Division 10's News of the Week

Good Morning Everyone,
Can you believe it is December already? Time is zooming and before you know it, it will be the winter holidays. Wow, time flies when you are having fun.
You will see some fun happening in class, especially this Friday. I could see that the children were seeming rather fatigued and so instead of doing this huge art project I thought we would make pattern holiday chains. The children grouped into partners (if they wanted to) and just made chains. This simple activity was an activity that inspired teamwork, laughter, sharing and comments of this is so much fun! It was a reminder to me that children need to do these types of activities. It doesnt have to be a big difficult project to be successful and inspiring. I took some pictures of them showing off their chains.

This last week we also had Deana in to talk to us about the wolf in the Tsleil Waututh (spelling??) group. She read us a legend on the wolf and then gave us some interesting facts on the wolf. The wolf is known as the communicator. We will be working on this in class, communicating our needs and wants with each other in an appropriate way. In fact one of the things we discussed with the children that if in play during recess and lunch (or anytime else) if someone says Stop...then you stop doing what you are doing. If someone says NO then you listen and hear what they are saying. Learning to communicate in peaceful ways is an important part of our social and emotional learning. We will be discussing this more in the next few weeks. Please encourage your child to follow the simple adages...no means no and stop means stop!!

Jung came in with Christina and baby Liya. That was sooo much fun. Liya has grown sooo much already! She can grab toys now and was very interested in looking at all the children! Baby Liya also communicates her needs by crying as she cannot talk and use her words yet.

In math the grade ones have begun their adding and subtracting unit using hands on manipulatives. While the grade twos continue to practice different strategies for learning how to add and subtract single unit digits.

We will be ending our unit on living and non-living with a little look at squirrels...a living creature and then beginning a mini unit on a non-living creature..the gingerbread man. That will take us till the end of December!! 

Thank you to everyone who contributed to our holiday love hampers. They are certainly full of love!!
With that,
Enjoy your Sunday , enjoy the pictures, and I will see you on Monday.
Take care,
teri

The grade ones were all writing these frog number stories in their head...so they would tell the story in their brain and then write it down in numbers. It was very cute to see them working so quietly and independently.

Christina and baby Liya

Baby Liya is chewing on her hands more

The children all show their chains. 

The children each picked an animal from a series of pictures and they wrote a poem about themselves being that animal. They are wow poems!

The book the Six Cedar Trees that we will be focusing on over the next year. Each animal has its own identification and own social emotional topic that we will be talking about. The wolf is what we are starting to talk about right now...the wolf is the communicator.