Dictée

As you probably noticed, we haven't had dictée for a few weeks. As the year winds down, I finish dictée for the year. We will do one last one next week. I still have many dictée tests that belong to students who often forgot their books at home. Please make sure the book comes to school next week so we can put them in, and I can take one last look at them. 

We have been quite busy in the class the past two weeks working on our plant and canada units. We are learning lots about Canada by working through bags of information that I have, as well as watching some tourism videos from each province or territory. We also have plenty of plant experiments going on in our room! Here are a few pictures! 

Wow, what a busy few weeks we have had here! I feel like I have hardly kept you guys in the loop. Here is this week'a dictée plus photos from the last few weeks! 

As you have probably heard, there is no dictée this week. We have had a very busy few weeks with our focus on first nations culture, and working hard on English and French writing. Be sure to check back for more pictures of all the fun activities we have been doing!

I apologize that I didn't get this up yesterday, but I had to go home with a bad ear ache. Here is this week's dictée, along with pictures from last week. We have lots of writing to get done before Easter weekend, but we managed to fit in some science experiments as well as some art! 

Also, yesterday was the kick off to our two weeks of celebrating aboriginal culture. Monday afternoon, we had a traditional opening ceremony with a video about some art forms you might see in first nation's culture.  Today we will be watching an animated version of some legends. We had lovely conversations after the opening about the stories the kids heard and the pictures they saw!

Here is this week's dictee. It's long, but repetitive, so we spoke a lot about how to study for this one in class!

Also, if you have spare pots for plants (the green or black containers that the plants are in when you buy them from the store) around home, and are not using them, it would be great if you could send them to class. We will be doing lots of planting soon!

This week's dictée

I'm sure you can guess what unit we are starting this week...

I hope everyone has enjoyed their spring break! I know I enjoyed some time to relax, but am looking forward to returning to school to start our new units!

I just came across this great interactive webiste to learn about the parts of plants - our next science unit that we will be starting later in April: http://archive.fossweb.com/modulesK-2/NewPlants/activities/watchitgrow.swf

I hope everyone has an enjoyable and relaxing spring break! Before I forget, here is a link to download the video from the assembly a few weeks ago

http://we.tl/s42rIHXaGs

Also, here are some photos from the last few weeks at school. Enjoy!

For this week's dictée, the students picked their own words. This is a good chance for them to find words around the class, in books, and in the dictionary, to find words that they find useful. I have checked all the work that was done in class. Some students still need to find some more words, and some need to finish the class work of writing a definition in their own words of their dictée words.

Also, here is another fun space picture I found!