Our class has been reading Folk Tales. One of our first ones was Little Red Hen. We learned about storyboard and made one together. We used it a few times to retell Little Red Hen. We also made our own picture story maps. Check out our work and our voicethread. We made our own version [...]
Entries from October 28, 2009
Practice Your Math Facts
October 17, 2009 · 2 Comments · Uncategorized
Practicing your math facts can be fun if you use some online games. Try this site Arcademic Skill Builders to practice your facts. It’s like an arcade game.
Where the Wild Things Are
October 17, 2009 · No Comments · Uncategorized
We have been reading Maurice Sendak’s classic story “Where the Wild Things Are” in class. We have enough books so that each student can have a copy in front to them. On Wednesday afternoons our 4th grade Reading Buddies come to our class. Last week we read the story together and then wrote down important [...]
La Ferme Deschenes
October 17, 2009 · No Comments · Uncategorized
La Ferme Deschenes from Mary Ellen Lynch on Vimeo. Watch our movie and listen to the children explain what we saw and did on the farm. Thanks to Sonia for teaching us about the farm animals. A special thank you goes to the parents who came with us and braved the cold weather.
The Small Pumpkin
October 15, 2009 · 1 Comment · Uncategorized
Today we counted the seeds from the small pumpkin – while our pumpkin soup was cooking in the crock pot. Yum! Well, first we made some estimates. We knew there were less seeds in the small pumpkin than the medium and large pumpkin by looking at the bags. Some estimates we came up with were [...]
Counting Pumpkin Seeds
October 14, 2009 · 2 Comments · Uncategorized
We had a fun math class today counting pumpkin seeds. Yesterday we opened up 3 pumpkins – a large one, a medium sized one and a small one. We stuck our hands in and pulled out all the seeds. We put the seeds into 3 bags. I took them home, cleaned them and toasted them [...]
Sunflowers
October 13, 2009 · 1 Comment · Uncategorized
A few weeks ago we painted these beautiful sunflowers. It took me a while to post them because two children were absent on that day and I wanted to wait until they painted their pictures, too. What gave us the idea was seeing sunflowers blooming everywhere. They are such a tall and proud flower. We [...]
How many pumpkin seeds are in a pumpkin?
October 12, 2009 · No Comments · Uncategorized
This week we will estimate how many seeds we think are in our pumpkins. We have 3 pumpkins – a big one, a medium sized one and a small one. How many seeds do you think we will find? Which pumpkin will have the most?
Our Visit to La Ferme Dechenes
October 12, 2009 · No Comments · Uncategorized
We had a great visit at the farm on September 30th. We have been busy in grade 2 writing about our trip and we even wrote Sonia thank you letters. Everyone did a great job with their writing. It shows how much they enjoyed their day. We have also been working on an imovie that [...]
Introducing Our Class
October 1, 2009 · 2 Comments · Uncategorized
Here are our shining faces. We are singing a song from Music Class. We love this song because we say hello in different languages. With our blog we are connecting with classrooms around the globe and this is a perfect song to express how we feel. We would like to meet all our new friends [...]
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