We are still here!

This has been another week of great learning but some how Ms Lirenman never took any pictures.  We had a wonderful Mystery Number Skype with a class in Richmond Virginia.  Their class was made up of all boys. They had the same number of boys as us except we have nine girls too.  We thought about what it would be like to be in a class with no girls. The boys liked it, the girls didn't.  Ms. Lirenman loves having boys and girls in her class.

We also have been working with the iPad app Explain Everything and our iPad cameras.  We have been taking photos of things up real close, and the same item from far away. We are putting these photos into Explain Everything as we try to create out own versions of Looking Closely Through The Classroom, inspired by Frank Serafini's Looking Closely books.

Some of us played a bit with our class green screen and Ms. Lirenman's new green screen technology app on her iPad.  Stay tuned as soon enough we will independently be making our own movies using green screen technology.

Have a wonderful weekend everyone and don't forget on Monday we're off on an adventure.

Ball Skills

This week in PE we  have been practicing our ball skills.  Sorry our pictures are a bit blurry but we move a lot in the gym.

Running!

At the end of the day on most Mondays we head outside to run. Sometimes we run on the gravel field, sometimes we run on the grass field, and sometimes we do loops around the playground. This week we were lucky enough to run around the grass field. 

Daily Physical Activity

We are required to make sure we move our bodies every day.  On the days we go to to gym that makes it pretty easy.  Plus once a week we run outside rain or shine.  But on other days we don't always get outside or into the gym. Some days we do have big kids come and work with us, and other times we do things on our own.  On Friday (and yes it was PJ day and the day after Halloween) we had some fun dancing.  Ms. Lirenman is very thankful of her friends from Kinderchat who have compiled some excellent dance videos.  You can find them under the tab learning links for children.  Here are some photos of us dancing away.

Mystery Number Skype

 We are still working on our numbers to 20 with children around the world through Mystery Number Skype calls.  Last week we added a new tool to our problem solving strategy by using the number chart on an iPad.  Of course a few of us prefer to use a white board.  Here we are learning with children in Iowa.

Halloween Afternoon Fun

After our field trip on Thursday we headed back to school to begin our afternoon Halloween fun.  We ate, played and then changed into our Halloween costumes.  While others were changing we enjoyed some Halloween colouring. We never get colouring but it really did help us keep calm even though we were so excited.

We had a few Spidermen in our class so Ms. Lirenman felt very safe.

Of course Mario and Luigi where there too.

Some princess and witches

And more beauties.

Even an Angry Bird,  although this student is always smiling. :-)

Of course others joined us too.

We spent part of the afternoon in the gym sharing our costumes with parents and other primary students.  This is the first time Ms. Lirenman has celebrated Halloween at our school. She loved how instead of sharing costumes by class, we shared our costumes by theme.  Ms. Lirenman smiled to see all the class witches join the other witches and all the super heros join the other super heroes.  She loved seeing everyone on display with their similar themed costumes. It was a great way to spend some time.

Then we returned to the class and skyped with Ms. Cassidy's class in Moose Jaw.  They had curiousity questions for us, and we had some for them.  Did you know that they were wearing costumes too and they they go trick or treating?  They made really cool banana ghosts.  You can read more about it here.

Once the call was over some students still wanted to colour and draw, some wanted to read Halloween books, and others wanted to dance.  We had a fun afternoon.  We ended the day with a wonderful Halloween story.

How did you spend October 31st?  We're curious to hear.

Halloween in the Forest

Today we spent the morning at the Surrey Nature Centre learning about nature and nocturnal animals. We also visited a pumking patch while we were there.  Here are some photos of our morning adventure.

Learning about owls.

Trying out owl eye site with binoculars. 

Building a nest.

Learning about racoons.

Learning about bats.

Learning about things found naturally in nature.

Feel Bags - looking at our faces do you think we like what we feel?

Racoon fur.

Time to choose our pumpkin.

Pumpkins for all.

A special thank you to the many parents of Division 19 who were able to drive or help supervise us at today's field trip. We couldn't have gone with out you.