Grade One has been learning about birds. We read a Read and Find Out Science Book called A Nest Full of Eggs. We learned how to draw a robin. We also wrote our own Bird poem. Birds have 2 legs. Birds have feathers. Birds lay eggs. Birds have beaks. Some birds fly, some don’t. Some [...]
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More Characters Talking
March 20, 2013 · 5 Comments · Uncategorized
Here are the rest of our animations. We hope you enjoy watching our videos. See our previous post for the first ten videos. What do you think of our Art Work? our animations? Do you have a favourite storybook character? Please leave us a message and tell us what you think. Harry the Dirty Dog [...]
Tags: Art·Media Literacy·Reading·writing
Making our Favourite Characters Talk
March 19, 2013 · 1 Comment · Uncategorized
If storybook characters could talk what would they say? Continuing our Reading Week projects this week , as promised we are making our characters talk. We used an ipad app called iFunFace. We used this app to create our talking characters and then saved each one to the camera roll on the ipad. I also [...]
Tags: Fun·Media Literacy·Reading·writing
Reading Week
March 2, 2013 · 4 Comments · Uncategorized
This was the BEST week! We had Reading Week and it was Teacher Appreciation Week, too! Each day we had special reading activities. On Monday we were paired with an older grade 5 class and had buddy reading time. We have weekly buddies but this was with a different class. It was really cool because [...]
Tags: Reading
Snowmen and Reading Buddies
December 9, 2012 · 6 Comments · Uncategorized
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 [...]
Reading Week
March 2, 2012 · 13 Comments · Uncategorized
This past week our school celebrated a Reading Week. We started off on Monday paired up with another class for “buddy reading”. Our class was paired with a 6th grade class that had helped us with a project last year. One of our students’ older sister was in this class so that made it even [...]
Tags: Reading
Feedback
January 30, 2012 · 8 Comments · Uncategorized
Room 102 loves to get feedback from our global blogging buddies. We love to hear and read comments from classrooms around the world. It is rewarding to have an authentic audience comment on our work. However, we also like having a personal digital portfolio as a safe and paperless place to keep our work. This [...]
More About Folk Tales
January 15, 2012 · 13 Comments · Uncategorized
Grade 2 has been reading lots of Folk Tales. We are learning about what makes a Folk Tale. We recently recorded ourselves reading Henny Penny on our digital portfolio (ePearl). We have also been busy making puppets for a Henny Penny Puppet show. Look below for an animoto slidesow of our preparations. Two partners have [...]
Tags: FolkTales·Puppet Shows·Reading
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
