The Gingerbread Man Was On the Run!

We went on a gingerbread treasure hunt!  We had to scan the clues using the iPad.  The clues were in a QR code! We scanned the QR code and a message popped up.  The message told us to go to the bootroom, the Learning Commons, the kindergarten hallway, the music room and the office!  When we got to the office, the clue told us to go back to the beginning.  We got back to the classroom but the gingerbread man was GONE but he left us some cookies!  We decorated them with candies and ATE them up!

Tomorrow is Pajama Day!  Remember to wear your favourite pjs!

3-d Elves and Shapes

3-D Elves

We made 3-d elves with boxes.  It was a classroom full of elves!  We used squares, spheres, rectangles, circles, cylinders and rectangular prisms.  We stuck them together with tape.  Some people used Christmas spirit when creating their elf.  Some of us synergized and helped each other tape our elves.

We went down to the gym to do some Christmas caroling with the WHOLE school!  It was fun.

An Old-Fashioned Christmas!

We went to the Highwood Museum. Years ago, people hung candles on the Christmas tree.  They had to be careful because they tried not to burn themselves or the tree!  In the old days, they hung socks and Santa would put an orange in the toe, if you were lucky!  We made a craft candy cane out of paper and crayons. The Highwood Museum has an old journal from a girl from the 1880s.

We played at the museum in the play area.  We sang Jingle Bells with bells and we read the book A Porcupine in a Pine Tree.

Letter to Santa

Mrs. Saunderson made a copy of our letter to Santa.  We put it in our Take Home Folder for us to read to you!

Have a great weekend.  See you Monday!

We need to wear a Santa hat on Monday IF we have one!  I can't tell you why.....

Old Fashioned Christmas

We will be learning about an old fashioned Christmas.  Some kids interviewed their parents.  We found out that parents and grandparents got toys too when they were in Grade 1.  The toys were a little different.  Ms. Mahan's class made acrobat toys that balanced on their finger!

Christmas Concerts

We watched the Gr. 3-5 concert this afternoon.  The kids talked with a western accent.  It was funny!  Someone was dressed up like Santa Claus.  People were dressed up really funny.  The concert was very funny.  People were dressed up in disguises.
After the performance, we had a GoNoodle because we were sitting a LONG time.
We have been counting a lot by 5s.  We are getting pretty good at it.  We can count by 10s to 100.  We made some reindeers and Christmas trees out of shapes.  We even made giant elves of ourselves.  They are in the hallway.

No school for students on Friday!

I am a great learner!

The Learner Profile is coming home tonight.  Please READ it with me.  When we are done, we need to return the folder and the envelope.

Our Christmas concert on Monday night is almost FULL to capacity.  If you have EXTRA tickets, please send them back to school.  We need to wear sunglasses and reindeer antlers if we have them.

We had an assembly today.  We learned about Habit 1 & 2.  We synergized with the big kids!  We talked about what a 7 Habits school feels like, looks like and sounds like!  We said some really great stuff - Mrs. Saunderson was impressed.

Ask me about Random Acts of Christmas Kindness!  Today we gave someone a compliment!

Remember that I need to interview someone about Grade 1 past and bring in my field trip forms.

12 Days of Fitness

We have been doing the 12 days of Fitness!  Every day we do a new exercise.  On the first day, we did a high 5, on the second day we did 2 toe touches, on the third day we did 3 muscle poses!  We head down the hallway to the grade 2 and 3 wing!                                                                                                                                                                                                    
Please remember to send the field trip note back to school.  Remember I need sunglasses and a reindeer hat for the concert on Monday!

Shapes, shapes, shapes!

2D reindeer peeking in a window!

We are learning about shapes.  There are two different kinds of shapes.  There are 2D and 3D shapes.  2D are flat and 3D are fat!

This afternoon we had a lockdown.  In 1S we had to be quiet and sit down in the corner so no one could find us and Mrs. Saunderson could type.  We know that a lockdown could happen if there was a dangerous animal on the playground or a sick person in the hallway or even a bad guy.

A field trip note is coming home.  Please help me interview someone special about traditions.

IMPORTANT NOTES!

Important notes went home today about the events in December.  Some had Christmas concert tickets sent home as well.  Please check your child's Take Home Folder.

In order for any Scholastic books to be here in time for Christmas, the order is due on FRIDAY.  We know that this is a quick turn around but we would like books here before break.