Kindergarten and Grade 1 Experiences at Rosser Elementary
We did this activity over two weeks. The first week students created patterns on their mittens. The second week they glued them onto blue construction paper and did a winter scene around it. These are in the hallway by the Office. Some are from our class and some are our buddies’ mittens. Other of our mittens are in the hallway by Mrs. Branco’s room.
We met with our Buddy classes – Divisions 1 and 3 – last week and made feathers on which we wrote our names. Our big buddies then helped us to write a thing we are thankful for on the feather. We then decorated the feathers. These are on the bulletin boards in the hallway outside of our classroom. We will be doing a variety of activities with our buddies as we will be meeting each Tuesday morning for a half hour.
These feathers are joined by the turkeys they made in class. These were done with pencil crayons and tissue paper. Students also practised their cutting out skills. Gobble, gobble.
Students worked in partnerships to brainstorm ideas of things that they are thankful for this year. They depicted these things in pictures and in words. These posters are on a bulletin board in our classroom.
We started our look at community by brainstorming things that we find in a community.
We then made a grid and learned about mapping using grid coordinates.
Each section was set up with a road network and transferred onto heavy cardboard pieces. Students then ‘paved’ their road sections with black plasticine. Buildings were made from tag board and hot glue gunned onto the cardboard.
Stay tuned for further updates as we progress through the final stages of our project.
When Ms. Teal was with our class she taught the class weaving. She chose these earthy colours as it was part of the unit on the Coast Salish people.
Art done using aboriginal shapes.
Ms. Teal read the students a story titled, “Have You Filled a Bucket Today”. This is about how our words and actions can make other people feel. Students created their own buckets.
Monday, February 19th was a busy day in our class! It was the 100th day that we have been in school.
Students worked with the number 100 in a variety of ways. This included: counting by ones, twos, fives, and tens up to 100. Students made headbands with 20 groups of tally marks (5 each). They counted Fruit Loops into groups of ten and put ten groups together on a string to make a necklace.
Students had worked on a 100 Day poster at home. They also worked on a booklet with all sorts of 100’s activities.
We had a very busy week (February 13-15) with our Valentines celebrations and those of the Lunar New Year.
Our class performed a song (with divisions 4 and 6) and we also did a poem (What Colour Were the Dragons) on our own at the school-wide assembly.
Our lovely lanterns have been hanging in our classroom.
We enjoyed a delicious potluck luncheon. Thank you to all who donated food to our feast!