Tomorrow is PJ Day!

Today we finished our Christmas present for our mom and dads.  They are in our backpacks tonight.  We made a bag to wrap them in and wrote I love you more than Rudolf on the bag.We had lots of center time as some kids finished thier presents for their parents.
In Music we watched some more of the Nutcracker Ballet.  There was a lady who could do the splits with her back leg bent.  Today we had our last day of the 12 days of fitness.
 Tomorrow is the last day of school before Christmas holidays.  Tomorrow is PJ Day.

Grinch Day

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Today we finished our Christmas trees with oil pastels.  We added the house and then lines on the window and some snow.
We did a guided draw of the Grinch because today is Grinch Day.
In the bag today we found the movie and the book How the Grinch Stole Christmas.
We watched the movie and read the book and talked about how they were different:
  - In the book they did not show Cindy Lou going up to the Grinch's house.
- In the book Cindy Lou had antennas on her head and in the movie she had tall hair.
- In the book they did not tell us about Cindy Lou going to the post office and the Grinch saving her from the sorting machine.
- In the book they did not have the bog clock counting down the days to Christmas.

At the end of the day we went to the gym and sang Christmas carols with the rest of the school.

Christmas Caroling

Today we went went caroling to the School Division Office and the Police Station.  We sang Jingle Bells, Rudolf and We Wish You a Merry Christmas.  It was fun!
In the morning the Grade 2's practiced skip couting by 3 to make a popcorn path for a mouse.  The Grade 1's were colouring teen numbers different colours to make a penguin.
Today we read a book called Dashing Through the Snow but the words were different.  The words were different because it was the Canadian version.  It talked about polar bears and other canadian animals.

Reindeer Rebellion!

The book in the bag today was about the reindeer.   They told Santa they were not flying the sleigh until they got some thing like a hot tub and milk and cookies.  Before we finished the book we wrote down what we thought we would ask for if we were the reindeer!   We made a reindeer with different colours of shapes.  Lots of us used red for the nose and black and white for the eyes.
In math The Grade 2's were practicing adding and then colouring things to match the answer.  The grade 1's had a mystery number page. We had music today because we did not have music yesterday.  We started making a present for our parents but we can not tell you what it is because it is a surprise.

There is a note about caroling in our backpack we need to bring it back to school ON MONDAY!

Popcorn Day!

Today for morning work we coloured squares on a 100 chart different colours and when we were done it turned into a Santa mouse.  The book in the Bag was "If you Take a Mouse to the Movies" and some popcorn.
We had library in the morning because we didn't have library yesterday.  In math the Grade 2 helped the mouse from the book some math problems.  The Grade 1's played a game about numbers to 20.  We flipped over the purple cards and then put a block on the number that we saw on the card.  We tried to get 3 in a row.

In Science we made a thermometer with a red and white string.  We put the string trough a thermometer and then tied the strings together.  We looked up the temperature in Hawaii (+25), High River (-12) and Toronto(-5) and made out thermometers go to that temperature.  

We  also learned why popcorn pops.  It is because there is water inside the popcorn kernel gets hot and when it heats up it makes the kernel explode. We had popcorn and watched the magic School bus Christmas show all about recycling.

Let Me Take an Elfie

We have 10 bags hanging on our wall with a book and some activities inside.  Today we opened bag 1 and we will open one bag everyday between now and Christmas holidays.
Today in the bag there was a book about an elf who helped Santa deliver the toys. He liked to take "elfies" with his phone.  There was paper that we used to make elf hats.  Then we took elfies of our favorite things about Christmas.  We also did a guided draw of elf legs and wrote Santa Stop Here on the side.
Inside the bag there was also letters from Santa.  We each got our own envelope with our names on it and a note from Santa.
In the afternoon we had a practice for the Christmas concert that will be tonight.  We practiced both our songs and watched the other classes practice their songs too.  We need to be at the school at 5:10 and stay for both concerts.

Christmas is Coming!

