I hope everyone had a wet but wonderful weekend??? It doesnt matter if it rains or shines as long as one had the opportunity to spend some time snuggling and reading with their loved ones. As well as getting out and walking in the rain!! What fun. Thats what weekends are made for, family, friends and fun!!
We had a busy week at school. The main focus of what we did this week was talk about PEACE, about Remembrance Day, about how to make others feel safe, good things that we can do for each other to make other's happy. The children did some wonderful writing. One was specifically what PEACE is to them...as it was a form of poetry that we were doing, the children were encouraged to use their senses when they were describing peace....for example...peace tastes like a strawberry freshly picked from the vine. They then also brainstormed different ideas for the other senses. The writing that they did was so beautiful. You should come in and read their work one day!! Later on in the week we talked about what Remembrance Day was all about and that we should stop and think about what it meant to us now and how we can be a part of the solution of Peace forever. With our buddy class we read about the symbolism of a poppy and created a group wreath made of a poppy craft and some dove writing. It is outside the office down in the hallway. Some beautiful team work was done to create this wreath. For art we did some giant poppies in the style of Georgia O Keefe, as well as worked on some poppies using oil pastels and chalk pastels...this work will be exhibited in the gym during our big Remembrance Day assembly.
On the topic of Remembrance Day:
I would like to invite you to join our Assembly on Tuesday, Nov 10th at 11:00 in the gym. It will be a very special assembly wher we will have th eopportunity to express our thanks and show our respect to our veterans and those who are helping to keep peace around the world. Together with our friends in Division 11 we will be doing the "poppy procession". We will be teaching the children collaboratively with Ms. Jung on the morning of the assembly. I can assure you that it will be a very touching and moving ceremony. I do hope you will be able to attend.
For that day, I am asking all the children to come to school in clean and presentable clothing. Preferably white tops/shirts with black or dark bottoms...or anything red, black, white. Also can you please review with your child the expectations of this assembly--no clapping, no laughing, no being silly etc. I have told the children that this is the most important assembly of the year and I would like for them to take it seriously. On this day we will be handing out Poppies for the children to wear over their heart. They children are not required to pay anything for the poppies, but if you would like to donate a loonie or a toonie to the veteran fun, that would be very gracious of you!
A reminder that school will be closed on Wednesday, Nov. 11th for Remembrance Day. Classes will resume Thursday, November 12th.
Thank you so much for sharing your children with me.
I have some wonderful pictures for you to take a look at!
teri
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| Peace is ..using all of our senses to write our poem! |
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| The children work with Pierrot to create their Georgia O Keefe poppies. |
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| Welcome to our classroom....our decorated door! |
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| Casper, Joanna and Ariel work on their chalk pastel poppies. |
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| Free play....with my sons old pokemon cards! |
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| My stars of the week (Bev and Leah) loving to use the white board. Future teachers???? |
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