Friday 27 January 2017

Catch up..

Here are a few things we have been working on..last week we did this fun art project with water colors. One of my students came up to me and showed me theirs and said they wiped it to the side with paper towel. WOW did it look cool! The kids all decided they wanted theirs to be "smeared" too! 



I love teamwork in the classroom. It is fun to see them working so hard in different areas of the room. Desks are to boring to do ALL of our work in! 




 We are just starting our unit on TIME this week. This is a challenging concept for some kids. Today we worked on quarter to and quarter after! Please practice with your child to get them using that skill daily!


They begged me to record them so we could put their new song on the blog! We love learning via music style! Plural nouns are now stuck in my head! 

Today's art project was a hoot! I had made this fish below and when I opened it all the kids facial expressions were SO funny. They let out a gasp and giggle. Below are some of their works of art! 






I also sent home report cards today! They are in a white envelope in the kids homework folders. I also sent home a signature form about the students being on the internet at school. They NEED to bring these back ASAP or they will be cut from being on our computer systems (boo, no fun) 

Have a great weekend!! 

-Miss E


Monday 16 January 2017

Friday...

In our last post I posted a couple posed pictures of a few kiddos! Well...did you make your guess as to what we were creating? The kids have been working on a writing called "If I were Stuck In a Snow globe". 


I just got all of my guided math resources labeled and on the shelf! We are in the middle of our measurement unit which has been such a blast for the kids! They are so engaged by this unit. 
Last Friday we had four different types of math tests to take. It was a lot and we took mini break break between and after we finished. The first brain break was a teamwork skill! I had all the kids lay down and link arms. Then together they had to got from laying down to standing up all while staying linked to the person next to them! 


Here is the video of the results....:) 


Finally after we finished all those tests I introduced, "Zen Time". For 5 minutes I shut out the lights and turn on relaxing music. They can go anywhere in the room and relax for five minutes. Some of them grabbed a stuffed animal and propped it under their head, while others were sprawled out on their stomachs with their eyes closed. Once their five minutes was up I turned on one light and gave them a "Zen Challenge". They were put into groups of 6 and had to sort the papers they just turned in into alphabetical order...all while staying in ZEN mode! It was awesome and they did great!







Thursday 12 January 2017

Crushing It...

What a week! We have been busy! Yesterday we started our cursive unit, and I love how excited the kids are! Yesterday we started our "Rockin' Round" letters! We have now learned our cursive a and d. 




In writing we have been working on topic sentences and closing sentences. This actually was a tough thing to teach to the kids and I ended up having everyone start over after creating a story together on the smart board! I started something new called, "Quiet 10" which is where I set the timer for ten minutes and play smooth jazz music with no words. During this time the kids do their writing and can't talk unless they raise their hands for questions. I was so excited while I walked around and saw the big improvement of fresh good ideas and detailed writing!  Below is a video of our first time doing the Quiet 10!



I was so excited because when the timer went off all the kids went...awwww :( I am so excited they loved this nice quiet relaxing writing time. 

Can you guess what our writing project may be about with a couple of these pictures??? Hmmmm...






Lastly the kids have been getting their math fact sheet every night for homework! As a teacher I noticed that we were pretty slow on solving even simple math equations! This is an easy quick thing to do for homework each night. 

Tuesday 3 January 2017

Happy Holidays...

Sorry on the late post for Christmas!! I bunched together some pictures and videos from our last week of school to share! I hope everyone had a great Holiday season and enjoyed their extra day off thanks to our big snow storm! Can't wait to see the kids tomorrow!!