Dot Day - Late post

Skype and Pen Pal Letters

We have had a very exciting few weeks.  Last week our class had a special visitor on Friday.  This visitor was the author of the Howard B. Wigglebottom books, Howard Binkow.  He couldn't actually come to our classroom because he lives in Florida, but he visited our classroom using Skype!  We were able to see and speak with him.  He read us 2 of his books and showed us the new TV he is hoping to put on TV soon!  We really enjoyed his visit and hope to Skype with others soon!  We also received our pen pal letters from our University pen pals.  They took our Flat Characters all around the university and sent us pictures of them!  Also, some people in our class are working on making groups of ten with leftovers. - Miss Matsumoto

This week has been exciting for us.  A long time ago we wrote our Flat stories and drew Flat Characters.  We sent them to our university pen pals.  They took them around their university.  Our whole class sent them a note saying we would like them to write their own flat stories and draw their own flat characters.  We have some pen pals in Thailand.  They want to know more about snow, because they don't have snow in Thailand.  They want us to tell them more about snow, so we did.   - Evva

Yesterday we do Library.  We took books out.  Then we bring books to the library.  I took out Elephant and Piggie.  It is a funny book.  We will do our art today after Agendas and after recess. - M.

We are making snow globes.  I brought a bear from Madagascar on a really little tricycle.  Our pen pals gave their letters to us because we made them Flat stories and they took pictures all around the university so we could see what it looked like.  In my letter it said my flat character snuck into the cookie case.  I like my letter and I can't wait for my next letter! - Lara

Dear Spring...

This week has been a very busy week for us! We made pizza yesterday, we made science projects and we also made Eric Carle artwork!! -Miss Hrynyk

We made pizza yesterday, the pizza was good! -Carter

This week has been very fun, we have done all sorts of stuff. We made pizza and Eric Carle art and finished our science projects by painting them! -Stella

Today we went to the computer lab and looked at our houses. -Aiden

Making the pizza was fun!! The pizza dough was very sticky. Today we went on Google Earth and looked at our houses. -Ella

We sent a letter to Spring! -Ethan

Last week our class had a sad, but happy week. It was Miss Hrynyk's last week and I know that our entire class will miss having her everyday in Room 163. On Wednesday, we made pizzas for lunch. They were delicious!!! This week everyone we finished and presented our science design projects. We also have been studying our Author of the Month, Eric Carle's artwork through his wonderful books. We were inspired to create our own art like Eric Carle's. I will be posting pictures of our art later this week. I was truly impressed by the entire process as well as the pictures that were created by the students in our classroom. Finally, we were disappointed in the poor weather of late and wrote letters to Spring. We are currently editing them and I be sharing our letters to Spring hopefully very soon. -Miss Matsumoto

Eggs! Pictures

Eggs! Eggs! Eggs!

The past week at school has been busy, but fun.  We have been continuing to work hard.  We mostly finished all of our books about Winter.  On Wednesday, our class had the chance to dye some eggs for Easter.  I will post the pictures as soon as I can from the egg-cellent experience! - Miss Matsumoto

We read Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and we made eggs.  My eggs were yellow and orange. - M.

On Wednesday, our class dyed Easter eggs.  It was fun!  And we got to bring them home.  And today we might be watching Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - the old one. - Stella

We read Charlie and the Chocolate Factory.  We finished it and now we are going to watch the movie.  We can't watch the new one because it is rated PG.  - Tanaye

Eye See You

When we made our eyes, we used some of Miss Matsumoto's mirrors.  We drew our eyes and it was fun. - Stella

On Saturday, I bought a music box. - Lara

We drew our eyes and we drew them brown and black.  We drew eyelashes and eyebrows. - M.

We used Miss Matsumoto's mirrors and we looked at our eyes and we found our pupil in our eyes.  We used paper to draw our eyes and eyelashes too and the pupil and eyebrows. - Skylar

We drew our eyes with crayon and pencil crayons.  Some had brown and black.  Some had aqua and green. - F.

Lots of people's eyes are different colours. - Tanaye

On Saturday, there was deep snow in my backyard.  I stepped in it.  I needed a shovel to get me out!! - Carter

On Friday, our class, as part of our study on The Senses took a closer look at our eyes.  We drew our eyes in a close-up picture.  Everyone's picture needed to have a pupil, eyebrows, eyelashes and an eyelid.  We used mirrors to make sure we knew what colour our eyes were.  Some of our eyes were more than one colour!  They look fantastic!! - Miss Matsumoto



Kandinsky Inspired Artwork




Room 163's Kandinsky inspired concentric circle artwork

We had fun painting Kandinsky art. - Stella

We did our best! - Skylar

We looked at Kandinsky's artwork. - Enya

The circles were very colourful. - Ella

It is fun at school! - Isaiah

We went outside for gym. - Ethan

We painted second for our Kandinsky art. - Lara

We read for 13 minutes for Read to Self!! - Lexie

We had fun at school. - Aiden

We like making friends. - Kale

We like the pillows that Miss Matsumoto's mum Joyce sewed for our classroom. - Hannah

We went on the computer. - M.

Last week and the week before, our class was studying the abstract artwork of the famous Russian artist, Wassily Kandinsky.  We were inspired to create some of our abstract art.  In the first picture you can see our first attempt using pencil crayons and crayons.  We each were responsible for completing two squares.  Last week, we each painted four squares inspired by Kandinsky's artwork.  We think that they look very much like Kandinsky's art and are quite proud of them! - Miss Matsumoto