Show and Tell: Animal Theme

Students really enjoyed sharing an animal of their choice with the class. Each student gave interesting clues that helped their friends guess what was in their show and tell bag. Students were able to demonstrate how well they were able to attend as an audience, and asked questions that helped us learn more about each item. Use these pictures as a springboard for conversation with your child about the show and tell items each child brought and what we learned about these items.

Animal creations!

With our love for animals and everything related to our vet clinic going strong, students requested the opportunity to create their own animal art. Given creative license and a pile of supplies, this group went to work creating a variety of animals! Use these pictures as a springboard for discussion with your child about what their friends created!

WOW work!

We have focused our journal time on creating WOW work-ask your child to fill you in! It has been amazing to watch how hard students are working, how they are helping each other, and how much they have grown this year! Detailed drawings and strings of letters to represent words are popping up all over the place. I am especially excited about the pride students are taking in doing their best work - students are requesting to go back and add more detail and are complimenting each other's work without ever being prompted. This classroom is the home to such a supportive community of learners! You can definitely see it in their eyes when they know they have worked really hard!

Students have also been practising following as a teacher leads them through a drawing activity. These cats and bunnies were evidence that this whole group can follow directions, and can also add their own creative touches to make the pictures unique!

Family Literacy Day

In preparation for Family Literacy Day, we talked about our favourite books. I figured we would come up with a few unanimous favourites or favourite authors and could graph these. Turns out, these guys love books as much as I do, and we just kept adding and adding to our list! We had so much fun discussing our favourite topics to read about, and it really helped me figure out what books I need to pull from hiding!

What Kind of Books Do You Enjoy Most?

Robert Munsch

Clifford

Pigeon

Hot Wheels

Magic School Bus

We Enjoy Books about:

Cars

Cowboys

Hockey

Seasons (spring, winter, summer, fall)

Brains

Ana/Elsa

Inside Out

Gardening

Art

Clothing

Pumpkin patches

Baking

Farm animals

Nitro circus

Dogs and cats

Birds

Snowmen

Nature

Time

Sports

What is your favourite way to read or listen to a story?

CD

Recorder book

Flip book

Button book

Chapter book

Comic book

Picture book

Newspaper

Magazine

We celebrated Family Literacy Day with an afternoon of reading with family members and friends! Ask your child about the books they read and who they read with. Thank you to all of the parents who were able to come out and read with us!

Ted Harrison art, part 1

We have been learning so much about life up north from our beloved Mrs. Keiver. She read us a beautiful book by Ted Harrison called A Northern Alphabet, and we were blown away by the artwork. We were inspired by Ted's work, and decided to experiment with pastels, chalk and paint. Ask your child what we noticed about the lines and colours used in his art, and how we used what we noticed in our own creations. We started small, and are planning on revisiting this project over the next little while!

One Red Dot

Students read the story, One Red Dot, with one of their favourite "other teachers", Mrs. Gibbard. The book is full of beautiful artwork that pops off the page, with each page containing one red dot. The students then created their own masterpieces, hiding their one red dot so well that I had a really hard time spotting them when I returned!