Another Snowy Day

We have had a great time over the past few weeks delving into the story The Snowy Day by Ezra Keats. This simple book allowed for some really wonderful language opportunities; we explored the idea of setting, main character(s), story mapping important events, and classifying events as something that happened in the beginning, middle, or end of the story. To top it off...the kids enjoyed retelling the story by using the fabulous pictures that Ms. Behnke drew for us!

Organizing events

Illustrations of the story

Our story map of important events

Another retell

Retelling Peter's Snowy Day

Snowy Day Art

Looking for Empty Food Cans

Sorry, I should have specified in the my last post that we are looking for empty food cans approximately 10oz/300ml in size. Thanks!

French and Math update

Happy New Year and welcome back! I hope everyone had a great holiday. Before I forget, can you please send in any empty cans you may have in your recycle bin for an art activity. Thanks!

In French we are learning a new song called "La neige tombe" and doing some guided reading with a book based on the song. Here are the first couple verses:

La neige tombe

La neige tombe sur mon nez
Oh, oh, oh! J'ai le nez gelé
Frotte, frotte, frotte mon nez
Pour le réchauffer !
Frotte, frotte, frotte, mon nez
Frotte, frotte, frotte ton nez
Pour le réchauffer !

La neige tombe sur mes mains
Oh, oh, oh! J'ai les mains gelées!
Frappe, frappe, frappe, mes mains
Pour les réchauffer !
Frappe, frappe, frappe mes mains
Frappe, frappe, frappe tes mains
Pour les réchauffer !

Since the song talks about various body parts freezing in the snow, we have incorporated this vocabulary into our Hospital play. Students are now able to describe their various ailments to the doctor. "J'ai mal au nez", for example. Previously, doctors were just randomly jabbing patients with needles in the waiting room, without correctly diagnosing the patient first :)





In math we are beginning a unit on Measurement. Students are learning different ways to measure things, and that using different units of measure yeilds different results. Here are some pics of students rotating through their math bins:

 

 

 



Holiday Cards

Some Christmas cards trickled in on Monday. It would be great if the kids could exchange their cards all at once on Thursday! If you haven't yet sent your child's card in please do so or, let me know how I might be able to help facilitate its completion so that no one is left out.

Yumm!

No need to send in an afternoon snack on Thursday because our class will be having a small holiday celebration with treats and goodies brought in by the following families:

Cookies: Tye's family

Cupcakes: Calyssa's family

Juice & Cups: Alex's family

Veggies & Dip: Paige's family

Cheese & Crackers: Sophia's family
Fruit: Jack & Morgan's family

Thanks to you all!

Don't Forget

Reindeer games are on Monday! Wear red and green to show your spirit!

Word Workers

Recently we finished a "mini-unit" on colours. Perhaps a few little songs/poems made it home to you! One of our poems was about red; in the first picture we not only had learned the poem, but we also started to look carefully at the words within the poem. The top picture is of us playing thinking games that encouraged us to take turns finding the word red, finding the smallest word(s), and finding words that had five letters. You'll notice little arrows too; that is where the children noticed the punctuation used in the poem. 

After brainstorming all things red we were able to share the marker and create our own Red poem that followed the same structure as above. You'll notice the student referring to our Red chart of ideas before making her selection and transferring it to our poem.