Another wonderfully full week in Mr. David’s class. We discussed our home neighborhoods and the neighborhoods that we’ve been building in class. We expanded on the neighborhood theme and began talking about how a village develops. We incorporated streets, railways, bridges, theaters, and parks into a larger entity on the rug. In Mr. Anthony’s art class we created lifelike animals and people using plasticine. Literacy saw Mr. David’s class responding thoughtfully to the characters and themes in books. During Game Friday we explored favorite games that friends brought in, games that challenged eye-hand co-ordination, and games that challenged the mind. I’m looking forward to another awesome week. Enjoy the collages below!

October 17th – Structures and Word Work

October 18th – Art with Mr. Anthony

October 19th – Planning a Village

October 20th – Game Friday

Another short, but full week in Mr. David’s class. We worked constructing card stock structures and neighborhoods on Tuesday and Thursday afternoon during theme time. Literacy saw Mr. David’s class delving deeper into word work, sorting words based on vowel pronunciation and beginning letters, writing, and discovering new words. In Mr. Anthony’s art class we explored perspective through the examination and discussion of visual artwork and the creation of our own. During Game Friday we worked with cubelets, designing robots that move, respond to the external environment, and even draw! We also played games in Ms. Maria’s Mystery Room! Enjoy the collages below!

October 10th

October 11th

October 12th

October 13th

Last week was busy, short and exciting! We explored Yoga with Ms Vanessa; crossing streams on stepping stones, posing, and making bridges. Literacy time saw a focus on Word Work; discovering pronunciation, spelling, and sorting of words based on different variables. During Art with Mr. Anthony the children continued working on their rock art. We spent a little extra time in the afternoon before pickup each day building our classroom community on the Playground. It was a wonderful four days!

Monday, September 18th

In Literacy, we began talking about rules both at home and at school in preparation for making a classroom constitution. Ms Vanessa introduced some mindfulness activities and the children learned some yoga moves.

Tuesday, September 19th

In Literacy, we continued preparing for the writing of our constitution. We built structures using coffee stirrers and clay; the goal was to suspend a cylindrical block above the table’s surface. The children had some inventive solutions!

Wednesday, September 20th

The second week of Creativity morning was quite successful. The children enjoyed building, coding, designing, and making. Mr. Anthony talked with the children about Symbols and worked with them to create their own. He also introduced them to stone stacking.

Thursday, September 21st

We nearly finished up the children’s presentations of their Five Things bags. We continued our constitution by hunting for rule sticky-notes around the room. We enjoyed a number of games in the afternoon, from Chess to Tell-a-Tale, a story-telling game.

The first full week of school! Introduction of Creativity Morning! It was a wonderful week. The children learned new group routines and began to get a feel for what the structure of the week is like.

Monday, September 11th

In Literacy, the children were introduced to some new writing activities, sticker stories, and news from home. Mr. David’s and Ms. Vanessa’s math groups enjoyed a story about place value and counting by 10s. They then explored Base 10 Blocks and experimented using them to represent different numbers.

Tuesday, September 12th

In Literacy, the children continued sticker stories, and news from home. Mr. David’s and Ms. Vanessa’s math groups continued representing numbers using Base 10 Blocks. They partnered up with another friend and took turns writing down a number that the other friend would represent with the blocks. We began presenting our Five things that represent Me bags. The children loved discovering what they did and didn’t have in common. During afternoon Choice Time the children were challenged to build structures that were wider at the top than at the bottom. We also explored 48 to 60 piece puzzles.

Wednesday, September 13th

We had our first Creativity Morning on Wednesday! The children worked with saws in the shop with Mr. Josh, created news stories with Ms. Kara, built with Mr. Malcolm, and enjoyed other activities. In the afternoon Mr. Anthony worked with the children to create woven paper pieces. On the rug, the children continued sharing their Five things… bags.

Thursday, September 14th

More Five things… sharing both in the morning and afternoon. We also acted out different scenes from a Read-Aloud book, and talked about handmade furnishings. The children chose their favorite square from the Afghan and recreated it on paper.

Friday, September 15th

Friday we played a variety of math games after a skip-counting lesson. In the afternoon we had Friday Game Day! The children played and taught each other games from tic-tac-toe to checkers to Forbidden Island to Stratego. It was a wonderful way to close the week.