What do YOU need and Love It!

Today, we used padlet to answer the following question...What do YOU need?  Here are our answers!

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All About Lucas and the OK Book

Lucas was our Star of the Week today.  He showed his photos on the smartboard and did an excellent job of explaining the photographs.  Here is his Google Slide show:

For the Global Read Aloud, we read the story 'The OK Book'.  We had a few ideas about what the author's message might be.  Some thought it might be about trying to do things until you become really good at them.  Other people thought the message might be to keep trying things even if you are not great at them.  You might still have fun!  The bottom line is...it's Ok to be OK at something.  as one of the students said...we can't be good at EVERYTHING!  Just imagine what it would be like if we never tried new things because we thought we might fail or thought we wouldn't be the best. What are you OK at?

We continue to practice rounding numbers to the nearest ten,  Look at your number and think about which two tens the number is between,  Remember that numbers that end in 1,2,3 or 4 round down. If a number ends in 5,6,7,8 or 9 you round it up!  If the number ends in 0 you leave it alone...it stays the same the number ends in 0 it stays the same:)

Busy Day!

To day, we learned how to green screen our monsters we made at the beginning of the week.

We are going to take our descriptive writing (about our monster) and record our voices on imovie.  Stay Tuned!
This afternoon, we continued to work at our Literacy Stations.  Some friends were writing stories, some groups were reading and others were using the piccollage app to create posters for handwashing (and uploading to their blog).
We have collected 174 cans so far...we have one more day!  Can we do it?
This week, for the GRA15, we read the book "Exclamation Mark" by Amy Krouse Rosenthal.  Thank you to Mrs. Denyer's class for posting their ideas too. Here is our padlet of ideas!  P.S.  We didn't get to finish it so you are more than welcome to add your ideas:)

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Lastly, don't forget to hand in your Dance-a-Thon pledges and wear your costume tomorrow (no weapons or masks please).

It's Not Fair! The Water Cycle and Reminders

We got a tweet back from Amy Krouse Rosenthal (our author study for the Global Read Aloud). Pretty cool to have a famous author write back to us!

@mrsaddison2 I think it is fair, especially because the dad will probably give his kid a lot of bites anyways. :)

— Amy Krouse Rosenthal (@missamykr) October 20, 2015

Today, we created our own "It's Not Fair!" pages for a book we are creating.  It should be ready by next week...just in time for Hallowe'en.
In Science, we had just enough time to do a quick water cycle experiment and record our observations.  First, we boiled water (like the sun heating up a lake) and then put ice cubes in a tuna can.  The water vapour rose and condensation formed on the bottom of the can.  Can you guess what started to happen to the water droplets?  You are correct...it started to rain!  Some unlucky students got a little wet! Thanks Rubi for the great photos.  Clark also went outside to take a photo of a big puddle in the school yard.  I wonder what will happen to it?

Evaporation-when the water vapour rises into the air (ice cubes were the clouds)

Condensation forms on the bottom of can

 Reminders:
Library books are due next Wednesday
Canned food drive ends next Friday (let's beat last years total of 154 cans)

Primary Blogging Community, GRA15 and Lines...Oh My!

Mrs. Stoufer's Class would love to have the students read their blogs!  They are all the way from...Florida!
Dance-A-Thon pledges went home with the kids the other day.  The Dance-A-Thon will take place on October 30th in the gym.
The Canned Food Drive (aka We Scare Hunger) has begun.  Please help us reach our goal of at least 100 cans for the classroom!
We have been learning about different lines.  At one of our stations this week, we have to use at least 6 lines to create a crazy hair picture (to follow!!!).

Today we read the story "It's Not Fair!" by Amy Krouse Rosenthal.
We talked about what we thought 'fair' meant before we listened to the story.  We also discussed what the author's message might be and if we had any connections.  If you did not get a chance to add your voice to the Padlet, here is your chance (just tap on the padlet and you can write!):

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Global Handwashing Day, Jersey Day and Global Read Aloud Video

Tomorrow is Jersey Day for United Way! Wear your favourite team jersey (Blue Jays?) and make a donation to the United Way:)

Today is Global Handwashing Day...remember to wash your hands properly!

We are the lead video in the Global Read Aloud compilation of Chopsticks!  Woo! Hoo!


Another group of students would like us to take their poll about Duck! Rabbit!.  Please help them out here!

Activity Fees and Duck! Rabbit!

If you haven't already done so, please pay the student fee:) You can pay online through the school website (School Cash Online).  Thanks again!

Today we read the book Duck! Rabbit! for our Global Read Aloud.  We made predictions by looking at parts of the front cover.  Most of us had seen the cover before so we already knew it was going to be either a rabbit or a duck (or both?).  Take a look at the video version of the book!

Here is our Padlet about our ideas:

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We would like to know what YOU think?  Please add your opinion to our Survey Monkey.  Thanks again!

Updated Padlet for GRA15

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Here is a map to show all the participants in the Global Read Aloud:

Chopsticks Part Two, Fire Prevention Week and Turkey Day

Don't forget to write down the weather in your agenda for Friday, Saturday, Sunday and Monday. 
This week is Fire Prevention Week.  We watched a video together and answered questions about fire safety.  We also reviewed our escape plan at school.  Here is the video we watched.
We continued to work at our Literacy Stations today.  Students have begun to write on their blogs and practice writing quality comments. You can also write comments!  They would love to hear from others out there in blogland. Today's tech group was engaged in their work and did not hesitate to help one another if a problem arose. I just had to tweet out a photo of their hard work. Here is what one of our followers had to say to us...

Leveraging student expertise!! Awesome! https://t.co/bqbsGclnWz

— Mrs. J Flinn (@MrsJFlinn) October 8, 2015

Math Monkey was also impressed with our short math inquiry this morning.  Can you answer the monkey's question?

Wow! This makes me wonder: if 30 can be shown 4 ways with Base10 blocks, how many ways can you show 20? 40? 50? https://t.co/ulktQObIuT

— Math Monkey (@Math_Monkey1) October 8, 2015

This afternoon, we had our first Google Hangout with Mrs. Denyer's Grade Two class at St. Gregory's. They are doing the Global Read Aloud as well and just finished 'Chopsticks'.  At lunch they tried their hands at using real chopsticks to eat their lunch.  We did too! Becoming a chopstick master requires the 3 Ps- Patience, Persistence and Practice.

During our Google Hangout, we asked questions about Mrs. D's class (they have 20 kids in their class and they have a library in their classroom too!) and what their favourite part of the book was. We will be connecting with them next week after we read the second book in our Author Study,  The book is 'Duck! Rabbit!' and it looks like it will be another hilarious picture book.

Happy Thanksgiving!

Global Read Aloud

Today we began our Global Read Aloud adventure with the story 'Chopsticks'.  Our author study will be all about Amy Krouse Rosenthal. We predicted what the story might be about before seeing the cover. After Mrs. A took off the cover to show the artwork on the cover, we made new predictions about what the book was about. It really was a book about friendship and not being afraid to take a break, trying new things. The class thoroughly enjoyed the book and its witty play on words ("whisked away" by a real wisk). The author of the book favourited our tweet about how much we enjoyed the story.  COOL!

We also discussed what the author's message might have been.  We continue to post on our GRA Padlet each day.  Tomorrow, we will attempt to use real chopsticks (Thanks, Mrs. Lee!). Rubi said she would bring her own chopsticks into school to show us how it is done. A class in Michigan has even contributed to our padlet post! Check out our twitter conversation below!

@mrsaddison2 We posted some of our ideas!

— Michele Stevens (@MrsStevensMI) October 7, 2015

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