Hanging around school...

Hmmm.
Well, obviously I'm going to have to take another picture of the class in order for you to get a view of their heads that makes them even slightly recognizable. I suppose you could always click on the pic for a better view. (Yes, we are working on rhyming in Grade One, how'd you know?)
Wait a sec....I've lost a twin here. That decides it. I need to take another one.
Oh I see him, he's behind Jonah.

Introducing Grade 2's new teacher. Yep, take a close look at that pic...

...that's not a gigantic green clip (as I had quite erroneously thought the first time I saw it). That's Iggy perched atop her head. And yes, she knows he's there :)

Ah. Show and tell...and show...and tell...and tell....showing some more....some how this worked better when there were only 12 kids in class!

Same name.

Same last initial.

Same shirt.

Think they called each other in the morning? Oh wait, that's passe, it's MSN/facebook now.

Woo hoo! What could be better? It's recess on a sunny day!

math class in grade one

My new class!
We're starting off with sorting and grouping in math class. For the first couple of groups we were trying to figure out why one person did not belong in the group (shirt colour usually).


And then they could make their own group and see if others in the class could find the sorting rule they had chosen.

Yep, he knew the rule!

Do you know the sorting rule for this group? highlight between the * * for the answer!
*they are wearing shirts with zippers*

Today they worked in groups making up sorting rules for buttons and um...plastic imaginary/real animals I suppose I could call them.

Looks like they're sorting by colour this time.

This group started by sorting by size. Both groups moved to sorting by number of holes in each button, which I thought was a pretty keen observation :)

Here they sorted by colour and then by type of animal.

First Day of School!!

Here we go! Blog year Two!

After some nerves on the part of students (and teacher), and a whole bunch of enthusiastic excitement as well, we started our new school year on Tuesday, September 4, 2007. We hope and pray we have a good year together, and we made an excellent start to the year.

This year our blog stars:

Grade One

and

Grade Two!

It's certainly a packed house in the classroom, and almost immediately a Grade Two student remarked "It's squishy in here!" I must admit, I'm not used to the line up for going to the assembly going on...

...and on....

...and on....

...and on!
Yeah, ok so the line seems longer because some kids have doubled up in the pictures, but I've got to get them all!

After a whole summer off we're back in the assembly room!


Someone's excited to be back eh? :)

But that first assembly sure is a long one and sometimes it gets a little tiring!

The moment we've been waiting for: introduction of the Grade One class!

We talk about it before we go to the assembly so they know what's coming and don't feel too much pressure having the eyes of the rest of the student body and all those parents and grandparents on them. They did well didn't they!

(And, wow! Thanks! You were very quick with returning those consent forms!)

mini post!

Awww! Look, they were eager to come back! :)

We had a great first day together. It was great to see all my "old" kids and meet my "new" ones too!

Pictures from day one 2007/2008 will pop up too when I get consent from all the parents again. I'll send something home this week.

So I was driving home from church this afternoon and this song popped up on my iPod. Then I thought "Hey, I've got a video of the kids singing this song!" Et voila, here it is.