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Entries from December 22, 2008

A New Puzzle

December 22, 2008 · 4 Comments · Uncategorized

You can click on this puzzle to play. You can also change the puzzle and /or the cut. Six pieces is great for children. I like the 48 classic pieces for myself.

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Polar Express Brunch

December 21, 2008 · 2 Comments · Uncategorized

We had a Polar Express Brunch party for our last day of school (Friday, December 19). We started the morning with the story “The Polar Express” by Chris Van Allsburg read aloud to us by our ex-librarian, Ms. Gigi. She was asked by Santa to read Christmas stories to the children of St. Johns school. [...]

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Fun in the Snow

December 20, 2008 · 2 Comments · Uncategorized

Happy Holidays to everyone! Make a Smilebox slideshow

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ABCYA – 100 Snow Balls

December 16, 2008 · No Comments · Uncategorized

This is a fun game for you to try. Click on the “100 snowballs” below and it will take you to the ABCYA website. Have a go at making something, anything you like out of snow balls. The catch is that you can only use 100 balls. 100 Snow Balls is a game that will [...]

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We Are Santa’s Elves

December 16, 2008 · 7 Comments · Uncategorized

Listen to us sing this song. We were practicing for our Christmas Concert which was last night. It was lots of fun to sing for all the parents. Victoria liked that her Mom did her hair pretty. Magalie says she was nervous. William says he liked when we sang Rudolf the Red Nosed Reindeer. Mylene [...]

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First Snow

December 11, 2008 · 3 Comments · Uncategorized

We had our first big snow storm this week. Read this lookybook about First Snow. Click on the eyes and the book will open to a larger version. We had a comment from Sue and her class in Australia wondering about our snow. Catherine says she likes it when we have a big mountain of [...]

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Jig Zone Puzzle

December 9, 2008 · 2 Comments · Uncategorized

I found this puzzle from Sue’s class in Australia. Click on the puzzle to play. <a href=”http://www.jigzone.com/puzzles/2B055D5124D2″ mce_href=”http://www.jigzone.com/puzzles/2B055D5124D2″>Little Dog Jigsaw Puzzle</a>

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How Baby Animals Stay Safe

December 7, 2008 · No Comments · Uncategorized

We have been reading our Read and Find Out Science book called “How Animal Babies Stay Safe”.  Did you know that monkeys keep their babies safe by carrying them on their back.  Alligators move their babies by carrying them in their mouth.  Grade One is enjoying reading this and other information books about animals. Click [...]

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Reading about Animals

December 4, 2008 · 3 Comments · Uncategorized

Grade One has been reading information books about animals.  Today we talked about the difference between information books and stories.  Information books teach us about things and give us information.  Sometimes they have a table of contents.  Stories have characters and take place somewhere.  They have a beginning, middle and end.  Good stories have a [...]

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I’ve Been Tagged: Word Meme

December 1, 2008 · 2 Comments · Uncategorized

I was tagged by Maddie Shapiro for the Wordle Meme started by Lee Kolbert. Wordle is a Web 2.0 application for generating Word Clouds from text which you provide. Words that appear more frequently in the text are featured larger. I took the challenge and my Wordle appears below. Click on the wordle to make [...]

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