We had a great week with our Pumpking Math activities… Next week, we will be doing some candy math! It is all part of the season. Please keep in mind that our children are encourage to wear their Halloween costume but we are not letting them have a mask or accessories (safety first…).

This was the last step, we needed to paint to make the pumpkins look festive!

The first step was to make predictions on how heavy each pumpkin was… Then, we needed to put them in order from the smallest to the heaviest… They ranged from 5kg to 9 kg!

We had to get the seeds after we made predictions on how many could be in our pumpkin! It was great! Some children were saying this is really messy… Welcome to the real world! hiiiii

Counting by 10, by 20 and even by 100 was the hardest part! Could you imagine what happened if we needed to start again… Learning to be accurate!

The final numbers are in! That was alot of work…

Monday, we will eat some pumpkin seeds (they came for Bulk Barn!)…

Thank you all for providing the pumpkin to our classroom… It was possible because of you!

Have a great weekend! 😉

Monsieur Terry

Let me start by saying THANK YOU for all the pumpkins! We are going to have so much fun in math… You will probably hear about it. I will post pictures during the process.

This week, we are continuing to enhance our skills in reading by working with a partner. Reading the same book and sharing it’s content are important skills. At home, you may get our children to talk about their book. If they are able to do this, it means that they are actually reading and comprending. Great Job!
In writing, we have been working on authors write daily! They are doing a great job but we are facing some frustrations. That is all about the process. At home, talking about anything and everything helps. Imagination is able to be encourage daily. In math,we are still in the number recognition, skip counting by 2 and 10 (forward and backward), odd and even numbers…

As indicatded on the homework sheet of the week, we are having a Popscile sale ($1 each) this week. Orders are due by Thursday. All monies raised will help our school purchase items to support student learning.

That is all for this week!

Have a great weekend 🙂

Monsieur Terry

Our week was very exciting from going to get a tree and being on Compass… It is all about creating some learning experiences for our children to able to talk and write about. We are starting to work on writing small moments. This is another way to talk about something that happened – it could be as simple as washing your face or as complex as a special moment on a trip.

It is really exciting to see that we have already received 2 pumpkins for our Halloween Math Spooky Fun! Please let me know if you are able to provide one pumpkin for our class by Oct. 22nd.

Enjoy your long weekend and talk soon!

Monsieur Terry

Our first Home & School Meeting is happening on Tuesday Oct 15th at 6:30. You are all invited to come and share some of your fantastic ideas to make this school year the best. Our class is lucky to have found a 2B rep., Holly MacLeod (Riley’s mother). Thank you so very much… 🙂

Before I write about anything else let me take this opportunity to be Thankful for all of the great children I have the pleasure of working with… They are full of life, motivation and eagerness to discover new learnings! I also would like to say Thank you for continuing to support what is happening in the classroom. Together, we are able to provide a wonderful learning journey for all our children.

I am fully aware that you may be hearing crazy stories for our classroom… Yes, we do laugh and enjoy each others company. It is so very important to create strong relationships with each other to be able to trust and to feel safe when we are struggling with some concepts to learn.

This coming week is all about being Thankful and recognizing all the great people and blessings in our lives. Writing, reading and math activities will make this very evident.

Here are a few pictures of our children working in their causerie groups (talking groups). They are creating a monster family! They are fully enjoying this creation and using their imagination really helps with writing, reading and problem solving.

After Thanksgiving, we will be starting some Halloween work… Spooky fun in the horizon. Therefore, I am looking for 6 real pumpkins (average size) if you have any it would be wonderful if you could donate one to our classroom – you may bring them to our class or drop them off in the office before Oct. 22nd. We will be weighing them, counting all the seeds, learning about their origine of using them for Halloween and of course decorating them. I will buy them if we don’t have any donated. Thank you for your help.

Please ask our children how they enjoyed working with their buddies from the 6X class last Friday – get all the details from them.

Have a great weekend and enjoy each other 🙂

Monsieur Terry