Kindergarten and Grade 1 Experiences at Rosser Elementary
On January 16th we were lucky to have a visit from the Mobile Dairy Classroom. A huge trailer came onto our school grounds with a mother dairy cow and her baby calf. Students learned what cows eat, how they have 4 stomachs to digest their food, and how they produce milk. They saw the cow being milked by the milking machine and saw the calf being feed this milk via a baby bottle.
It was a very enjoyable and educational experience for all of us.
Students have been working on being ‘kinder’ to each other. Under Ms. Sue’s direction they have been doing ‘acts’ of kindness. They are working on reaching 100 acts. These are displayed on individual small hearts made into groups of 10 onto larger hearts on our bulletin board in the hallway.
They also planned and videotaped a mini-movie showing many of these acts. Students really enjoyed the process of deciding on scenes and then recording each other. This video was introduced by students and shown to the whole school this afternoon during our Celebration of Learning Assembly. When the movie was over all students in the class took small hearts (that they had made with nice sayings on them) and gave them to different students and staff members in the assembly.
I think it was a great process of learning and it was enjoyable to see their pride in a job well done!
The students have been learning about all different kinds of families. The covers of their booklets are drawings that they made of their faces.
As you all know, our student teacher (Ms. Sue) has now entered the full immersion phase of her practicum. She is in her second week of ‘taking over’ the class.
Students have been enjoying her theme unit on ‘family’. This is part of our Social Studies curriculum which we are doing this year at a very opportune time as we just celebrated Family Day. I hope you all enjoyed the long weekend.
There is a letter coming home tomorrow about a family crest project. Please help your child get some ideas on their paper and return it on the date stated in the letter. This will ensure that your child completes their project at school successfully. Thanks for your continued support.
Students are also learning 2-D shapes in her geometry unit. They enjoyed a great story and then created their own ‘geometrical’ mice. I think they look great on our bulletin board!
What do you think?
We have spent the last two weeks wrapping up our Fairy Tale unit. We explored a variety of “Cinderella” stories and learned that almost every country / culture has its own version of this tale.
We then created our own fairy tale booklets in the style of The Jolly Postman – books which we began our unit with in December. These are hanging on display on our bulletin board in the hallway.
Each booklet has three ‘envelope pages’ which contain: a Three Pigs jigsaw puzzle; a letter to the Three Bears from Goldilocks (apologizing for her behaviour); and a Jack and the Beanstalk activity. The students all worked very hard with the many steps involved in putting together these booklets. I think they look great.