Today we made some Christmas art.  We made Christmas balls with warm and cool colours.  We cut a white piece of paper into 4 pieces and then painted it with 2 colors of watercolor paint.  When we use watercolor paint we just dab and we don't use strokes.
Today we talked about the temperatures of different places like the the center of the sun is about 15000000 degrees Celsius.  We had inside recess for both recess again today.  At first recess we had 2 options either dancing in the gym or walking club.

Acadians

Today the Grade 2's were practicing how to figure out an equation when we don't know the number in the middle.  We used cups to hide the middle number and then we had to fugure out what was the middle number in the equation.  We tried to solve equations on other peoples boards.  The grade 1's practiced making teen numbers with a 10 frames and with base 10 blocks.
We had an assembly and some people came and gave the school a cheque for $500.  We started watching a video at lunch about the Arctic.  We are watching it because it teaches us more about the animals in Iqaluit.
Today we talked about people who used to live in Meteghan called Acadians.  They choose to live there because there were trees and fish.  They got kicked out of their houses by the British.  They could not leave by an airplane because planes were not invented back then.  They went by boats to the United States and Europe.

Learner Profiles Today

Today we coloured in our Ted Harrison art that we started yesterday with different colours of oil pastel .We wrote a letter to Santa.  We asked him questions, asked for somethings for Christmas and we even wrote about what the rest of our family wanted.   Ms. Mahan is sending them today and we hope Santa will write back.
Today we got our learner profile. They are in our backpacks.

Arctic Pictures

We made a picture white glue based on some pictures by Ted Harrison.  It is drying in our desk over night then tomorrow we will add colours.  Our pictures needed to have a sun, water, hills and mountains because that is what we saw in lots of his pictures.

Hot and Cold Collage

Today we used an app on the iPads to make a collage of things that are hot and cold.  When we found the picture we added it to our collage and then wrote the word.
In Social we finished out ABC's of Iqaluit.  We found something for almost every letter of the alphabet that we would find in Iqaluit.
In math the Grade 1's practiced making tens in a ten frames. We also made 1 more or 2 more and 1 or 2 less.

Arctic Animals

Today we turned our animal books into a brochure.  We wrote information in each of the boxes like babies, habitat, predators, and what their diet is.  After we cut out the boxes and glued them on our page.  We also followed some steps to try to draw our animal.  
Today we had an assembly and constable Jill told us about her job and how she puts first things first in her job. We had music and we read a book called "Santa is stuck" and we sang our Christmas song.  In gym we played a corner game and if they pointed to the corner you were in you had to do an exercise.  We also played pizza tag where you have to run to the other side if they say your topping.  You get free when they say hot delivery.
Have a great long weekend

Arctic Art

Today we made a piece of art with an igloo and northern lights.  We made the northern lights by ripping a piece of paper so it was jagged.   Then we used chalk pastel and drew lines going up that looked like the northern lights.  To make the snow we painted a piece of paper and then we  cut apart a bag and crumpled it on top of our painting to make the snow have different colors.
In the morning we practiced drawing the igloo so we had a practice before our art in the afternoon. We drew the igloo together one step at a time and then we outlined with permanent marker.  It was hard and there were lots of steps.
Today lots of us finished out research about the arctic animals.

Arctic Animals

Today in the morning we drew a bear together.  Then the Grade 2's wrote what they like to hug and the Grade 1's practiced writing their upper case and lowercase B's.
In literacy we got some books about animals that might like in Iqaluit.  We wrote  down facts about our animal like their size, what they eat and where they live.  We got the information from the books.  We worked with a partner to find the information.
We got new library books and new books in our book boxes today.  In gym we did our laps around the gym while we dribbled a ball.  After we tried to keep our ball away from a partner with our bodies.

Hot and Cold

Today we learned about hot and cold because that is our new unit in Science.  We watched a video and learned when the earth tilts towards the sun it is summer when it tilts away it is winter.  The sun affects all seasons. The sun it part of our solar system and is the biggest star.  The sun is dangerous to people that is why we wear sunscreen.
We got a readers theatre activity today and picked our parts.  We each have parts and we highlighted our parts.  It is about water droplets. Some of the part are water droplet 1,2,3,4,5,6 and 7, the sun and a little kid.
We painted a picture of ourselves and talked about ways we can begin with the end in mind.

