What we were up to today . . .

A little window into our world - What we were up to today . . . . . . Centres

     Guided reading Centre #1

 Great reading style

Guided Reading - Helping each other out with an unseen (1st time run through) of a non-fiction text.
One way to help each other out in a guided setting. Great Job!
P.S The camera picked up the painting group who was very close so it's a little noisier then usual

 Following along, listening along, helping each other out and waiting their turn

 Painting our spring art drawings- Centre #2

 Building with inter locking 2D shapes to create and build 3D shapes - Centre #3

 A little Raz Kids, Think Fun or checking out our Blog - Centre #4

 Math Centre adding and subtracting dry erase -  Centre #5

Love my students - Mrs. Wood's Wonderful Workers

"The Power of Persistence"

Todays assembly "The Power of Persistence"

Below is a short clip of the assembly today. The students learned about persistence and perspective, trying and learning all while having a laugh.

Let's Draw!

Snowshoeing and Forts

Just finished a race across the field 

Snowshoeing is "hot work"

Enjoying a moment resting on a snow fort

How many students are in this photo?

Where to next Mrs. Wood?

Photo from our very first snowshoe

ART SHOW

This post is slightly out of order as we painted and created for the Art Show in February, but here are some wonderful photos of 1 part of the process undertaken to create the master pieces.

Beginnings of a Master Piece!

Mixing up a mess

We need more shaving cream and paint Mrs. Wood

Making the marbling visible

In the Gym

VALENTINES DAY

A little snap shot of the festivities on February 14th.

SMILE!

Away to go!

                                      

Are we done yet?

Wii Fun

I love it! Dancing up a storm

The quieter side at our classroom party

Crazy Obstacle Courses

I assigned groups for the students to work in. They collectively created obstacle courses, trying to include as many pieces of equipment as possible, remembering to vary the ability (as not everyone would be able to do exactly what was asked) and make the main goal fun.

Over the course of a week the planning was done and then the action began. The students learned a great deal about working in a group and trying in include lots of ideas, over coming challenges, mixing and narrowing a zillion ideas and lots of interrupting each other. Overall a blast was had by all and I was quite impressed with the students courses and ability to change the plan if a piece of equipment wasn't available.

New Links

Hey Kids,

I hope your weekend has been wonderful. I have added links to National Geographic Kids, great information and fun games, as well as, the much requested Dr. Seuss - Seussville. And, tonight I will tackle the photo slideshow and Flickr again.

Love Mrs. Wood

Sorry! Try, try again!

Sorry to disappoint I have been trying, with little success, to upload pictures to our blog as a slideshow. Currently I can not get the slideshow (which is 40 pictures and very cute by the way) to "load" I have been loading and labelling pictures, creating slideshows for quite sometime now I am heading to relax for a bit then to bed (it's 10:40pm). As I tell Ella and Logan you have to keep trying, "try, try again" so I will try to learn something new tomorrow and figure out what is going on and how to successfully post pictures.
Sorry kids. I hope you have a great weekend. Your parents can check out what we are up to with regards to academics in the next month in the post below.

Mrs. Wood

Academic Breakdown for April and into May

PHOTO UPDATE
So, after a few failed attempts to post massive amounts of individual pictures to the our Blog I have scaled back the images and events and created a smaller slide show of events "What we have been up to lately . . ." Please see the photo slideshow in the space below.

On to academics -

MATH-  For the last two weeks I have been overlapping the ending of our Geometry Unit with the beginning of the Number Sense and Numeration Unit.
The Geometry Unit ended very successfully Wednesday with the unit end quiz.
The next few weeks will focus on solidification of working with numbers to 100.
-adding and subtracting
-representing numbers to 100
-solving word problems using pictures numbers and words
-beginning of multiplication - groupings, arrays, repeated addition
-beginning of division - dividing items into equal groupings
-finding missing numbers - 9 + ____ = 23,  12- ____ = 5
-Money

LANGUAGE ARTS -
WRITING
-Wrapping up narrative writing - preparing for parent/guardian visit
-Letter Writing
-Procedural Writing
-Persuasive Writing
READING
-Reading Groups
-reading with parents and grandparents
MEDIA LITERACY - filming Fairy Tale Narratives using Smart Notebook and iMovie software

SOCIAL STUDIES - Canada and the World - Where are we in our World?
end of April begin research into Canadian Holidays and Festivals - Toonik Time, Calgary Stampede, etc.

PHYSICAL EDUCATION -
-Co-operative games
-Ball sports
- Outdoor experiences

HEALTH
-planning a healthy party
-good sportsmanship - team goals

DRAMA
-Plays - In the end of April, beginning of May we will begin our second round of plays. I have borrowed a number of Readers Theatre stories from Connaught.  I will be working with the students on roles, lines, performing, a few small props and costumes with hopes of presenting the end of May.

ART - SPRING!

SCIENCE - Mr. Kemsley

MUSIC - Mrs. Garbutt