Look What’s Happening in Room 102!

Do you watch PBS Kids? This is a public television channel that has lots of great shows for kids. It is a great channel for all my students to tune into to help them with their English. One new addition to their programming is Martha Speaks. I fell in love with [...]

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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. [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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.

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Today we met with partners to begin our animal projects. We wrote a rough draft in our science journals on what our animal looked like. We are working on Owls, Wolves, Snakes, Rabbits, Bears, Sharks, Whales, Fish and Birds.

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Yesterday Educazoo came to our school. Isabelle brought many animals. It was so much fun to see and touch the animals. We saw a box turtle, a soft chinchilla, a corn snake, a blue-tongued skink (a lizard), a flying green tree frog, a dancing ferret, and a baby chameleon. [...]

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We have been studying about animals and their babies in Grade One. We will continue learning about animals and we will do animal projects this term. To celebrate what we’ve learned so far we are very excited to have Educazoo come to visit us this week. The animator will bring live [...]

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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.
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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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