Bodies of Water

Today we made a painting of water with water colour paints.  We dabbed the brush rather than painting with strokes and our papers were really wet.  At the end we put salt on it.  They looked really cool when they dried.
We finished our bodies of water book today.  Some of the bodies of water we looked up were creeks, rivers and bays.  There  was also lakes, oceans and ponds.  We looked up what each of the words meant on the Ipad and then we wrote what was important in our book.  We learned that a pond is a small circle of water that is smaller than a lake and surrounded by land.  

Bodies of Water

Today we learned about bodies of water.  We made a book  that we folded on a dotted line and cut around the outside that we will finish tomorrow.  The grade 2's talked about equal and not equal.  You put an equal sign in the middle  of two things if the sides are the same and a not equal sign if they are different.   We learned that a not equal sign is just like an equal sign but with a line through it.  The grade 1's talked about the different ways that a number can look.  We did number symbols, words and pictures. Today the kids that did not go to the library yesterday went  today.

Writing Numbers!

Today the Grade 1's tried a new app on the Ipads to practice making their letters the right way.  It was called Wet Dry Try.  The Grade 2's were adding and subtracting. One of the Grade 2's activities was using ice cream scoops to find fact families.

Today we talked about the way the land looks in different parts of Canada.  We also talked about Ice roads because Iqaluit does not have a road.  We wonder if they have an ice road?

Magnet Fair Fun

Madame Savage's and Mrs. Saunderson's class came to our class and tried out our toys today.  We had to explain to them how are games worked and then they played them.  All of our games used magnets.  Some used attracting and some used repelling.  They liked our games.
We wrote a poem about peace today on a piece of paper.  We practiced writing on the lines and making sure we did not put uppercase letters in the middle of our words. The poems were only 11 words long.
Today we had a remembrance day assembly.  2 people from each class went to the front to laid a wreath for their class by the Canada flag.

Wreath to Remember

Today we made a poppy for our class wreath. It had 5 different layers.  One part was  a cupcake holder, another part was a red piece of paper, another a green piece of paper and then a green piece of tissue paper.   We put a button in the middle with white glue at the end.  We made poppies for our class wreath that we will use at the remembrance day assembly tomorrow.
In gym we played soccer outside because it was so warm outside.  We made teams  by the colour of our shirts.  We had library today and we got some new books for home and we also got new books in our book boxes today.

Poppies

Today we had a we made part of a flower on a blue piece of paper.  The flower was a poppy.  We worked in a group of 4 and used oil pastels to make the poppies.  We choose the colour for the middle and and colour for the second part with our groups.  The last section had to be red because it was a poppy and poppies are red.
In Literacy we wrote about what peace smells like, looks like and tastes like.  
Today we are bringing home a new book order it is due on November 18th.

We are Proactive

Today We finished our magnet project.  Some people made games like fishing games other people made different things like like magnet races.  People brought different supplies like paper clips,sticks,paper.

We talked about being proactive today and we finished our proactive person at the bottom there was shoes and we put a proactive sentences on each shoe. Then we put legs on. On the body we made own sentences about how we are proactive. Then we added a head, hands and girl hair or boy hair.

We made an art project with poppies in our visual journals.  The middle of the poppy was black or green and the outside we made red petals that were shaped like both triangles and hearts.  After we added some paint to everything but the poppies.

We went outside for gym because it was so nice out.  

New Seating Plan

Today we got a new seating plan now our desks are in a U shape.  The Grade 2's are sitting beside a grade 1 learner.  In math we practiced making our numbers the right way.  We talked about which numbers start at the smiley face.
We got all of our work from October back today and then picked our favorite thing to go in a frame. The rest of our work went home to our parents with a purple note explaining what we have been doing.

