Colours of Monday!

Good afternoon!

This morning we worked really hard in our math journals. We tried our best to write the numbers 1 - 10 and to draw circles or dots to represent the numbers. A couple of our students told me, "Oh no! I made a mistake!" and I said, "It's okay to make mistakes because it helps us to learn." Here are some pictures of the work we did today.

We also continue to learn about colours. Today we talked about ligher than and darker than, as well as the word brighter. In these pictures you can see we tried to put colours in order. Do you think we did a good job? I tried to make a video...hope it works!

Have a great day!

Ms. Cokar

Poppies Tomorrow

Good afternoon!

A very quick reminder that tomorrow is our Remembrance Day assembly and that there is no school on Friday. If you have a poppy, please wear it to show that we are caring for others, especially the soldiers who fought in the war.

Today we practiced dribbling basketballs. We all did our best trying to dribble as we walked along a line.

We read a book called It's Okay to Make Mistakes. We read that when you make a mistake (uh oh!) we can learn and grow.

Here is a picture of our weekly message. We have circled the beginning and ending of sentences, as well as words that we saw more than once.

Room 5 worked on creating number puzzles for numbers 1 - 5. Students wrote the number, the number word, and drew the correct number of objects onto puzzle pieces.

In the afternoon we created silly sentences, formed our names out of playdough, used magnifying glasses to find words beginning with specific letters in books, built words from letter blocks, and even wrote words upside down!

 
 

That red monkey sleeps on the clouds.

Ants

 

Rainbow writing, printing fast, printing upside down!

Sat and Pin

Ms. Cokar

Home Reading

Good afternoon!

Room 5 is finally ready to start our Home Reading program! Yay for reading! Every day, your son or daughter will bring home one book from our classroom library. Please write down the title of the book, the date, and sign. There is a yellow sheet in the folder with a list of questions you can ask (not all of them, but a few) which are great to determine if the story was understood. Each day, students will return the book from the day before and take home a new book. If you have any questions, please let me know.

We read a lovely book called "What is Peace?" by Wallace Edwards and talked about what peace means. This is especially important with Remembrance Day.

Today we practiced basketball skills. Do you know how to pass a basketball or how to dribble? It is not as easy as it looks.

Ms. Cokar

Remembrance Day Week

Good day!

I am not 100% well but am drinking a lot of tea and soup! The doctor has assured me I am not contagious. What started off as laryngitis turned into pneumonia and bronchitis. I am trying to not talk too much, which is a challenge for me as I do like to talk!

This week we only have four days of school. Remembrance Day is on Friday which means no school for students. Room 5 shared what they knew about Remembrance Day. These are the things we know:

- November 11 is when "we" won the war

- Poppy

- Big war

- Peace 

- Show care

- Freedom

- Remember

- Flanders Fields

- Soldiers fought in the war
- Visit soldiers

We felt sadness and also felt grateful because we can experience freedom.

In math we worked on subitizing, which means to recognize the number of objects or dots (up to 10) at a glance. The goal is to not have to count each dot. Some students shared that they "just know" what the number is and others said they recognized groups of 2s or 5s which helped to figure out the total number.

We continue to experiment with colours and talked about the words lighter and darker. Students who were wearing blue tops, for example, lined up from the lightest shade to the darkest shade of blue. Then we took paint chip samples and tried to match them to what friends were wearing.

In our journals, after brainstorming examples, students wrote at least one sentence about peace. We had some interesting examples!

Please note that everyone should have received their individual picture and a class picture. Today when I came in I found a few class picture envelopes and do not know to whom they belong.

Also, if you did not receive a November calendar, let me know.

Ms. Cokar

Highlights and Lowlights

We have been busy practicing finding numbers on our 100's charts and then finding one or two more or less than that number. The students used the Smartboard to circle the numbers on a giant 100's chart and then worked in partners to find the numbers with coloured game pieces. At centres today we also practiced showing numbers using 10-frames. After morning recess we had music!

For an art lesson today we looked again at the characters of "Joy" and "Sadness" from the movie "Inside Out". We saw a short clip about each unique character and then I showed the class a self-portrait of Vincent Van Gogh. We learned that he expressed his emotions within his artwork. "Sunflowers" and "Two Women in the Peat" were two of his paintings that we also looked at:

One we associated with joyful emotions and contained bright cheerful colours; the other we associated with sadness and contained dark gloomy colours. Using oranges, blues and yellows like the artist, I demonstrated what happens when a dark colour (brown) is mixed in to add lowlights and and a bright colour (white) is mixed in to create highlights! The students then paired up to mix their own colour palettes and had fun experimenting with the paint. There were lots of self-portraits and some were mixing colours to make interesting shades of green, beige and peach!

Have a wonderful weekend!
-Ms. Frey

Fall Science Exploration

This is Ms. Frey posting again for Ms. Cokar. We had a fun day looking at leaves again and asking more questions such as "what happens to leaves after they fall?" Some students predicted that they would go back up in the tree and others said they would fly away in the wind and a few said they would die and crumble or go into the earth. All great predictions! We watched a short video about composting and then did our own leaf compost experiment with sandwich bags, leaves and coffee grounds. The clear bags can be observed over several months to see what will happen to the leaves!

We also looked at some seeds and guessed where they came from. They had come from a pumpkin and were roasted in the oven so we could use all our five senses to make observations. Some observations were that "they were crunchy on the outside and soft on the inside which tasted better" and that they tasted "spicy" and looked "big" and "smooth". We took a poll of who liked the taste and who didn't so we could compare numbers. Everyone decided to try them and we found that more students liked the pumpkin seeds then did not.

We also had a fire drill today and talked about safety such as walking quietly in a line and leaving behind items such as classroom materials and coats. We evaluated how the drill went and felt overall we did a good job.

-Ms. Frey