It's looking like a nice day out there...lets hope that the sun shines and the snow melts and we can bring spring on!
I will start with our business first and then go into all the wonderful things that we did, will do and have pictures to follow!
Business:
1) Please remember that tomorrow is Family Day and the school will be closed so that you can enjoy an extra day to spend with your family. I hope everyone has sooo much fun together! It's those extra days that give us more time to relax and recuperate. Enjoy!
2) Valentine's Day is on Tuesday, February 14th. We will be participating in Valentine's Day activities all day long. We will write about love in the morning and make our little card bags, we will go to the library and write some Valentine's Day poetry, hopefully using the computers, and then in the afternoon we will have a little opportunity to hand out our cards, eat some yummy red treats (I will be bringing in some cupcakes and fruit) and doing some fun Valentine's Day puzzles etc. Please, I know I do not have to really say it, but if the children choose to bring in cards, make sure that everyone gets a card. I would hate to see one child feeling excluded if they do not get a card with their name on it from one of their friends. Thank you.
3) Please send in the 15 dollars for our Gardening Program with Nikoo. For those of you who have already sent it in, thank you. We are still waiting for a few more before I can deposit it and make out the cheque to SPEC.
We have had a great week with lots of visitors in our classroom.
Both grades enjoyed the Arts Umbrella workshops. The grade two's joined Mrs. Applebees class and used a water based black pastel to create amazing bears in their environment, as well as paint. Then later in the week the grade one's joined Ms. Jung's class and used oil pastels on black paper to learn how to use basic shapes to create their bears. Afterwards using gold, silver and bronze paint to highlight their pictures. The children were very well behaved in both groups. And their art...stunning!
We also enjoyed a visit from Deana, our first nations worker. She came in and we learned about the Long houses in the Musqueam community. She showed us pictures as well as talked to us about the amount of people that would live in a longhouse at any one time. She showed us pictures of the house posts in front of the longhouse and talked about the carvings that they would do on the posts and what they symbolized. Then we created our own longhouses and added some of them to our huge mural.
Another visitor that came into our class was Cecily from JKC. Cecily will be coming to our class for at least three more visits to talk about some strategies for understanding feelings and how to best communicate to others the feelings that you are having. They played some games and discussed some emotions that they may never have heard of before. She was very impressed by how wonderful our class is.
Katie (a volunteer from UBC plus a friend of my daughter Abby) also came in and started making some clay owls with the children.
Besides all these visitors we have been working hard in the class to do many other projects. We are continuing our study of Owls and learned about the different parts of the Owl.We labelled, we drew and then we wrote some wonderful "odes" about them.
The grade two's also started a unit on Fractions. They are all so keen on this new unit. It makes pizza sharing so much more meaningful!! Ha ha!
Finally I would just like to end this with a thank you....a thank you for all my cooking moms, a thank you for all my lunch moms, a thank you for all the parents who have driven, and will drive for skating and a thank you to everyone who brought in socks for the homeless. WE collected almost one thousand pairs of socks. WE will be giving them to the Covenant House who will hand them out to their Outreach Workers who will then pass them out to the street kids and adults. So thank you thank you.
With that, enjoy your weekend, and the pictures.
Teri
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| Eli shares his favourite book, "Where the Wild things are" |
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| Marcus shares his favourite book...a classic, "Go Dog Go" |
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| Theron shares his favourite book, "Nuts, Bedtime at the Nut house" |
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| Maggie shares her book, Uni the Unicorn. |
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| Up outside our classroom for you all to enjoy. |
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| Cecily talks and plays feelings games with our class. |
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