Monday 30 January 2017

Snow Day with our Buddies!


We had a great time with our Kindergarten Buddies today! They came to visit us in Room 1 and we began by reading the book Snow Day, by Werner Zimmerman. Today was the perfect day to share a snowy story!
We had lots of craft materials out and Miss Dowd brought lots of beautiful and interesting loose parts to explore with. She even brought some snowflake images for inspiration!
After the story we got to spend the rest of the time creating! Check out what we made and have a wonderful, snowy day!

   
                 
                                                   

                  
                 
                 
                 

Monday 16 January 2017

How to be a Good Reader

Please check out the "how to" book that we wrote as a class! (Either click the link or copy and paste to your browser)
When writing, we thought about the things we know good readers do. We also tried to use our best writing and start with a bold and interesting beginning to grab our readers attention!

https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B4JIjTxExXsyQV9QT1B2MzlnbU0



Friday 13 January 2017

The Zones

We have been learning about The Zones with Mrs. Turner. We know that our bodies can be in 4 different zones. The zones describe how we are feeling in our brains and our bodies.


All of the feelings are normal, but we know that we can do our best learning when we are in the green zone!

Today we learned about how we can get our brains and bodies back to green, from blue or yellow, by using different tools. We experimented with lots of different ones and learned what tools might work for us if we need to calm down, or if we need some more energy to do our best learning!



Sitting with a weighted lap turtle.


Trying out a wiggle cushion while recording thinking.


Using the bead bin.


Trying out some play doh


Experimenting with a chair band.


Bouncing on the exercise ball.


Trying out some fidgets.