Notes, Notes and More Notes

We read a pirate ABC book. We had to find all the letters of the alphabet in magazines. We finished our first writing project and hung them up on the walls.  We had an extra recess and played at the park.    Today we learned a new math game called Bump and we learned actions for the alphabet. We went to gym and used the hula hoops and we will learn a new game with knocking pins off. Mr. MacDonald was sick so we had a guest teacher.

We need to practice our Me in a Bag before we bring it to school and our parents have a note to fill out, too!

Another day in 1/2

Today we played FaceOff.  We wrote a sentence in our agendas and put notes in the pockets. We started building a puzzle. We glued it to the cardboard and we are counting the days of school to 100.  We had gym and played a new game called Dog and Pig Rescue. We went to music and seen Mr. Hibberd and we listened to a song with monsters in music.  We sang O'Canada this morning. We wrote about where we were all summer.  We did some GoNoodles. 

Happy New Year!!!!

We watched the story, Jitter Juice and then we drank some Jitter Juice. Most of the students liked Mrs. Saunderson's special recipe to calm our jitters.  Today we wrote in our brand new agendas!  We had fun in the gym with our NEW gym teacher, Mr. MacDonald. We had an assembly this morning and met all the teachers. We had fun doing some GoNoodles. We had fun at recess and we got an extra recess.  One student made us rice krispie squares saying You Rule!  We did our first Read To Self and read for 2 minutes independently!

It was a great day!

Welcome to 1/2 Saunderson!

Welcome to Grade 1/2 Saunderson! I am SO excited to meet you on Tuesday morning. It is going to be a GREAT school year!
Make sure you label ALL your school supplies and bring a yummy lunch!

We went camping!

We were going to go camping but Mrs. Saunderson's locked her guidebook in a lockbox!  We had to get them OUT.  We had to use the light pens to get a clue, read a map and figure out directions and find a key.  Some teams helped other teams. We ate s'mores with chocolate chips and squished marshmallows. We had gym with Ms Little and played Fruit Bowl. We took most of our things from school today. 
We have electronics/board game day tomorrow.

Painted Ladies and Sports Day

Today we had Sports Day and got freezies.  We played Tug o' War, soccer, javelin throw with pool noodles and had a lot of races. We had to stay outside all morning long.
We let our butterflies go today. One of our butterflies died and we got to touch the wings.. Griffyn held a butterfly on a flower. We almost stepped on a butterfly.  A butterfly liked the nectar of a flower. 

10 Day Countdown

Our Father's Day presents are ready to go.  But it is a secret - shhhhh!  Today was Bubblegum day and lots of people brought bubblegum to share! Some of us are getting very good at blowing bubbles! Katherine got to pop the 9th day balloon and it is sidewalk chalk day.  The school will supply the sidewalk chalk.  We popped the 10th AND the 9th balloon today!  We had gym today with Ms Mahan's class and we played Waspital.

Measurement AND a chrysalis!

We prepared our art in Eric Carle fashion! We had to use 4 crayons and find a texture and rub it against a rock, gravel, tree or cement.  There were all kinds of different textures.
One of our caterpillars is on the roof and in a J! It has a red ball which means it is done eating. We watched a video of caterpillars. The caterpillars split their skin when they make a chrysalis.
We watched a Mystery Doug movie about hot lava and when it's cold it becomes lava rock.
In math we did measurement centers. We raced cars down ramps to see which ones go farther. We measured how many cards covered a box. We weighed different materials and tried to balance the scales.  We filled jars with popcorn seeds, too.

Measurement!

Containers to measure!

Which one holds the most?

We are working on measurement. Today we learned that you do not need a measuring cup to measure. You can measure with different cups! We can measure with water or beans or bubblegum or a bunch of things. We can compare containers to find the biggest container.  We went outside and used water to measure. We measured how many cups were in a container.  We used small bins and big bins! The biggest container held 20 cups. Ms Mahan's mom came to help us. We measured and then we played outside!

A Class Pet!

We got a class pet!  It is caterpillars and THEY grew bigger over the weekend. Some of the caterpillars and making silk in their containers. The caterpillars ate lots of their food. The caterpillars are pooping black stuff! We are writing a book called Diary of a Caterpillar.
We had a mixed up day - we had gym after math!  We went to Heritage Park last week and on the ipads, we compared Now and Then.