I hope everyone is have a day full of Peace and love and thoughtfulness. I also hope that the children are filling your bucket as well as filling their own. They have learned these terms from one of our guest teachers who will be coming in on Monday afternoons to talk about Bucket Filling. If you hear the children talking about Pauline....this is our Youth and Family Worker from Kitsilano Area that will be doing this program. It is a valuable program that will help the children talk about peaceful and helpful ways to make not only their day better, but others around them happier as well.
Our class has been lucky that we have been able to have so many people in to share their expertises with us. For the last few months we have had a wonderful volunteer named Natalie come in to our class. She is a very enthusiastic writer and poet and really wanted to share her passion with the children. So together we created our Bat Poetry unit. The children experienced Bat sounds, talked about all the senses that a Bat would use in his daily life and after a very involved hands on discussion with Natalie, the children sat down and wrote some amazing five senses poems that are going up in the classroom. Come in and take a peek.
We also had the opportunity, once again to have Catriona (from Spec) come in. She did a morning on leaves. They talked about simple leaves, versus compound leaves. They looked at veins on the leaves, the shape of leaves, the function of leaves and even some of the names of leaves. After talking about leaves they played a little detective game where they had to ask questions of a partner and then try figure out what type of leaf they had that was taped on their back and then draw what they thought...then to look at the leaf that was on their back and see if they were accurate. After they were given a bunch of leaves and they had to determine if they were compound, simple, palmate etc....They loved the lesson and they loved having Catriona come in. This is the last of our Catriona sessions for this year. We will be planning a few more lessons for the winter and spring in 2014. Stay tuned for some awesome lessons!!
This week we did many activities on Rembrance Day. We did Remembrance Day writing, art and poetry. Our culmination of Remembrance Day was an amazing assembly. Didn't our children look so beautiful and handsome??? It always brings a smile and a tear to my eye. Their ability to do the Poppy Procession after such a short practice time, along with Ms. Jung's class was beautiful.
Believe it or not this Friday we started a poster that our class is making for the winter craft market that Bayview has had for the last few years. Soon you will see some beautiful Grinch art (oxymoron????) up throughout the school. Our Bayview Market this year will be held on December 7th...so stay tuned for more information.
Sent home by hard copy on Friday was some information on two families that we are providing Love Hampers for. Bayview traditionally collects for families from the Hastings area to provide them with some Holiday extras that they may not normally get. Due to the size of the families I agreed to take on two families. I would like to focus on the children and food. We have one girl (8 years old....Maria) and one boy Lucia (6 years old) and then the families. I will have two boxes going one for each family and then a box for food that i will divide up between the two families. If you are choosing to give gift certificates, give them to me and I will hold on to them so that they don't get "taken" or "lost".
Thank you again for reading all the information on the blog and for being such active and participatory parents. I love it! and I love your kids!!
Take care and give them all a hug from me!!
Teri
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| Natalie, having the children experience some Bat sounds. |
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| our student of the week. |
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| Lest we forget! AS the computer is glitching.....I did want to add more pics...but will try at a later date...there are some great ones of our little scientists at work!!! argh argh... teri |
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