Check out Heather's Heart blog! She is hosting an amazing contest! It is a Pete the Cat contest! My class LOVES Pete! I love anything Pete too! I really hope I win!! You can even win a cool shirt from Sewing Sassy with Pete on it! It's ALL good!!

Wow! 2 followers! Someday I'd like to hit 10! I am hoping this summer I can really get a handle on this blogging and learn how to put some of my own printables and freebies on line. Watch for it!

Anyway, I will post a whole bunch of photos of my classroom and ideas!! I love posting photos of what I am doing with my kids in our classroom. This is my favourite thing to look at on other people's blogs. I collect so many ideas from just looking at photos of other peoples classrooms!

                                     I also wanted to share a photo of my fur baby! This is Ruby!

                           Ruby is my Bassett Hound. She is 7 years old and she is my very spoiled baby!
                             Her favourite spot is the window seat. This is her lounging and napping spot.


                                                           SCIENCE  BLASTERS! 

            These are my little scientists in their Lab coats, ready for our next science experience!
            I love teaching science! The children's faces when something amazing happens is just the icing on    the cake for me!

This is our first "lesson". We talked about gravity and what would happen to the leaves when we throw them up in the air? The kids LOVED this! We played in the leaves. We walked in the leaves and listened to the crunching sound. We smelled the leaves. We looked at the leaves. The lesson involved our 5 senses and the Fall season. 

This was our first chemical reaction experiment. We blew up the balloon with vinegar and baking soda. As you can see by the photo some of my little boys were so impressed! 

 This was our owl pellet experiment! The children picked through a sterilized owl pellet and tried to figure out if the bones were from a mouse or a small bird.  Look at how engaged they ALL are! They were really intrigued with the entire owl unit!

This was our GAK experiment! We made GAK with white glue, Borax, water and food colouring. The children were so amazed! They especially loved that they got to take their GAK home!

That's all for now!

                                           Scientists at work! 
    In my classroom we have Super Science Wednesdays! Every Wednesday my students put on their little lab coats and we dive into various science investigations. It is super exciting and very motivating for the kids!                                        
     

 I purchased the live worms from the local Bait and tackle shop in a small tub. They were the most active worms I have ever seen! They were trying to escape at every chance! This was met with squeals of delight from the mini-scientists!

 This little scientist thought it would be super funny to take a photo of him pretending to eat a real worm! It was pretty funny!

 Our school just got a whole cart full of Macbook pros! We love them! Here we are working on worm research projects.

 Here the little scientists are touching their worms and then writing what they think the worms feel like and smell like.

 This was our math experience on Worm day! We measured with Gummy worms! The kids loved this! Of course, after we measured, we ATE the gummy worms!

This little scientist is Googling an AMAZING worm fact! 

I am still attempting to figure out this blogging thing! I wish I understood how to make my blog look like the ones I like to stalk! I want it to look pretty! I just don't know where to look so I can learn how. I will keep searching...

Learning never ends!

I love to learn new things! I guess that is why I became a teacher. Learning new things is exciting!
I am still learning how to do this "Blogging"thing! I LOVE to read other teachers blogs! I am practically addicted!! I really wanted to start my own. So now I am attempting to learn how!!

My first blog!

I am pretty excited to be starting this up! I have been a follower of many blogs and read alot of them! I thought I would like to share things I do in my Grade one class!