms. Gray drew on the board. We counted by 10's and used a 10 frame for the extra. After we were done with our pumpkin, we made ABBA patterns. We stood in a circle and we snapped and clapped an ABBA pattern. We are going to practice our snapping... Some of our friends made the noise with their mouth instead. After this we got into groups and did centers. We practiced making patterns with manipulatives.


For our journal we reported our results of our experiment. My pumpkin ______ in water. Then we packed up and got ready for Music!

Reminders:

• PICTURE DAY TOMORROW!!! 
• Friday is our October spelling test! (See words on blog)
• Casual Day October 30 (this is a Tuesday!)
• Costume/Character Day October 31! -- Please remember: no scary costumes & no weapons!
• Science Fair is coming up! We are going to do an experiment using the scientific method! -- "What melts ice faster?"