Counting Backwards

Today in Math the Grade 1's were practicing counting to 20 and then counting backwards from 20. We used a caterpillar on the Smartboard and whiteboards to help us. The Grade 2's were practicing making equations with the same 3 numbers.  Two of the equations were adding and 2 were subtracting.  
In daily 5 we practiced our writing, reading to self and reading to someone else.  The Grade 1's also did word work using LA centers.  We had library today and we got new books for home and for our book boxes.  We also had music and practiced singing back to Mrs. Haney-Jones.

Halloween Fun!

Today we had a parade in the gym to show the other classes our costumes.  After we had 11 centers in the gym that the Halloween leaders planned.  The centers were all over the school. One was a creepy maze through the library. Another one of the centers was to wrap a person up with toilet paper so they looked like a mummy.
We also did some fun activities in our class and one of them was to design our own bat wings and see if our bat would fly.  We also worked as a group to make a bridge with orange play dough, pipe cleaners and Q-tips. At the end we tested to see how strong our bridges were.

How am I Doing?

Today we did a self assessment where we were honest about how we are doing at school.  It had thumbs up, sideways or thumbs down on it. We had to colour one in for how we think we are doing.  At the end of day we glued it in our visual journal. We also read some Halloween book and had 3 rounds of daily 5.
In math the grade 2's practiced solving math problems.  The grade 1's made a little book where they practiced their numbers and their colour words.  We also came up with a new way of handing out whiteboard supplies.

Halloween is coming.

Today for our morning work the Grade 2's practiced their subtraction and then coloured a Frankenstein based on the answers.  The Grade 1's counted Halloween pictures and practiced writing their numbers.  We read a book about bone soup where a man made some soup with eyeballs, bones, mouse droppings and dandelions.  All the characters in the story liked the soup.  The characters were Halloween things like a witch and a giant.
In math the Grade 1's practiced counting and writing the number for different Halloween objects they found around the room.  While they were doing that the Grade 2's were practicing solving math word problems on the whiteboards.
In Art we made a painting of a moon.  We used white and 1 other colour. We made a moon and then made circles around the moon that slowly got darker.  We did this by slowly adding more of the colour to our white paint.  They looked really cool when they were done.
 

Bee Bots!

Today during Literacy we went outside and made a treasure map.  We had to look in the field and draw what we saw with a clip board and a pencil.  When we got inside we put the x to mark the spot where we are going to put our treasure and added the path we want the person to follow.  On Monday we are going to write the instructions that we want the person to follow to find our treasure.  Then we are really going to go on the treasure hunt using each others maps.
We got to experiment with the Bee Bots and the Goobi magnets.  We also practice our subitizing on the Ipads. It was a great day.  Happy weekend everyone.

Which Way?

Today we got a surprise because there was lots of Halloween decorations in our room.
We talked about North, South East and West and we did three activities relating to these directions. We also finished out monster writing.  We added lots of detail to our writing.  The Grade 1's did 5 sentences and the Grade 2's did more sentences.  The people who did not get their books yesterday went to library and got their books today.  
Today we had a fire drill.  We used the fire exit door that is close to our classroom. Some of us did exercises to keep warm outside because we could not stop and put on our jackets before we went out.  We tried to get out of the school as quickly as we could.
 Today we are bringing home a magazine order.  If we sell magazines is will raise money for the Learning Commons.

Monster Writing

Today we talked about a fire drill and we wrote one important thing that we have to do in a fire drill in our visual journal.  We drew a monster and then we wrote sentences about our monster underneath. On Thursday someone is going to read our writing and then draw the picture they see from reading our words.
Today we went to the library in 2 separate groups.  One group went to the learning commons to check out books and the other group switched their books in their book box in our class.  After 15 minuites we switched.
 Today we got our school pictures back. They are in our backpack.  Parents can order them online or send the envelope back to school.

