Fun Friends - Talking About Emotions

On Friday, Oct 14 during our Community Square time after recess we took part in a Fun Friends lesson. This lesson focussed on feelings and emotions.  While we talked about each emotion we all made faces and took pictures with our iPods.  Here is a short video of some of our faces.  You will notice that many of the children's wonderful faces are missing from the video.  It certainly wasn't because they didn't take wonderful pictures, it was because some how Ms. Lirenman lost many of the photos when she transferred them from one computer to the other.  She's still not sure how it happened.  So, she apologizes.  Next time she will be a lot more careful, and not so quick to delete the photos from the original computer. 

Thanksgiving Sharing Feast

The Friday before Thanksgiving (Oct 7) all the primary children in our school got together for our Annual Thanksgiving Sharing Feast.  Each class shared a special Thanksgiving poem or song, then well all participated in the Turkey Pokey, and finally we ate lunch with one another on a our special place mats.  Unfortunately Ms. L forgot to take pictures while we were presenting our poem "I Heard a Turkey Say", and she also forgot to take pictures while we were dancing the Turkey Pokey (mind you she was dancing up  a storm herself) but here are some pictures of us enjoying our food.  There are even a couple of videos.  Enjoy.

Blogging At School

On Thursday, during our time in the computer lab, we all worked really hard on our individual blogs.  Ms. Lirenman was so proud of us as we thought of things to say, sounded out our words, and did our best typing.  Some of us even published our blogs to the world.  So if you haven't had a chance to check them out please follow the link under the individual blogs tab and check us out.  We'd love it if you could comment on our blogs.  Have we mentioned we LOVE comments. Here are some pictures of us working hard on our blogs.

Community Read

Every Wednesday and Thursday morning we invite our parents, grandparents, and little brothers and sisters into our room to read with us.  While this is only are second week doing it we've had a really great turn out.  Here are pictures of some of us reading with our families or with one another.

 On Thursday XXXX read with her mom, dad, and little brother.

 On Thursday XXXX read with his mom, grandma, and his TWO DAY OLD baby brother.

XXXXX read with his dad.

XXX read with her mom.

XXXXX read with her mom.

XXXX read with her dad and Ms. XXXX.

XXXX read with her whole family.

On Wednesday XXXX read with her dad.

XXXX read with her mom and dad.

XXX read with her mom.

On Wednesday XXX read with Ms. X.

XXX read with his mom.

XXXX read with his mom and with Eric.

XXXX read with her dad and her two little brothers.

XXX, XXX, and XXX read together.

We love community read.  Do you do have it in your school?  If not, maybe you should.

Individual Blogs

Incase you haven't heard, some of us have started writing on our individual blogs. Be sure to check them out here (or follow the tab at the top of this page). So far the blogging has all been done at home but Ms. Lirenman is certain the blogging will continue at school too. It certainly is an exciting time in our class these days.

Patterns, Patterns and More Patterns PLUS the iPods are HERE!

Today we started our first day of  patterning stations.  Ms. Lirenman has created seven different stations for us, each open for us to explore patterning and show her what we know.  Today some of us copied patterns, some of us continued patterns, some of us created patterns, and some of us created and copied patterns.  It's only our first day at the stations but so far they are a lot of fun.  

This afternoon Ms. Lirenman brought out the iPod Touches again.  In case you haven't heard Ms. Lirenman borrowed a class set of Ipods from our school district.  We have them for three weeks and we are so excited to use them.  Last week some of us read into them and then we listened to our reading to see what we are doing well and what we can improve on.  Today we played around on the iPods again trying out some new apps for learning. . It was fun to work on/with them.  Ms. Lirenman tells us she has a lot more exciting things for us to do with them but we also have to make share we share them with the rest of the school.



What do you do with your iPod?

Patterning in the Lab

Today we went to the computer lab for math.  We played two pattern math games. For one of the games we had to chose what was missing from the pattern. You can find it here Pattern Game .  For the other game we made musical patterns.  You can find it here Musical Patterns.  Here's what we thought about the activity.

Brooklyn - I liked playing the games.
Huda - I liked when we did the patterns.
Paul - I liked playing  both of the games.
Lawrence - I liked the musical patterns.
Nicholas - I learned how to make musical patterns.
Urim - I liked working on the smartboard with Christine.
Claudine - I liked hearing the music patterns.
Soeun - I liked making the patterns.
Jesse - I liked doing the number patterns.
Eric - I liked using the pattern machine.
Koden - I liked the music patterns.
Marcus - I liked making the patterns because they were fun.
Christine - I liked doing my math on the smartboard.
Alicia - I liked the pattern games because I could make them easier or harder.
Trista - I liked the music pattern game.
Julie - I liked the music pattern machine.
Jennica - I liked the music pattern game.

Here are some photos of us busy at work.