Good Morning everyone!
I hope everyone has had a lovely weekend thus far. The sun came out for a little while yesterday...did you notice it? Did you get out and play? I bought my pumpkins yesterday...very good prices at the Walmart here. Big pumpkins for less than three dollars each. If you are in the North Vancouver neighbourhood, you might want to stop in!!
First off, I would love to thank all the parents who came and chatted with either myself or Ms. Craig during our Parent Teacher conferences. Both Ms. Craig and I feel so happy and blessed to have such a wonderful group of children who are supported by such special, involved, caring parents. Again I would like to reinforce the importance of communication. If there is a problem, speak up. If you have questions, ask. We work together as a team to help your children feel safe, cared for and respected while they learn valuable life lessons in class.
This last week felt like a short week what with two early dismissals and a a professional day on Friday, but in those few days we were busy beavers.
On Monday, we worked on learning the life cycle of the corn. We read about it, talked about it, wrote about it and finally used plastercine to create our own life cycle of the corn plant.
On Wednesday the grade two group made some corn bread using corn flour. We all tried it and agreed it was quite delicious.
On Thursday, about seven of our children went to the cross country meet. Congratulations to all the children who practiced and participated. It takes a lot of courage and determination to go to a meet with sooo many children from all over.
Meanwhile, the rest of the children went to the library to work on our poem using the ipads and the book creator app. Over the last few weeks Lori, our techo-poet-ology expert has been coming in once a week to discuss, brainstorm and inspire the children prior to their actual writing. We chose the theme of potlatches.A potlatch is a gift-giving feast practiced by indigenous people of the Pacific Northwest Coast. We incorporated the talk of harvesting food (corn, tomatoes, pumpkins) into our conversation and then during our discussion we practiced dancing to a first nations drum beat, looked at first nations art, and practiced drawing some of the shapes of the animals. Thus leading us to our own writing. We started our writing and drawings in class and on Thursday was our opportunity to use the ipad to write it all down. Ms. Jung's few children joined our group to help us figure out the program. The children were amazing! Those that missed this day due to cross country running, will have a catch up day. As you will see by the pictures coming up the children had a lot of fun using the technology!
Finally:
Important Halloween information
This Friday, October 28th Bayview will be celebrating Halloween a few days early. We will start by having a Halloween assembly in the morning. The children are invited to wear their costumes to school as we will be having a Halloween parade during the assembly. It is a lot of fun seeing what everyone has created for their costume. As it is still a full day at Bayview the children must have something that they can change into after the morning parade. Something that is non restrictive, binding, or annoying to them. We will be participating in our dance with Lisa after recess, and then doing some art in the afternoon, so it is important that they can move freely as well as not worry about getting too dirty!!!
We will not be having a party on this day as I think by the evening when many of the children will be attending the Halloween Howl, that they will have enough excitement to last them for a while. On Monday , October 31st (true Halloween) we will do some Halloween games and activities and writing and at the end of the day, watch a little Halloween video. We will keep it pretty calm!
With that,
enjoy the pictures and your Sunday as well. I will see you all on Monday!!
teri
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| Nina brings in her pet mice for show and tell! This is Coffee. |
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| Most everyone touched the little mouse! |
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| Our beautiful scare crows with our scary crows! |
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| The life cycle of the corn. |
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| The next pictures are of the children working on their ipads. They have their poem beside them and are now learning how to type it into their ipad. |
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| There are four faces that you might now recognize...and these are the children who helped our children, Ryan, Boden, Jasper and Bella from Ms. Jung's class. |
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| After our ipad work we made some dangly spiders...getting ready for Halloween! |
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