Happy Halloween!

Halloween Art

After looking at a picture of Starry Night by Vincent VanGogh the students made their own version of Starry Night in the Pumpkin Patch.  

Halloween Writing

The students were asked to really think about the process involved 

to go Trick-or-Treating.  They were being asked to write the steps

in their journals.  We decided to 'act' it out first!

 

Then they sat down to write...

Halloween Reading & Baking

The students were in charge of their own cookies!

They needed to read their own recipe, get their own supplies, mix, 

roll, and get that cookie dough ready for the oven.

Delicious!

Way to go bakers!

HAPPY HALLOWEEN!!!

Math Fun With Our Collections

The kids were asking for a day to bring in their Shopkins.  The boys got on

 board and thought it would be fun to be able to use their Pokemon cards or

 Hockey cards in the classroom too.  So, we began to plan our special day.

The children used their 'toys' to meet curriculum expectations...I'm not

sure they even realized they were learning and practising their math skills.  

They were asked to organize their collection any way they liked in order

to count the items in their collection easily.  They made an estimate 

first and then began to organize.

Some students organized their items into groups of 2...

...others made groups of 10...

...'it's easier if I make piles'...

"I have 2 groups of 10 and 4 left over...I have 24!"

"I made groups of 10 too!"

"How should we organize?"

"There's 19 cards on a page...if I add one more to each 

page there would be 20...that's easier to count by."

"He has 252 Hockey Cards!"

They worked so hard and had fun too!

The Big Crunch

The Big Crunch!  

Celebrating Healthy Snacks!

Date Change

News Flash!!!

We have had some new ideas for our Fun Friday project…so we are moving it to Monday.  I will be away at a workshop on Friday and I don’t want to miss all the fun!!!  Please send your Pokemon/Shopkins or other collections on Monday instead of Friday!

Have a great weekend and see you on Fun Monday!

One Million Children Praying the Rosary

Our whole school participated in praying the Rosary in the gym on Monday

 morning, along with one million other children around the world.  

Once a month we have a special visitor come and teach us about the 

rosary.  The children look forward to her visits and enjoy the time they 

spend with her.

Math Centers

We have been learning about Number Relationships!

*Representing whole numbers to 20 in different ways

*Estimating, counting and representing numbers to 50

*Locating numbers on a number line and skip counting 

*Exploring fact families

*Addition and subtraction sentences to 18 

*Using doubles to complete number sentences 

*Estimating using groups of 10

*Identifying, comparing and ordering numbers to 100

The students worked hard learning these concepts and practised

 their skills in these math centres.

Making numbers using 10 Frames.  This is the number 47.

The students are estimating the number of beads then making groups
 of 10 to get an actual count.

Number puzzles

"Ta-Da!

Making Estimations before counting the beads.

How many ways can you make the number 10?

If you can believe it...they can't wait for our next round of math centres!