Pink Shirt Day

On Wednesday February 26, 2020 we were encouraged to wear a pink shirt to recognize anti-bullying day. We created our own pink shirt and wrote a kind words and slogans to help us remember to be kind to others. The message this year was "Lift Each Other Up".

100th Day Of School

On Friday February 21, we celebrated the 100th day of school. There were 4 different stations in each of the Grade 1/2 classrooms for us to participate in throughout the morning. We started in our own classroom. Ms. Adharsingh gave us a fill in the blank 100 chart to finish and then we had to go on a scavenger hunt to find the numbers around the room.

Then we went to Ms. Defoe's classroom. First, we used a 100 chart to count our Cherrios and then used them to create a simple picture.

The next station was in Ms. Kraus' class,  we made a book that was about what we might look like when we are 100 years old. We thought about some questions that she asked like What will you eat when you are 100? Or When I am 100, how many things will I have?

Our last station was making 100 day hats with Ms. Caughey. They had to have 100 items on the hat. We drew, stamped and added stickers to get to 100.

The day was really awesome! We loved all of the projects!

We can't wait until the next 100 days pass in the school year!

100 Day Of School Celebration

On Friday February 21, we will be celebrating the 100th day of school. Students will rotate through 4 different activities throughout the morning.

As part of the celebration, students are asked to bring a “100” collection from home to share with their classmates. For example: 100 pony beads, 100 buttons, 100 stickers. Students will create a picture to display their collections. Please make sure that the items are not crushable. The items will not be returned in the same state.

Gymnastics Stations

This week, the students have been engaged in our new unit for February, Gymnastics. We have been working on some of the fundamental movement skills such as  moving their bodies using different pathways and experimenting with various levels (high, medium and low) and balances that are static and dynamic. Our main focus of the week was to keep our bodies in control at all times. Starting on Tuesday next week, the stations will change into a Mission Impossible course.

 

On Wednesday February 12, Students are welcome to bring Valentines to exchange to others in the class. Bringing Valentines is an optional activity! I ask that if students bring Valentines, they bring a valentine for everyone in the class so everyone feels belonging.

Reminder: Next week is a short week! 

Thursday February 13 and Friday February 14 are Teacher's Convention!

Monday February 17 is Family Day!

Literacy Week Activities

It has been a fun week! It was great to see lots of students participating in the new event every day. We loved having a new teacher in our space to read to us. We were lucky that Ms. Dalton came to our classroom on Tuesday and read us The Balloon Tree. Ms. Adharsingh went to Mrs. Evans' Grade 3/4 classroom and read them the Antlered Ship. We also had a community guest, Constable Mark Enzie, show us his tool belt for work and read "Have You Filled a Bucket Today?"

On Wednesday, we enjoyed making bookmarks with our buddies.
Thursday was probably the most favourite day of all. We got a chance to dress up as a character from a book.






Everyday the students and teachers carried around a book just in case there was an announcement made to start DEAR time. DEAR stands for Drop Everything And Read! It didn't matter if we were doing math, playing in Phys. Ed or singing in music. Everyone in the whole school stopped the current activity and read for 10 minutes. Ms. Adharsingh loved getting 10 minutes everyday to read with us.

Literacy Week

Every year on January 27, ABC Life Literacy Canada hosts Family Literacy Day, the largest national family literacy event in Canada. Literacy organizations, schools, libraries and media groups will coordinate numerous literacy-themed events and activities across the country in honour of this special initiative.

Family Literacy Day® is a national awareness initiative created by ABC Life Literacy Canada in 1999 to raise awareness of the importance of reading and engaging in other literacy-related activities as a family. News Media Canada is a proud supporter of Family Literacy Day, distributing public service announcements and editorial resources from ABC Life Literacy Canada to our members.

All Week Activities: Admin to read to classes 
D.E.A.R. time (Drop everything and read, students and staff should be carrying a book all day, every day, you never know when it will happen!). 
Constable Mark will read with grade ½ classes.

Monday- Read my Shirt Day! (Please wear a shirt with writing on it, or a shirt connected to literacy in some way)

Tuesday- Reading with other classes (will be a 15 minute block, teachers will move to a new location, check your mailbox for a schedule later this week)

Wednesday- Book Mark Making 

Thursday- Dress as your Favourite Character! And Literacy Week Assembly!  

Mystery Settings

This week, we continued our work with settings and using juicy words to describe them. Students were all given a different picture of familiar and unfamiliar places. After the students had time to write about their pictures, we shared them with each other trying to guess the places that was described. It was a lot of fun trying to figure out the clues.

For example,

" I saw beautiful mountains ahead. The water was blue. I heard two little birds chirping. I felt water splashing on my face. I smelled fresh air. I tasted fresh water."

After a great adventure in the woods in the distance I saw a beautiful giant thing. It was very large. I went inside! It was shiny! There as gold everywhere. I smelled delicious chocolate. Over the hill sat  lot of corn growed so much that I couldn't even count how many there was. I noticed a dark brown bear eating some berries. There was wine tangled to the large tower. I felt a mouse that was in the hallway."