Today is Halloween. The children will dress up tonight as different characters and go door to door and say “Trick or Treat”. They will receive candy which they will put in a bag. When I was young I would dump all the candy on the floor and sort it all into different kinds. Then it [...]
Entries from October 31, 2010
Counting 11-30
October 28, 2010 · 7 Comments · Uncategorized
This is a great site to practice counting objects to 30 using 10 frames. I hope all my students will try this.
Tags: Math
Using 10 frames in Math
October 24, 2010 · 1 Comment · Uncategorized
We are using 10 frames to count objects to 30. Check out this website and practice moving tokens on a 10 frame.
Tags: Math
A Rocket Launch
October 22, 2010 · 9 Comments · Philip
my famile flew a rocket in a football feld. it went 500 feet up. i felt rele exsited. by Philip A Rocket Launch from Mary Ellen Lynch on Vimeo. Click below and listen to questions the students asked Philip and how he answered. Philip’s rocket launch
Tags: science
Halloween Fun
October 21, 2010 · 2 Comments · Uncategorized
Halloween is coming soon? Will you dress up? What will you be? What will you wear? Try some of these games – Matching Pairs
Our Hopes and Dreams.
October 20, 2010 · 8 Comments · Uncategorized
We made our first Voice Thread!!! Yeah! A Voice Thread is a collaborative, multimedia slide show that holds images, videos and documents and allows people to navigate the slides and comment in 5 different ways – using voice (with a mic or telephone), text, audio file, or video (via a webcam). We can share a [...]
Tags: Voicethread
A Name Graph
October 16, 2010 · 8 Comments · Uncategorized
We read the story Chrysanthemum by Kevin Henkes last week. The children loved it. It was about a little mouse named Chrysanthemum. She loved her name until she started school and the children all laughed at her because it was very long and the name of a flower. Chrysanthemum started to think her name wasn’t [...]
Apple Graphing
October 8, 2010 · 6 Comments · Uncategorized
After our Apple Picking field trip we were talking about our favorite activities for journal writing. The first grade teachers thought it would be a great opportunity to introduce graphing. We brainstormed all the different activities we participated in on Tuesday. Then we each chose our favorite. We could only choose one. We counted up [...]
Tags: apple picking·Math
Terry Fox Run
October 6, 2010 · 3 Comments · Uncategorized
Our school hosted our annual Terry Fox Run on Monday, October 4th. We continued Terry Fox’s dream to end cancer by raising funds. Terry’s dream was to get each Canadian to donate a looney ($1). Terry Fox attempted to run across Canada on one leg, a victim of cancer. He died before completing his run [...]
Apple Picking
October 5, 2010 · 12 Comments · Uncategorized
We went apple picking today. It was a beautiful day! We picked empire apples. We had a fun pony carousel ride. There were lots of animals to see. There was a playground, too. They gave us a snack of an apple muffin and fresh apple juice. It was delicious. We had a strawberry apple juice [...]
Tags: apple picking·Fun
