Last Week Peek

I have a bunch of videos and photos to post today, so I will let the pictures do most of the talking.

Physical Education

We were so successful improving our hula hooping skills that we have now moved onto skipping. This is one talented group of kids. Check out our moves.....

 

Every Friday, the entire school meets in the gym to participate in our school wide Health Hustle lead by Mrs. Tarnowski. Here's a peek inside our gym during last Friday's Health Hustle.....

 

 

Non-Fiction Writing

 

We are wrapping-up our study of penguins and non-fiction text features. We completed some amazing penguin reports, which are now on display on the bulletin board outside of our classroom. Come on down our hallway and take a look when you have a chance.

 

 

We also had a chance to integrate a lot of artwork into our penguin theme unit. Last week we were very fortunate to have Mrs. Barone working in our classroom. One of the amazing things about Mrs. Barone is that she is also an artist. She was able to share her artistic talents with us and we created some amazing pieces of artwork.

 

 

These penguins are just the cutest things I have ever seen.

 

We are also loving "Ready Freddy! The Penguin Problem" by Abby Klein. We only have two chapters left to read and we're eagerly awaiting to see how the story ends.

 

 

 

Math

 

After completing a very successful unit on place value skills, we decided to revisit even and odd numbers. Here is a cute bulletin board display that ties in perfectly to our new study of communities. The students created almost identical houses as well as some creative and colourful houses. The identical house were all given an even address whereas the colourful and creative houses were given an odd address. Welcome to Even and Odd Street.

 

 

Social Studies

 

Speaking of communities, last week's focus was on community helpers. We took the opportunity to improve our inferencing skills while learning about the people that work and contribute to the success of our community. Students were divided into groups of two and were assigned one community helper. We researched books and created clues about our special helper. The class then worked together to examine each of the clues and used their background knowledge (schema) to guess the community helpers.

 

 

This week, we will be learning about the changes that have taken place in our community. It will be fun to research and learn about what school was like for our grandparents.

 

Enjoy your evening!

-Mrs. Singh

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Family Literacy Day Photos

Last Thursday, we celebrated Family Literacy Day. The morning's events were successful and the students loved dressing up as their favourite characters. We started our day's activities by meeting in the gym for a whole school assembly. We listened to Mrs. Souder read Woolbur, a story about a spunky adorable sheep who is not afraid to be himself.

 

 

Next, Amy and Puneet helped me read Pete the Cat: Rocking In My School Shoes (one of our classroom favourites) to the entire student population and some of their family members.

 

 

After meeting in the gym, we moved to several different areas throughout the school to read with our parents, grandparents, sisters and brothers.

 

Many of the students chose to dress up as their favourite characters. Here are a few of our awesome costumes.

 

 

The Three Very Cute Little Pigs

 

Heartland and Junie B. Jones

 

The Paperbag Princess and Pinkalicious

 

 

Pete the Cat and Chicka Chicka Boom Boom

 

 

 

Hope you enjoyed the photos.

-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

 

 

 

 

 

Creature Features

Today we completed our Creature Feature riddles. Yesterday, each of the students chose an animal and then researched information and facts about the animal of their choice. They started creating riddles using the information they gathered. Today we completed our riddles and added a few last minute details to our illustrations. We read our riddles to Mr. M's class and they tried to guess our chosen animals. Here are some photos of our completed work:

A Whole Class Bulletin Board Display

A Close-Up View

 



 

We Love To Show-Off Our Work

 

Could You Guess Our Creatures?

I was able to snap a few shots during calendar time today.

First up, our "Celebrity of the Day" completed the calendar duties on the calendar wall.

 

The rest of the class completed their calendar activities in their Math binders.

 



 

Here are some students working and learning together on our classroom computer.

 

I hope you are all having a FANTASTIC Thursday! Tomorrow will be Friday and the end of another fun and busy week.

 

-Mrs. Singh