Canada Chalk Pastel Art

Today we made 3 pictures using chalk pastels.  One picture was of a prairie, one was of the north and one was of the sea.    We did these pictures because we are learning about different places in Canada in Social.
This morning we did a word search about magnets.  In Science we got a little booklet about magnet centers that we are going to do tomorrow.  In one of the centers we have to try to pick out the magnetic stuff with a fishing rod.  In another you had to try to get the magnetic thing to the top of the jar.
Today we read a book about a pirate and his crew what talked a lot about letters.  We listened to our new leader of the week present her poster.  We learned that she likes to play soccer.

Fire Prevention Week

Today we used 3 colours of paint and painted a flame in our visual journal.  We did this because this week is fire prevention week.We are also each bringing home a form that we can fill out and then enter a draw at the office.
Today we read a story about colours making friends.  The main character was Brown and he complained all the time.  Light Green gave him some advice like he needed to smile and use kind words if he wanted to have more friends.

We are Thankful

Today we practiced reading together in groups with a Grade 1 and a Grade 2.  First the Grade 1's looked for words they knew on the page.  Next the Grade 2 read the page, then we read it together.  Lastly the Grade 1 partner tried to read it on their own. Today we practiced our printing using the letter A.  When we are printing we need to remember to start on the line and not make floating letters.  We also started making our own little books about things we are thankful for.
We read a book about a turkey who did not want Thanksgiving to come so he pretended to be different animals.  At the end he pretended to be the pizza man and delivered pizza on thanksgiving. Today we got a new seating plan.  We could be in groups of 2 or 3.  Each group had to have a girl and a boy and a person from each grade.

Soccer

Today we made  a tree on our pattern art.  We did this by blowing a blob of paint with a straw across the page.  Some people made bushes because their paint didn't spread very much.
We read another chapter of the BFG and we drew a picture that matched the words in the story.  This was helping us to make pictures in our head while we read.
We played soccer in PE.  We learned that in soccer we can only use your feet not your hands.  Another rule is you keep your hands to your self.

Translating Patterns

Today we had 4 centers in math they we Duck Duck Moose, Pete the Cat colouring, making a collage on Pic Kids and a soccer balls page.  In the centers we were practicing translating the patterns or telling the patterns in different ways.
We started reading the book The BFG today.  Some of us just listen but some of us drew pictures or wrote question in our journals while Ms. Mahan read.  Today we did daily 5 we did listening to reading, work on writing in our journal and practiced our reading.  We also got a new person in our class today.

Picture Day is Coming!

Today we practiced making patterns in different ways this is called translating a patterns.  We practiced translating patterns on our whiteboards with a partners and then we translated our crown patterns in 2 ways.  When we were done we cut it out so it looked like a crown.  Most of us are wearing them home today.   We also made our pattern paintings into flowers in groups.  They look beautiful.
In science we were using rulers, magnets and paper clips to see how far the paper clip would jump to to get to the magnet.  We had to graph how many cm it could jump.
Monday is Picture day!

Telus Spark

Today we went to the Telus Spark Science Center.  We went in groups  to learn about magnets and our teacher from the science center was the name was Joe.  There were 5 center to explore.  One of them was using magnets to move the magnetic goo.  The goo was made of ground up iron.
 After lunch we went exploring the science center some of us drank form a toilet shaped water fountain.  Some of us even laid on a bed of nails.  Some of us got to try out some boats to see what would float and what would not float.  We also got to try to build our own river with some magnetic pieces.
We all had lots of fun and have lots o stories to share.

Terry Fox

Today we read a book about Terry Fox.  We found out Terry Fox started his run in Newfoundland and ended his run in Ontario.  It also told us Terry Fox lost a leg because his knee was feeling pain and it turned out to be cancer.   In daily 5 we wrote sentences about what we knew about Terry Fox and then we drew a picture.  Some of the Grade 2's had so much to write they needed to write on the back of the page.  At the end of the day we did your Terry Fox run around the lake.
In Science we tested how many paper clips each of the different kinds of magnets will hold.  In math we practiced sorting by two things at the same time.  It was a new way of sorting for us.
Tomorrow we are having our special magnet learning day!

