Addition Stations

During the month of November we have been working hard exploring the concept of addition.  We have been rotating through six different math stations, most of which are open ended so that we can work at the addition level that is just right for each of us.  Here's a little video of us working hard learning, and expanding our addition math fact knowledge.

Hot Dog Tag

Last week in gym we learned a new game called Hot Dog Tag.  To play the game  children are chosen to be "it".  Those children run around tagging the other children.  When you get tagged you must drop to the ground and pretend to be a hot dog.  The only way you can rejoin the game is by having two friends act as buns around you.  One lies down beside you on your left side, and one lies down beside you on your right side.  When that happens all three of you are free to run around again,  trying hard to avoid getting tagged again.  We want to thank Ms. Baldry and Ms. Sutherland for teaching Ms. Lirenman and Ms. Benjamin this super fun tag game.

 Oh no!  We've been tagged and are waiting for our buns to arrive.

 Hot dog and buns in action!

 Lying still to free a friend.

 Friends helping friends get free.

Time to get playing again, we're all free.

Big Gym Equipment

Most Wednesday mornings, before school, the primary teachers set up the gym with special equipment which is left out all day long.  This means that on Wednesday every primary student at our school has big gym equipment time.  Most of us share our gym time with another class (we get to share with Ms. Atkinson's grade one class) and we love having our friends from another grade one class with us.  Needless to say we love big gym equipment day.  Here's a short video showing you some of the things we like to do during this time.

Halloween

On Monday Oct 31st we celebrated Halloween at school.  The day began with regular school work.  We did manage to spend some time in the computer lab exploring some great Halloween activities including carving pumpkins using on line tools and playing a memory game with Halloween characters.  Between recess and lunch we got together with a third of the other primary classes and took part in the Halloween Howl.  It's a tradition at our school where we have multi aged groups compete in different Halloween relays in the gym.  Needless to say it was a lot of fun.  Unfortunately Ms. Lirenman was so busy setting up each relay she forgot to take pictures. She did manage a few, but really only just a few.  

After lunch we were finally able to put on our costumes before heading back to the gym for the primary costume parade.  We had some really great costumes and we got to go first during the parade. It was a lot of fun.  Here are some of our costumes.

After the parade we took part in some dances for Halloween.

We then spent a little time with our music teacher before heading back to the class for a little party.

Overall it was a really fun day and we can't wait for Halloween to come again next year.

Happy Halloween everyone!

Beanbag Skills

Last week we were working on beanbag skills in the gym.  We balanced with them, jumped with them, and even threw and caught them.  We played some exciting tag games with them too.  We are enjoying our gym time on Monday and Tuesdays with Ms. Benjamin's class.

Post Cards Have Been Sent!

This week we sent six postcards to classes around the world.  We returned postcards to Ms. Nelson's class in Australia, Ms. Kolenberg's class in Australia, and Ms. Benbow's class in Australia.  We also wrote postcards to Ms. O'Brian's class in England, Ms. Leakey's class in New Zealand, and Ms. Lindsey's class in New Zealand.  Hopefully they arrive safely!

Our class goal is that everyone will send at least one postcard this year.  Please continue to donate postcards to our cause.

Ms. Will

Ms. Will is a teacher candidate from UBC.  She will be in our classroom every Tuesday for the month of November.  In January she will be with us for two weeks straight and will teach a little bit each day.  After Spring Break she will be with us for 13 weeks straight, and will plan and teach many of our lessons with guidance from Ms. Lirenman. If you haven't had a chance to introduce yourself to her, please take the time to do so.  We feel very lucky to have her join our classroom.