The results are in!

The St. Patrick's Day Lucky Charms Project that we took part in has closed and the results are in.
Click here to see the results!   There were over 148,000 marshmallow shapes sorted, counted and tallied by the 5951 students that took part in the project from all over Canada, the United States (including Hawaii) and even Iceland and France.

Leprechauns!

To go along with our St. Patrick's Day global project (see post below) we are also doing some other St. Patrick's Day activities in the classroom.  Yesterday, we read "That's What Leprechauns Do."

After reading the stories we created a can, have and are chart about leprechauns.

Today we read two stories; Lucky Tucker and The Luckiest St. Patrick's Day Ever.

 

After reading both stories we talked about what makes us feel lucky and made a chart.

 

After creating our charts we each made our own lucky leprechaun.  Here are a couple examples.

Stayed tuned for more St. Patrick's Day activities.

St. Patrick's Day Project

Mrs. Morrison signed our class up to participate in a global St. Patrick's Day project with other classes in Canada and the United States, as of now there is even one class from France!  What we needed to do was sort all the the marshmallow shapes in a box of Lucky Charms.

Mrs. Morrison divided up our box of Lucky Charms into ziploc bags for us and we each got one.  Our FIRST task was to sort the marshmallow shapes from the cereal.  (We did not need the cereal pieces.)  THEN we had to sort the marshmallow shapes; pots of gold, clovers, horseshoes, rainbows, stars, moons, hearts and balloons.  AFTER sorting our shapes we needed to count and tally them on a sheet Mrs. Morrison gave us.  

AFTER everyone had counted and tallied their shapes, we came together as a class to make a class tally.

We found that moons were the were the most popular shape.  After some discussion we decided that maybe this was because moons are very common and everyone sees them or because the swirl moon shapes where the *NEW* shape that was advertised on the outside of the box.  Mrs. Morrison submitted our results and so far there are 1125 students that have participated in the project and 25,660 shapes that have been sorted, counted and tallied.  Moons are the most popular so far.  The project doesn't close until March 19, so we'll post the final results of the project after that.

Readers Theatre

Last week we performed our readers theatre fairy tales for our parents.  Here they are!

Germ Wars!

A couple weeks ago we watched a fun video about protecting ourselves from germs.  One of our classmates asked me to upload it to the blog so that you could watch at home.

Attention Parents!

The March News has been posted under the Monthly Newsletters tab and will also be displayed in the classroom window.

Fairy Tale Comparison

We've been reading and studying fairy tales for the past three weeks.  We've read multiple versions of Goldilocks and the Three Bears and The Three Little Pigs.  Today we read Little Red Riding Hood.  We compared all three stories to see what differences we could find and what similarities they had.