Week 4: Autumn Has Fallen!

Books We Read
Chicka Chicka Boom Boom
The Great Fuzz Frenzy

Song of the Week
Autumn Leaves are Falling Down (to the tune of "London Bridge")

Autumn leaves are falling down, falling down, falling down!
Autumn leaves are falling down.  Welcome to autumn!

Grab a rake and rake them up, rake them up, rake them up!
Grab a rake and rake them up.  Welcome to autumn!

Make a pile and jump right in, jump right in, jump right in!
Make a pile and jump right in.  Welcome to autumn!

Weekly Centres
Letter E
We learned that, by adding an extra line to the letter "F", we can easily make a letter "E"!

Autumn Branches
Using brown pipe cleaner and leaves with holes in them, we worked on our fine motor skills, winding pipe cleaner in and out of the hole to make branches with autumn leaves!

Sorting by...????
We used some non-traditional sorting items, like dinosaurs, cars, ponies and Jenga blocks, and figured out how we could sort them into different groups.

Other Things We Did
Madame DeGroot showed us a few videos on Terry Fox to get us ready for our Terry Fox run on Thursday!  A few of us also got to exchange our old books for new ones.

We learned that the other word for fall is "autumn" and talked about clues that let us know autumn is coming.

The letters "T" and "I" were added to our Jolly Jingles repertoire!  We also started blending some letters together with our Word Wizard program, figuring out that with the letters S, A, T, F, E and I, we could make words like "eat", "safe", "at" and "sat".

We met our Reading Buddies!  The grade four and five students from Ms. Stillman's class will be coming to our room every Day 1 with a fun selection of books to read!

Wednesday was Crazy Head Day!  We had some amazing hats, hairstyles and headwear, which we then tried to draw onto a head that Mr. McCullough gave us.  Everybody got lots of compliments from the other teachers and students in the school!

Our Terry Fox Run happened on Thursday afternoon!  It was more of a Terry Fox Run, Jog, Hop, Skip, Slow-Motion and Walk, but we had lots of fun running for Terry!