Gingerbread Activities

Below are a few pictures of what we have been working during our gingerbread unit. Grade 2 students created books about different types of nouns. Grade 1 students created gingerbread stories and they had to choose a setting for their story that was different from the original story.

Can you guess where this gingerbread story takes place??

Art, Art and More Art!

We learned about Piet Mondrian who was a Dutch painter and we were inspired to create art similar to his. I had students create art similar to his because he mostly used primary colours and we have been talking a lot about primary and secondary colours in class.

Wee just completed reindeer pastel art on Friday. We had a ton of fun drawing the facial features on the reindeer to make each look unique.

It's Beginning to Look a lot Like Winter (and Christmas)!

We have been extremely busy throughout the month of November and now the beginning of December. Students worked very hard to have their portfolios ready to share with their families. We are now busy finishing up our final winter concert rehearsals and look forward to concert day on Thursday! We have begun a countdown in the classroom to winter break and we will all need the break after these past couple of exciting and busy months.

Below are a few pictures to highlight what we have been up to.

We designed bird feeders

We  began our gingerbread man theme

We are learning to compare and contrast stories

We are learning about primary and secondary colours

We are learning all about place value and the value of a digit depending on the place it is in

Bats and Pumpkins, Oh My!

We learned about "how to" writing and had a discussion about why we use this type of writing and where we would find it. Students were reminded to add detail to be sure that another person could read the "how to carve a pumpkin" writing and actually be able to carve a pumpkin! Check out some of our finished work.

 Our study on bats has taught us so many facts already! Grade two students are working with a partner on non-fiction bat research and grade one students are working on finding bat facts in books with Ms Mowat. Take a look at our bat plasticine art.

Happy Thanksgiving

I hope everyone had a wonderful Thanksgiving! We read the story, "The Great Turkey Race" last week and talked about what happened in the story. We have been focusing on reading comprehension, understanding what we are reading and retelling the main events of stories. We had a lot of fun with this silly story!

Thanks to Cara Carrol for the cute turkey template!

Up, Up and Away!

We have been working hard to complete our most recent mixed media art project. Our finished hot air balloon art is fantastic and I am so proud of how the pictures turned out.

Skip Counting

Skip counting has been one of our main focuses in math this term. We are skip counting by 2s, 5s and 10s (forwards and backwards). Students have engaged in a variety of activities to improve their skills.  It is recommended that children practice skip counting at home. You can have your child skip count groups of objects such as pairs of socks, coins, cutlery, etc.