Week 2: Friends and Filling Buckets

Hey everybody!

Another fun week in Room 207!  Here's what we did!

Books We Read

Those Shoes

Enemy Pie

The Giving Tree

Poem/Song of the Week

(sung to the tune of Frere Jacques)

Fill a bucket (fill a bucket)

Every day (every day)

I can fill a bucket (I can fill a bucket)

You can too (You can too)

Fill a bucket (fill a bucket)

Every day (every day)

I like filling buckets (I like filling buckets)
You will too (you will too)

Weekly Centres

Language:

We created our"September" page for our portfolios, drawing a picture of anything we want and writing our names (or attempting to)

Art:

We drew pictures of what makes us happy inside buckets so everybody can know what "Fills Our Buckets"

Blocks:

We tried to recreate structures in pictures by the wall.

House & Drama:

We were challenged to set the table to look like a picture.

Sense and Sensory:

We practiced our fine motor skills by tracing lines, playing with shoelaces and using tweezers to move small objects from one bowl to another.

Other Activities

We met our Grade 5 reading buddies and they read to us!

We learned and acted out the story of "Herman the Worm"

We changed our estimates of the number of school days in the year

We helped Mr. McCullough reorganize his alphabet tiles.