Brown Bag Lunch

We had a brown bag lunch with our families today. Those moms and dads who were able to came to school and we had a picnic lunch with them outside. It was the perfect weather for a picnic today.

Authors' Tea Practise

Now we are practising reading our stories for the Authors' Tea.We have to read with lots of expression!

Baking

Today we started baking for the Authors' Tea. We will all get a turn at baking something, and we make sure we wash our hands really, really well.

New Games

We purchased some new language arts classroom games and we were trying them out today. This game is called "Sight Word Checkers".

Mug Shots

Check out our mug shots we had taken at the police station.

R.C.M.P. Tour

Today we went on a tour of the rural R.C.M.P. station. It was very interesting and we found out a lot of things. We know for sure that none of us ever want to be put in jail. Thank you to Chad Hoffman for taking us on the tour, and thank you to Mr. Beatty for coming with us.

Butterflies

The grade five classes purchased caterpillars, then took care of them and observed them until they turned into butterflies. We went to their classroom to what was happening.

Math Problem Solving

We are still working on problem solving in math. Check it out.

Authors' Tea

We will be having our Authors' Tea in June and we have started to prepare for it. We have been writing, illustrating, and typing our stories.

Math Game

Today we played a math game in which we tried to see who could add to 100 first. We are getting very good with our numbers to 100.

Our Indoor Carnival

We had an indoor carnival the last day before our break. There were many activities including basketball and a hockey shoot, snakes and ladders, pillow fights, a fish pond, face painting, and golf, just to name a few. There were also good things to eat like popcorn and all kinds of baking. we had an exciting and tiring afternoon, and it was a great way to end the week.

Decorating Easter Eggs

We decorated Easter eggs with our grade 6 buddies. We had a lot of fun decorating and visiting, and we didn't even break one egg!

Rabbits!

Today for show and tell we had three baby bunnies come to our classroom. They were three weeks old and still crawled along with their tummies close to the ground. They were not scared of us at all, and we all got to pet them. They were very cute and we really enjoyed having them come to our class. We also read several books about rabbits, watched a video, and did a shared writing activity listing all of the things we learned about rabbits.

Farm Safety Presentation

We had a farm safety presentation this week. The kindergarten class and Class 1.2 came to our room to listen to the presentation with us. We learned many things that we should and should not do to keep ourselves safe at home.

Day of Pink

Wednesday was "pink day", and a lot of us wore pink and signed each others pink shirts (real or paper ones) to show that we were taking a position against intolerance and bullying.

Show and Tell

When we have show and tell we often use the document camera because it helps everyone see the things we brought to show. We can even zoom in and make the object bigger if it is tiny.

Skyping

Today we skyped with a grade one class in Texas. Watch our video to hear what we have to say about it.

Painting

We painted spring pictures with class 1.2, and although some of us went home with a bit of paint on our clothes, we had a lot of fun!

When Will It Be Spring?

We are getting very impatient for spring to come. Some students in our class are even trying to chip away the ice to find the hop scotch game that is painted underneath. It is time for spring activities and it is very difficult to wait any longer for all of the snow to melt!

Grade 6 Buddies

Today when our grade six buddies came we read books to each other (yes...we can now read to our buddies) and played the math game "Give a Dog a Bone" on the computers. We found that often the grade ones were better at finding the numbers on the 100 chart than the grade 6's!

Problem Solving

We are getting better and better at problem solving. Our goal is for all of us to become practictioners or even experts at it!

Ordering Lengths

We are working on a measurement unit in math and today we learned how to order objects according to length. We did so by checking which of our toy cars travelled the farthest past the ramp. Check our video to see how we did it.

Science Center Visit

People from the Science Center will be doing presentations for different grades on Tuesday and Wednesday. We went to a presentation on animals and their five senses today, and we participated in hands-on activities using our five senses.

Smart Response Test

Today we did a doubles assessment using the Smart Response system. We like using the clickers to answer the questions...it is like playing a video game.

St. Patrick's Day

We had a very busy day on St. Patrick's Day. We made rainbow toast, which was a lot of fun to do and very tasty too. Then we fingerpainted with green pudding, which was also delicious. Then we went sledding with all of the grade one, two, and three students for the afternoon. We went home very tired and ready for our three day weekend!

Addition or Subtraction?

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When we problem solve we have several things to think about. First we have to decide if we should add or subtract, then we have to decide which strategy we can use to solve the problem, and finally we have to write a number sentence for the problem. We are getting better and better at doing problem solving!

