My Thanksgiving Birch Bark

On Thanksgiving weekend, I went camping with my family. While on a nature walk with my family, we came upon some fallen birch bark trees. I decided to collect pieces of birch bark and share them with my 2/3 students. 

After each student completed a journal entry about their own Thanksgiving weekend, students were encouraged to use the word wall, their personal dictionaries and reading strategies to figure out how to spell their every day words. We also revised their sentences for proper punctuation. 

Below is some of my proud students who were eager to share their Thanksgiving journal entry printed on birch bark. Oh, and did you know that birch bark comes from a seed? 

Student focus and smiles say it all! Writing is so much fun!

Visualizing BFG!

Our class is participating in Global Read Aloud. We are reading BFG and connecting with other classrooms around the world reading the same book as us!

To help us picture in our minds what BFG looks like, student drew the following pictures. They were able to VISUALIZE what he might look like based on the descriptive words in chapter two. 

I am so proud of what my students have produced! Stay tuned for more BFG!

Google Hangout BFG Experience!

We had a google hangout with Mrs. Cassidy's 3/4 class at Deseronto Public School. We talked about our Global Read Aloud, BFG and asked each other questions about the book. They are reading chapter Enormous Ears and we just finished reading chapter 6; BFG. The next chapter we will read in our class is called The Giant!

In our class, students were excited about participating in our 1st google hangout. Here is what they had to say:

"We got to meet each other on the computer for the first time" ~ Jordan
"I felt happy because it was my first google hangout!" ~Hailey
"I was very excited because I have never been on a google  hangout before!" ~Jayme
"I felt good because we got to meet students in another school!" ~Aerin
"I was happy because we got to meet other students" ~Courtney/Abbey
"I was curious about what Mrs. Cassidy's students would say" ~Ruby
"I was excited to meet new friends" ~Matteo
"I was nervous because I was meeting new people" ~Gabe
"I was scared at first because I didn't know what to say. I had a question in my head that was stuck there and I forgot about it but then,, I remembered. I said that I couldn't wait to have another google hangout!" ~Savannah

Co-created by 2/3P

Patterns are everywhere!

          Patterns are everywhere and today they were on table tops and on the carpet! Students worked together and on their own to use a variety of manipulatives to create and identify patterns. 

Do you which types of patterns are represented in these photos? Come on, you can do it! 

Is it repeating, growing or shrinking patterns? How do you know which pattern it is? 

Plant Party

On Friday, October 7, we celebrated our learning with a plant party. Thanks to our families for sharing one food item that came from a different part of a plant!

                                   

           

Look closely! Which part of the plant do you think our food came from? Let us know..... :)

Co-created by 2/3P

Botanists in Action!

In Science class today, we were "botanists!" Botany is the study of plants and we have learned that plants:

-provide homes for insects

-provide food for monarch butterflies and other insects

-give us oxygen

-produce food for people

Today, we used magnifying glasses to examine foods that come from different parts of a plant. Can you guess which foods come from different parts of a plant? Give it a try!

            

                                       

Let Me Out!

Friday morning was very exciting in 2/3P. Not only did we save a fallen chrysalis but we also had three more monarch butterflies emerge from their chrysalis. Before we knew it, we also had two butterflies escape their terrarium. One chose to hang out on the outside of the terrarium and two more attached themselves to our butterfly nets!  

Students repeatedly said, "They are so beautiful. We are so lucky!" This is such a wonderful learning opportunity for us. We have 2 more chrysalis left to emerge. Will they emerge by Monday? We will have to wait and find out!

                                                                                                                 ~co-created with 2/3 students