Happy Movember!

 

Measuring out the longest dinosaur, 110 feet.  

 

Happy Movember!!!!!!!

November 24-28

 

Filling in the missing numbers.

 

How many blocks long? 15

 

Dinosaur dig, we are palaeontologists!

 

How many bones did you find? 13

 

Which dinosaur is longer?

 

Sequencing from shortest to longest.

 

Morning message- find all the letter Gg, count the words, find words we know (is, to, the).

 

Printing the alphabet.

 

Estimating. Who's estimate was closest to 22?

 

Graphing.

Our Favourite Dinosaur song...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W0FOZ0-VpcU

November Newsletter

November has been a month full of Dinosaur Discovery! We have been busy creating Dinosaurs, reading and learning about Dinosaurs and pretending to be Paleontologists.

 

 

Language

We are beginning to write more, at lease once a week in our journals as well as guided reading groups once a week. During Reading we are discussing concepts of print- direction we read, tracking (pointing to the words as we read), finding spaces, periods, etc. We do picture walks before reading to make predictions of what the book might be about and use the pictures as cues to figure out unknown words.

We have learned the letters Rr, Mm, Dd and Gg this month.

We are continuing to learn more popcorn words. The children are helping to write our morning messages- counting words, finding spaces, discussing punctuation and looking for popcorn words. The words we have been reviewing and remembering are is to and the.

We are also reading lots of stories, fiction and non-fiction; about Dinosaurs and learning about all the different types of dinosaurs.

With our Speech and Language Pathologist we have been working on compound words and using he and she properly.

 

Math

For Measurement we went outside to estimate the length of the longest dinosaur, the Brachiosaurus which was 110 feet. We measured and marked it out, and then half of us stood at the head and the others at the tail and waved to each other! It took up half the length of the school.

We used snap cubes to measure the height and length of different toy dinosaurs and put them in order from tallest to shortest or longest to shortest. We have been using many different measurement terms.

 

We also explored the scales to discuss weight- heavier and lighter. The heavier side goes down. When the scale was balanced, they had the right amount of rocks for the dinosaur's weight.

We will be measuring and mixing the ingredients to make the plaster for our dinosaur fossils.

For Number Sense we have been printing and reading numerals from 1-8. We are counting using 1^st, 2^nd, 3^rd etc., and we are counting to 100 everyday!

They sequenced numbers to put back together dinosaur puzzle pieces.

They also estimated and counted the number of toy dinosaurs inside our estimating jar.

 

In Geometry they used triangles to Pattern the spikes on the back of their Stegosaurus. We also sorted and used toy dinosaurs to make patterns.

In Data Management we have graphed Plant Eater (Herbivore) verses Meat Eater (Carnivore) as well as our favourite Dinosaur.

Science

The children have been exploring Dinosaurs. We have pretended to be paleontologists and dig in our sand table to find Dinosaur bones, dust them off, match them up and record our findings.

We have been learning about fossils and the clues that they leave behind. We have discussed that the Dinosaurs are “extinct” and the difference between “herbivores” and “carnivores” and how to tell the difference by looking at different Dinosaurs.

 Art

Art has been a lot of fun creating many different dinosaurs.

The students created a Tyrannosaurus Rex skeleton using sticks and coffee grinds.

They made a Stegosaurus by using confetti for their scaly skin, painting it a mixture of green and brown to get the right shade, counting the letters in their name for the boney plates and patterning the spikes!

Personal and Social

With Remembrance Day we talked about bringing peace to the world, but for us it means to make our classroom, school and community a place where there is no fighting.

Dinosaurs and Measurement con'd...

What an exciting week with all our parent visitors!

Thanks for coming in to see all the exciting things we are doing.

 

Patterning. Making trickier patterns this week... 

 

ABCDE pattern!!!

 

ABCD!!!

 

 Measuring and comparing weight this week...

"They are balanced now"

Do you need more rocks? "Yes"

How do you know? "The dinosaur is down".

 

Is it balanced?

"Yes they are at the same height".

 

Which side is heavier?

"The dinosaur"

 

 

"I made an H"

 

Looking at fossils through the magnifying glass.

 

Building... "Looks like a Y"

 

 

"I drew a hockey game"

 

Building at the light table.

 

Our art project this week... Painting, counting the letters in our name to know how many spikes we needed and patterned the spikes. Wow! We did a great job. They are posted in the hallway.

 

 

Looking at books and matching up the dinosaurs.

 

 

 

Building words.

 

Our poem of the week. We practice all week, then read it to our reading buddies on Friday.

 

Finding patterns in the calendar.

 

Our morning message- counting words, finding spaces, talking about punctuation.

 

Reviewing letter building. Thanks Mom!

More Dinosaurs!!!

 

Experimenting with stability.

Creating a landscape for the dinosaurs.

"Trees without leaves, there wasn't a lot of food for them eat".

T-Rex art. We collected twigs on a nature walk to use as the dinosaur bones.

Finding dinosaurs in the sandbox.

Learning their names... Stegosaurus, Diplodocus, Triceratops, Tyrannosaurus Rex, etc.    

Measurement- sequencing size, small to big. 

Measurement- sequencing size and using non-standard units (snap cubes) to compare the height.

"This dinosaur is 14 cubes tall"

Beginning to use a ruler...

During art...Compared the size of the twigs, "this one is too thick to glue down".

"This dinosaur is bigger."

"My dinosaur is 7 cubes high"

Compared the size of the dinosaurs and matched the 2 pictures together!

Together they put all the stegosaurus' in order.

Starfall: Learn to Read

I also added a new favourite link http://www.starfall.com/

The children enjoy this reading program in the classroom, so why not at home too?!
Happy Reading!

Dinosaurs!!!

Patterning with dinosaurs.

"I made an AB pattern- green, yellow, green, yellow"

Reviewing some of our letters learned to date.

 

Sharing an awesome drawing!

Working together on a T-Rex puzzle.