From everything that the children shared with me I know everyone had a great winter holiday! And like I am always saying to the children, "time flies when you are having fun!!" That is true in class when we are doing so many activities and it's true when the snow is falling and everyone is enjoying all the beauty around them while being with their family and friends.
I would like to take this time to welcome Clement to our classroom. Clement is from France and is here for six months with his family to learn English. It is a pleasure to have him join our class. The children have all been very kind and welcoming. So if you know any French, this is your opportunity to practice it. It's surprising what words do come back to you!
It was great to see all the children back in fine form! They were excited, happy and surprisingly very very calm. I think they were all ready to be back and working away. And believe me, we worked. We wrote and wrote and wrote. We wrote about our holidays, we made some great New Years Resolutions and we wrote some wonderful Firework poetry. We also did a lot of art...and this was all on the first day!!!
Even though Hannukah has passed, we decided to have a belated Hannukah experience. We started off with reading a delicious Hannukah story called Latkes, Latkes Good to Eat. Then some of the grade twos got to go and make some latkes for us all to try. They were so yummy. In the afternoon Yael (Ben's mom) came in and shared the story of Hannukah with us. She lit the Mennorah, and then read a story that Ben helped her to tell and then took groups of children to play the dreidle game. It was a great afternoon.
On Thursday we had the pleasure of having Veronica come in and talk about hibernation.Veronica is a scientist (an ecologist to be specific) from Douglasfe College who came in and shared many delightful stories with the children about her own experiences about seeing different animals in their habitats.Afterwards the children began working on their own hibernation posters incorporating the different hibernating animals.
Friday arrived soo quickly, I couldnt believe that our week was coming to an end. With four children away, it made the class also seem sooo small. To all who were away with colds, I hope you feel better! We started our new literature unit, Jan Brett. She is an author and an illustrator. We will be investigating her style of writing and illustrating over the next month and doing many Jan Brett inspired projects. In the afternoon we painted and created some very whimsical bears...celebrating our knowledge of Hi-bear-nation!
Important information:
1) Our Student Led conferences are coming up on Wednesday, Jan. 18th and Thursday Jan. 19th.
There will be an early dismissal on these days (2:00 pm) to allow time for the interviews.
The student led conference is an opportunity for the children to show and share. The first five minutes is spent with the parents and the teacher briefly discussing the report card and the next ten minutes is for the parents and the child to review the childrens work, During this time I will pop in for a quick little chat to review the goals and off you will go.
The following times are reserved for the parent teacher interviews:
Wednesday from 730 am till 830 am and from 200 pm till 400 pm
Thursday from 730 am till 830 am and from 200 pm till 500 pm
Email with your preferred times...please give me a few choices and I will email you back with your time.
With that,
Have a great weekend and I will see you on Monday!
teri
Enjoy the pictures
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| Yael shows the children the Mennorah |
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