Welcome to Our Classroom Blog

Hello Families,

I did not want to inundate you with emails so thought that a blog would be a great way to keep you informed about what is happening in the classroom. I will be posting information about what we are learning, interesting and fun links, books that we have read in class, and ideas for activities and experiments you may want to try at home. The photos will not contain any faces or names to protect the identity and privacy of the students. I will only use the students initials so that you can identify your child's work. 

I feel that a blog is a great way for you to see inside the classroom and a good opportunity to start teaching the kids about internet safety. Please feel free to share questions and comments on the blog or to my email. And again, you are welcome to pop into the classroom anytime and check out what we are doing.

Recap of this week:

Tuesday: Students taught me the rules and routines in the classroom and various math games. We read "Zoo Zen" by Kristen Fischer and had fun playing some yoga games with the help of some finger puppets. 

Wednesday: We started our classroom Wonder Wall. The kids had lots of interesting questions as well as some funny ones. We will start tackling them next week with an inquiry into weather. T.W. & T.T. "I wonder where rain comes from?", K.B. "I wonder how rainbows are made?", D.H. "I wonder why rainbow have different colours?" J.X. "When will the sun come out?" and we decided to add one of M.M.'s fun questions, "Why do snowmen dress-up?"

A lot of the students were making paper airplanes during centre time so we took the opportunity to try out some different designs as a class and we made airplane kites. 

   

Thursday: We read a fun book called "Let's Make Faces", we then used found objects to create different faces around the room.  We continued with the interest in flight with an airplane themed yoga class, creating different poses and practicing breathing techniques by creating the sounds of different flying vehicles. After the students made paper helicopters and discussed what was making the paper twirl.

Friday: We started the day with the story "Too Tall Houses" by Gianna Marino and a STEM challenge to work together in groups to build houses out of various materials. As this was a story of friendship and cooperation we added a little fun that if there were any arguments a stormy wind "Ms. Q" would come and blow the house down. The kids all worked fabulously together. 

In the afternoon we had buddies and created collages out of magazines and flyers of things that we like and love. 

Have a great weekend!