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)

Grade 1J is Global!

We are currently working on a unit about maps in Theme (social studies).  One of our activities is to take items in our classroom and using a map, find the country in which they were made.  As an extension to our studies, I have added two map counters to our blog for the Grade 1J's to use as they find where our visitors are from.  We are so excited each morning when we check to see who has visited us.  So far we have been viewed by someone in California, U.S.A.; Paris, France; Ireland; Germany; the United Kingdom; India; Poland; and various places in Canada.  Our Canadian viewers come from Kindersley, Drumheller, Unity, North Battleford, Bonneyville, Saskatoon, Coronation, and Viking.  The Grade 1J's would like to say welcome to everyone!

Grade 2 Visitors

The Grade 2 class came to our room today to see our blog on our smartboard.  They read some of our blogs and were shown how to make comments to what the Grade 1J's have posted.  This evening, I found that several of the Grade 2 girls had left comments on some of our blogs.  Thank you Grade 2 girls!  On Wednesday, the Grade 1J's are going to work with the Grade 2's to help the Grade 2's make their first blog posts on their classroom website.  I am so proud of the Grade 1J's and what they have accomplished so far.  What an amazing and talented group of students.

Another visitor to our classroom has been Miss B. Weinkauf.  She is a university student taking education.  She is home from university for the summer and has offered to volunteer in our classroom when she can. Miss Weinkauf has been working with us in art, reading and on our website.  It's great to have you in our classroom, Miss Weinkauf!

Voicethread

I hope you enjoy this newest addition to our blog. The voicethread is located at the bottom of our blog page. Have fun!

Easter Break

Hello, Grade 1J.  I hope everyone is enjoying the Easter holiday.  I'll see you back at school on Monday.  One of our classmates, Dallas, is sending us messages from his holiday to Disneyland.  Check out what he has written to us in his comment section of his blog, and also what he sent me in my comment section.  Thanks, Dallas.  Before we left for Easter holiday, we enjoyed an Easter egg hunt in our playground.