Grinch Day!

The Who's from Whoville!

Mr. Grinch

It was Grinch Day. We had Grinch juice and Grinchy jello! It was a green lunch snack! Some people wore lots of green and some even dressed up like Who's or even the Grinch. If people were dressed up like a Who, their hair was standing straight up!  We drew a picture of the Grinch - it looks JUST like him!  We made our own Grinch craft and had to think of ways to make him smile! We read the book and watched the Grinch movie! We learned that the Grinch's heart grew so big that he loved Christmas.
We were a Grinchy bunch!

Spreading some Christmas cheer!

Today we sang Christmas carols.  We went on a bus to the police station and we went to Division Office where the superintendent works. We sang Jingle Bells, Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer and We Wish You a Merry Christmas.  They all clapped for us.

Tomorrow is Grinch Day.  Wear some green!

3D elves & Gingerbread Houses

We had a great time creating our 3D elves last week. We were able to identify most of the shapes and we all loved each one's uniqueness! They looked amazing! Students were cooperating and synergizing while building their own elf. It was a great experience.

Today we built gingerbread houses! We had TONS of candy and icing to share. It was fun, fun, fun!

The Gingerbread Hunt!

The Gingerbread Man left us clues all over the school!

We had to use QR codes to figure out where to go! 

This was a message!

He left a note and some yummy treats!

We went on a gingerbread hunt.  We had to scan the pictures with the iPad.  When we scanned the picture, there was a note to read.  We had to go all over the school looking for him!  We went to the gym, the library, the office, and the kindergarten room.  We got sent back to our classroom.  The gingerbread man WASN'T there BUT he left us a present!  He left us a tasty treat of gingerbread cookies.

We will rock!

Yesterday was our Christmas concert. We sung our songs in front of our schoo in the afternoon and then at night we performed for the moms and dads.  We were kind of nervous but we rocked it! Today we watched the Gr. 3, 4, 5 play. It was The Nutcracker.
In math, we built a gingerbread man with 2D shapes. We are going to write about them. On Thrusday, we are going to make 3D evles. (Remember to bring a wrapped empty box) 3D means the shapes are fat and 2D means they are flat!
We had indoor recess AGAIN......go away cold weather!

Shapes, shapes, shapes

We had a special assembly this morning. It was about our 7 Habits! We won a grant and some gentlemen gave us a cheque for leadership groups.  We sang some Christmas songs with the WHOLE school.
In math, we are working on shapes. Help me find shapes at home!

An important note went home today about all the events in December! Please read it.

A French Play!

We started the 12 Days of Fitness.  On the 1st day of fitness, we had to give a high five to someone near me! We began the song with all the grade 1s, 2s and 3s.
We went to music and practiced our songs with the other classes.
It was so cold out that we had indoor recess again. We played lots of tag games in gym like Colour Tag.
We went to see a play by the french class.  We saw the Three Little Pigs. They performed the play in french!
Tomorrow WEAR your EJCS shirts tomorrow. OR a blue shirt.

Leader of the Week

I am six years old and I like cats. I like to play games and my favourite game is a soccer board game that uses a little ball that scores when I turn a knob. I like to eat cheese pizza. I like gym class.

We were busy!

We went to the Learning Commons and did Makerspaces today.  Ms. Paulgaard has the BeeBots and other robots there.  We practiced our coding by controlling robots and directing them.
We mixed colours and worked on shading and tinting with one colour and black and white.
We played a game called Kahoot using the iPads. We had to make Friendly 10 math sentences.
We are practicing our Christmas concert songs.
We drew a ship this morning and wrote a sentence about it!
It was a great day!

Friendly 10s!

Shake & Spill

We are learning about Friendly 10s in math. We subitize and look for friendly 10 partners like 8+2,
We had Writer's Workshop.  We were working on adding more details in our writing.
In science, we had an experiment! We used our spying eyes to look at transparent or opaque.  Opaque was ketchup, milk and lotion. Soap and water were transparent.

We played Everybody's It tag in gym.  We had some free centers.

Magical Colours

Richard Young the Magician!

Richard the Magician came to the Grade 1 classes today and taught us about colours. He put primary colours in a magic washing machine box and dumped out a secondary colour. He blew up a balloon and the balloon changed from being opaque to translucent and then he POPPED it and a bird named Rainbow came out! He used a box and pulled out different colours then what he had put in the box.   He had a crayon box and pulled out ribbons that were different colours! We learned that years ago people used food and things like grass to make colours.  We got to pet Rainbow on the way out. Richard the Magician taught us a lot about colours.

Our sight word lists went home today. Please read it!

Friendly 10s

We made records that showed numbers greater than and less than 50.  We are learning about Friendly 10s! They are numbers that add up to 10 like 8+2, 3+7, 5+5, 9+1.
In science, we had to mix primary colours with paint. We made primary and secondary colour circles.

No school on Friday for students.  Tomorrow is our Magical Colours field trip.

50th Day of School!

We MADE root beer floats!  First, you put in ice cream.  Next, you pour in root beer.  Last, you put in a straw and drink it! We wrote a recipe about it so we can make it at home.
We were dancing like a Sock Hop! We listened to 50s music all day!
We looked fancy!  Some people wore poodle skirts, some wore leather jackets, some wore white shirts. My teacher loves 50s day.
We did lots of counting to 50 by 1s, 2s, 5s and 10s!

