Kindergarten and Grade 1 Experiences at Rosser Elementary
As part of our Social Studies unit we have been exploring our sense of self. Students created these wonderful word and picture maps that depict themselves and things that are important to them.
They worked very thoughtfully and put in a great effort to ensure a very fine finished product! Here they are individually:
These are mounted on the bulletin board at the back of our classroom.
After discussing Thanksgiving, and all that it means, we brainstormed things that we are thankful for. Students worked in partnerships to create these lovely thoughts.
I hope you all have a wonderful long weekend!!
Happy Thanksgiving 🦃🦃
We wrapped up our unit on Nutrition with a small group collage project. Students worked in groups of four or five to cut pictures from grocery flyers to represent the foods in their category. These were glued onto chart paper and are seen below:
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.
Students began by looking through science books and thinking about what sort of animal they were interested in studying. They then looked at the sort of habitat in which their chosen animal would survive.
Students created their animal out of plasticine of various colours, due to our supply, and then learned how to meld the correct colour of plasticine as a coating on top. They used photos of their animals as their models. They did a great job!
The inside of the shoe boxes were painted to represent the parts of their habitat (sky, grass, jungle, desert, etc.). Students decided what they needed to complete their habitats. I got various supplies for them (coloured papers, coloured plasticine, liquid glue, hot glue gun) and they collected natural materials (sticks, stones, sand).
I enjoyed watching their creations develop. They are now completed and on display along the window ledge in the Library. You can see them there if you are attending the Volunteer Tea tomorrow afternoon. I have taken pictures of each which are below.
“I wandered lonely as a cloud
That floats on high o’er vales and hills,
When all at once I saw a crowd,
A host of golden daffodils …”
William Wordsworth
Thank you for helping your children create such wonderful collections of 100 things!
As a wrap-up to our fairy tale unit, we have been enjoying two books by Janet and Allan Ahlberg. The first one is pictured above – The Jolly Postman or Other People’s Letters. The second one is the sequel – The Jolly Pocket Postman – pictured below.
We then created our own versions of these books. Our booklets have two envelope pages. One page contains a postcard to her stepmother from Cinderella while the other contains a jigsaw puzzle of the Three Little Pigs sent by the Big Bad Wolf. All these things were created by the students. These are hanging on the bulletin board at the back of our classroom.
