It is beginning to get cold in Quebec and we are all hoping for some snow. The weatherman says we could get a snowstorm tonight. In anticipation of what is coming we painted some snowmen last week. Each child made a template by cutting out 3 circles from card stock. Then we used cut up [...]
Entries Tagged as 'Literacy'
Another Puppet Show
December 10, 2011 · 6 Comments · Uncategorized
Watch another puppet show below. This boy went home after watching the first puppet show and made this all on his own (the stage and the stick puppets, etc.). He brought it to school the next day and he asked his friend to help him present it to the class. They retold the ABRA version [...]
Tags: ABRA·Drama·Literacy·Puppet Shows·Reading
Listening to Reading
November 12, 2011 · 7 Comments · Uncategorized
The Daily Five and our Concordia Project with ABRA and EPearl are going very well. The students are enjoying being able to choose the order of activities that they participate in. As you can see by these pictures everyone is reading and writing and enjoying it. I am so proud of everyone. Last week we [...]
Tags: ABRA·ePearl·Literacy·Reading·TheDailyFive
Reading Aloud
June 26, 2011 · 10 Comments · Uncategorized
We were partner reading one afternoon the last week of school and I pulled out a few copies of Mary Ann Hoberman’s “You Read to Me and I’ll Read to You” books. Philip’s Mom was helping us out that afternoon so the two of us demonstrated how to read these books. The person on the [...]
Clapping Games
April 23, 2011 · 25 Comments · Uncategorized
Many of our blogging friends have been posting about playground games. I thought it would be a great idea for Grade 1 to learn how to do the clapping game Miss Mary Mack. This is a poem, too, and fits right in with what we are working on in class. Miss Mary Mack 1 from [...]
Character study of Dogs
March 24, 2011 · 88 Comments · Uncategorized
Grade One has been reading lots of dog stories. We love dog stories. Some of us have dogs at home. We love how Martha in Susan Medaugh stories can talk so we decided to try to “blabberize” our own dog. There is a site blabberize.com where you can upload a picture or photo, make the [...]
Tags: blabberize·Literacy·Reading·writing
Our Gingerbread Story is Finished
January 22, 2011 · 17 Comments · Uncategorized
Before Christmas we promised a new version of the classic Gingerbread Man story. Well, we have a great one for you. Students in Grade read many versions of this story and we decided to make our own version “at school”. We brainstormed people at our school who could be characters in our story and then [...]
We’re Back!
January 9, 2011 · 2 Comments · Uncategorized
Happy New Year to all our families, friends and global readers. We started back to school on Thursday so had a short week this week. There will be a full week of school next week. One thing we did in class this week was to work on our “Gingerbread Boy at School” story. It is [...]
Creature ABC Voice Thread
November 30, 2010 · 10 Comments · Uncategorized
Grade 1 has been busy reading ABC books and practicing our beginning sounds. We immersed ourselves in all kinds of ABC books. We decided we wanted to make our own Animal ABC book. We went through the alphabet and brainstormed different animals that began with each letter /sound. We talked about what a page in [...]
Tags: Art·Literacy·Media Literacy·Reading
NCTE Conference in Orlando, Florida
November 22, 2010 · 10 Comments · Uncategorized
I am home from Florida and thinking about all the great people I met and workshops I attended. I was lucky to share my experiences with two colleagues from my school, Mrs. Rye and Mrs. Lemay. We had fun learning and had a chance to play a bit at Disney’s Epcot Center, too. I’d like [...]
Tags: conference·learning·Literacy·Reading