It was so fun!

Primary Colours/Our Peace Book/50s Day

Remember Friday is 50s Day!

We reread a book called Mouse Paint.  We mixed colours with paint.  We mixed red, yellow and blue paints.  They are called primary colours.  That means that they are the first colours and NO other colour can make them.  We use primary colours to mix them into green, purple and orange.

Check out our Todd Parr Peace video!  We made it for Remembrance Day :)

What Peace Means to Us!

Remembrance Day

The Colour Guard

We had a special assembly and some of our moms and some dads came.  We needed to be nice and kind and very quiet.  A Remembrance Day ceremony is to remember special people that fought for our freedom. Our wreath bearers wore special clothes and everyone got to wear a poppy.  It was a very serious assembly and we didn't do any clapping.  There were special guests wearing uniforms. We wore poppies to thank the people that went to the war!

Remember NO school tomorrow and Friday.  50s day is November 18!

The Peace Book

We made our own Todd Parr Peace book.  Tomorrow we will make a video - stay tuned!
We had music and we are working on our song called the Blitzen Boogie.  I brought the words home to practice - could you help me watch the video on YouTube?
We went to gym and we played Freeze Tag, Enchanted Forest and Museum.

Tomorrow is our Remembrance Day ceremony at 1:15.  Please join us :) 
It will be the 50th day of school on November 18.  We can dress 50s style and we will do a lot of 50s activities. 

Leader of the Week

I am the Leader of the Week!  I have my OWN snowmobile and quad.  I ride them in the backyard and I ride with my dad.  Sometimes my brother rides in the front with my dad.  I play hockey.  My team's name is the Foothills Flyers.  I am a goalie.  I have to wear heavy equipment and a different helmet, I use a different stick, too.  I have a glove and a blocker.  Hockey is very fun and I play for 60 minutes!  Sometimes, we even get a flood after the second period. Next year, I would like to sign up for football.

More Patterns

We made our own Patterning Books.  We had to make patterns using dabbers, shapes and we had to explain the pattern.
We went music class and we are practicing our Christmas song for the concert. We had gym outside, we walked around Emerson Lake.

Please remember to return the yellow note about yearbook as soon as possible.

Patterns, patterns, patterns!

We had snack AFTER morning recess.  Ms. Sindy came for Literacy Block and she had some playdough!  We had to make snakes, caterpillars and hair. We loved using playdough!
We played Rock, Paper, Scissors in gym with Mrs.Welsh.
We worked some on patterns in math.  We found patterns in our lunches!  On apples, on lunch kits and even with food.  Someone even made a pattern with their fruit!

AN IMPORTANT YELLOW NOTE CAME HOME.  PLEASE SIGN AND RETURN ASAP!

Leader of the Week!

I was the Leader of the Week last week.  I love to make pictures and patterns.  I like to sleep with my stuffy kitty cats, Sophie & Dotty.  They keep my good dreams.  I like to sleep over with my mom!  For fun, I like to play with my iPad.  I play Leap Day and Buddy Kick 2.  They are cool games but they are a little violent.  I am good at drawing in the line with special pens that I have at home.

Halloween Leaders

Yesterday at the end of the day, we drew names for our pumpkins!  Our parents were surprised when we brought them home.  The Halloween Leaders made centers for all of us.  One was Capture the Ghost, the Haunted Library, Put the Spider on the Web, Carry the Eyeball, Sweep the Balloon Pumpkin and Wrap the Mummy.  Thank you to Halloween Leaders for making Joe Clark fun!
In our Take Home folder, is all of our October writing.  We gave our best piece to Mrs. Saunderson!
Let's celebrate my good writing and drawing!

Pumpkin, Pumpkin!

The finished products!

We carved pumpkins today.  We even cooked them and ATE the seeds. Most people had never ate them before!  We had to open it and take the seeds out and then we carved them into faces. Some pumpkins has a moustache. We learned that pumpkins CAN FLOAT!!    We are grateful for Mio's grandparents - they sent us 7 pumpkins!

Patterns, patterns, patterns!

Patterns are Everywhere!

We learning about patterns and made some witch legs with a pattern.  A pattern can be red, red, blue or yellow, red, yellow, red or triangle, square, triangle, square.  We found patterns all over the school and we took pictures with the ipads.
October is Be Proactive.  We wrote sentences about being proactive.  Ask me what proactive means?
Our classroom has some new decorations like lights and PUMPKINS!!!!  We have many pumpkins to carve on Thursday! Yeah!

It's Friday!

Synergy at its BEST!

A bat can eat 600 mosquitoes in ONE hour!

Yesterday, we put together a bat's dinner.  A bat eats 600 mosquitoes.  We had to cut out 600 of them!
We listened to a story called The Littlest Pumpkin and then we made our own pumpkin.
In gym, we played Turtle Tag and Bears & Squirrels Tag.
At morning meeting, we talked about being proactive.  Some kids said keep your hands to yourself, you make good choices, you don't blame other people, tell the truth.  It was good advice.
We used the Mac Books today!  We had to use a secret passcode - it was really hard!  We logged into Saunderson Snippets to listen to Raz-Kids.

Please remember to sign up for Parent Teacher conferences next week!