Our school Drama Club presented the musical, Annie, today. Cycle 1, 2 and 3 took busses to go and watch the dress rehearsal. It was fun to sit in the comfortable seats and we liked being next to our friends. We loved the show. The orphans were great and we liked when they yelled, “We [...]
Entries from May 27, 2009
Jungle Sport
May 27, 2009 · No Comments · Uncategorized
Our school is hosting a “Jungle Sport” activity in Gym all this week. The gym is set up with climbing walls, ropes, and nets, etc. for the children to climb and balence. We had our first turn with all the fun activities today. We will do it again on Thursday. Louis said it was the [...]
A Book Review
May 15, 2009 · 2 Comments · Uncategorized
Grade One wrote a Book Review together of this new book by Nick Bland. The Very Cranky Bear by Nick Bland A zebra, a lion, a moose and a sheep want to play in the den of a bear. The bear woke up and roared at them to get out. The bear was very cranky. [...]
Math Time
May 14, 2009 · No Comments · Uncategorized
Just click on the image and it will take you to Pizza Pizzazz. Practice taking pizza to the correct tables. You can practice subtraction facts. Let’s try some Math facts and see how fast we can get. I found this great Math website on Mrs. Patterson’s blog. She has a first grade blog in Virginia, [...]
Tags: Math
Friends Are Like Flowers
May 8, 2009 · 5 Comments · Uncategorized
Watch Room 102 sing a song about friendship and flowers. We have a wonderful Music teacher. Her name is Elizabeth Urbanowicz. Happy Mother’s Day to all the Moms of our class and all the Moms who visit our blog! Have a great weekend! Friends Are Like Flowers from Mary Ellen Lynch on Vimeo.
Tags: Music
Jigzone Puzzle
May 8, 2009 · 3 Comments · Uncategorized
Here is another puzzle. Victoria was looking for the puzzles today and I realized we didn’t have a link for it on the right sidebar. I told her I would add it. Now it will be easier to find a puzzle at home. Look for Jigzone Puzzles on the right sidebar under links.
Tags: puzzle
What Kind of Car is This?
May 6, 2009 · 1 Comment · Uncategorized
Grade One describes cars in this Voicethread. We found copyright friendly photos of cars on Flickr using the group Creative Commons. There are many photos available here to use for projects. We just needed to give credit to the person who took the photo. We are learning to use adjectives – words that describe – [...]
Tags: Media Literacy·Voicethread
Plasticine Art Projects
May 6, 2009 · 2 Comments · Uncategorized
Grade One loves Barbara Reids stories and her illustrations. She uses plasticine to make her pictures. We tried this art form and chose animals to create. We are also learning how to use adjectives to make our writing more descriptive. Adjectives are words like red, blue, green, striped, spotted, shiny or soft, etc. Check out [...]
Tags: animals·Art·plasticine
