Kindergarten and Grade 1 Experiences at Rosser Elementary
A very cold package was delivered to us at school this afternoon! Inside the package was a letter from Admiral Drake explaining about the penguin (in the package).
The penguin’s name is Pringle. She arrived with a journal and a copy of Mr. Popper’s Penguins, written by Florence Atwater.
Pringle will be visiting each student’s home, with the journal, so they can make an entry about their experiences with Pringle. Students will share their entries each morning at Calendar time.
After enjoying the book by Janet Perlman, student created their own versions of the characters using various kinds of paper.
Here are a few close-ups:
As part of our Fairy Tale unit we have been doing some looking at things from different perspectives. For this book the children made ‘wanted’ posters for the crimes (breaking and entering, theft, malicious damage, trespassing) perpetrated by Goldilocks.
Students wrote out six ‘wishes’ they would ask a leprechaun ☘️
These were transferred onto the coloured strips and attached to their ‘clouds’.
A few wee folk showed up on the bulletin board across the hall from the rainbows.
Happy Patrick’s Day ☘️🌈☘️
We have begun the school year by looking at our families and learning about the many varied types of families. We enjoyed “Wilfrid Gordon McDonald Partridge” by Mem Fox. This is a lovely story about a very young boy whose family lives next to a senior’s home. Wilfrid Gordon knows all the people, and is friendly with them all, but his favourite is Miss Nancy Alison Delacourt Cooper because she has four names, too.
One day he hears his parents talking about how Miss Nancy has lost her memory. This sets him on a quest to learn about memories and to help Miss Nancy find hers.
After reading the book we discussed memories and what makes some of them more powerful than others. Here are their responses:
We read the above-named book, by Giles Andreae and had a discussion on how we can all do things to the sound of our own music. Students then followed a directed drawing lesson creating their own unique ‘Geralds’ on yellow construction paper. They decorated their blue background paper, cut out, and mounted their giraffes, adding a string tail. These are on the bulletin board in our hallway.
We read the book, “A Creepy Countdown” and students then wrote their own versions of this poem. These are on our bulletin board in our classroom.
As we are wrapping up our unit on self-discovery we have finished off the last two activities. The first was our All About Me Robots. Students needed to decide and state their preferences in a number of different areas.
The second activity was putting together all the bits about our names. This included the sheet that was sent home for family input.
Our bulletin board did not manage to accommodate all of this work so we have some mounted on our white board underneath our Word Wall.
After reading The Lorax, we brainstormed ideas that the Once-ler should have done to protect the environment and nature. Devastation happened to the area because of the Once-ler’s greed. Students then chose one of our ideas, or wrote one of their own. These were written onto Truffula tree templates. All of these can now be seen on the bulletin board in the hallway,
As part of our unit on Dr. Seuss we looked at a variety of real turtle shells online. Students then created and designed their own turtle shells (top and bottom) out of paper plates. These turtles are now gracing our bulletin board in our classroom.
