100 Days Smarter!

On Friday, we celebrated 100 Day!  It was such a fun day from start to finish.  We read books about 100; One Hundred Hungry Ants and Let's Count to 100.

 

We counted to 100 and we had 100 seconds of silence (it was tricky, but we managed to do it). We all brought a collection of 100 things.  We had some great collections; 100 rubber bands, 100 foot loops or other cereal treats, 100 pieces of pasta, 100 pennies, 100 sprinkles, 100 pieces of paper, 100 Cheezies, 100 Squeakies, and 100 beans.  We compared collection and found out which were the heaviest and which were the lightest using the balance scale from our science center.  We also worked together as class to put together a 100 piece puzzle.

After lunch our big buddies came to our room and helped us to make 100 Day eyeglasses.
How did you celebrate 100 Day?

Happy Valentine's Day!

Happy Valentine's Day!  Although we were missing a few students today we had a great valentines day.  

We started the morning by handing out our valentines to the heart pockets we made with our big buddies.  Once everyone had delivered their valentines we looked at what we had received and then put the heart pockets away until the end of the day.  At recess, Joshua handed out some delicious valentine cake pops that he had made with his Grandma.  Mmm.. they we so good!  During recess the grade seven students face painted hearts on cheeks of students that wanted it.  After recess we made a valentines glyph.   Yesterday, Mrs. MacFarlane told everyone that there would be a special surprise for those who remember to wear pink, red, white or purple. While we were making the glyphs Mrs. MacFarlane visited with a treat for everyone (a timbit filled with red jam).  After lunch we made a patch work friendship quilt with pictures of friendship.  Just before the end of the day we visited out big buddies to deliver valentines we had made for them. And they had special valentines they had made for us, too!
Here is a valentines slide show of all the activities we did today and some of the valentine activities we did leading up to Valentine's Day...

Splatter Painting Completed

Remember on Monday we told you about splatter painting?  Well everyone was able to splatter paint at some time during the week and by Thursday everyone's paintings were dry.  We cut giant hearts out of the splatter painted papers and glued them to large pink, red or purple backgrounds.  They turned out great!  Here is a little look at some of the paintings.  You will see more in the valentines slideshow Mrs. Morrison makes with all the special valentine projects we've been making and will make on Monday and Tuesday.

Meet Bones!

Dear Boys and Girls,

I am Bones the dog.  I have come to live in your class. I love getting letters from students. Tell me about you.  What is your favourite colour? What do you like? What centre is the best? Your teacher tells me you are good artists, so please draw me some pictures to go with your writing.
I promise to write back to you. So, please write soon!

Love,
Bones

This was the note that Bones wrote for the class.  Each student also received an individual letter from Bones!  We are all excited to write to Bones and put mail into her mailbox.

Bones even has special doggy writing paper.

Splatter Painting

 Today we started splatter painting. Not everyone got a chance today, but the rest will get a chance tomorrow or Wednesday.  Splatter painting is very fun because you just get to flick the paint on the paper and see what happens. But you have to be careful because it can also be very messy.  Stay tuned to see what we do with our splatter paintings once they are all dry...

Fin's Adventures

Do you remember back in January when we told you about Fin? In case you forgot, Fin is a special friend in our classroom.  He has been going home for sleepovers every night with a different student.  Everyone has now had a turn to take Fin home and we are going through the class for a second time.  Fin has been on some wonderful adventures. He has rode home in a bicycle basket and been out in the snow.  He has been to the mall, skating lessons, swimming lessons, hockey games and the United States!  He has played hide and seek, been read to, watched TV and played on the computer.  He even got to meet a Canuck team mate named Bear-rows!

 Fin and his journal

 Fin's first adventure

 These are just some of the pages in Fin's journal, but believe me they are all great!  The kindergartens are doing a great job of taking care of Fin. I can't wait to see what kind of adventure he has over the weekend.

Groundhog Day

Today was Groundhog Day (you probably already knew that)!  We had lots of fun groundhog things to do today.  We read a book called Groundhog Weather School.  The book is very cute as it shows that it is very hard to predict the weather.

We wrote about groundhogs in our journals.  Mrs. Morrison was very proud of the work we did and wishes she took some pictures of the journals so she could show you all!!!  After recess we worked on a groundhog dot-to-dot.

We all got our very own mini groundhog day book to take home and read.  After lunch we got to make groundhog puppets.  We used our puppets to help us read the groundhog poem we've been practicing all week.

Here's a little groundhog, furry and brown,

He's popping up to look around,

If he see's his shadow down he'll go,

Then six more weeks of winter, oh no!

Happy Groundhog Day!