Jail Bird Verbs

We have been working on verbs (action words) in the present tense.
Today we took those verbs to the past!  

Adding 'ed' to most verbs changes them to the past tense...but there are some

verbs who do not like to follow the rules.  Those are the JAILBIRD Verbs!!! 

'Telled doesn't sound right...it's told!  Take it to jail!'

'Scrubbed works, just add ed.'

'Bited doesn't work...JAILBIRD!  Bite turns to bit.'

The police chief escorts the JAILBIRD verbs to jail.

'Drink has to be drank!'  

'You are going to jail.'

'Just add ed to make it change to the past tense.'

'My friend comed over to my house yesterday.  That sounds weird.  

My friend came to my house yesterday.  JAIL!'

'You are going to jail.'

'This one works.  Just add 'ed'.'

Thanks to our police force who have added all of our JAILBIRD verbs to 

Santa's naughty list because they just don't follow the rules.

As for the JAILBIRDS...bread and water for you!!

Halloween Fun!

HAPPY HALLOWEEN!!

Halloween marks the last day of October.  The end of 

each month brings 'table point winners' and a change in our

seating arrangement.  

Since it was Halloween, we had all sorts of Halloween fun.

Thanks to our special parent volunteer, we made a yummy

Halloween snack...dirt and worm pumpkin patches!

After our snack we played Minute to Win it Candy Elevators.

Of course we couldn't let all this fun happen without any learning...so

we did procedural writing about how to play candy elevator.  

Literacy Centers and Guided Reading

We've been working on Parts of Speech in our literacy centres (along with 

many other things...).  

We have covered pronouns, nouns, adjectives, and verbs.  

Ask your child about them...

Similes in Guided Reading

(similes are comparisons using like or as) 

Playing 'Guess my Verb'

Making Silly Sentences using the parts of speech cards.

Practising our spelling words.

Learning The Apostles Creed.

Math Collections

Today we talked about all the different ways we can show what a number looks like.  We filled a chart paper with ideas...take a look!

The students were asked to bring in a collection of objects to school.

They made an estimate of how many items they had in their collection.  

Once their estimate was made, they needed to find a way to count

their items.  

Naturally, most of them started counting by 1's.

It wasn't long before we heard...'Ahhhh!!!! I lost count' or 'What number

did I just say?', or 'I have to start over!'

We decided there had to be a better way to organize our things.

Someone quickly started putting their items into piles of 2's.  Another 

student was using piles of 10's.  The idea took off !

'I kept losing my spot trying to count my hockey cards.  

Now I have piles of 10 so it's easy to count.'

'I'm trying piles of 9...I know how to count by 9's.'

'My Pokemon cards are in 2's.'

'I'm using 2's too!'

'I have mine stacked in towers of 5.'

'I'm trying to figure out if I should use groups of 2's or 5's...'

'I lost count when I did groups of 5 because there were so many groups...

I'm going to try 10's.'

'I put my rainbow loom bracelets in groups of 10 so it was easy to count them.'

'I have 550 tiny blocks!!!  I had piles of 10 to count them...55 piles of 10!'

With the counting complete, the writing began.