May 8, 2012

Today we started our new Robert Munsch Unit.  Robert Munsch is one of favourite authors and I really enjoy reading my favourite Munch books to the class.  Throughout this unit we will be reading various Robert Munsch books and responding to them in different ways.  To learn more about Robert Munsch and to hear Robert Munsch reading all of his great books click on the image below:

Today we read the story "The Paper Bag Princess".  This is one of Munsch's most popular books.  In this story, Elizabeth saves Ronald from the dragon by tiring out the dragon so he falls asleep.  After reading the story we talked about how we would tire out a dragon.  The kids came up with some great ideas:

In science today we learned about our sense of hearing.  We did a fun experiment called "Shake and Tell" where we had to guess the objects inside of container but just shaking it.  Check out the kids shaking away:

In Math we continued to work on addition and subtraction word problems.  We learned that it is very important to pay attention to every detail in the story so that you can figure out if it is an addition problem or if it is a subtraction problem.  Why not try the following at home: