Literacy
We’ve been busy!
We have have super busy in our classroom these last few weeks. We have been working on our Lion King project for a month now, and have finally completed it! We did lion research in the library with Ms. Besic and we learned so much about lions. Thanks for helping us use a variety of … Continue reading
100th Day of School
We’ve made it to the 100th day of school!! Yippee!!! On Wednesday of last week we celebrated our 100th day of school with a variety of fun activities. We made 100 crowns. We stamped 100 stamps. We did 10 jumping jacks. We had a 10 minute dance party. We built structures with 100 cups. We … Continue reading
Family Fun Bingo
I know the winter weather is starting to get us all down…we are so ready for spring to arrive!! But it is still a ways away! So to help you out–finding some fun things to do to occupy your time until then.. Try out this Bingo game full of ideas! What will your favourite activity … Continue reading
Snowy Day Art
The Snowy Day by Ezra Jack Keats was the inspiration for our art project last week. We began by reading the story together. We then used a directed drawing technique to draw our buildings using sharpies. We used vertical and diagonal lines as well as rectangles and squares. After our city was complete, we then … Continue reading
Non Fiction Reading
Throughout the year we have been learning the difference between Fiction and Non-Fiction books. We have been developing our skills in finding clues to identify each. Here are some of the clues we look for: After reading, we use a variety of graphic organizers to show our learning. When reading Fiction, we use listening center … Continue reading
Story Workshop
We are story tellers!! Each week we work on our story telling through story workshop. We gather materials, create a setting and characters, then create or ‘play’ a story. We share our stories with our classmates and listen to their stories in turn. These are great opportunities for us to develop our creative thinking skills … Continue reading