Listening, Observing, and Hand Washing!

 

 

I hope everyone had a great Thanksgiving weekend! The students were very excited to share stories of all of the yummy food that they enjoyed.

 

We started off our day with practicing throwing and catching in Phys. Ed. We were able to play a game where each team's goal was to try and knock over the other team's pylons. During our calendar meeting, we reviewed what it means to listen with our whole bodies.

 

 

 

 After snack, we put our listening skills to the test with a read aloud. We ran out of time last Thursday, but today we were able to read A Plump and Perky Turkey, which is a very fun Thanksgiving story! Students worked on listening response sheets afterwards. They shared their opinion as to if it was a good story or not by colouring in either a happy or sad face. Then they drew a picture of something that happened in the story and told me a sentence to write along with their drawing.

 

 

In Science, we observed our pumpkins. One is starting to change colour, while the other is taking it's time! First, we reviewed our KWL chart and read some non-fiction information about pumpkins. We added to our "what we learnt" chart that pumpkins start as flowers and they grow in a pumpkin patch.

 

Then, we switched gears to Health and brainstormed some healthy habits. We watched two videos about hand washing (which they loved so much we watched them again later in the day!). Our school is a Germ Smart school, so we have posters about proper hand washing in each washroom.

 

The video suggested washing our hands for 15 seconds so we practiced washing our hands and singing the ABC song to get an idea of the length of time that is best for getting rid of those germs!

 

For the last period of the day we had library. Since everyone was so into hand washing (singing the song from the video as we walked down the hallway), I read Down the Drain by Robert Munsch. Students then picked out new books to sign out, which we looked over in the library. Then, we were back to the classroom for our talking circle and the end of the day was here before we knew it!