June 27th

 Some fun photos of the last couple days of school.  Ice cream sundaes, bubbles, summer walk, Fun Day and swimming!  What a great year it had been!

 

June 25th

This is one of the most fantastic things I have ever done with my Grade One class at the end of the year!  Students each read different books, When they were finished, they had to find four picture cards that matched their book.  On the back of each card was part of a letter that the students had to put together like a puzzle.

After the students figured out all the letters, they worked as a whole class to unscramble the letters to make a word.  The word was the clue to where the treasure was found.  They were so excited when they found the treasure!  Click here to view the video of them finding the treasure and reading the message.

June 16th

Our building day finally happened and, oh my, was it awesome!  We started our day by reading some great stories to inspire us to be engineers and designers.  We discussed and read about  different materials that we could use to build our dollhouses and which materials would be the best choice.  After that, the students were free to design and create their dollhouse with whichever materials they chose.  There was minimal guidance and everything was the student's idea - adults were simply there to supervise and help where needed with glue and fasteners.  The students worked so incredibly during this project.  The room was a quiet hum the entire 3 HOURS they worked.  It was so neat to watch the students problem solve when their design was not working, and help their fellow classmates with ideas.  The dollhouses turned out absolutely amazing.  I just couldn't believe some of the creativity and imagination that these kids had.  

In Math, we have continued our work with measurement.  We had fun measuring the length of our classroom - it was 468 cubes long! 

We had a Capacity Carnival where the students experienced a variety of centres that related to volume.  They filled up different containers - everything from bags, to pots to buckets to cups - with a variety of objects such as balls, water and beanbags.  The goal was to compare different sizes and shapes of containers, and see how much each on could hold.

 We also explored measuring the weight of a variety of objects using a balance scale.  Students identified which objects weighed the most.

Good times at the Bike Rodeo!

CONGRATULATIONS TO CODY FOR BEING STUDENT OF THE WEEK!