Summer Reading

What have you been reading this summer? On the side of this blog is a book shelf where we have put a few of our favorite books we have read this summer. We would like for you to tell us your favorite book you have read so far this summer. Please leave us a comment and we will add it to the shelf.

Play Day

Disco Music

We hope everyone is enjoying their summer break so far. We are relaxing and starting to plan for next year. We found out that our theme for next year will be Disco for 1st grade. Each grade level is a different genre of music. So as you are out and about keep an eye out for disco decorations. Don't forget to send us a letter or post card this summer. We already received one from Amy in Japan and Ashley in PA. Be safe! We love and miss you guys.

Hello from Canada

We are happy to welcome another student from Regina University in Canada. She has sent us a video to get to know her better.



Hey Tammee - We were wondering if your kids are out of school for the year? Will you and your family be going on any vacations this summer?

Welcome Canadian Friends

We are lucky to have two students from the University of Regina following our blog again. We are glad to share our ideas. They are Christina and Cassie. We recently found out that the city they live in has fewer people than our school. Wow! We hope they will go back in our blog by clicking the word video to see the movie we made earlier in the year.

It is a crazy time of year for us. The year is quickly coming to a close. We are mostly completing our writing folders, doing last minute running records, reviewing our math standards and learning new games we will see again in 1st grade. On Monday we have our last awards ceremony and field day.

Teacher Appreciation Week

Wow! What a great week we had last week. It all started last Monday when students brought in beautiful flowers enough to fill 5 vases. Our room smelled wonderful and it added such a brightness to everything. The next day, the students brought in "Promises" of things they were going to try to do. Wednesday came and the students brought in books from their homes or new books for our classroom. It was funny learning why each student chose their book. Thursday it was fun to receive gift cards and pamper items. We will have fun and smell good at the same time. It all ended on Monday, when we had a pizza party. We also received a photo book filled with different pictures of events we had this year. It will be something we will always cherish. Thank you to everyone who made us feel special.

How Many Could I Have?

This week we are working on word problems that have more than one answer. Today the students were given this problem to solve:
I have 5 crayons.
Some of them are red and some of them are blue.
How many of each could I have?

A few students right away wrote down the answer 10, thinking they had both 5 red crayons and 5 blue crayons. Some of the students looked a little blank in the face. While others started drawing 5 crayons, coloring some of the them red and some blue. It was fasinating to see their stratgies. It was also amazing the different recording strategies they used to show their answers.

Give your child a similar problem at home to see how they solve the problem. Encourage them to find more than one answer. With the help of their classmate Bryce, the class also discover how to tell when they have found all the combinations. Look under one heading either the red crayons or the blue crayons. Check to see if you have used each number. For the above problem, they looked to see if they used 1,2,3 and 4. We also talked about why the combination of 0 and 5 does not work in this problem. If your not sure why, it is because the problem states I have some of each color.