Merry Christmas

I just wanted to take a minute to wish all my students and their families a

Very Merry Christmas!

 

- Mrs. Singh

Breakfast With Santa and Pajama Day

Breakfast with Santa was a huge success. A great big thank you to all the PAC members and the rest of the parents for organizing such a great event. The kids loved every minute of it!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Angelina the Elf with a couple of friends.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Merry Christmas everyone!

Enjoy the holidays and the extra time you will have to spend with family and friends.

- Mrs. Singh

 

Elf Applications And A Little Fa La La

Today we performed "All I Want For Christmas Is My Two Front Teeth" at our school's Christmas concert. We did a great job! Among all of our Christmas concert excitement, it also snowed a ton the entire day. We could help but take a class photo with all the snow in the background. Here we are smiling and posing politely for the camera.

 

How could we not take a goofy photo?

 

 

Speaking of concerts and singing...
Here are some adorable Christmas carolers we made over the past week to inspire us while we practiced for this special night.

 

 

In other news, Santa sent us an urgent memo! It seems that he may need some back-up elves to help him up in the North Pole. You know, just in case one of his regular elves comes down with the flu. Of course we all wanted to apply for the job. Here are a few of our elf job applications.

 

Amy applied to be a baker elf. Her previous experience includes cooking with her Mom and she would also like to learn a little more about measuring. I think Amy would make a great baker elf. Her desired pay is marshmallows. I am sure the North Pole has plenty of those.

 

 

Lucia applied to be a stable elf. She has a lot of experience with horses. She enjoys feeding and riding horses and reindeer are similar to horses so she feels she would be perfect for the job. I think so too! She would love to be payed with sour keys! Yum!

 

Puneet applied to be an elf spy. The kind that checks up on children to see if they are being naughty or nice. Her previous experience includes spying on her brother. Apparently she is also great at playing pranks on her brother as well. I am positive that the North Pole needs someone like you, Puneet! Puneet's desired pay is nothing. She'll just do it for free!

 

 

I guess we'll just have to wait and see if any of Santa's elves come down with the flu or anything else.

 

I hope the snow lasts overnight and does not get washed away. We did not get a chance to enjoy it today. Maybe tomorrow.

 

-Mrs. Singh

 

 

 

 

 

Oh No! Someone touched the Elf!

I am sure you probably already heard but last Friday we walked into our classroom and.....GASP! No Elf! In her place was a note from Santa. It seems she lost her magic because someone had touched  her. Here is the note that Santa left.

 

Luckily, Santa Claus happen to be stopping by later that day for some photos. He was kind enough to take a little extra time out of his busy schedule and talk to the class about what had happened. He also gave us a small container of "magic elf dust". We sprinkled the "magic elf dust" on Angelina the Elf and she was as good as new.

 

 

 Here is what she has been up to since last Friday.

 

Hanging out in one of our Santa hats.

 

 

Using our red, green and white unifix cubes to make a chair just the right size.

 

Taking a break in Mrs. Singh's Christmas mug with our gingerbread play dough.

 

See you tomorrow!

- Mrs. Singh

 

Gingerbread Houses

Merry Christmas!

 

 

Its Christmas Time

You know it is nearly Winter when you encounter three different types of extreme weather just on your commute home. It all started with a hail storm. After about ten minutes it turned into snow (and not the kind that melts when it reaches the ground) and finally when I reached my driveway I was met with torrential rain and wind. What's next? Hopefully it won't affect our travels to school tomorrow morning.

 

Today was quite the busy day with concert dress rehearsals and holiday excitement in the hallways outside our class. It can be a little tough to concentrate and stay focused, but amongst all this holiday excitement we managed to get in some amazing writing. I was especially impressed with Kai and Amy for completing not one, but two holiday writing assignments in class this morning. Way to go! Thanks for making our class a pleasant place to be!

 

Important Reminders

Dec. 18 - Gingerbread House Day (Div. 3, 4 & 5)

Dec.19 - Christmas Concert at Port Kells Church @ 1:00 and 6:30

Dec.21 - Pancake Breakfast…wear your PJ’s

 

 

Enjoy your evening! See you tomorrow!

Mrs. Singh

 

Santa's Stuck Puppet Shows

Yesterday we created a short skit based on the story Santa's Stuck. We were having so much fun performing for the kindies as well as the students in Mr. Mallinson's class that I completely forgot to take any photos. Arggghhh! They were so cute! Today we created some adorable popsicle puppets for each of the characters in the story to help us practice retelling. Once again super cute! This time however, I had my camera ready to capture a few shots.

 

 

 

This next little cutie is very soft spoken and shy. However, she was so excited about performing this puppet show. She even presented it to a few of our lovely grade 6 students. I was so proud of her! I managed to record her but unfortunately the sound quality is not the greatest. I guess I just might have to ask Santa or Mr.Singh for a new camera with better recording quality this Christmas. I am still posting it because she is seriously too cute! 

 

 

 

Important Dates to Note

 

Dec.14 - Photos with Santa, $2 each & Jingle Bell Run for Surrey Food Bank

Food Donations are being accepted all week long

Dec. 18 - Gingerbread House Day (Div. 4 & 5)

Dec.19 - Christmas Concert at Port Kells Church @ 1:00 and 6:30

Dec.21 - Pancake Breakfast…wear your PJ’s

 



Pete the Cat Saves Christmas

I just realized that I did not post any photos of our Christmas desk decorating activity last week. Here's a little photo display...

 

When we finished decorating our desks, we began a fun Pete the Cat Saves Christmas activity booklet. If you have not had a chance to read any Pete the Cat books, you need to run out to our public library immediately and sign one out. I think Pete the Cat might just be one of our favourite series of books. Here is a short video link to Pete the Cat Saves Christmas.

 

 

 

Our love for Pete the Cat has also inspired our Pete the Cat math themed centres focusing on learning to read a write number words.

 

We've also been working on our holiday themed writing skills over the last two weeks. We have been using the "someone, wanted, but, so, finally" graphic organizer to help the students sequence the steps to write an effective paragraph. Here are a few examples of our work:

 

 

The amount of detail in each of the paragraphs varies depending on the student's grade level as well as their abilities. A few of the students had the opportunity to publish their paragraphs on our blog. You can check them out here.

 

Now it is time for a little elf update. Here's what she has been up to this week.

 

 

Important Reminder

 

The Santa / Christmas store will be open tomorrow.

 

Enjoy your evening!

 

Mrs. Singh