We will rock!

Yesterday was our Christmas concert. We sung our songs in front of our schoo in the afternoon and then at night we performed for the moms and dads.  We were kind of nervous but we rocked it! Today we watched the Gr. 3, 4, 5 play. It was The Nutcracker.
In math, we built a gingerbread man with 2D shapes. We are going to write about them. On Thrusday, we are going to make 3D evles. (Remember to bring a wrapped empty box) 3D means the shapes are fat and 2D means they are flat!
We had indoor recess AGAIN......go away cold weather!

Shapes, shapes, shapes

We had a special assembly this morning. It was about our 7 Habits! We won a grant and some gentlemen gave us a cheque for leadership groups.  We sang some Christmas songs with the WHOLE school.
In math, we are working on shapes. Help me find shapes at home!

An important note went home today about all the events in December! Please read it.

A French Play!

We started the 12 Days of Fitness.  On the 1st day of fitness, we had to give a high five to someone near me! We began the song with all the grade 1s, 2s and 3s.
We went to music and practiced our songs with the other classes.
It was so cold out that we had indoor recess again. We played lots of tag games in gym like Colour Tag.
We went to see a play by the french class.  We saw the Three Little Pigs. They performed the play in french!
Tomorrow WEAR your EJCS shirts tomorrow. OR a blue shirt.

Leader of the Week

I am six years old and I like cats. I like to play games and my favourite game is a soccer board game that uses a little ball that scores when I turn a knob. I like to eat cheese pizza. I like gym class.

We were busy!

We went to the Learning Commons and did Makerspaces today.  Ms. Paulgaard has the BeeBots and other robots there.  We practiced our coding by controlling robots and directing them.
We mixed colours and worked on shading and tinting with one colour and black and white.
We played a game called Kahoot using the iPads. We had to make Friendly 10 math sentences.
We are practicing our Christmas concert songs.
We drew a ship this morning and wrote a sentence about it!
It was a great day!

Friendly 10s!

Shake & Spill

We are learning about Friendly 10s in math. We subitize and look for friendly 10 partners like 8+2,
We had Writer's Workshop.  We were working on adding more details in our writing.
In science, we had an experiment! We used our spying eyes to look at transparent or opaque.  Opaque was ketchup, milk and lotion. Soap and water were transparent.

We played Everybody's It tag in gym.  We had some free centers.

Magical Colours

Richard Young the Magician!

Richard the Magician came to the Grade 1 classes today and taught us about colours. He put primary colours in a magic washing machine box and dumped out a secondary colour. He blew up a balloon and the balloon changed from being opaque to translucent and then he POPPED it and a bird named Rainbow came out! He used a box and pulled out different colours then what he had put in the box.   He had a crayon box and pulled out ribbons that were different colours! We learned that years ago people used food and things like grass to make colours.  We got to pet Rainbow on the way out. Richard the Magician taught us a lot about colours.

Our sight word lists went home today. Please read it!

Friendly 10s

We made records that showed numbers greater than and less than 50.  We are learning about Friendly 10s! They are numbers that add up to 10 like 8+2, 3+7, 5+5, 9+1.
In science, we had to mix primary colours with paint. We made primary and secondary colour circles.

No school on Friday for students.  Tomorrow is our Magical Colours field trip.

50th Day of School!

We MADE root beer floats!  First, you put in ice cream.  Next, you pour in root beer.  Last, you put in a straw and drink it! We wrote a recipe about it so we can make it at home.
We were dancing like a Sock Hop! We listened to 50s music all day!
We looked fancy!  Some people wore poodle skirts, some wore leather jackets, some wore white shirts. My teacher loves 50s day.
We did lots of counting to 50 by 1s, 2s, 5s and 10s!

It was so fun!

Primary Colours/Our Peace Book/50s Day

Remember Friday is 50s Day!

We reread a book called Mouse Paint.  We mixed colours with paint.  We mixed red, yellow and blue paints.  They are called primary colours.  That means that they are the first colours and NO other colour can make them.  We use primary colours to mix them into green, purple and orange.

Check out our Todd Parr Peace video!  We made it for Remembrance Day :)

What Peace Means to Us!