Division 10's News of the Week

our found poems and art creations.

our senses poetry

Good Morning,
What a beautiful and sunny weekend we are having! The cold is easy to manage because you can bundle up from top to toe. No rain is always such a wonderful thing to wake up to!! As it is rather cold, this is a reminder to please send your children to school with warm jackets, maybe mittens and hats as they are expected to go outside during recess and lunch for fresh air. If all items are labelled it does make it easier to ensure that we know whose mittens belong to whom (does that make sense??)

A big thank you to everyone for the contributions to our love hampers. Lucia's (boy) and Maria's families are going to be very happy when they receive our gifts of love. We will continue to take contributions till December 7th, so if you would like to give the families some gifts or food items, then we will gratefully accept them.

We have had a very busy week at school learning about bats. We have worked with Natalie and have now written three different types of Bat poems. The first was a senses poem, the second was a found poem and the third was an acrostic poem. Ask your child if they know what types of poems these are. They have done an incredible job on their poetry and have really enjoyed working with Natalie on this Poetry unit. We have also discussed why a bat is considered a mammal and not a bird and completed a project to show their understanding. Ask your child if they can think of the five things that makes a bat a mammal. Your children are very very clever and should know this!!

On Monday afternoons (from 230-300) we have been learning how to fill our buckets and how to fill other's buckets. We also know that we do not want to be a bucket dipper!! Pauline a youth and family worker from Kitsilano comes in and has a very interactive lesson with the children where they talk about their feelings of the day and things that they did that day that filled other's buckets. We read a very good book on this today that gave the children a clearer picture of what this is.

We will continue to learn about Bats for the next couple of weeks.  We will also be starting our holiday unit where we will learn how other countries celebrate their Christmas's.
We are starting this next week by having Annie's dad, Andrew in to talk about Hannukah. He will be visiting us on Friday and celebrate Hannukah with us. He will tell us the story of Hannukah, we will eat some special donuts, and then the grade two's will make delicious latkes for us all to sample. I can't wait.

This next week will be full of visitors and it will be starting on Monday.
Here's our schedule for next week:
Monday:
Compaigni V'ni Dance will be presenting a one day dance, games and story telling workshop that will celebrate the Metis culture. We will learn a dance at 900 am till 1000 am and then everyone will regroup at 200 till 300 to share all the dances that we have learned with each other. I think we are very lucky to have this opportunity!
Thursday:
Starting at 900 am and going till noon we will be participating in a Geology Workshop. We will be doing a hands on workshop with rocks and minerals. We will have the opportunity to look at many rocks and pretend to be geologists for the morning. Thank you to Simon's family for organizing and sponsoring this excellent workshop.

From 100 till 300 we will then be having a BAT WORKSHOP. Ronnie from the Urban Ecology Center at Douglas College will be leading this informative workshop. She has done this workshop in my class before and is excellent at sharing her passion and knowledge about bats with us.

Friday:
Our Hannukah presentation with Andrew.

As you can see we have a wonderful, busy, exciting week ahead of us.
Stay healthy and we will see you all on Monday!
Teri

Ryan our student of the week.

What we know about Bats, plus the print making art that we did.