Sight Word Bingo

We like to play sight word bingo to practise our sight words. It is important that we know our sight words because they make up 50% of everything we read in grade 1,2,and 3.

Math Pods

Today we practised addition and subtraction in math pods.

Grade 6 Fun

Today for our health class Mrs. Ortynski took us to work in the grade six class because her room was being used. We felt very big working in grade six, but their lockers are messy!

Doubles Facts

We have been learning our doubles facts in math. Today we made doubles flashcards to take home so we could practise them. We also practised them in class today with one person pretending they were the teacher and the other person pretending they were the student.

Addition and Subtraction Stories

Today we used ten frames to help us make number sentences. We got very good at combining (for addition) and separating (for subtraction) using ten frames.

Dance, Dance, Dance!

This morning K to 5 had a dance in the gym. We had a great time, but we were exhausted from all of that dancing!

Are You Smarter Than an SRC Member

Today everyone in K-4 went to the gym to watch the student representative council and the teachers play a game called "Are You Smarter Than An SRC Member?" It was a lot of fun, and we found out that Yorkdale Central teachers are very smart!!!

Saskatchewan Express

Today Saskatchewan Express came to our school to perform today. They danced and sang, and it was very good. Some of us have decided that we want to join Sasatchewan Express when we grow up!

Brain Breaks

Today Mrs.Bulitz, our school division's educational psychologist, came and presented a lesson to us on "learning to learn". She talked about the five ways we learn (using our five senses), and taught us some exercises that help get our brain ready to learn. She called them "brain breaks".

Valentine's Day

Today we celebrated Valentine's Day. We made Valentine bookmarks, we had a special shared lunch (thanks moms and dads for sending us all of that delicious food!), we played games, and we delivered and opened Valentine cards. We had a busy, enjoyable day.

Our 100 Day Party

We celebrated being in school for 100 days on Friday, and we had a very busy day. We spent a large part of the day working in pods, which included making necklaces out of 100 fruitloops, doing 100 piece puzzles, making 100 day glasses, stamping 10 groups of 10 to make 100, and more. We really had fun doing a search of our room to find 100 chocolate kisses hidden around the room! We hope that the next 100 days of grade one will be just as much fun as the last 100 were.

Cha-cha slide

We are learning some dances in phys. ed., and today we did the cha-cha slide. It is one of our favorites and we are getting very good at it. Watch us go!

Book Boxes

We all have our own book boxes that have books we can read in them. They also have magazines, animal books, and some favorite books. Everyday we all get our book boxes and read to ourselves. We have been practising to build our stamina, and now we we can read nine minutes without stopping. We want to keep practising until we can read for 15 minutes or more!

Welcome Terriers

Today some Terrier hockey players came to our school. They came to talk to us about "Yorkdale Night" at the hockey game tomorrow night. They told us that they hoped to see us then.

Outdoor Fun With Our Grade Six Buddies

We went outside with our grade six buddies, and we slid on the hills and played the game "Fox and Goose". It was a warm day outside and we had a lot of fun!

Field Hockey

Today we participated in a field hockey clinic put on by the Sask. Field Hockey Association. All grades from 1-8 will have a chance to learn how to play field hockey, which is similar to floor hockey and ice hockey.

Miras

Today in math we drew doubles facts using a mira. Check out the booklets that we are bringing home.

Our New Table

We got a new guided reading table for our classroom. We call it the "C table" because it looks like a big letter c.

The Snowball

We have learned a silly poem about a snowball that we would like to share with you. Enjoy!

Learning to Spell

Today we practised spelling words with blends. We used shaving cream, and now we can spell more words with blends AND we have very clean desks!

Sense of Smell

We are learning about our five senses in Science. Today we did a "smell test" to see if we could guess what we were smelling. We guessed all of the scents except for the cinnamon!

Another Readers' Theatre

A different guided reading group has done a readers' theatre based on a story called "Feed Speedy". I hope you enjoy it.

Painting With Our Buddies

Today we painted pictures with our grade 6 buddies about all of the things we can do in the winter that we enjoy.

Slideshows

Swimming Fun

Christmas On Gladstone

Number Combinations

We are working on addition and subtraction in math, and today we did an activity using linking cubes to find different combinations of number eight.

Readers' Theatre

Today one of our guided reading groups did a Readers' Theatre titled "Why?". I hope you enjoy watching it as much as we enjoyed doing it!

Our New Year's Promises

We made some great New Year's Resolutions this year! Check them out.

New Year Promises

Today we talked about the new year, and as part of our lesson we make New Year's resolutions. I hope we can keep our promises!