Valentine's Day & Hip Hop

We hope that everyone had a lovely family day and that they enjoyed the long weekend :)

We had such a great week.  Since Valentine's Day Friday we were missing many students, we decided to continue our Valentine's Day crafts on Tuesday so that everyone could make some beautiful pieces of art :)

D.R (JK) and E.S making tissue paper heart window ornaments

T.C making her window ornament 

S.O making a coffee filter heart

We also continued our Hip Hop this week and learned some really neat Hip Hop moves.  Since Friday February 21st was a Snow Day we did not have the Hip Hop showcase.  It was been postponed to Friday February 28th. 

Here is what we got up to this week .... 

A few friends really enjoyed painting pictures and then writing stories to go along with the picture that they painted! 

R.D wrote a story about a Cat in Paris

A.T wrote a story about a turtle who didn't know how to get home.

H.M drew a picture of Wild Style and Batman from the Lego Movie

A.T's portfolio wall entry for February

E.S was wishing for Spring and painted a beautiful Spring painting

R.T drew a beautiful rainbow!!

R.D painted a killer whale for our Ocean area! 

Our ocean dramatic play area has been so much fun! 

C.S is wearing a scuba tank and goggles.  He is pretending to scuba dive  :)

We did a great deal of building this week as well ... 

R.K and D.R (JK) made a race track for the cars

M.R and D.R (JK) made amazing structures with our geo blocks

A.T was very proud of her tall structure!

R.K made a wooden chateau (castle)! 

R.K, E.L and F.C were using the foam blocks to make une chateau (castle)

 M.R and M.H made many patterns and they were so proud!!!

S.S also organized the numbers in order!

S.S and C.C sorted by les couleurs! 

M.H and T.C were making Alphabet soup in the sensory bin! 

E.L and M.H also decided to make some alphabet soup with out little letters.

A.B was practicing her alphabet with this alphabet parking lot. 

S.S brought in a book to read to the class.  She did a great job!!!

M.R was taking a look at our Olympic wall.  Sadly the Olympics have come to an end.  We sure did enjoy watching some of the Olympic events on the Smartboard. 

S.H and a few other boys were playing with the dinosaurs.  This how now sparked a new inquiry in our room "Dinosaur Jungle".  We are going to have a lot of fun learning about Dinosaurs and Jungles :)

We hope everyone had a wonderful weekend. See you all on Monday :)

Happy Wednesday :)

We have had a great week in our room so far!!!

Since the Olympics have started, we have been very interested in talking about them :) We also created our very own Olympic board.  A few friends helped make some biographies of our Canadian athletes that have won medals for team Canada!! We also made a graph tallying how many gold, silver and bronze medals we have.

We made out Olympic torch flames by tracing our hands and cutting them out :) 

Here E.S is counting how many gold medals we have won so far!

D.R (SK) is working with Mme. Cayci to complete an athletes biography.  The children have been showing a big interest in researching the athletes. 

We have also continued to play and talk about our under the sea dramatic play area.  

Here a few of the boys have made fishing rods to bring over to the Ocean area.

Here M.H and E.L were pretending to be pterodactyls eating fish that were caught in the net  :)

S.A made an octopus and brought it in to show the class.  She said that it would look great under our classroom ocean!!

On Friday we created this amazing yellow submarine.  The children have loved playing in it :)

Here F.C is looking at some of our new French vocabulary pertaining to our Under the Sea inquiry! 

With this being Valentines day week.  We have been making valentines day crafts to bring home.  We have also been playing at Valentines day centers :) 

E.S was matching her upper and lower case letters.

S.O was counting how many little heart gems needed to go on each large numbered heart.  

She then decided that she wanted to add some of them together :)

R.T was making a pattern using toilet paper rolls in the shape of hearts. 

We also had a look at living and non-living things.  The children had to put the living and non-living things in the proper column. 

We have also been drawing beautiful art pieces and creating stories to go along with them.

R.D drew a picture of "a boy named Ronan who comes acoss a wolf while he is walking".

S.O drew a picture of dinosaurs who go to a party.

We have also been practicing writing our letters :)

T.H is practicing the letter "V"

We also had Hip Hop this morning and we will continue to have it for the rest of this week and next week  :)

Have a great night and see you tomorrow!

*** Just a reminder Friday is PJ day!!!  

Our under the sea classroom :)

We have had a great week so far crafting and building our under the sea classroom! 

This is what we got up too on Wednesday with Mme. Cayci :)

L.M, R.T and C.C made a very beautiful maison for their dinosaurs. 

A.B and S.S made a pattern using our morning time mats

We also put up a peice of paper and made an under the sea mural :)

They did such a great job!  They can also add to it whenever they like. 

Here T.H is making his jellyfish! 

Our under the sea inquiry is really taking off!! 

Here C.S, M.H and R.D were in their boat rowing towards to the fish :)  

They are having a great time with this center! 

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This is what we got up too today with Ms. Mallamo

S.B and S.Y were making alphabet soup! 

F.C and E.L were on a letter hunt

E.S and R.D did a great job finding the uppercase and lowercase letters on their pages! 

Our sea sensory bin has been a popular center.  The children love playing with the water beads and the sea creatures.  They were also adding buckets and other items

M.H was playing with the noodle sensory bin.  He noticed that there were different shaped pasta noodles in the bin

L.M made a squid and a home for her squid

S.A enjoyed playing with the word family center.  She was reading the new words she was creating! 

T.C and R.K were playing at this number center.  They each rolled a dice, and they had to bingo dab which number they rolled. 

We added some new items to our under the sea area ... we have some very creative children in our class :)  

We are so lucky!!!

***Tomorrow is Olympics day.   If you have any Olympic / Canada gear, please feel free to wear it.  Red and White works too  :)

Have a great night!!!