What's happening in my classroom?

We have been looking at Place Value, (as this is one point in Naplan that the students seem to have problems with). The students rolled the dice and came up with a number, they then made this number in their abacus (made from marshmallows and toothpicks) and fruit loops.

In Writer's workshop we have been working on Procedural Writing and completed this tasks from a great product I brought on TPT-
http://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/How-To-Writing-Craftivities-A-Collection-of-Sequencing-Writing-Activities

We also are invetigating ways in which we can relax including mediation, exercise, artistic activities ( mandalas and colouring in). One of these activities also included a lesson on warm and cool colours.

Daily 5

I have decided to try and introduce the Daily 5 into my classroom, this program I feel not only helps the students with their Literacy skills but also helps me on track too. So far so good, I have completed an anchor chart each day for each part of Daily 5 ( I will post pictures this week)

Here are two of my students working on Read to Others

Beginning of the year

Well its been a couple of weeks into the beginning of the school year here in Australia.
I have a great bunch of kids in my class, about half I have taught before when they were in Grade 1 a couple of years ago.
We started off the year with activities all about getting to know each other, one of the tasks that they completed was a silhouette of themselves with a a couple of clues to see if we could guess who they are. They turned out great!

I know, i have been slack

I know i have been slack, I promise to start fresh in the new year:)

Finally

Well it's being a long time and a lot has happened, this year I have moved to Grade Three after being in the Junior Grades for seven years! The group of kids I have this year I have taught before and they are a lovely bunch of kids.
We started of the year discussing what is special about each of us and completed this great activity where the kids had to write why they are special on the petals of a flower.



We also discussed our classroom rules and the students completed a image of themselves as their commitment to the classroom rules

Hopefully I can actually blog a lot more this year, I will keep my fingers crossed

April classroom work

I know that I set up this blog and then don't put anything on it for a while but I have not been well and have had some time off work.
I thought I would share some pictures of the work my first graders have been doing over the last month.

We worked on our writing skills around Dr Seuss's birthday, we watched the old version of the Lorax on you tube and after a discussion on how this relates to the environment we wrote about what we would do with the last Truffula seed.

We wrote about what they would do if Thing 1 and Thing 2 came to their house and made a craft with thing 1 and 2 in a net.

In Mathematics we are learning about Data collection and we graphed the colour of everyone's eyes.

Back to school on Monday, we are learning about adjectives next so I think we will be having lots of fun with work on popcorn adjectives, adjectives about my best friend and myself and how to blow a bubble ( all these great ideas from great teachers out there in blog land)

Hi,
After about a year of blog stalking I have decided to start one of my own.I take heaps of photos of the work the kids do in class so I thought I might as well share what we are doing with other teachers.