Being Thankful...

Here are few of the stories we read this week as we talked about Thanksgiving.  Then we took some time to think about all that we are thankful for...

Turkeys

We had some fun in art this week making "turkeys" using apples, toothpicks and some colourful marshmallows!  Many of the children said they will go home and ask if they can make more with their families!

First field trip of the year!

This past week, our class went to Southlands Farms.  We learned about horses and other animals.  We learned about the vegetables growing in the garden and we had a walk through the orchard.

We went into the stables

The horses were very friendly

For some of us, this was the first time we got to pet a horse!

We also visited the chickens and held an egg!  It was warm from the hen sitting on it!

We also visited the garden and saw beans and corn growing.  We even tasted golden berries and edible flowers!

And...there were pumpkins everywhere!

After the garden, we got to go visit the goats!

They loved being hugged!

At the end, we all got to jump into the hay pile!!

Some of us looked like scarecrows when we came out!!  We had straw stuck to every part of of our body!!

 When we got back to school, it was easy to write about this wonderful experience!  Here are a few of our stories.  The rest are up on the bulletin board outside our classroom.  Drop by to look at the photos and read the stories!

 

 

  

Spelling Words for week of October 14th

There are only 5 new words this week.  They are:

help
pumpkin
saw
up
with

Week 6 in our spelling book is a review of units 1 to 5.  Please go back and practice all the words from the first 5 weeks.

Fall Is Here!

Fall has arrived!  And so have all the colourful leaves on the trees!

We wanted to bring some of Fall into our classroom so we made our own Fall trees.  It was a 3 step process....

First we painted the backgrounds for our pictures and let them dry.

A few days letter we added the tree - we talked about the big strong "trunk", the big "branches" and finally the little "twigs" .

 At last we got to add the Fall leaves...we worked patiently cutting out the small leaves we wanted for our trees.

Here are our finished Fall trees!

Here is a song you can sing together.

Spelling List 5

map
clap
den
pen
fox
box
gone
done
foxes
goes
all
down
good
have
this

practice your spelling