May 31, 2013

Today we read the story "It's My Room" by Robert Munsch.  Robert Munsch wrote this story for a little boy from Newfoundland who had moved to Fort McMurray.  He had his own room, but his relatives kept coming to stay with him, and he was getting tired of sharing.  Here is the story map we did as a reader response:

In science today we planted our own lima bean seeds.  If you want to plant them at home here are the directions:

We then talked about what would happen when it began to grow:

Have a great weekend!

May 30, 2013

Just a reminder that there is school tomorrow.

Check us all out wearing green for Green Day for the Amazing Waste Race:

For No Excuse Words today we did cloze words:

In Health today we talked about the different sports or activities you could play to help you exercise and stay fit.  Here are a couple we came up with:

1. baseball
2. skipping
3. tennis
4. soccer
5. basketball
6. football
7. leap frog

In Art today we learnt about the artist Georgia O'Keefe.  Georgia O'Keefe is famous for making beautiful paintings of close ups of flowers. Here is an example of her work:

Here are some pictures of the kids creating their own beautiful paintings:

In Science today we went on a walk around the school yard to look for living and non living things. Here are some pics:

Have a great night!

May 29, 2013

Tomorrow is green day for our Amazing Waste Race Challenge so send your child to school in Green.  To check out the Amazing Race Waste Website click here.

For No Excuse Words today we completed the word finds our friends created yesterday.

For LA we read the Robert Munsch Story Pigs.  You can read the story on TumbleBooks which you can access through the Fort McMurray Public Library Website.  As a reader response we broke the story into the beginning middle and the end.  Here is the beginning we did as a class.

For Computers today we went on PBS kids and played some games about taking care of the Earth.  Check it out by clicking here.

In Math today we continued to discuss addition and subtraction word problems.  Her is a screen recording of us working on the promethean board (don't mind the time delay):

Have a great night!

May 28, 2013

Check out the following video about a website I found called We Give Books.

To join the site click here

For No Excuse Words we created our own word finds:

For Word Work we worked with the digraphs ph and gh:

In Science we talked about what you need to do to grow plants.  Click here to go to the website we visited.  We then planted our own plants, based on the following chart, and we will watch them over the next couple of weeks to see how they do.

In LA today we read the story Across Canada.  In the story we learnt about kids who live across Canada and some of the fun things you can do in their province and town.  We then talked about our own community of Fort McMurray and what you could do if your friend visited here:

In Math we practiced Word Problems.  Check out these ones you can try at home:

Have a great night!

May 27, 2013

I hope everyone had a great weekend.

This week's no excuse words are:

We started our morning with a Pentecostal Liturgy presented by 3W.  Here is the closing song from the Liturgy.

In Language Arts today the students wrote a story using the following picture prompt:

Here is one of the stories:

In Science today we began our final unit; Plants and Animals.  Here are the learning objectives for this unit:

We went on the following website to begin our learning:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/scienceclips/ages/5_6/ourselves.shtml

Have a great night!!!

May 24, 2013

Tonight is the Family Dance from 6:30-8:30.  Check out all the great Raffle Baskets:

In Religion today we talked about the Rosary and how it is one of the ways we pray the Hail Mary.

In Science we finished up the Senses unit with the movie the Magic School Bus Makes a Stink and did a fun Senses Word Find.  You can watch the movie below.

Finally, this afternoon was the Volunteer Tea.  The students performed the song "One Seed" with the rest of the grade ones.  Here is an audio recording of their performance:

Have a great weekend and I hope to see you at the Family Dance tonight!!!!

May 23, 2013

Today we worked on our voiceless th digraph and the voiced th digraph.

In art we learned about symmetry.  Symmetry is when something is the same on both sides.  We made symmetrical butterflies.  Check out the one Mrs. Easton made below:

In Science we talked about the sense of taste.  We learned all about all the parts of the tongue.

Have a great night!