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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We had a fun “Halloween” day at school on Friday. Everyone was dressed in very creative costumes. Here is a picture of the delicious cake sent in by Hunter’s family and of everyone in their costume. The cake was delicious.

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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.

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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. [...]

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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 [...]

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Yesterday was our last day of first grade. In the morning we played board games with our friends. In the afternoon we had an Ice Cream Sundae party. Thanks to all the parents who came and helped us. Also, a big thanks to everyone who contributed sundae toppings.  I had the best [...]

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Grade One brainstormed favorite things about our year with a partner. I collected the papers and typed all the responses on an appleworks document. Then I copied and pasted them to a website called wordle. The words that appear larger were more frequently listed as favorite things about grade one.

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Yesterday we went to the University of Montreal for a Sports Day.  We took a bus there.  Mocha, our monitor, met us outside of the building.  First we went to swim.  The pool was very big.  We had to listen to the rules and then  some kids took a swimming test.  If they passed the [...]

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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 [...]

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