Websites

This helper was being the teacher, and pointing to the words as the rest of the class sang the song.

If the answer is 8.... what might the question be?..
 
I wrote 17 on a line, and some students printed what came before and after. (They asked me to put this on the blog)
  
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Here are some of the websites we have used in class. Some of the kids have requested I let their parents know the websites, so they could play the games online at home, too. (No signing up required, no logging in required, no apps needed.)

http://ictgames.com/caterpillar_slider.html

http://www.cookie.com/kids/games/fun-maze.html

http://www.cookie.com

http://www.starfall.com

http://www.abcya.com/fuzz_bugs_patterns.htm

More about Earth Day

We have talked a lot about recycling since the start of Kindergarten. We recycle in our classroom, too. We are familiar with the 3 R's…. reduce, reuse, recycle. We know not to litter.  We have read many books about recycling and Earth Day. Everyone in Room 7 wants to do their part to help the Earth!

Today we did some word problems on the Smart Board -- about planting trees and recycling! 

      Earth Day Game on the Smart Board

Sharing time

REMINDER:  We are going to the Children's Museum tomorrow!  Please arrive at school at the normal entry time of 8:40AM. Bring your lunch to school!

Shamrock green

We already know that blue plus yellow makes green…. and today we painted shamrocks with only blue and yellow paint. We mixed the colours, of course, to create the green! We also noticed that there were different kinds of green, depending on how much yellow or blue we had to mix up.

We have been busy documenting our learning about what we know about numbers. We sure do know a lot!   We even figured out a way to make the number nine with our bodies!

Yesterday, our Star of the Week told us all about himself. Thank you for helping us to get to know you a little better!

        Sharing time……  bring something that starts with a /G/ or /L/

What we know about numbers!

We have been learning many different ways to represent numbers. We started making charts to record ...

"What we know about....".   So far we have brainstormed what we know about numbers 1, 2, 3, and 4. We are getting pretty good at thinking about different number sentences that make our number!

             

               

Math

Today we were working with Ms. Janz on the Learning Carpet. We were putting numbers in order. We also took turns taking a number off (while our friends closed their eyes), and putting a frog in place of the number. Then the friends had to figure out what number was missing.   

Math ---- making a pattern out of the LINKS,  then using them to make a shape. 

Using the links to measure the chair (with a non-standard measurement).   It was 12 links long!

Sharing time --- /s/ is for semi and /s/ is for Star Wars guy

Dance-athon

Today was the highly anticipated dance-athon. It was a fundraiser for the Heart and Stroke Foundation. Our school raised over $9000 --- WOW!!  What a great donation to Heart and Stroke.  The sponsors of this event provided a prize for the top fundraiser in the school (who raised over $800 himself) and a few random draws for anyone who had brought in donations. Everyone received a free t-shirt, compliments of the event sponsors. Thank you to everyone who brought in donations for this worthy cause.

     Move it, Shake it, Groove it …. Dance 4 U

    Dancing in the gym --- a good way to keep our hearts healthy

This is the combined Kindergarten and Grade One dance presentation...(4 classes dancing together)

Everybody--- let's dance!!!!!!!!!!!!  Stay heart healthy!

              Sharing time..... S is for soccer ball

This morning we were painting with watercolours. It is the first step in one of the art projects we are doing.

At centre time today, this student starting connecting blocks together in groups of 10. Then she discovered if she had 3 groups of 10, she could easily and quickly count by tens to  know she had 30 blocks--- without counting every single block. This then led her to decide she could quickly count 100 blocks by making more groups of 10 and counting by tens.  When she had 10 groups of 10---- she knew she had 100 blocks!  WOW!