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Introducing Our Class Mascot, Jake

teacher102 — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 22:12:13 +0000

I’d like to introduce the newest member to our classroom. His name is Jake and he is a chocolate lab. We will take turns taking him home and playing with him. He will come home in a bag with a “Martha Speaks” story and an information book about dogs. Who knows maybe he is a dog like Martha and will speak to you at your house. Also included in the bag is a tangram game that you can play with Jake. Finally, there is a journal for you to write about what you did with Jake. I know Jake can’t wait to come to your house.

Martha Speaks

teacher102 — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 18:29:25 +0000

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 Susan Meddaugh stories a few years ago and have a collection. Martha is a talking dog and has many adventures with her ability to speak. Check out the Martha Speaks site on the internet. There are videos and games to play.

I added “Martha” to our list of links on the right.

La Ferme Deschenes

teacher102 — Sat, 17 Oct 2009 14:06:45 +0000

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.

Plasticine Art Projects

teacher102 — Wed, 06 May 2009 09:41:41 +0000

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 our work. What do you think?

Check out Mrs. McGeady’s Class’ Adjective Monsters on a Voicethread. They are amazing. Just click on Mrs. McGeady’s name and it will take you to her blog. They are in Australia.

Plasticine Animal Art from Mary Ellen Lynch on Vimeo.

Grade One Animal Projects

teacher102 — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 11:05:52 +0000

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. Questions to answer also went home. In class students wrote in the their journal why they chose their animal. Each day we chose a different question to answer in our journal. Students worked with their partners. Where does your animal live? What does your animal eat? What does your animal look like? Finally, what interesting facts do you know about your animal? After we answered these questions we chose a poster board and started copying information to go on our poster. We collected pictures of our animals. Then we made a plan of how we wanted to set up our poster with the title, pictures and written information. As you can see from this video it was a successful project. Thanks to all the parents for their help. The kids learned lots of information about animals and they were very keen to share it. What do you think?

Animal Projects from Mary Ellen Lynch on Vimeo.

What is your favorite wild animal?

teacher102 — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 13:55:22 +0000

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.

We Begin Our Animal Projects

teacher102 — Wed, 11 Feb 2009 00:05:17 +0000

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.

Our Visit from Educazoo

teacher102 — Fri, 30 Jan 2009 15:23:13 +0000

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. Catherine loved all the animals. Victoria thought Isabelle was really nice. Branden liked the box turtle. Hunter liked when he got to pet the chinchilla. It was so soft. Anthony liked when the ferret did the belly dance. It was so funny. William liked touching the chinchilla, too. Thomas liked having the snake around his neck. Tyler liked the turtle.

We learned a lot about the animals, too. Did you know that a chameleon only has 4 colors? If blue is not one of its colors when he is on something blue he won’t turn blue. The flying green tree frog uses its green color as camouflage to help it stay safe. It is nocturnal. This means that he sleeps during the day and is active at night.

Enjoy watching our video.

Untitled from Mary Ellen Lynch on Vimeo.

More Animals

teacher102 — Sat, 24 Jan 2009 20:50:59 +0000

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 animals into our classroom for us to see and possibly even hold.

We will begin a new “Let’s Find Out About Science” book called, “Big Tracks, Little Tracks” this week.

How Baby Animals Stay Safe

teacher102 — Mon, 08 Dec 2008 00:20:58 +0000

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.
Click on the eyes and a larger version of the book will appear.