What a Great Day!

Right in the middle of creating this big mess in math...

It started to hail...

Then we went back to learning about area, length and measurement concepts.

We love these kind of days!

Living Things

We are beginning our new unit of study in science about Living Things. We used the app popplet and the smartboard to brainstorm our learning goals and things we would like to focus on for this unit. Check out our thinking!

Our Learning Goals

Excitement This Week

Things are happening this week at St. Gabriel!
Monday - we had a tennis lesson
Wednesday is our last DOUBLE LUNCH DAY of the year
Thursday is Sens Day (first game of the playoffs)
Friday is Bring a Special Toy to school for our descriptive writing activity!

Next week is Catholic Education Week! Lots more activities to come!

Earth Week

Earth Week at St.Gabriel

Follow our activities on twitter at #earthdayOCSB

Happy Earth Week Everyone! Here is a brief summary of the events that are happening at school and in our class this week:

Monday - Lights Out Canada - Wear BLACK and turn the lights out for one hour. More info can be found here - http://lightsoutcanada.tpweb.ca/

-Mr. Knickers golf is coming to visit the primary classes (we are 1st block)

Tuesday - Litterless Lunch/Tupperware Tuesday - please send a litter free lunch

Wednesday - Walk to School Day & Spring Clean the Capital (Clean the yard)

-Book Fair at 9:15 to 9:40 am. Feel free to accompany the class if you would like to help us choose books to purchase.

Thursday - Wear Blue and bring a reusable water bottle in support of water awareness.

Friday - P.D.Day

*In addition we are still collecting used ink cartridges, Canadian Tire Money and now we are collecting gently used or new shoes for "Soles4Souls". 

Highlights From Our Geometry Focus

Here are some of our best ways to show our learning about Geometry! 

First We Played

Then we Made our Learning Goals.

Created Anchor Charts.

Here is one example.

We Made Center Activities Together Which Included "I can" Statements to Stay Focused.

Then We Played Again!

We showed our learning & thinking many different ways!

Labeling Real World Objects

 

On iPad & iPod Apps

 

On Whiteboards

We sorted by attributes

 

We even used Play Dough

 

Apps like Skitch

 

We Made Pictures

 

Smart Board Activities & Websites

 

Working on iPods Apps

 

Play Dough Shapes for our e-Portfolios

 

                                          Built Towers and Conferenced with the Teacher About Them

We used video to capture our explanations.

We made Tellagami Videos on the iPod/iPads - Link

When we knew our learning goals we signed up (on the learning goal) and showed what we know using anyway we can: apps, video, building, drawing, talking, labeling, making, etc.

Geometry is FUN!