Grade 1J Celebrates Queen Elizabeth's Diamond Jubilee

The Grade 1J's are excited to learn about Queen Elizabeth.  We will join the following CBC clips of information and videos to learn more about her diamond anniversary.  We will continue to practice singing, "God Save the Queen".  We will also work in a booklet about the Queen and England.

Queen Elizabeth's 60 Year Reign

Track and Field

Our Grade K-5 Track and Field Day is on Friday, June 1st.  It promises to be a great day.  The Grade 1J's are excited for the events to begin.

Grade 1J and Grade 8 Options Class

We were excited to have the Grade 8 Options class work with us on our blogs today.  We dictated stories to our grade 8 partners and they did the typing.  Check out our new posts!

Grade 1J Celebrates Victoria Day

Victoria Day is on Monday, May 21, 2012.  We honour this day by having a holiday and spending time with our families.  The Grade 1J's wanted to know who Queen Victoria was and why she was so important.  They have asked me to add our research findings to our blog. We also learned to sing, "God Save the Queen", and found several different versions that we liked.

 Queen Victoria for Kids

A Tour of England

God Save The Queen (at wedding)

God Save The Queen (at her 85th birthday)

God Save The Queen (with lyrics)

Youth Bowling: Nationals

One of our classmates is bowling at the Nationals Youth Bowling Tournament in Newfoundland, Canada, this weekend.  If you would like to follow her team's progress, check this out at the link below.  She is on the Five Pin Alberta Bantam Girl's team.
Youth Bowling

Grade 1J Had Visitors

It was an "inside recess day" today.  The other grade one class spent recess with us.  We showed them our blog and now they are going to have a classroom blog site, too.

Are Giants Friendly or Mean?

We are currently working on a fairy tale theme.  We made a chart of what we know about giants and realized upon reading all our entries that we thought giants were mean and scary.  The question came up:  "Are all giants mean?"  We went straight to the smart board and googled for friendly giants.  We found our answer and the Grade 1J's fell in love with The Friendly Giant and have asked me to link this for them.  When watching the opening of the program, we also noticed that it falls in line with our mapping unit.  I will read parts of the book by Roald Dahl, The BFG, to them as this was the book the CBC tv show was based on.   The links are:

Friendly Giant (winter scene opening)

Friendly Giant (fall scene opening)

Friendly Giant (city scene opening)