What did you do today?

1.  Today, we read about what porcupines do in the winter.  I learned that they can climb up a tree to rest and if they are too cold, they can roll up in a ball.  They can also roll up in a ball in a cave or a barn.  (Lucia)
2.  Today, we learned how to rhyme words in French.  We rimed words with "frigo".  We used real words (e.g., l'eau, chapeau, manteau) and we used silly words (e.g., lo, mero, clo).  (Samuella)
3. Today, we are going to the gym for "Reach for the Stars". (Avery)
4.  Today, I counted the numbers on the number caterpillar in French.  (Noku)
5.  Today, I went to the Math Centre and I made diamonds and I asked friends which diamond they like."  (Sophie)

What did you do today?

1.  Today, we drew a picture of Napkin Man, on a napkin.  We wrote "Napkin Man".  (Jamie and Aidan).
2.  Today, I played with the Arctic animals.  (Antonio)
3.  Today, I went to the geoboards and I made shapes.  I made triangles, squares, rectangles and hexagons.
4.  Today, I we learned about migration.  The Canada goose migrates.  (Lily)
5.  Today, I coloured a winter picture.  (Deshmi)

Note:
Monday is a PD day.  We will see you Tuesday!  Have a great weekend!

What did you do today?

1.  Today, I wrote my dad's name on the board because we had to find words that rhyme with "can".  (Erin)
2.  Today, I went to the Art Centre.  I built a trap for the Gingerbread Man.  I used a box and string.  (Lily)
3.  Today, we made Mme Carroll cry because we read the morning message without her.  (Donita)
4.  Today, I went to the Math Centre and I built shapes with a geoboard and elastics. (Gia)
5.  Today, a dental hygienist came to our class and checked our teeth.  (William)

Note:
Tuesday, we had a bus cancellation day.  Therefore, pizza day will be Friday.  This will be the case whenever a bus cancellation day takes place on a Tuesday.

What did you do today?

1.  Today, there is a new word on a new hand.  The word is "that".  We give the hand a high-five on the way in our classroom and out of our classroom.  (Louis)
2.  Today, I made a square with elastics on a geoboard.  (William)
3.  Today, I went to the puppet show.  I watched a play about the Gingerbread Man.  (Samuella)
4.  Today, I wrote words at the Writing table.  I copied words from the morning message.  (Naomi)
5.  Today, at the Science Centre, I looked at a beaver book.  I drew a beaver.  I wonder if a beaver rolls into a ball in winter to keep warm?  (Antonio)

What did you do today?

1. Today, Mme Carroll showed us how to do our French "Show and Share."  We asked her 5 questions (e.g., Quelle couleurs est-ce que c'est? -What colour is it?  Que fait-on avec? - What do we do with it? ).  Then, we had 3 guesses to guess what item she had in her bag.  (Sophie)
2.  Today, I went to the Art Centre.  I made a snowman.  (Lily)
3.  Today, I played the winter memory game.  (Andrea)
4.  Today, I looked at the morning message and wrote "Bonne journée".  (Naomi)
5.  Today, we had to fill in the missing letteres on our morning message.  (Juan Miguel)

What did you do today?

1.  Today, I put on a play called "The Gingerbread Man".  I played the character of the cow (vache) and I moved the river prop.  (Juan Miguel)
2.  Today, I drew three horses (trois chevaux).  (Gia)
3.  Today, I went to the Math Centre.  I built an octagon.  (Lily)
4.  Today, I went to the Block Centre and helped Louis build a castle.  (Aidan)
5.  Today, I went to the Art Centre.  I made a snowstorm.  I used a new kind of paintbrush.  It was a pine branch.  (Seanna)

What did you do today?

1.  Today, I played in the sensory bin.  There are polar bears (ours polaires) and penguins (pingouins).   (Andrea)
2.  Today, I made a snowflake.  I painted popsicle sticks white and I glued jewels on it.  (Archita)
3.  Today, I went to the Writing Centre.  I drew a picture of my favourite animal; a horse.  (Gia)
4.  Today, I high fived the word "J'ai".  We are using it in the sentence "J'ai faim."  (Juan Miguel and Lucia)
5.  Today, I made a book about making 10.  (Deshmi)

What did you do today?

1.  Today, we put the gingerbread man in water.  He broke in pieces.  The pieces were squishy.  (Louis and Lucia)
2.  Today, I wrote "mom" and "dad". (Andrew)
3.  Today, I brought in a book with fairy tales in it because there was a gingerbread story in it and Mme Carroll has been reading us different version of the story.  Mine was a different one. (Sophie)
4.  Today, I put on a gingerbread puppet show with the puppet we created.  Lucia, Sophie and Gia put on the puppet show with me.  (Jamie)
5.  Today, I played teacher.  I chose a name and Deshmi was the queen.  (Andrea)

What did you do today?

1.  Today, I played the winter memory game.  (Andrea)
2.  Today, I played with the blocks.  I made a rocket ship.  (Antonio)
3.  Today, I looked at the puppet show.  I was an audience member.  (Archita)
4.  Today, I put on a play with Donita, Archita and Lucia.  (Naomi)
5.  Today, I made a rocket ship.  It had aerodynamics.  (Owen)
6.  Today, I went to the Math Centre.  I put buttons on the gingerbread man (3+1=4) .  (Gia)

Note:
On January 25th, a dental hygienist will come to our class to have a look at the teeth of all our caterpillar friends.

What did you do today?

1.  Today, I built a jet with blocks.  There were 11 pieces.  (William)
2.  Today, I predicted what will happen to a gingerbread man when placed in water.  I think it will sink.  (Juan Miguel)
3.  Today, I put on a puppet show. It was about the queen and the king buying a horse.  I had an audience watching.  (Gia)
4.  Today, I made a puppet at the Art table.  I made a granny to go with the story The Gingerbread Man.  (Seanna)
5.  Today, I made a tower with 1 block as the base.  (Jamie)

What did you do today?

1.  Today, I wrote rhyming words.  (at:  cat, mat, bat.    og:  frog, cog, mog, dog).  (Lucia)
2.  Today, I also did rhyming words.  We took a picture of it.  The picture will be going in my on-line portfolio.  (Sophie)
3.  Today, we built a snowman in the classroom.  We had snow in a sensory bin.  We measured our snowman.  It was 28 cm tall.  It was 14 snapcubes tall this morning.  We were going to measure it this afternoon but couldn't.  It had melted!  (Archita and Jamie)
4.  Today, I played a winter memory game.  I practised my French winter words (e.g.,mitaines, chocolat chaud).  (Lily)
5.  Today, we listened to the story Le petit bonhomme en pain d'épices.  Yestesrday, we listened to 2 stories about the gingerbread man.  We talked about the similarities and differences between the versions of the story.

What did you do today?

1.  Today, I played the winter memory game.  (Andrea)
2.  Today, I drew a gingerbread man on the whiteboard.  I got the idea from the story from the story Mrs. Carroll read The Gingerbread Man.  (Louis)
3.  Today, I drew a picture of my mommy, my daddy and my brother.  (Laura)
4.  Today, I worked on two puppet shows.  Mrs. Carroll helped us practise (rehearse) our show.  When we were ready to perform, I wrote down the show's title on the puppet theater.  (Sophie)
5.  Today, I wrote on an easel.  I wrote "Happy New Year!"  (Andrew)

Note:

Happy New Year :)