Grade 2 students of Ms. Mohammed, Mrs. Lemay and myself participated in a home / family project of creating a life size penguin. Students chose one of 18 kinds of penguins and using a penguin information sheet practiced a presentation for the class. They could use any material that they liked to make their penguin. [...]
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Caterpillar Update
June 4, 2011 · 16 Comments · Uncategorized
Day 12- We have some caterpillars crawling to the top of the cup and some caterpillars have made chrysalis’. We are noticing changes in our caterpillars. They climbed to the top of the container. Some have made chrysalis’. Each morning when we come into class we check out the aquarium to see if anything has [...]
Tags: butterflies·caterpillars·Project
Making Global Connections with the Postcard Project
April 27, 2011 · 39 Comments · Uncategorized
Thank you Mrs. Leakey in New Zealand for starting this wonderful project. We have received 12 postcards so far and need to send a few more out this week. It is fun to learn something new from each card and make connections and new friends. I put together a short movie to show everyone the [...]
Blogging Challenge Results
April 19, 2011 · 18 Comments · Uncategorized
The Blogging Challenge ended on Friday, April 15th. Congratulations Everyone! Today we celebrated all our efforts by having cupcakes, certificates, candy and the 5 top commenters were taken to McDonalds. I kept track of comments each day for 3 weeks. We had a rule that only one comment would count per day. Everyone made at [...]
Tags: Project·Reading·technology·writing
Our Pen Pals
March 28, 2010 · 3 Comments · Uncategorized
I am very lucky to have a sister (Kathy Tulp) teaching grade 2 in Massachusetts. We started a pen pal project last fall and have been writing back and forth. This is a slide show of us getting our letters and writing back our third letters. It has been an amazing project. I can see [...]
Flat Stanley’s Canadian Adventure
March 23, 2010 · 2 Comments · Uncategorized
Room 102 read Flat Stanley by Jeff Brown. It is a story about a boy who has a book shelf fall on top of him and it makes him flat. It is easy for Stanley to go on adventures as he easily fits in an envelope and can travel quite inexpensively through the mail. The [...]
Tags: Media Literacy·Project·writing
Holiday Greeting Card Project
November 29, 2009 · 2 Comments · Uncategorized
Our class is participating in a project with 24 other schools to create and send Holiday Greeting Cards. We found the project online on “Projects by Jen”. On Thursday, we looked at some of my old cards and identified key features of a greeting card. There is a picture on the front, a greeting message [...]
What We Learned About Owls
November 26, 2009 · 7 Comments · Uncategorized
Grade 2 had a lot of fun learning about owls. Each student chose an owl and did some research at home to find out what their animal ate, where it lived, what it looked like and some interesting facts. For a project each student designed a pamphlet to display their owl. Students also used Tux [...]
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The Oreo Cookie Project
October 24, 2008 · No Comments · Uncategorized
We were involed in an online Oreo Cookie Project a few weeks ago. We worked with Mrs. Rye’s Grade 6 class. We had to estimate how many oreo we could stack in a tower before the tower would fall. We recorded our estimates and then how many we stacked. We did this two times. We [...]
Mother’s Day Project
May 4, 2008 · 3 Comments · Uncategorized
Mother’s Day will be here soon. I need a picture of each student’s Mom for a project next week. We will need to cut the picture so it could be one with your child in it, too. Hopefully, you have a picture handy. If you have one on your computer just email it to me. I [...]
