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| Catriona helping the kids out |
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| oliver and nicole work on their seed packages |
This blog would have gone out early this morning but as many of you might know already...but I worked today. Mrs. King had to go to Toronto so I was lucky to work today with the kids. Over the next few days I will hopefully have met with everyone for a parent teacher conversation. So far, I have really enjoyed chatting and getting to know all my new parents and revisiting with all my former parents. Thank you to everyone who has come in already and to those who I will see later on.
We have had a very busy last week with lots of fun and learning.
This week:
1. We worked with Mrs. Yamashita in the library and continued with our Todd Parr unit. We heard the story The Thankful Book by Todd Parr and all did our own pages for a class book. We also watched some of his video clips on the Smart Board. I am very proud of how hard all the children are working on their drawings, their writing and their colouring. Very impressive.
2. We talked about being Thankful with our buddies and all created a patch that is exhibited outside of Mr. A's classroom. In fact all week we talked about being thankful...where i was thankful for having such a wonderful class, they seemed to all be very thankful for their wonderful families....I concur!
3. This week we had a visit from Catriona, our SPEC gardener. Did we have fun looking at seeds and making our own seed packets. We talked about seeds and how they all had a baby plant called an embryo growing inside of it, just waiting to be nurtured for planting in the gardens in the spring. All the children will be bringing home a seed packet next week. I will post many pictures of the fun that we had working on this activity. We certainly are lucky to have Catriona come in.
4. One of the grade one groups made chunky applesauce today which we tried. It definitely was delicious. So now all the grade ones have had an opportunity to make applesauce, which we will use later on in our cooking projects. So far almost everyone has paid their $15 for cooking, but we are still waiting for around five people to pay. Please send it in with your child if you haven't done so already.
5. We continue to have our spelling tests on Friday. The children have been so proud of their excellent marks on their tests. Keep practicing the words at home, it just gets easier and easier for them and it definitely helps them with their own reading and writing. You should see how independent they are getting to be!
So this week there was early dismissal today and there will also be an early dismissal at 200 tomorrow. During this time, you might want to visit the Scholastic Book Fair in the library. It will only be open again on Wednesday.
With that, I will see everyone again tomorrow and for the rest of the week.
Enjoy the pictures,
Teri
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| nick and samara work on their packages |
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