Challenge 4 – The three Rs – What are the three Rs? If you asked your grandparents they would say reading, ‘riting and ‘rithmetic. Three of the most basic skills needed to survive in the 20th Century. But now we are in the 21st Century. So what do the the 3 Rs represent now? Reduce, [...]
Entries from March 23, 2009
Blogging Challenge 2009 Task #3 Please Visit Me
March 22, 2009 · No Comments · Uncategorized
This week’s challenge was to invite people to visit our classroom blog. How to do that is to go and visit other blogs and leave a comment. I have been visiting lots of blogs this week and leaving comments. It is amazing what teachers and students from all over the world are doing in their [...]
Grade One Animal Projects
March 19, 2009 · 4 Comments · Uncategorized
We read books about animals. Then we brainstormed names of animals that we would like to learn more about. We rated which animals we would most like to do a report on and then our teacher paired us up. Books went home the first week and parents were asked to read them to the kids. [...]
Bonjour Mes Amies
March 16, 2009 · 6 Comments · Uncategorized
Listen to the children sing their “Good Morning and How Are You” song to start off their French lesson. Madame Belair is their French Teacher. First Graders have French 3 times per week. Click below the picture to listen to the song. french-good-morning3
Where Are You From and What Language Do You Speak?
March 15, 2009 · 7 Comments · Uncategorized
Grade One is so excited to get visitors on our blog from so many places around the world. We have a world map in our classroom and have started marking some of the places /countries where we have had visitors. The pictures below are from the cluster map on our blog. We are part of [...]
Tags: language·translator
Blogging Challenge 2009 Task#2
March 13, 2009 · 1 Comment · Uncategorized
The second challenge was to create an avatar that would present us online. An avatar is a picture that represents you. Instead of using an actual picture of each of us with our name we can protect our privacy online by using an avatar. At the beginning of the year we drew pictures of ourselves [...]
Winter Carnival
March 13, 2009 · 2 Comments · Uncategorized
We had the best day today. Even though we didn’t have snow we had a great Winter Carnival Day. All the elementary classes participated. We had 4 stations to participate in. Three stations were outside. Mrs. Lauzier, our Vice Principal was dressed in hockey gear and kids tried to score on her. We noticed some [...]
Poutine
March 12, 2009 · 5 Comments · Uncategorized
Mrs. Shulman’s grade 2 class in the United States did a wonderful Voicethread of their Country projects. We loved watching the Voicethread. Molly did her project on Canada. It started us thinking about the foods that we like to eat. Someone mentioned Poutine – which is french fries with fresh cheese and gravy on top. [...]
A Voicethread of Our 100th Day Collections
March 9, 2009 · 10 Comments · Uncategorized
Watch our Voicethread and see some wonderful Grade One 100th Day of School Collections. Leave a comment if you can. In order to leave a comment on Voicethread you need to have an account. What you need to do is go to Voicethread.com. Then you need to “Register”. It is free. You just need an [...]
Tags: counting·Reading·Voicethread
What is your favorite wild animal?
March 9, 2009 · 4 Comments · Uncategorized
Take this survey to find out what is the most popular wild animal. We have been working on learning about these wild animals. Make a comment and tell us why the animal is your favorite.
