Week 20: What are you like?

Books We Read
In-Class
Lin Yi's Lantern: A Moon Festival Tale
When Cats Go Wrong
Library
We will now be tracking books Mr. Hanson reads in the library to allow parents a chance to expand their home libraries.
Owl at Home

Song of the Week
Here We Go Willoughby
Here we go Willoughby, Willoughby, Willoughby,
Here we go Willoughby, All Night Long
Step back Sally, Sally, Sally,
Step back Sally, All Night Long
Now ladies and gentlemen and children, too
We’re going to put on a show, just for you
We’re going to turn around and touch the ground
We’re going to stretch up high and reach the sky
To the front to the back to the s-s-side!
To the front to the back to the s-s-side!
 I called up the doctor to the doctor I said….
Ooh ah, I got a pain in my head!
Ooh ah, I got a pain in my neck!
Ooh ah, I got a pain in my side!
Ooh ah, I got a pain in my leg!
Oops, si-wah-wah, Oops, si wah-wah, Oops, si wah-wah,
All night long!
Oops, si-wah-wah, Oops, si wah-wah, Oops, si wah-wah,
All night long!
Oops, si wah-wah, all night long!
Oops, si wah-wah, all night long!
Oops, si wah-wah, all night long!

Weekly Centres

Writing
We added our January page to our portfolios and we took away the dotted lines we were using to write our names!  We also continued drawing pictures and telling Mr. McCullough what we have drawn.

House Centre Shapes
We sorted the different items in our house centre, deciding if they most closely matched triangles, squares, rectangles or circles.

"Pointalism" Art
Using shapes, q-tips and acrylic paint, we created some shape art.  First, we traced the shapes.  Then, we dabbed the q-tip in paint and, finally, we went dot-dot-dot along the shapes to create our art!

Chinese Zodiac Animals
After talking about the difference between "what we like" and "what we are like", students chose the Chinese Zodiac animal they most identified with.  They then coloured that animal and gave Mr. McCullough a description of why they were like that animal.

Building Shapes
Using the blocks in the building centre, everybody created a shape to show Mr. McCullough before being allowed to free build.

Other Things We Did
We had a big talk about the difference between "what we like" and "what we are like".

We also did a share in the circle where we told the person sitting next to us which animal they reminded us of, and why.

Since some students have been saying words other than "zip" when we've been noticing sight words, we made a lot of different words that end with the "ip" sound.

We're still counting to the 100th day!  It's so close!

We learned the letter L sound on our Jolly Phonics CD.

Mr. Hanson let us use the computer lab to try our hand at Plumo at the Zoo, which had a lot of fun matching and math activities!