Summer Holidays!

Before I go on and on about my summer holidays thus far, I want to once again thank all of my students and their parents for an absolutely wonderful school year! Thank you for the lovely gifts I was given on the last day of school as well. I'm so excited to be teaching some of my students from grade 1 next school year and can't wait to finally settle in as a permanent teacher at Athlone teaching 1/2.

I have already been out and about in the province over the past few weekends, camping at Clear Lake, golfing at Hecla Island, gardening in my backyard and boating at the cabin. Thought I'd share a few photos of my summer adventures so far! 

I hope everyone is having an enjoyable summer so far and feel free to leave a comment and tell me what you have been up to!

Have a great summer break!

Ms Mowat :)

Ribbit, ribbit

Moose on Lake Winnipeg

Beautiful butterfly at Hecla Island

Goose family

Happy Canada Day!

Peppers from my garden

Jasper enjoyed herself at the lake

Thanks for the flowers Timothy and thanks for the candle Tila!

I Scream, You Scream, We All Scream for Ice Cream!

As a fun way to end the year, we are working on a mini ice cream unit. I thought it was important for the students to know the history of ice cream before we started the fun stuff! Below are pictures of ice cream activities we have completed. Once we are finished our ice cream unit, we will enjoy an ice cream party!

A fun way to teach fact families!

The history of ice cream! Did you know that the most popular flavour in the world is vanilla!?

This activity page can be found on TPT for FREE! Ice Cream Adjective Page

What's your favourite ice cream flavour?

 

Animal Research Recordings

I am so excited to finally post the Voki recordings my students created. They turned out really well and I can't wait to use the voki.com website again for future activities and projects. Each student orally recorded the information they wrote in their animal non-fiction books. Voki.com is extremely easy to use and this was my first experience using it. The kids had a great time!

Fiction Stories

We read "Harry the Dirty Dog" and it inspired us to write fictional stories about a dog or a cat.

Once we had completed our stories, we wrote out the steps that we followed to create the stories.

Here are a few examples!

Animal Research and Habitats

We have been working tirelessly on our animal research and habitats over the past month. We have finally completed our non-fiction books, habitats and voice recordings of our non-fiction books. I am very proud of all the hard work my students have put into each project. They are eager to share what they have learned with their friends and families.I used Amanda Tervoort's non-fiction writing project template from TPT to create the non-fiction books. I also used a website called Voki to create the voice recordings. They are quite funny and we enjoyed listening to each of the recordings.

Writing out the "good copy" of the non-fiction book!

The finished product! Each student chose a different animal.

We worked with a wonderful artist that helped us create a zoo incorporating all of the Manitoba animals researched.

We planned out where each animal should go in the zoo.

The monarch butterfly habitat!

The tundra swan habitat!

The Arctic fox habitat!

We put the zoo together! Looks FANTASTIC!!