Hello from Hong Kong!

Hello Room 9 children, families and followers! This Christmas break I'm off on an adventure of my own... Half way across the world. Right now I'm sitting in the Hong Kong airport with my good friend and traveling partner, Mrs. Kinnear, waiting to board our flight to Singapore to see Ms. Krochak! We left Winnipeg at 7 am on Boxing Day and have been traveling for about 24 hours. We're headed to Singapore today, and then to Thailand for New Years Eve. I'll try and post a few pictures along the way. I hope everyone had a wonderful Christmas! See you soon!
-Mrs. Malkoske

Reindeer Snacks!

Today in the morning we made Reindeer Snacks. You have to use a graham cracker and then put chocolate icing on it. Then you stick a chocolate chip in a marshmallow to make eyes, and a swedish berry for the nose, then two pretzels for the antlers. -Syd

I felt awesome about it. I got all messy. -Cali

The best part was making the eyes. -Sam

Here are the ingredients that you need:

3 graham crackers

6 chocolate chips

6 marshmallows

chocolate icing

3 swedish berries

6 pretzels

That will make 3 reindeer. You can make more if you want you just need to use more stuff. -Elly 

It tasted really good. I ate one and I had a fun day. -Nick

My favourite part of making the reindeer was getting messy. -Karys

When we started to make them, after I was done, I ate one. Then I ate the other two at lunch. I had a fun day. -Reegan

Today my favourite thing was making it because we got to scrape everything on and put stuff on it by ourselves. It was fun. -Ella

The reindeer looked like Rudolph because they had a red nose, antlers, and icing that looked like fur. But it doesnt feel furry. -Rylee

 

Christmas Centres!

This week we were doing Christmas Centres. There were groups. There was a group called Christmas Trees, Presents, Stockings, Snowmen, and Ornaments. -Reegan
Today my Christmas Centre was Reindeer puppets and you need a paper bag, googly eyes, ribbon, a bell, a leash that had his name, and paper and glue. -Ella
This week the Christmas centres that I went to are Reindeer Puppets, Reindeer Ornaments, Wreaths, and Snowglobes. My favourite one so far was the snowglobes. -Syd
Yesterday my group made snowglobes. First I went to the painting. You had to trace a paper and my mom put it on our little Christmas tree. -Nick
Today I had a great day. We did reindeer. I think it was pretty fun. -Sam
My group went to these centres: Christmas Cards, Christmas Wreath, Snowglobes, and today we did Reindeer Puppets. -Elly
Today is our second last day of Christmas Centres. My centre today was Christmas Cards. It was finger stamping and your hands got really dirty. The other one was cutting out magazine pieces. You had to stick them on to another card. On the inside you had to write a Christmas notes to one of your family or friends or someone you know. You got to pick the colour you wanted your card to be. -Rhianna
Today we had Christmas Centres and I was in the present group. We made Reindeer. -Brandon
Today we had Christmas Centres and I made a wreath. I had to trace my hands and we had to glue them on to the paper cardboard thing. -Jonathan
Today we did Christmas Centres. We've done it since Monday. Tomorrow is our last day. Each group needs to make one more thing. Our group will make Christmas Cards. Today I did snowglobes. -Rylee

Sharing Our Learning with the World!

This morning we took some time to check out some of the comments that have been left for us on our blog. One of them came from a teacher, Ms. Babalis, in Richmond Hill, Ontario. She and her class came across our blog via Mrs. Lowe's blog. Mrs. Lowe is a teacher in St. James who visits our blog with her class regularly. She is someone that I have been able to connect with on Twitter and in person at a variety of workshops and professional development sessions.

During our morning meeting today, the kids and I looked at both Ms. Bablis's Blog and Mrs. Lowe's Blog . We checked out their posts about snowflakes. Mrs. Lowe saw a picture of our snowflakes on Twitter and sent me a message asking how we created them and if I thought her kindergarten students would be able to create them as well. Once they tried, she sent us a link to their blog post about it.

Ms. Bablis follows Mrs. Lowe's blog regularly and saw their snowflakes and then saw that they were inspired by our blog, so she and her students visited us and left a comment. Very cool connections.

