Chicken Soup with Rice

We have been reading a Big Book called Chicken Soup with Rice.  The students love this book!  The book can be sung to a catchy tune and we have been singing it as well.  It is a story about the months of the year, and the little boy loves chicken soup with rice so much that he eats it all year round. 

Sight Word list

Our Celebration!

What fun we had tasting food from different countries.  It was so delicious and the children loved it all!

SLINKY MALINKY

We read a Slinky Malinky this week.  This story is about a sneaky cat that goes out at night and takes anything and everything that he can find.

The students came up with different words to describe Slinky like sly, sneaky, adventurous.  Then they made their own Slinky Malinky cat!

SIGHT WORD LIST #4

This week's sight words are:

is
black
a
purple
he
with
big
do

Please review these words every night and practice writing them!

CELEBRATIONS!

We have been talking about the different celebrations in Canada.  We talked about how we celebrate with food, decorations and ceremonies. 

MATH!

We have been counting the days at school by adding a straw each day to our cup.  We have been counting by tens and when we have a group of ten straws, we move the group to the Tens cup.  We also add a day to our Hundreds Chart so that the students can see the patterns in numbers as we move towards 100!

PATTERNS!

We have been doing a unit on Patterning.  We created a pattern for our October calendar.  The students loved to demonstrate the pattern using actions.

Happy Eid al Adha Happy Thanksgiving

We have been celebrating our holidays this week.  We have been comparing the two holidays and discussing the different ways we celebrate.

FALL POEMS

We have been learning some fall poems.  Here are two poems the students have loved to sing.  They are in their Red Folder so sing along with your child for homework!

FALL!

We have begun to talk about some of the changes happening around us.  Again we are using our senses to describe what we see (leaves changing colours), hear (crunching leaves) what we smell (delicious smells of fall cooking like apple pie) and what we feel (colder, wet leaves).  The class wrote a song about fall and we had fun singing it together. 

APPLES!

We have been using our senses to explore apples!  We tasted some different apples and graphed our favourite apple.  Green was the favourite of the class!  We did some apple art using our hand prints after reading Mr. Brown's Magnificient Apple Tree. 

HOME READING!

Today we began our home reading program.  Each day students will take a book home and keep a log of their reading.  After reading 5 books, students will get a sticker and when they reach 100 books they will get a prize!  Keep reading!

OUR WRITING WALL!

Here is a photo of our SUPERSTAR WRITERS wall.  Each week the students will be displaying their writing.  This week we read Rainbow Fish and discussed important ways to be a good friend.

Our class has read "David Goes to School" and we love David!  But, he doesn't follow the rules....The class made a bulletin board of the character David, and wrote some rules they have learned.

Here is a pic of our classroom!

I have had a wonderful summer and now I am getting ready to head into the classroom to prepare for yet another year!