Social Studies

Mrs. Shillington and I have started Social Studies with our kiddos. We will be learning about New Brunswick. I wish I had of taped the reaction from the class when they saw the Social Studies sign on our class schedule. THEY FREAKED! When I gave them the books about New Brunswick they were so excited! Here are a few things that we heard.....

"We live in New Brunswick!"

 "Wow look at the maps!"

"Terry Fox is on page 95!"

"Look at those weird rock things!" (referring to Hopewell Rocks)

"Oh my gosh I've been to that place!"


You would think we gave them the moon! There were shrieks people! Mrs. Shillington and I had a good chuckle about their reactions and we hope that the attitude about Social Studies lasts all year!

Since the student books are non-fiction we introduced Social Studies by sending the kids on a text feature hunt. They had to look for captions, diagrams, glossaries etc. Here are a couple pictures below!

Little Buddies/Big Buddies

On Friday our class is the Big Buddy class to 1 McNeill. The kids were very surprised to learn that they were no longer little buddies but considered the big buddies this year. Mrs. McNeill and I take turns hosting the kids in our rooms. This week it was our class' turn to host the little buddies so they came to our classroom. They kids played a getting to know you game and read some books. Our class was so sweet and loved helping the little buddies read. We have a really sweet bunch of kiddos!

Class Mission

Our class has set long term goals for the year and we have now come up with our class mission. I explain to our kids that the class mission is our promise to one another. Have a look below at our promises!

Fall Scene-artwork

I snapped a quick picture on my way out the door Friday of some of our kiddos' artwork. This is our Autumn scene using pastels. Hopefully this puts you all in the mood for Fall! Happy Thanksgiving everyone!

Roots of Empathy

We have started Roots of Empathy in our class! Once a month our kiddos will visit with Baby Ezra and his mom April. We will discuss how babies learn and grow in their first year. We have many "baby experts" in class who love to share their experiences and ideas. The kids are very excited to see Ezra again-ask your kiddo what we did with Ezra at his first visit!

Our sweet Roots of Empathy baby!

Math-Numbers to 500

In Math we are working on building, counting and comparing numbers up to 500. Last week kids were given a large collection of objects, told to estimate how big their collection was and then count their collections. We had a fantastic discussion about numbers bigger than 100 and how to write them. Many kiddos were adding a zero to their numbers when writing numbers larger than 100. For example some kiddos were writing 118 as 1018-we had a great discussion about this in class.

We discussed counting our large collection by 5's and 10's. Many partners grouped their collections into groups of ten as many kids' collections had more than 200 objects in it!