Have you Filled a Bucket Today?

Today Mrs. van Rees read the story, Have you Filled a Bucket Today? It's a great book that talks about everyone having an invisible bucket. When our bucket is full we feel good, when it's empty, we feel upset. We want to be bucket fillers by saying nice things and being kind. We need to work hard at not being bucket dippers by being mean or rude. 

After the story, we talked about things we can say to help people feel good. We practiced this by writing each other put ups. It was a great morning of bucket filling!

Welcome!

Welcome to Grade One! We will use our blog to show others what are are doing throughout the year.

Can't wait to share all the exciting adventures of our class with you!

September is Coming!

Hi Boys and Girls,

It's Mrs. van Rees and I'm excited about meeting you in a few days. Hope you are enjoying the last few days of your summer holiday. I have been busy getting our classroom ready for learning and I can't wait to share it with you.

This space will be used for our class blog. Here we will share things we are doing in our classroom with others. Please share our blog with others in your family who would be interested in knowing what we're learning about this year.

Looking forward to learning with you this year!

Teaching Educreations

On Friday afternoon, we went to Miss Campbell's Kindergarten class and became teachers. We taught our Kindergarten friends how to use Educreations. Miss Campbell knew that we had used Educreations in the past and asked Mrs. van Rees if we could come and teach her students. She even called us "Digital Learners"!

We took pictures of things in the room that were big and small and then recorded our voice (or our kindergarten buddy's voice) to explain which object was big and small. Here's a few examples of our work.

Collaborative Writing with Ms. Lirenman's Class in BC

We finished the rest of the "Good News Bad News" stories today! It was such fun to work with another class (on the other side of the country) and create great stories together. Thanks for thinking of the book topic, Ms. Lirenman's class!

Here are the rest of the videos:

Make sure to check out our previous post for the other 2 stories.

Good News Bad News Stories with Ms. Lirenman's Class

GOOD NEWS, we are starting to finish our "Good News Bad News"collaborative stories.

BAD NEWS, you can only watch 2 stories so far.

GOOD NEWS, the rest will be finished soon.

We'd love for you to watch/read our stories below. These stories are illustrated by Ms. Lirenman's class (in British Columbia) and the words (and title page) were written by us.

GOOD NEWS, Ms. Lirenman's class has finished their stories. You can watch/read them all here. In her stories, we created all the pictures and her class wrote the words.

Stay tuned for 5 more stories written by us. Hopefully they'll be up on our blog soon!

Good News Bad News Writing Project

We have been working hard on an iPad writing project with Ms. Lirenman Grade One class from British Columbia. Our stories are based on the ideas from the book, "Good News, Bad News" by Jeff Mack. Both classes created pictures using iPads and then put them into a dropbox account. Mrs. van Rees downloaded Ms. Lirenman's class' pictures into the Photo Library on the iPad and we put them into iMovie and put words to the story.

Mrs. Lirenman's Grade Ones writing words for our pictures!

We are just finishing the final pages of the stories, then we'll put them onto our blogs. Mrs. Lirenman's class has finished some of their books. You can read them here:

Good News, Bad News: Story 1

Good News, Bad News: Story 2

Stay tuned for more 'Good News, Bad News' stories!