Friday, November 29, 2013

Got Junk?

If your kids are like mine they are probably trying to talk you into decorating your house for the holidays this weekend! As you are going through your items can you please send in any of your "junk" or "well loved" pieces that you are no longer in need of. We are looking for strings of garland, old wrapping paper, ribbon/bows, half used rolls of tape, Christmas cards and tags, etc. for our classroom elf workshop! These little bits and pieces will go a long way to beautify the presents the kids wrap and the decorating of the room! Many, many thanks!

Tuesday, November 26, 2013

SAVE THE DATE!

As December sneaks up on us I thought I should let you know about our Holiday Cheer get-together. Please mark December 18th (p.m) on your calendar. Further details will follow shortly!

Monday, November 25, 2013

French Update

We are currently doing the French version of "Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What do you See"


The repetitive structure of the book is great for learning the names of animals in French, and also for reviewing the colors. The format we've been following in class is pictured below.

 Brown bear, brown bear

tell me what you see?

I see a red bird
looking at me


The next line in the story is then

Red bird, red bird (Oiseau rouge, oiseau rouge)
tell me what do you see? (dis-mois ce que tu vois)
etc.

Here are all the animals and their colors from the French book:


And here are some pics of students working on our class book based on the story:




And here's a completely unrelated picture...


Tuesday, November 19, 2013

French and Math

Students are continuing to rotate through shape bins during math time, and have started a French shape/number book to help them retain the vocabulary. Below are some pictures of them in action:






In French, we have been rocking the alphabet hard. I'm wondering how well they do at home, without their "lead singer". Try breaking it into the format we used below.

 



 


Wednesday, November 13, 2013

Beautiful Little Pumpkins

Oops....Here's one that has been sitting waiting to be posted! This beautiful piece of art allowed the children to explore various mediums as we used pastels and watercolours to complete a drawing of a pumpkin at night.


Tuesday, November 12, 2013

Scholastic

Tomorrow is our due date...sorry for the quick turn over this month for the Scholastic book orders! 


Thursday, November 7, 2013

AHHHHH-----CHOOOO!

As the season is sneaking up on us we would greatly appreciate any kleenex donations! We have many runny/stuffed noses, lots of sniffles, and we are down to our last two boxes (yikes!).



Thanks in advance! 

Tuesday, November 5, 2013

French and Math Update

In French, we read the story "Trois souris peintres". There is a version of it on youtubeat the following link:

http://youtu.be/N2I86iAE8YQ

Like the mice from the story, we experimented with the primary colors; rouge (red), bleu (blue), and jaune (yellow). We discovered that mixing the primary colors together produces secondary colors; vert (green), orange (orange), and violet (purple).



In Math, we are just finishing up our second and final set of patterning bins. We will now be moving on to sorting and classifying shapes. Our intro to this was a song about shapes and their sides sung to the tune of “Alice the Camel”.

 

Monday, November 4, 2013

Play-Doh Mishap

Thank you so very much for the playdough that you generously provide for our classroom use. Last month I  thanked some families but I forgot some others! Sorry!

Thank you soooo much for playdough this month also goes out to The Barton's, The Dyk's, and The Dark's! My apologies for missing you. :(

For the month of November The Baskin's, The Brownlee's, and The McCurdy's have offered to provide us with playdoh! Many thanks to you all!