The children in Room 9 were very impressed that by sharing their work, they inspired others to create something beautiful. Each classroom created symmetrical snowflakes in a slightly different way and then shared them with each other. And that's a little bit of AWESOME :)

Nutcracker Eye Spy!

Today we did Nutcracker Eye Spy! We were looking for all of the presents because it's close to Christmas. It's from Mrs. DeBruyn and Mrs. Klaussen. They are really nice to let us do it. Each week we look for different things. We had to count them.... Our guesses are below:

 

Andy: 43

Brandon: 44

Cameron: 45

Cali: 43

Carter: 44

Cayden: 44

Ella: 44

Elly: 44

Jonathan: 48

Karys: 44

Nick: 20

Reegan: 44

Rhianna: 44

Rylee: 36

Sam: 40

Sofia: 45

Sydney: 44

Sharing Portfolios



Today we shared our portfolios with our learning buddies and they shared to us. -Carter

Our learning buddies shared thier portfolios after ours. And in our portfolios we had to tell them about it and after we shared, they left a kind compliment. The grade 3/4s shared their portfolios and they told us about thier portfolios. We left them a kind compliment. -Rhianna

Our learning buddies had some of the same things in their portfolios as ours. They shared it and after we read a book. -Nick

This afternoon we shared our portfolios with grades 1 and 2. We had different things in our portfolios but we also had some of the same. We both had the Writing Continuum. -Kaelan

The grade one and twos left us a compliment on our compliment sheet and we did too. -Emma

We had to share our things. We shared our word work stuff and listen to reading and our work on writing notebooks. We also shared our home reading baskets. -Sofia

For the last two periods we shared our portfolios and my partner was Elly. She spoke clearly so I could hear her. -Jess

Last week we started to put together our portfolios and some of them had a piece of paper in the front so we had to take it out and throw it in the recycling. -Reegan

After last recess we went to our learning buddies and we had to share our portfolio after they shared theirs. I felt that Carter spoke clearly. His writing was neat. -Matthew

 

 

TWAS

We practices  the christmas concert.this is  Ellys first  Chritmas Concert. I hope it is fun.yesterday  the kids of Room 9 played a brain game. we played 3  brain games.We had  fun.We are working on our  portfolios. -Rylee & Elly

 

The Brain Game!

Today we played the brain game and it was fun. One of the games was we had to go and get stuff that was biggest to smallest and Cam got the pea pod and I got the tiniest things. It was a poppyseed. -Elly

Today we played two brain games. One of them was kind of like Guess Who. The other one was biggest to smallest. I got one of the word work materials and after, other people had to get smaller things. -Rhianna

After lunch recess we played three brain games. The first one was one person had to think of 4 sounds like clapping and snapping. Then we went around the circle and we all had to do the same. We could only do it after the person on the left side of us did it. -Syd

I liked the biggest to smallest because first you had to get a bigger thing and then you had to get a littel smaller thing. -Nick

Responsibility!

 

We are learning about responsibility at home, at school, and in my community. We finished our papers today. We told about what we do at home like cleaning up our room or listening to mom and dad. -Nick

We've been learning about communities. Yesterday we wrote down what we're responsible for at home and at school. When we did the at school one, we had to do it with a partner. Today we finished the rest. We had to do "in my community" and what you're responsible for in the community and we did it with our table group. -Syd

On Monday we started working with Mrs. Klaussen. We were doing stuff about communities. We made a list of the things we see in our community. We did attractions and she told us to answer what the two rivers were. The two rivers were Assiniboine River and Red River. We did a Kid Blog about community. Mrs. Malkoske made a list and we wrote about all of it. -Rhianna

Surveys!

Yesterday we started to do our surveys. Today we're asking the questions. -Ella
We had to tell our names and write it down on a piece of paper. We stood on a stool to spell our names. -Sam
The list is for asking questions so that we keep track of who we've asked. We did surveys last year and it was the same book except we didn't stand on the stool. -Rylee
The different kinds of questions were Yes or No and What's Your Favourite? Everybody's question was yes/no questions. The questions started with:

Do you like...?
Do you have...?
Do you want...?
Do you need...?
Do you play...?

Some people did other kinds and some did the same. -Rhianna
Yesterday we wrote all the names in boxes for the survey. Today we're going to use the list to see who we've asked and who we didn't ask. I think it's going to be fun. -Syd