Urban and Rural

Rural means not a lot of stuff, not a lot of people or cars.  There are not many houses but they grow their own food and give it to the stores.  Not many ipads.

Urban means town.  There are a lot of houses, there are lots restaurants.  We live in an urban area. High River is an urban area.

Let me read you my story, The Mitten!  I did a good job!

Think Win-Win

We had a Habit 4 assembly today.  We learned about Think Win-Win and we worked with an older student in the school!  They wrote down our ideas about the 7 Habits.

The We School team is collecting 80 cents for Ms. Gerrard's great niece who is singing 80 anthems in 80 days around the world!  We know that 80 cents is 8 dimes because we can skip count by 10s! Could I bring 80 cents for our red cup?

Remember that book order is due on Tuesday.  Have a great weekend.

In 100 years...

We made old ladies and old men portraits.  We shared our Where Am I videos for science.  We will show you those at parent teacher interviews in March.  Today is the LAST day to order hot lunch and milk for March.  We went to music.  We sang 'She's Coming Around the Mountain'.

We are all done The Leader of the Week.  Everyone has had a turn.

Book Orders are due on Tuesday, March 1.  

Pink Shirt and Crazy Hat Day

Today was Wear a Pink Shirt day because some other kids were laughing at a boy that was wearing a pink shirt.  We wore a pink shirt to show others that it is okay to wear what you want. We also had some crazy hats in our room!

We continued with some 100 day projects. We made a 100 piece necklace out of Fruit Loops!!!!  It was delicious.  We had to put them into groups first.  We made 100 year old portraits. We made old ladies and old men.  We did 100 things in the gym like 100 bum kicks, 100 jumping jacks, 100 push ups and it was really hard!

100 days of school

Grade 1 rocks!

LOOK AT WHAT 100 CUPS LOOKS LIKE!

We all made some GREAT 100 day projects!

Today we had the 100th day of school! Some people dressed up like old people with beards and some dressed up like pioneers.  One student even had a shirt with 100 stickers!

We made jester hats with 100 stickers on it.  We had to write 100 words.  We also made structures with 100 cups! We played Race to 100 for math and counted up to 100 by 1s, 2s, 5s and 10s.  We read some 100 day stories.

Tomorrow is Pink Shirt day and Crazy Hat day.  It's a busy week!

Welcome back!

Today we ate popcorn!  We had to use our 5 senses to describe it.  Our 5 senses are taste, touch, smell, sight and hearing.

Tomorrow is 100th day.  Some projects have already come to school.  One project looks like the number 100!  One is a marshmallow house made with 100 marshmallows!

What a busy day!!!!!

Bonhomme arrived!

Yummy hot chocolate!

Crepes and maple syrup

This morning, we made Friendship Fruit Salad.  It was yummy!  We all tried a little bit.  We passed out Valentine's and filled everyone's bucket!  Callie's mom even brought in some Friendship jello for us to share.

This afternoon we had Carnaval. We had hot chocolate and played the spoons.  We saw Bonhomme and gave him a hug. We had a tug of war.  Our buddy class was Grade 4/5 Mrs. Pisko's class.  We saw Mrs. Q-W's son and went curling with him.  We played soccer and the climbing wall, too.

Have a great week off!  Don't forget your 100th day project on Feb. 23!

A Mystery Reader!

We saw a police officer today. Her name was Constable Jill.  She is a Mountie and she came to our classroom to read us a story.  Our 5 clues were: she drives a truck with lights, she has curly hair, she wears a uniform, she visits the school and she is a community helper.  She read us the book M is for Mountie.  We know we all belong to a group, just like Sparks.

We made a craft for our Valentine bags.  Tomorrow is a busy day.  We need to bring 1 piece of fruit AND we need to bring our valentines.  We will spend all afternoon outside.  It is supposed to snow - dress for the weather!

The Smooch!

We had a BLIND author come and read us her story!  Her name is Karon Argue!  She lives in High River.  She uses a big machine to illustrate and colour the pictures.  She brought it to our class and showed us how it worked.  The book was a story about a frog.  The book is called The Smooch!  She wrote the book to thank all of her friends that have helped her since she went blind.  Mrs. Argue can see a little bit and a student from Ms Mahan's class stood in front of her and she said he was handsome.  We all laughed.  

We had a guest teacher, Mrs. Husband to eat lunch with us.  She was in charge until Mrs. S got back from her meeting.  We played outside for a little extra time at recess while we were waiting for the author to come.

We are bucket fillers!

Some parents came in and hosted a craft day at lunch for Grade 1 and 2s.  Some of us enjoyed the crafts. We had fun there.
We filled each other's buckets by writing nice words on a heart.  It warmed our hearts to read nice things!
We had music with Mrs. Haney-Jones.
In science, we made a Mystery Spot and you will have to guess where we are by using your 5 senses! We will videotape it and show it to you.

I need to bring a piece of fruit on FRIDAY for Friendship Fruit Salad. Please return your Penguin Expert book for your portfolio!

Gung Hey Fat Choy

Today is Chinese New Year.  It is the Year of the Monkey.  We learned that the Chinese have a celebration. Gung Hey Fat Choy means Happy New Year!  Chinese people believe that red is a lucky colour. A red envelope is given to children and it has money in it!
We had a fortune cookie to tell a good luck idea.  It is in our lunch kit. Tanner even gave Mrs. Q-W a fortune cookie!  We read a book on the Smartboard about Chinese New Year.

TRICKSTER!

Trickster was amazing!!!!!  We loved throwing our shoes.  There were very cool special effects for the noises.  It was awesome and cool!  We were a little nervous standing in front of the audience.
The other classes had great performances, too!  We liked the Black Light play.  Mme Polege's class made the Trickster walk the plank!!!!

Thank you for your help, Kyall!

Groundhog Day!

Today is Groundhog Day!  Balzac Billy predicted an early spring!  We watched his prediction on Global news this morning. It was not a real groundhog but he was cool!  If he does not see his shadow, it means an early spring.  If he does see his shadow, it means a longer winter. We read a Groundhog book for our book boxes!

We are happy that it will be an early spring.  We hope that he is right!

Trickster is in the building!

Trickster is HERE!!!!! It is so fun!  We played some games with our Trickster, Kyall! We practiced some fun things like 'baby' and we threw our shoes. We did different movements like parallel lines, circle, waddles, crisscross. We will have a puppet in our play.  It might be a dragon, lizard or a dinosaur. We have to practice in a different classroom.

Our morning assembly had the Tricksters tricking kids with a deep voice changer and a mini Darth Vader.  It is going to be an amazing week!

Please remember to return your PENGUIN EXPERT BOOKS for our portfolios.