Dangerous Journey

It was a day eagerly awaited by all and yet most anticipated by the Grade Two class who had more than an inkling of what was coming. Periodically throughout the year we had been talking about Dangerous Journey and wondering if it would get read to them this year.

Indeed!

This year we also had the illustrations projected up on the screen for a better look at the pictures. The students made themselves comfortable in their desks, turned their eyes toward the pictures or the reader and sat back to enjoy the read.

And take a closer look at the picture below: as Grade Two had surmised, yes treats were again part of the deal.

They were a rapt audience!

Thanks for reading to us Mrs. Twinkle!

dandelions ARE lovely!

This was so cute. The Grade Ones finally received their Bibles and they were thrilled beyond belief. At the first opportunity they raced off to the reading corner, Bible in hand, and excitedly started reading.

"I found Daniel!"

"I found Genesis!"

"I found Psalms!"

And now I have a bunch of them starting in Genesis and reading. One is now on Chapter 17 :)

Here's our annual trek into the neighbour farmer's field for our picture with the dandelions. I think they look cute in there. I think though I may have to repost this post since I think the pictures got emailed to my post in a small size and they won't be suitable for downloading

...that is if you do that kind of thing...

Grandparents' Day

Here we go!  Tonight I was told that I really should update this blog.  I'm very obedient you see.. ;)

These are photos recovered from my old crashed PC and transferred to my brand new Mac.  This is hopefully not as crash-able and it is definitely much easier to back up.  I don't think I'll be losing many pictures in the future.

Grandparents' Day!  It was a wild and wooly day as I thumped around the classroom in my walking boot trying to teach something and take pictures and keep the chaos down to a dull roar.  You may be able to tell from some of the pictures that goofiness definitely ensued.

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Crash...

...went my laptop.

*sigh*

I'm still trying to figure out if it is possible to get the pictures and files off my laptop.  If not I'll be a very sad person. 

There probably won't be a new post on this blog until I can figure that out.

Learning about the Woodland Natives

Time to catch up a bit on what's been happening in the classroom. Now that I'm hobbling about rather than wheeling about, things are starting to feel much more like normal. Yay!

This was a very busy afternoon for me. We had just learned about Wampum in our Natives unit and so we needed to make some...ish. I'm sure the natives don't use macaroni. Here are the kids making their wampum necklaces.

See, she did have one. Of course then the last half of the "beads" fell off...and then the string broke. Go figure eh?

After our necklaces we worked on making the classroom more spring like by adding bumblebees to our spring flowers and butterflies and budding branches. Yeesh, who knew that wrapping pipe cleaners around a pencil would be that difficult? But they were all thrilled with the results, even if all those brand new googley eyes keep falling off.

And then it was off into two groups to make native villages out of Popsicle sticks and plasticine. They LOVED doing this! They all sorted themselves into longhouse builders or palisade builders or garden makers and happily went on their ways. I have to say they ended up with some really cool things!

The garden, complete with "The Three Sisters".

Natives. Complete with their loin cloths? :) HA HA!! I just noticed that baby! That isn't a green loin cloth, that's a moss diaper! Oh those kids slay me, that's just too terrific! :)

The pond near the village and natives in their (black) birch bark canoes. We didn't have white plasticine!

A deer! I think..