Zippy Writing

Well Zippy was up to his old tricks. At least he didn't make a mess of the classroom like Friday! This is how we found him today.

He must have liked the Gr.1's game they played Friday!

The kids are so excited about Zippy and, for the most part, we have been on our very best behavior. Last week, the kids had the chance to write about Zippy. Both grades are working on 5 Star Sentences and similes. We have been working with descriptive writing so we decided to write a little descriptive piece on Zippy. The kids worked hard and did a very good job.

Mrs. Ashley Daley-Creamer

Santa Claus Parade-The Muppets Take F.E.S!

If you were unable to make it to the KV Santa Claus Parade you missed out on seeing the best float in the parade! Our parent volunteers did a WONDERFUL job with the float. I absolutely loved the theme-The Muppets Take F.E.S! It was all the kiddos could talk about today. Well done! I apologise for the blurry pictures-my cellphone camera and rain do not mix!

The kids dressed up as Gonzo's chicken.

You'd have to be a Grinch not to like this float!

Kind of blurry-the lights were awesome!

Mrs. Ashley Daley-Creamer

Reindeer Live!

My little buddy Lil goes to school up in Norton and she was telling me about this cool site that her teacher had shown their class. It is a live feed of Santa's reindeer! You can even see the big guy in red feed the reindeer at certain times in the day. It is pretty cool!

www.reindeercam.com

Mrs. Ashley Daley-Creamer

Zippy

     Thursday November 22nd we had a new addition to our class. Our Elf , that we named Zippy, arrived at our class with 2 jobs: 1-Zippy has to watch our kiddos while they are at school and report back to Santa about whether they have been naughty or nice and 2-Zippy is here to listen to our Christmas wishes.Zippy arrived on Quinn's birthday and caused quite a ruckus. He marked on my Happy Birthday sign I made for Quinn. He is quite a trickster. Friday morning we found him reading to a stuffy in our class library. I guess he likes reading to someone as much as we do!

An up close view of our little trickster-don't worry kids I didn't touch him!  I don't want him to loose his magic by  getting touched by a human!

Zippy reading to a stuffy.

Mrs. Ashley Daley-Creamer

Santa Claus Parade

 My hubby and I were at Java Moose last night and we were talking to a lovely parent volunteer who was headed over to work on our F.E.S. float. It sounded like they were going to be very busy-hopefully it wasn't too long of a night! We are very lucky to have such great parent volunteers at F.E.S! Keep your eyes peeled for our float The Muppets Take F.E.S! I'll be sure to take some pictures. Parade starts at 6:00pm tonight!

Read to Someone

    I love the Daily 5. The Daily 5 is a series of literacy tasks that students complete daily while I work with small groups or individuals. It is a management system that helps our kiddos develop the daily habits of reading, writing, and working with their peers that will lead to independent literacy. Our kids can read to self, work on writing and do word work for quite a while now independently-they have built up a lot of stamina. Friday we started working on read to someone. With read to someone (and all of the Daily 5) I don't just send the kids off without direction. I teach a reading strategy/writing lesson, model it and then I send them off to work on it while I work/conference with groups or individuals. 

    

    This week our reading focus has been reading with fluency and expression. Fluency is the ability to read with speed, accuracy, and proper expression. In order to understand what they read, children must be able to read fluently whether they are reading aloud or silently. When reading aloud, fluent readers read in phrases and add intonation appropriately. Their reading is smooth and has expression. During read to self time, our kids were asked to pick a book or a chapter from a book to practise. If there was an exclamation point at the end of a sentence they had to read that sentence like they were excited, if there was a question mark we talked about how our voice goes up a little at the end when we are asking questions.  The kiddos practised during read to self time and then they had to read to someone fluently and with expression.

Everyone was on task-they love partner work like this!

Elephant and Piggie books were a popular choice for reading with expression. They are definitely a class favourite!

A perfect example on how we sit EEKK during read to someone. Elbow to elbow, knee to knee, I'll read to you, you read to me. Elbow to elbow, knee to knee, book in the middle, so we can both see!

Lots of expression from these two! A neighbouring teacher had to come out to see what  book they were reading as it sounded very exciting!

Mrs. Ashley Daley-Creamer

Class Skating

 We have been skating twice already and the kids LOVE it! We have expert skaters, beginner skaters and everything in between. We love having parents out to skate with us-we go every Thursday from 10-11:15! We hope to see you there.

Mrs. Ashley Daley-Creamer

Report Cards

Well the report cards went home Friday November 23rd. I hope you take the time to review the reports and  talk with our kiddos about what they are doing well. I am very proud of all of our kids accomplishments and the hard work they have put in this term. Great job everyone!

Mrs. Ashley Daley-Creamer

Data, Data and more data

Hello everyone! We have been doing tons of awesome things in school this week. We have had careers on the move where we we able to go see all sorts of trucks used on the job (like firetrucks, mail truck, snowplows etc), we have had visitors come talk about their job, had a Remembrance Day assembly and we were the only primary class invited to go to the Millrats assembly. Whew! What a week. I have a few pictures to post about these activities and I promise I will eventually.

 Our kiddos have also had a busy week of conferencing with me about their writing, taking "reading tests", and  doing math "interviews. I have been collecting/reviewing a lot of data. Home report season is upon us! Bear with me as I may neglect our little blog for a few days. As always I will keep all of my lovely families informed of the goings on through phone calls, emails, notices and notes.

Mrs. Ashley Daley-Creamer