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Monday 30 September 2013

Thanksgiving FREEBIE

Now that Canadian Thanksgiving is around the corner I thought I would share some of the Math centre activities I am doing in my class. Click on the picture to get your FREEBIE!!!  photo turkeytally_zps122ba919.png


 If you are interested in more Thanksgiving ideas or units, click here to get more great ideas!!!!

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Friday 27 September 2013

The Face of Kindergarten

This is what I have accomplished this week:

-teaching my first week of Kindergarten
-remembering all of my kids names
-updating my classroom decor
-parent teacher night was a success
-sitting on the couch in comfy p.j's with a bowl of ice cream

 A successful week I say!!!!

Can you guess the theme?
Chicka Chicka Number Line
Our cute front door


Meet the teacher night "Wish List" Coconut tree and Gifts


 

Here's to my first week in Kindergarten!!!!

Wednesday 25 September 2013

Missing my Monkeys

I am so sad that I had to start mid September at a brand new school. What a connection you make with your students and parents those first few weeks, its so hard to then say good-bye. I miss my little monkeys...
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Monday 16 September 2013

Thursday 12 September 2013

Cheetah Bear goes to Pakistan

Today we made a mural to send to our friends in Pakistan. We will be sending "Cheetah Bear" to their school and we will get a new stuffed friend delivered to our classroom!
Sharing our pastels...
It was a tight squeeze...
So focused...


Our final product

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Wednesday 11 September 2013

ABC and 1,2,3

We have had a great first week of school together in grade 1, I can't believe its the second week already! I am so lucky to have such an amazing group of "monkeys" in my jungle.

We are all friends
We are hard workers
We are proud of our accomplishments
We work together
We can work all by ourselves
We like learning new things
We LOVE to play
Grade 1 is so much fun !!!!!!




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Sunday 8 September 2013

Play Time

I just found the best playdough recipe EVER, so I thought I would share. This dough will last a long time, stay soft and it smells great too!



Ingredients:
1 pkg (3 oz.) of jello
2 cups of flour (make sure it is not less, then it will be sticky)
1 cup of salt
4 tbsp of cream of tartar (If you have no idea what this is, like me, look at the picture above. You can find it in the spices isle)
2 cups of boiling water
2 tsp of oil
food colouring (if desired)

Directions:
1. Mix all the dry ingredients together in a sauce pan
2. Add boiling water, oil (food colouring, enough to reach desired colour)
3. Stir continuously over medium heat, till it forms a ball like shape
4. Remove from pan and kneed (if sticky add more flour)
5. You can even add sparkles too!
6. Seal in an airtight container and place it in the fridge


YOU ARE DONE, let it cool, then it's time to play!!!!!!!




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Saturday 7 September 2013

Welcome Back

Welcome to our Grade 1 classroom blog. We will be using this blog a lot this year. Take some time touring around. Don't forget to bring in your media forms, so we can get some cool things up on our blog to share!!!!!  photo 451cc9e3-0da3-40a1-aed7-067433816d38_zpsadda42ac.jpg