Fractured Fairy Tales

Fractured Fairy Tales

Goldilocks and The Three Bears

and 

Santa Clause and The Three Bears 

We have been learning about fractured fairy tales. What are they you might ask? Well, it’s a change/alternation on a classic fairy tale. 

We read the original fairy tale ‘Goldilocks and the Tree Bears’. Many students could recite the lines from the fairy tale. Then, we read ‘Santa Clause and the Tree Bears’ which was a silly take on the original fairy tale. There was no Goldilocks, in her place was Santa! There was also polar bears instead of brown bears. The porridge turned to pudding and Santa stayed around at the end of the book to hand out presents. 

First, we must prepare the props.

Papa, Mama, and Baby Bears chairs 

"This bed is too hard"

"This bed is too soft"

"This bed is just right"

"This porridge is too hot"

SET UP 

SET UP

Sadie and the Snowman

Sadie and the Snowman

One of our favorite winter selections. We will read this book several times over the next few months. Sadie makes a snowman who becomes her friend. She is sad when she realizes that the snowman will melt. She comes up with a plan! Sadie makes a mini snowman and freezes it for the next snow fall!

What do you think we did?? 

We collected snow of course! 

I wonder what happens to snow when it is brought inside?

MELTS!

That's ok, we will put it in the freezer for the next snow fall! Maybe it will be tomorrow?

Little Green Thumbs

Little Green Thumbs 

This is our learning story. Join us as we all gain a green thumb in the classroom! 

Big thanks to a local Clarenville company SubC Imaging for funding our garden! 

It all started with a seed. Ms.Brown's 2/3 class also has a garden. We joined the 'big kids' to soak our pods and plant the seeds. We planted cucumber, tomato, kale, and lettuce. 

We predicted how many days before germination. Many students said between 5-10 days. We had our first tomato seedling on Day 6!!! By 10 days we had a whole tray of tomato seedlings and 3 cucumber seedlings. 

We have been measuring the tomato and cucumber plant and it is now 5 blocks tall. 

It's time for the dome to come off our plants. They now need the big lamp! We are also adding a fan to the garden because we want to pretend they are outside in the wind. We need strong plants! 

Stay tuned, we will need to replant our seedlings into the large containers for bigger growth. 

I wonder how long before we have a tomato to eat? 

We got a little dirty, sorry!

We did have  a lot of fun though:)

The students were archaeologist! They used paint brushes to brush away the sand in hopes of finding a hidden bug! 

Building towers and going on a hunt to find items that are shorter and longer than their tower. 

We are encouraging students to talk in 'math language'. Which means their math sentence for this concept would be; my tower is shorter than...and my tower is taller than...

"my tower is shorter than the super kid chair"

We had some parents join us to make a snowman craft and drink hot chocolate. 

They really felt like they were being adults by drinking out of the 'coffee' cups! 

Thank you to all our volunteers!

 Smart Board activities. Try these at home! 

ABC Phonics 

http://www.abcya.com/

This is a great site for online activities in math and ELA. 

Cosmic Kids Yoga - visit the webpage for MANY yoga videos!

Tall and Short

Tall and Short

Goals were to find trees that was taller than, shorter than, and equal to themselves. Most students found trees that were taller than them but found it hard to find a tree that was the same size. 

They then began looking at other things outside like the fence, poles, buildings, and began to compare them to their height. 

We wanted students to create a math sentence... 'The tree is taller than me'. A lot of important words in that sentence!

"This tree is shorter than me" 

"These bushes are shorter than me"

"This tree is shorter than both of us"

It stopped raining!!!!

Look at that beautiful sky. 

Students were excited to get outside this afternoon. We used our bodies as attributes in a pattern.

Can you guess what our pattern is? 

Team work at its finest. We worked together to build letters with our bodies. 

This is a 'H'. 

We used chalk to outline our 'body letters'.

The girls are making a 'T'.

The boys made an 'I'. 

Catching up!

Catching up!

We have been taking advantage of our NEW OUTDOOR Classroom!

Cleaning out the pumpkin seeds, we need to count them! 

Ms.Spurrell gave us a lesson on the Dragon Fruit. It was yummy and students couldn't get enough. 

Why is it called Dragon Fruit?

'because dragons made them' 

Some students really wanted to try it but first had to pick the seeds out:). It was a big job!

We have been learning about spiders since Halloween. We went on a spider hunt. 

Did you know their web is sticky! It's what catches the bugs for the spiders to eat. 

We asked the question 'Who is afraid of spiders?' We tallied the results. 

We found a big black spider! It has 8 legs and it was really fast!

We learned to draw a spider and make a web from GEO Boards. 

We kept our spider in a habitat. The students put rocks, sticks, leaves, water and bugs in the spider habitat. 

Leaf color wall!

Dominos are a great math tool.