It's official!
It's SPRING BREAK!! And a happy one to all of you!
Hopefully you will all have a great two weeks. I cant wait to hear about some of your warm travels and for those of you who are having a stay-cation...enjoy your back yard. I love being able to just leisurely get up in the morning and embrace the day. There is sooo much to do and enjoy right here at home. I am travelling to the interior to see my parents. They live in Grand Forks and then off to see a new little niece in Penticton. So although my vacation will by no means be WARM it will be full of warmth!!

I wanted to say thank you to everyone for an awesome two terms. The children have grown so much and are wonderful little human beings! By now everyone should have received their second term report cards. Remember they are a snapshot of what your child can do. Please return the envelope signed at the back so that I can reuse it for third term.If you have any questions we can talk in third term.

I am attaching some pictures of our bread making workshop. What a wonderful opportunity for our children to work with some ubc students. They worked in small groups, following directions to make some delicious whole wheat bread. I took a picture of the recipe so that you might want to make it during the break. It really turned out beautifully!

Our last day of school was spent in a day of play. The children played in the classroom, roamed throughout the school and played in other classrooms and then ended the day cleaning up our own classroom and then by celebrating Ben's last day of school with us.
Ben will be attending False Creek School in third term and we will miss him very much. We had a little cupcake party to say good bye. Good luck Ben!

And to everyone,
A great holiday...let there be sun!
I will see you in the last week of March!
Teri

The recipe that the children followed!

Ayana reading to her grade one buddies.

The bread that we made together.

good bye ben...we all made a page for ben's booklet!

Nina's brother, Sam came in to do a presentation on Reptiles. You did an amazing job sam!

Good Morning,
Is this white powdery stuff outside SNOW!!!?????? Well, this was sure a good year to do a winter unit!! I am a little bit SHOCKED as I was already introducing words like "crocus" and flowers into our spelling...I think I may have to revisit this! haha

With that, I hope everyone gets out there and enjoys this beautiful whiteness!
It was great seeing all the parents at the Gala on Friday night. What a beautiful venue. Thank you to all the parents from our class who helped decorate the gym. It was absolutely gorgeous. Congratulations to Reid's family who bought our platter. It certainly is a beauty! I hope you enjoy this piece of art!!

It has been two weeks since I have blogged due to the busy time of report cards. Report cards will go out on the last day of school which is next Friday. Time flies when you are having fun...I can't even believe that two terms are almost over. I have loved every second (I kid you not) of this year so far and really look forward to a wonderful third term!

This next week we have some wonderful things planned:
On Monday, Cecily will come in for the fourth time to do another social responsibility lesson.
Last week we talked about the importance of inclusion and how it felt to exclude others and how it felt to be excluded!! The children all participated in some wonderful discussion and I think they really understand this concept.

This Monday afternoon we will be having a Hip Hop dance troup come in. That's pretty exciting as it will be interesting to see this group especially after doing our own dance unit with Lisa in first term.

On Tuesday we will have Mr. T join us to do our ipad unit. Ask the children what they have been working on. Mr. T says he loves working with this group of children and said they have learned so much about the ipad...likely even more than me!!

This Friday, our last day of school for the term, will be our day of play. We will revisit that wonderful time we had in first term and just play. A newsletter will be sent out to you to remind you of what we did. The children will have the opportunity to play in our classroom and then visit other classrooms to play and build and create. On this day, the children are invited to bring in their own toys, that they want to share, puzzles, games, etc...but no electronics. It is a wonderful way to end off our second term of school.

I have a lot of pictures that i will be posting which will show you all the wonderful things that we have been doing in class. 
Have a great day and enjoy the snow!
teri

Mike, a Western University Student, volunteers in our classroom, during his reading break.

Abby, my baby, also volunteers during reading break.

Lucy does her book talk!

Reid shares his conch shell that he got on his vacation.

Lara does her book talk.

Hedgies Surprise b y Jan Brett. A wonderful unit!

What to do in case of a fire drill...procedural writing.

Alisha does her book talk.

The parts of an owl...enlarged!

Sorting attribute blocks. Part of our math unit. Working in cooperative groups the children are to think of a rule and then try to sort their blocks according to the rule that they have generated.

Can you guess this rule?

Some rules were a little more tricky for me to figure out.

It was a sea of pink during our Anti-bullying, pink shirt day!

Rio does her book talk.

Ayana does her book talk (sorry for the blurry picture)

Hailey, one of our volunteers, works with Ben.

Paul, Reid's grandpa, came in and did a book talk with us as well. Paul is a writer of "scarey" novels for older children and is now writing picture books for the younger kids. The children, along with Ms. Applebees children were so lucky to be able to hear three of Paul's books. 

You can see that the content of the books look a little spooky. But we weren't scared!!

Group photo! Find Paul!!

Reid and Granpa.

March comes in like a lion, art.

scarey lions!

What amazing artists!

Painting our clay owls. There is always something going on!!

Happy Birtday Dr. Seuss! Together with our buddy class we celebrated Dr.Seuss's birthday.
See if your child remembers any of the facts that we heard from a video that we saw!

Isn't he cute!!