Pumpkin, Pumpkin!

The finished products!

We carved pumpkins today.  We even cooked them and ATE the seeds. Most people had never ate them before!  We had to open it and take the seeds out and then we carved them into faces. Some pumpkins has a moustache. We learned that pumpkins CAN FLOAT!!    We are grateful for Mio's grandparents - they sent us 7 pumpkins!

Patterns, patterns, patterns!

Patterns are Everywhere!

We learning about patterns and made some witch legs with a pattern.  A pattern can be red, red, blue or yellow, red, yellow, red or triangle, square, triangle, square.  We found patterns all over the school and we took pictures with the ipads.
October is Be Proactive.  We wrote sentences about being proactive.  Ask me what proactive means?
Our classroom has some new decorations like lights and PUMPKINS!!!!  We have many pumpkins to carve on Thursday! Yeah!

It's Friday!

Synergy at its BEST!

A bat can eat 600 mosquitoes in ONE hour!

Yesterday, we put together a bat's dinner.  A bat eats 600 mosquitoes.  We had to cut out 600 of them!
We listened to a story called The Littlest Pumpkin and then we made our own pumpkin.
In gym, we played Turtle Tag and Bears & Squirrels Tag.
At morning meeting, we talked about being proactive.  Some kids said keep your hands to yourself, you make good choices, you don't blame other people, tell the truth.  It was good advice.
We used the Mac Books today!  We had to use a secret passcode - it was really hard!  We logged into Saunderson Snippets to listen to Raz-Kids.

Please remember to sign up for Parent Teacher conferences next week!

Leader of the Week!

Hi!  I am the Leader of the Week.  I like to play with my mommy and my daddy.  We play tag and hide and go seek.  My favourite food is vegetables!  I like carrots the best.  For fun, I like to go to the pool.  I swim and play and dive in the water.

It was a busy day!

Today we had our first fire drill.  It happened in the middle of Literacy Block. We did GREAT!  We followed Mrs. S very quickly and quietly.  The fire marshall was happy at how quickly we left the building.
We also received a school fundraiser.  It is a magazine fundraiser and if I sell magazine I will get an Emoji keychain!  There is lots of information for our parents to read.  All orders are due on November 4.
We also read a book about being proactive and we have a yellow note explaining Be Proactive!
We have new library books.

Parents - Please sign up for Parent Teacher conferences.

Bats, bats, bats and writing!

We are doing some bat writing.  We made a chart that has bat words of can/have/are.  Tomorrow we are going to make a story with it.  We watched a movie about bats.  A scientist was holding a bat and he showed us the bat's thumb.  He also showed us a baby bat.
Tomorrow is our first fire drill.
In math, we are learning about patterns.  A pattern is like AAB.  It is something that repeats over and over.

We brought home some little books to read to you.  I can point to the words and read you the story!  I am becoming a great reader :) Book order due October 26.  And a colouring book went home - send the picture to Sun Country to win a prize!

Send to Sun Country!

It is Bat Week!

We are learning about bats this week!  We looked at some books and recorded our information.  We know that bats have the ability to fly and they can hang upside down in a tree.  Bats live in a colony.  Some bats have horns on their noses.  Some have big ears to hear the sounds that point back at them.  We call that echolocation.  Bats can see in the dark.  Bats are good hunters.  Some bats drink blood from pigs and cows.  The animals can't even feel it when the bat bites them!  There are a lot of species of bats! Bats fly super fast. Fruit bats use their senses to find ripe fruits.  Some bats eat insects.

OUR PICTURES CAME HOME TODAY!

Leader of the Week

In math, we are counting teenage numbers.  We are matching numbers and their number words.
We added some more work to our portfolios.  We went to gym and played Everybody's It tag and Yoga tag.  We went to music.

We started Leader of the Week.  This week it is Mrs. Saunderson.  Next week it will be someone else. There is a note to go that went home to explain everything.

It is fall!

Welcome back!  We used the Draw & Tell on the ipads for science.  We had to draw a picture of the fall season. In the fall, the leaves fall off the trees and on the ground. Sometimes, it snows in the fall. People dress in warm clothes and winter boots and gloves. We rake up leaves. Animals hibernate, which means they sleep for the winter.  Some animals, like geese, fly south. Animals change colours in the fall.
We went to gym  The tower gardens are growing and we saw the plants!

Happy Thanksgiving!

We had Mrs. Vasquez join our class on Monday but we call her Mrs. V! We finished our turkeys this morning. We did Writer's Workshop today.  We finished our picture and added a sentence or some more words! We did some tricky math!  We had to know the number words to 20!  It was very hard :) We counted pennies in a can. We went music and we made our own song!  We went to gym and played Enchanted Forest and Colour Tag.

Have a wonderful Thanksgiving everyone!  See you on Tuesday!

Run, Turkey, Run!

We made turkeys because it is getting close to Thanksgiving.  We listened to a turkey book, called Run, Turkey, Run.  We had to make a turkey and have a tricky part like magic.  We had to fold the paper and cut it and THEN two pieces come out! We had to add a sentence using an action word.  We also read  a story called Who Will Carve the Turkey.  In literacy block, we did our rotations. We had gym with Mrs. Larsen and we played Fall tag.