Wearing a little poppy as red as can be, to show that i remember those who fought for me..

Last week we read and talked about what Remembrance Day represented and what it meant to have peace. We read these two books to the class which were perfectly suited for young children:

We thought it would be nice to make a book of our own about what peace meant to us, so we started working on it and will continue to work on it throughout next week. It will be added to our classroom library for the students to look at and reflect on.

We have been playing this really engaging and fun math game during focused learning time. The children roll the die and whatever number they land they, they must find in a ten frame and swat. If the numbers match, then they keep the card as a point. They have been doing really well at recognizing numbers without counting which is called subitizing.

We have been slowly working on putting together our Christmas house in the North Pole. This week we took the big cardboard box out and painted it green.

 

 Here are some things we have been doing over the past week. Making words using the magnetic letters:

 Making cameras out of unifex cubes:

 Exploring patterns:

 

 Building garages and ramps for our cars:

Matching sticks to place cards:

Drawing the picture on our shirt!

Making pictures to represent rules for our buildings (no kicking, no breaking)

One of our friends wanted to take a picture of us using the ipad camera:

We had two very beautifully warm days this week, so on one of them we took a walk around our school to see the fire bush and how the leaves on the trees have changed since we last saw them.

We took a picture next to our favourite yellow leafed tree because it was so vibrant!

Have a lovely weekend :o)

JK parents- we will see you next week. We are looking forward to your visits!

Happy November!

We have some SUPER EXCITING NEWS to share! One of our students noticed that there were baby fish in our fish tank! We counted four of them, but then discovered that there were actually 6! We were so amazed and excited! 

We have been watching and observing them as they have been getting bigger and bigger:

Thank you so much for all of the snacks that were brought in! 

We had an overwhelming amount of goodies and made our own treat bags to send home!

We did some fun activities this week for Halloween! Mrs. Ansari made some cute white hand printed ghosts with some of the children, while I worked on pumpkin seed name art with others.

We took a few votes this week. We came up with ideas on what we could transform our dramatic play area (house centre) into and put that into a list on the SmartBoard. Then each child came up and drew a tally mark for their vote. It was interesting to count at the end and see which one had the most votes.. but what what was even more interesting was that we had a tie between two ideas. 

We asked Mrs. Ansari to have the final vote... and Christmas tree house in the North pole won!

 We then found some ideas, printed them out and displayed them on chart paper. 

Then we voted on what we wanted our house to look like. this time we used check marks. 

Here were our votes:

We once again had another tie between two, so we decided that we would build both. We have had two big boxes saved in our storage room to build with, so we will be in construction for the next couple of weeks. We can't wait to show you the final product!

Many of the kids also want to build an igloo, so we are going to try and see how many empty jugs/containers we can collect. 

If you have any of these type of clear containers, can you please send them in :)

Our goal is to make something like this:

or this:

Have a lovely weekend!