We Have Fantastic Elastic Brains

Today we watched a video about magnets and learned that the earth is a big magnet.  They also taught us a magic trick on the video. After the video we drew 8 boxes in our visual journal and then we answered some questions about magnets in the boxes. We wrote and drew pictures about what we learned form the video.
In daily 5 we had 3 choices today.  We could do listening to reading, work on writing or read to self.  We read our class book of "It is not a stick".  We each made a page in the book.
We read another book called the Fantastic Elastic Brain. We learned that when we learn things are brain bets stronger.  We also learned that our brain controls everything we do.  Some of the parts of our brain are the cerebellum, cerebrum and the hippocampus.

Geography

Today we sorted the magnet pictures we took last week into groups based on what items were magnetic and which were non-magnetic.  We read a book about a girl who had lots of questions and then we wrote one of our questions in a cloud.    We also talked about geography and that it means the way the land looks. After we labelled hills, mountains, prairies and river in our art.
We read the book that was like the book it is not a stick but this time it was not a box.  After we made our own page for our class book of it is not a stick.  We read another story about making friends about a new boy called peanut butter.  It was hard for him to make friends but he kept trying.  At the end everyone wanted to play with him because he and jelly because they were having so much fun.

It is Not a Stick!

Today we started some math centers.  One was painting, another was Mathletics, another was stickers  patterns and the other was bingo dobber crowns.  We were in groups of 5 to do the centers.  The grade 1's did repeating patterns but the grade 2's needed to do both repeating patterns and growing patterns.
Today we took a picture of ourselves with a stick so we can make a class book like the book "it is not a stick".  We also added some ideas coming out of our head in our visual journal that we started yesterday.  The grade 2's could write and draw their ideas and the grade 1's just drew pictures of their ideas.
Tomorrow we have an assembly, book orders are due and we have the meet the teacher BBQ.

What Do You Do With An Idea?

Today we drew a picture of ourselves then we cut the top of the head off and glued them in our visual journals. so  Now it looks like our head is opening.  We read a book about what to do with an idea.  The boy in the story went on an adventure with his idea.    People laughed at his idea and told him it was a waste of time but he kept believing and soon his idea went everywhere.  Tomorrow we are going to draw our ideas coming out of our heads.
We read a book about what you can see hidden in a picture and there was lots of animals hidden in the picture.  We were practicing reading the pictures. We really liked the book.  We also read a book where we guessed what things were from clues.  The pictures in the book were close up of things in our house like Velcro.  We read another story where we had to guess the animals based on what rhymed with the clue.
Today we made patterns in our visual journals.  They could be color patterns or  line patterns.

Drawing "Ish"-ly

In morning meeting the question was "Do bunnies have good eye sight?"  Most of us thought they did.  After we read that carrots can give you good eyesight and Ms. Mahan gave us each a carrot from her garden.
Today we made it to  9 minutes during Read to Self!  That s the longest we have ever read.   We also read a book called "Ish" about a boy who like to draw.  He drew things "ish"-ly.  After the book was done we made "ish" pictures just like he did.
In the afternoon we had an assembly and we talked about leadership teams and the 7 habits.  Some of the leadership teams this year are morning DJ's, gardening leaders, share a smile leaders and recycling leaders.
We talked about geography and then we went outside to take pictures of the ways the land looks.

Frosty Morning.

Today our morning question was "What are frost flowers?"  We all told what we thought they were and then we went outside to look for frost flowers.  We found lots in the shade.  We learned after that they are made from ice that is why they melt in the sun.  When we were done we got to play outside for a few minutes.  
We did a letter center with our groups this morning.  When we were done we were the leaders and showed the rest of the class how to do the center.  The centers were about practicing our letter sounds.
Today we traced magnets in our visual journal and learned the different magnet names.  When we were done we painted around the outside of each magnet.

