Miss Shenae's EES Blog

 Hello everyone!  This week has been a very difficult week. I want to start off by thanking everyone for their patience and continued support as we transitioned this week to online learning. This week before going online, as well as last week, we started the five senses in literacy. We are learning about the body parts that we use to smell, hear, taste, touch, and see. We were engaged in playing a game called "iSpy" and participated in community walks as we talked about how we are using our 5 senses.  Students enjoyed using their noses to smell the trees, using their eyes to look for a particular object on the screen, using their ears to hear the cars drive by, using their mouth to taste their snacks, and using their hands to touch the snow. We were also involved in messy play this week as we worked on setting up our table trifolds to help us concentrate more during our tasks. Surprisingly, students did not get as messy as I thought they would, but we tied this to the sen...

 Hello all,  Christmas break is finally here and it is now time to take a breath, and enjoy precious time with our loved ones. This week was filled with giving and receiving little things that means well to each other. Our second EES teacher - Mr. Hogan, brought in a game so that we could play with one another before we start our Christmas break. We had so much fun as we worked on turn taking, and waiting patiently. We also did many types of Christmas art this week. We made a type of present art where students were able to make AB patterns, while also working on their gluing, pasting and cutting skills. Check out the picture the below on the final outcome. We also made a Christmas tree art where we spelt out names to create our trees, of course, with the star on top.  Lastly, we worked on fine motor as we handed out different forms of activities to help with students zipping, buttoning, tying their personal items like - zipping up their bag-packs, tying their show laces, ...

 Hello!  Christmas break is right around the corner! I hope everyone is looking forward to the holidays. This week, we celebrated Honukkah. We learned about the meaning behind this holiday, and how it may be different from other holidays. We read a book on Epic called  "Grover's Hanukkah Party" . We then did an art activity on Friday as we talking about the candles and the Menorah. We got a little messy in the classroom! But mess is fun, and engaging which is why I love what I do.  In math this week, we focused on number identification an counting through the use of exploring with dominoes. We all took turn with a Boom Learning activity we did as a whole group, before we split off to do our independent math tasks. This week, we will continue to focus on number recognition through interactive games and activities.  In the first picture below, students' tasks were to shade in the amount of circles that was asked above. If the number of "4," students were to sh...

This week was a week filled with learning. In math, we worked on measurements using non-standard measurement tools. Students were able to test out many non-standard tools like chains, pillows, chairs and tables to measure our friends' heights in the classroom. We also worked on organizing objects from tallest to shortest or vice versa. Students spent this week to think about the other ways we can measure objects without the use of a ruler or metre stick.                    In LA, this week, we wrapped up our nutrition topic while creating sentence strips from our read aloud based on each of the food categories. We then played a nutrition game in the gym where students received an image from a food group and placed it where it belongs. We had a whole lot of fun! Today, we made our own fridges where we decided which types of food we would like to place inside our fridge! We then cut, glued and decorated our fridges for display on our class...

This week, we have continued to learn about nutrition. We focused more this week on which is considered a treat, and what is considered a healthy food. Students did great organizing their plate as well as making healthy life choices. Additionally, we started to work on our nutritional flip books. This week, we have worked on the dairy, fruits and vegetable sections of our books. We proceeded by reading a book from "Epic Books" called "I can eat a rainbow" This week, we also worked on life skills for washing our hands the proper way. He worked on scrubbing both hands for 20 seconds before we proceed in rinsing under warm water. As a class, we will work more on this throughout the rest of the school year as we learn more about germs, and cleaning dirty areas before touching our faces, food, and others.  Here is a picture of washing hands that we have been working on for the past week. Remember, practice becomes perfect!  Since it was a short week, we are going in the ...

This week has been very busy. Students were excited about the Halloween weekend and were still very excited this week about the amount of candy they had. But, I do like a busy classroom. This week, we started nutrition! We are learning about what is considered unhealthy snacks, and what is considered a treat. We are also learning about the different food groups and the portions of what we should have on our plates. We will dig more about this topic for this upcoming week.  During an activity, we discussed which foods are the healthiest choice as we used our Lumio interactive website in the classroom. We then cut, glued and organized by colour which items we prefer the most on a regular basis. This week, we also worked very hard on recognizing our soldiers who fights for our freedom. We will talk more on this, this upcoming week. We completed our Remembrance Day video for our poem, and read stories/ activities on what it means to wear a poppy. We also chose sentences on what we woul...

 Hello all!  Hope everyone had a great week. This week was filled with happiness, joy and smiles. As a class, we had a lot of fun, and worked hard on our transition routine. This week, we had the opportunity to carve pumpkins as a class! Students loved this, and participated in carving/ cleaning the pumpkin. We also attended the pumpkin patch, and we loved all of the creativity in what the other classes in our school did! We were so impressed.                                                                                                                                       ...