Our Nature Walk and Natural Number Line

Today we went on a nature walk in our school yard! We each got a special container to use to collect things that we thought were interesting.  We could only collect items that had already fallen on the ground.  We talked about respecting nature and not pulling or destroying the plants and trees.

Take a look at what we discovered!

 

 

 

I'm collecting sticks and flowers. -Ethan

 

I'm walking there to pick up flowers and leaves. -Gunimat

 

I was looking for twigs and rocks. -Gigi

 

 

 

I was collecting stuff in my cup. -Christian

 

 "A leaf!" -Deanna

 

 

I found a leaf. -Lily

 

It's a little leaf. -Audree

 

I'm finding a bunch of rocks. -Emma C

 

I'm gonna take this rock and put it in my collection! -Jake

 

I found a humongous stick. -Gigi

 

I found leaves with Miles and Mason and Mason showed me that he has a bunch of rocks. -Lily

 

I found rocks. -Annalise

 

I'm walking around in the nature. Stopping and looking to see if I could find anything that falled off the plants. -Jack

 

I was looking at those twigs. -Christian

 

I was picking up some leaves by the twigs. -Christian

 

 

 

I'm looking at that big branch. -Jake

 

It's a big thing with sticks and dirt and grass we found. -Lily

 

I'm picking some grass here. -Jake

 

I wanted to put a lady bug in but I couldn't find any. -Ryder

 

I'm showing my things to Mlle Oullette. -Gunimat

 

I found the berries. -Annelise

 

I found a plant with little fluffy things. -Audree

 

I found another trail. -Lily

 

I'm in the forest trying to look for snail shells. -Abby

 

I'm going into the forest! -Gunimat

 

 

 

I'm getting some grass and dirt with Lily. -Gunimat

 

I'm walking around and looking for more little fuzzy things. -Audree

 

"I got some rocks and one leaf and I had a great day!" -Deanna

 

It's a baby leaf I found two of them. -Lily

 

I got some rocks here. -Emma C

 

 

I'm running and following where the teacher was. -Jake

 

I found a feather. -Ethan

 

That was the pinecone I found. -Annelise

 

I got some leaves and some rocks and some grass and some more grass. -Jake 

 

I got a flower. - Isaiah

 

I was looking at a trail I found to the school. -Gigi

 

I found these flowers. -Lily

 

I was finding grass. -Emma C

 

I'm looking at what's in my jar. -Abby

 

This is a picture of a hawk in the sky!

We spotted 2 hawks flying above us on our walk!

 

 

 These friends are trying to get a good look at the yellow butterfly that joined us on our walk!

 

Here I found grass. -Annelise

 

I found a blue and black feather! -Dominic

 

I found a leaf! -Lily

 

Once we were done collecting all our materials, we used the natural items to make a number line. We represented the numbers 1 - 20 and used our natural materials to create the numbers! The students that wanted to help were using the names of the numbers to select which one they would create! We practiced these numbers in French too.

 

Look at all the cool things we found!

 

Welcome to a New School Year!

Welcome to a new school year!  We hope you all had a restful and enjoyable summer with your child.  Here is some quick information to get you started.

Schedule:
Students will be going to the Gym for Physical Education with Mrs. Carlone on Days 2 & 5, and they will be going to the Library on Day 4 with Mme Taparluie.  In addition to these teachers, your child will be seeing Mme McGuire on Day 1's for Music and on Day 3's M Haggarty will be coming into our classroom to supervise your child's learning.  Monday September 12th, 2016 will be a day 5.
You can find the school year 5 day cycle calendar at https://publicboard.ca/Calendar/School-Calendars-Schedules/2016-2017%20School%20Year%20Calendar/2016-2017%20Elementary%205%20Day%20Cycle%20Calendar/Documents/Elementary%205%20Day%20Cycle%202016%202017.pdf

SeeSaw:
Please sign your child up for SeeSaw as soon as possible.  We do the bulk of our communication this way and have found it to be a very useful tool.  SK parents and any JK parents who chose not to attend their child's scheduled interview time, a paper with the specifics of how to install this app will be sent home on the first day of school.

We look forward to spending this first week with your child!  If you have any questions or concerns, please don't hesitate to write us a note in your child's communication book.