Merry Christmas!!!

Pj day with a winter movie was a great way to end the week! Thanks to the parent council, the students ALL enjoyed popcorn with the movie!! 

We had an awesome surprise from the North Pole!!! Santa replied to ALL our letters! The students had SO much fun reading their letter to the class. Copies of these letters were sent home on Friday. Make sure you check your child's mailbag for them. The originals were kept and will be put into your child's portfolio, which they will receive at the end of the year. 

Thank you to all the parents who sent in snacks for our brunch! It was a delicious meal!

The students enjoyed playing some board games. Battleship, Checkers and Old Maid were some of the favourites. 

We read the story "Mooseltoe", the students practiced lines to a reader's theatre and then they performed! They did a GREAT job!

We did some spelling review this week, by playing WORDO. The students chose 20 words off our word wall for our "word bank". Then they created their own WORDO board using 9 of the 20 words. 

The students had the opportunity to do some buddy reading with 3D.They loved choosing new friends to read to! 

 

For handwriting this week, we learned the letters Kk and Ff. The students were so excited to spell FORCHUK! 

We also worked on an activity called "Value of Words". The students used our word wall words and addition to figure how much they were worth.

For Social, we read the story "Lights for Gita". This story talks about the Indian celebration, Diwali. We also watched a little video about the celebration. Ask your child to tell you what Diwali is. 

We also read from our mini books on India. We have now finished our study of India and following the break, we will have a cultural day celebrating India food and culture. 

Congratulations to our students who have read 1200, 1800 and 3000 minutes!! If your child has not made it to 1200 minutes, please spend some time reading over the holidays. 

Congratulations to our new Student of the Week!!

Christmas Concert and Christmas Elves

The students all looked so nice and did a great job singing "A Little Song for Christmas"!

         

 

We helped Mrs. Stanski decorate the gym for the concerts. We used music note paper to make Christmas trees. The students used their careful tearing skills to make the layers for the trees.

For Language Arts this week, we wrote letters to Santa. We learned how to write a friendly letter, including a greeting, body, and closing. The students also worked on organizing their body into paragraphs. We met with each student to edit the letters together. Then they wrote a good copy for Santa. These have been mailed to the North Pole and we hope to hear back from him before the holidays.

We also worked on some story writing. After reading the book "All You Need for a Snowman" the students worked on sequencing a story of their own to explain to readers how to build a snowman. The focus of this writing project was to get the students to put their thoughts in a logical order.

For Science, we continued in our lap book, talking about "How Humans Make Sounds". We watched a video showing how sounds are produced and then labeled a diagram together as a class. 

We also looked closely at sound waves and vibrations by completing experiment called "Silly Salt". When they students banged on the drum, they could see the salt on the can dance from the vibrations moving through the air. 

We are continuing in our handwriting books. This week we learned the letter Oo and Hh. 

For Social this week, our focus was on citizenship with our final collection and delivery of the Christmas Elves food donations. 692 food items were donated by the RBES families over the past month, along with $170! Our class, along with 3D, bagged the donations and walked over to the depot to sort all the food. One student left the depot saying, "I feel so good about what we just did". 

                                                    

Art this week is TOP SECRET!

Congratulations to our new Student of the Week!