 

Sky Colour

Today we had a birthday in the class so we got to have birthday cupcakes!  We read a book about a girl who was an artist and her class was painting a mural.  They each got to paint part of the mural.  She decided to do the sky.  She could not find blue paint so she made a new colour for the sky because she noticed that the sky can be lots of different colours.
We read another book about a girl who never made mistakes and her first mistake was juggling a pepper shaker (instead of a salt shaker) and it made her hamster sneeze.  We learned that mistakes are OK because she had more fun after she made the mistake.We also finished our 4 math pattern centers.

Patterns everywhere!

Today talked about patterns in Math. We rotated through 4 math centers. At one center we made pattern bracelets out of beads and pipe cleaners. Grade 2's used 3,4 or 5 colours in their bracelet and Grade 1 used 2 or 3 colours. Another Center was making a pattern paper chains. Another was making a pattern art. The grade 2's even learned about a new kind of pattern called a growing or increasing pattern! We read a book about girl who fond a box of yarn so she knit a sweater for herself. She had more yarn leftover so she knit sweaters for animals and houses in her town. Then a Duke stole her box of yarn but when the duke opened the box there was nothing in it. We had gym today and we played colour tag. If the teacher said the colour of pinnies you were wearing you were it.

What we are

Today we watched a video about "What I Am".  It said things like "What I am is helpful or "What I am is strong".  Then we each made a Lego person of ourselves and wrote a sentence about what we are.
We read a book about how a girl was going to get to school this year.  Then we wrote a sentence about how we get to school. After we created a how we wish we could get to school out of Lego, Knex or square blocks. People made things like snakes, cats and giraffes.
 We got two gyms because the gym was empty when we went on our school tour!  We did calendar and talked about the months and when our birthday is. We also talked about how today is Friday and about not having school for 3 days.  Have a great Long weekend everyone!

Spray Park Fun!

Today we popped our last balloon and it told us that tomorrow is PJ, stuffy and movie day.  It is also early dismissal tomorrow because tomorrow is our last day of Grade 1.
Today we went to the water park and we played there for most of the day.  We each got a big Freeze from the teachers.

Sports Day Tomorrow

Today we popped the number 4 balloon and it told us that we get to wear our hat all day tomorrow.  Tomorrow afternoon is also sports day so we need to pack lots of water and extra lunch to give us energy for all the activities.  We should also pack sunscreen and good shoes so we are ready to be outside all afternoon.
Today we made a Haiku Deck about why we need plants and animals, why plants need animals and why amials need plants.  Some of us wrote things like we need plants to make clean air for us to breath.  Birds need trees so they have a place to build thier homes and a place to get their food.
Today was also extra recess so we got to go out early.  Some of us played soccer, some played on the swings and some us us even finished out work outside.

The Rodeo is Coming!

We went to the gym and had an assembly this morning.Three cowgirls came to tell us about the rodeo in High River this weekend.  One girl showed us how to use a whip.
We had a picnic at the new park that is down from Senator Riley.  The park there was made out of wood.  We walked there and ate our lunch. We also had an extra snack when we got back because we were tired and hungry.
Today was our last day of Zone.  We each got a certificate to say we completed Zones and we got a stop light for our classroom to remind us to STOP when we are in the red zone.
In Sceince we wrote about our "wild me" we created yesterday.  We wrote about why we choose the animals adaptations on our animals.  We wrote things like:

• I picked a lion mane because I think it would make me look fierce.
• I chose crab claws so I can pinch my enemies and then get away.
• I chose spider legs so I would be good at climbing things

We popped balloon number 5 today and tomorrow Grade, 1,2 and 3's get to have an extra recess!

Wild Me!

In PE today we had a guest teacher called Mr. Middleton.  He had us do centers like scooters, scoops and skipping.  In music Mrs. Haney-Jones also had a guest teacher called Miss Metcaff.  They were both actually a student from our school who won being guest teacher for a day at the dinner theatre last week.
We watched a video about what animals need.  We learned they need food, water, air and shelter.  We made a flip book about all of these things.  We also leaned about Animal adaptations an made a wild us on the computer.
We popped the balloon and learned that tomorrow will be Picnic Day!  If it is nice out we will go for a walk for our picnic.  If it is raining we will just stay here.  Parent can come too if they want to.