Applesauce!!!!

We made applesauce today!  First we had to cut the apple skin off and then we put it in the crockpot. We put cinnamon and some sugar on it.  We tasted it at the end of the day.  Some people had thumbs down but most people gave it a thumbs up! We even gave a cup to Mrs. Q-W and she was surprised that we made it.  We had lots of visitors to our room because it smelled so GOOD!

The Terry Fox Run

We had the Terry Fox run today.  We ran around Emerson Lake and some kids ran around Emerson Lake TWO times! Senator Riley school was running too.  The kids were all high fiving us!  We had a quick school assembly before we went!  In the assembly, we watched a Terry Fox video. Terry Fox is special and important.  He raised money for cancer research. We had a warm up dance of That's What Makes You Beautiful.

More Apples...

The TD bank gave every kid in Alberta a new book today.  Let's read it together!
Today, we tasted red, yellow and green apples. Red apples were the most popular for tasting. The yellow ones were called Golden Delicious apples. We sorted apples. We sorted by colours and sizes. The apples were fragile! On Friday, we are going to make applesauce!
We went to library and picked out two books. We went to gym and played a game.

Bring a Toonie for Terry!

Apples, apples, apples....

We need to bring an apple for tomorrow.  We are going to count them and sort them. We read a book called 10 Apples on Top by Dr. Suess. We made a math picture with apples on our head.  
We had morning meeting today.  We had to tell one thing we have seen in the fall.  Ask me what my answer was.
We had music and gym today.

Remember to bring a Toonie for Terry on Thursday!

Shiver Me Letters!

We went outside for gym to play!
We used the iPads for printing practice. We used the app Wet-Dry-Try.
We read a book about pirates that were looking for letters.  We found letters in magazines and glued them to a chart.
We did calendar.  We count how many days we've been in school.  We've been to Grade 1 for 16 days!

We are rocking our literacy centers!

Under Mrs. Saunderson's desk is a great place to read!

Matching sight words!

We are doing rotations in Literacy Block!  We can do Read to Self, Work on Writing, Word Work and Listen to Reading.  We ignored distractions and worked hard!

We had an assembly today and Mayor Snodgrass came!  He talked to us about the importance of using Habit 1, Be Proactive.  The patrollers showed us how to use the crosswalk safely.

Please return yellow note with correct information!

School is Cool!

We read a book called No, David!  We learned Yes, David! rules.  Some rules are keep your hands to yourself, walk in the halls, no pushing, listen, don't chew gum in class, share!
We had gym with Mrs. Welsh.  We played tag with the big noodles.

A full week in Grade 1!

We are practicing our reading on Raz-Kids!

We painted!  We wrote our initial with crayon and painted dots around it.
We had an assembly and watched a video about the 7 Habits.
We worked on iPads today!  We listened to reading on the iPad using Raz-Kids!
Almost everyone has done their Me in a Bag!  We went outside for gym again!

It's Dot Day!

We wore dots!

We counted dots!

We ATE dots.

We made our own mark!

International Dot Day is about a book called The Dot. Vashti slammed a pencil to make a dot. She didn't think she could draw.  The teacher studied it and the teacher asked her to sign it.  She knew she could draw!  1 Saunderson made our OWN dots on the iPads.  We counted Rocket dots and then we ATE them. Some people wore dots on their clothes and body!  
We played nicely today.  We subitized on the iPads.  We went to music.  Poor Mrs. Haney is still sick, so we had Mrs. M again. We had outside gym.

BOOK ORDER went home today and it is due next Thursday.  More information about hot lunch went home, too!

Our class mission statement

We wrote our class mission statement today.  It is a promise about our class.  We traced our hands and put them on the side of our mission statement.  That means we promise to do the right thing.  We promise to be proactive and we synergize together.  We keep our hands to ourselves even outside. We do the right thing EVEN when no one is watching.  We are nice and we are in charge of us!  We play nicely!  We do not run in the hallway.
We went to library today.  We even had centers.

It's a great day!

We went to music today.  We had a guest teacher in music.  Her name was Mrs. McLean.  We did math and we started math journals. We watched a math video about days of the week. We played Colour Tag in gym. Someone had to get an ice pack because they crashed in gym!  We are practicing our running with no collisions! We played outside at recess.  

I am trying not to 'erupt'!

Today we read the book 'My Mouth is a Volcano' which was about a little boy always interrupting because his words came into his mouth and he blurted them out. He learned a new strategy to help him.  Ask me how he stopped 'erupting'!  I am working on that strategy, too!

Information on milk and hot lunch went home in the Take Home Folder.  Sign up, if interested!

The Great Egg Test!

The eggs are ready to go!

We took care of our eggs ALL day!

This is what we learned!

We took care of an egg today but some of them broke!  It was the Great Egg Test!  We were learning how to take care of an iPad.  We know that if you can crack an egg, you can crack an iPad!  We showed our principal, Mrs. Q-W, that we learned how to take care of an iPad.  

We went to gym and played Everybody's It and yoga  tag.  We did not take the eggs to gym because we will not take iPads to gym.  We went outside for recess. Some people took their egg out for recess. We learned that an egg can fall and break so we learned not to take an iPad outside to play.

Mrs. Saunderson told us we can take our egg home BUT our parents will probably tell us to throw them out.  We should not eat them!  We brought them home to help us remember our iPad rules.

Read To Self

We picked 8 books for our book boxes.We Read to Self for 2 minutes! Tomorrow we will try for 4 minutes!  We went to the gym today.  We went to music and we learned about musical notes.

Lots of people brought their Me In A Bag.  We had great listening!

Library & Me In a Bag

Today we went to library for the first time in Grade 1.  We can take out 2 books.  Every Wednesday will be library.
We did some more math centers.  We used the math manipulatives and practiced cleaning up with a special chime.
We went to the gym today. We played Everybody's It tag and we were going to play Tail Tag but we ran out of time.
4 people shared their Me In A Bag!  We learned that some kids like Komodo dragons, Minecraft Lego, and cars!

Me In a Bag

The beginning of the year is filled with notes, forms and letters.  Please look at your child's Take Home Folder every night and help them remember it in the morning.  Our first project is the Me In A Bag project that went home on Friday.  Your child will present to the class and bring the bag home that night.  It gives us a chance to build our classroom community and get to know each other a little better.  Plus, it gives your child a chance to practice their public speaking skills!

Chicka Chicka Boom Boom

We read Chicka Chicka Boom Boom!  We made a chicka tree.  We went to the gym with Mme. Savage's class and we played Freeze Tag. We did our best reading in our Poetry Books. We went outside for recess.  We even had centers :)

Happy weekend.  NO school on Monday.

First Day of 1st Grade!

Today was the first day of Grade 1! We listened to a book called First Day Jitters and then we tried some Jitter Juice.  More kids liked it.  It tasted like orange pop BUT Mrs. Saunderson told us that it was a special ingredient. We went outside for gym today. In math, we played FaceOff.  It is a card game. We had lunch.  We coloured our first day picture using our best work!  We had fun at recess! We had FUN in Grade 1.