Be Fire Smart!

Captain Morasch and his team

A fully dressed fireman

Crawling for safety!

Watch our video:  Crawling to Safety!

Captain Morasch and his team from the High River Firehall came to our school.  They brought two fire engines and we got to go in and see inside of them. We seen the oxygen tanks.  They showed us a machine that points to things and it tells them if it's hot. We had to crawl out of the classroom like there was a real fire. We got to tap a fireman on his helmet - it is hard.  We seen a fireman get completely dressed with his uniform and they showed us how our home fire alarm beeps. 

We have homework!!!  We need to ask our parents the TWO ways out of our house and where our meeting spot is outside.  We need to learn our phone number AND our address. 

Pumpkin, pumpkin

In gym, we are playing Meteor Showers and Line Tag. To play Meteor Shower, you throw a softball over everyone's head and into the net. We drew some pumpkins and painted them by mixing primary colours. We have been doing math rotations and working on Friendly 10s.  We are opening alphabet letters from around Alberta!

Smart Spots!

The Laundry Mat!

Teacher's Desk

Agenda Castle

The Window

We named our smart learning spots which are special working places in our classroom. We named the smart spots: The Red Den, The Laundry Mat, The Window, The Agenda Castle and the The Blueberry Music Room. We played Uncle Sam in gym. We did Read to Self! We had indoor recess this morning and had walking club! We read the book The Lemonade Hurricane.  It is about a boy who gets very excited and cannot sit still.  We practiced sitting quiet and being mindful.

Fall, fall, fall

We read a book called Leaf Man. We sorted our leaves into different colours and then we used our leaves and made something out of the leaves. Some people made fish, people or animals. We had music and we sang a song called I Like to Eat, Eat.....and Charlie Over the Sea.  We had Read to Self and Listen to Reading at the SAME time! Some people chose to go to Running Club at lunch.  They had to run on the path. We played a game called Compliment Tag in gym.  You have run around and if someone is tagged to free them you need to say something nice about them!

Hunting for Fall

We read a book called Goodbye Summer, Hello Autumn. Today we were looking for different coloured leaves and different sizes. Some of the leaves were big and some were very small. The leaves fall in the fall. Some of us found purple leaves. We had an extra recess. Some of us worked with Mrs. Clark today. Our Terry Fox run is on Friday. We had gym and we played soccer.

Busy, busy day!

It was a busy day in Grade 1/2! We did our Egg Test today.  We learned that if you can crack an egg, you can crack an ipad!  Some of our eggs fell on the floor, some people took them out of their cases and some got kicked on the carpet..... We made some rules about using the ipads safely for EJCS.

We had an important guest speaker today. Her name was Karen Argue and she is legally blind. She showed us how she uses a special machine to help her illustrate her books. She also has new glasses that have a computer in them to help her see! She let us try her special machine.

Mr. Skeet came to read The Book With No Pictures. It was really funny to let our vice-principal read all the silly words to us! We told him it was a little bit of a trick :)

Book order went home today. It is due on Monday. Also, an information note went home as well.

A trick for our new vice-principal!

We read a book called The Book with No Pictures. We are going to trick Mr. Skeet when he reads it to us tomorrow. Tomorrow is Picture Day and it is also Egg Day :) We watched a Mystery Doug about gold.  We had gym and played Everybody's It tag. We went to music and sang a song in French. It was Zero the Hero day - we watched a video! We got new books from the library. We are working on our 'DNA' in our writing. We had an extra recess.

Class Promise

We are working on our Read to Self and today we read for 6 minutes! We made a No! David book about school rules and we are going to invite Mrs. Clark to read it with us.  We had gym with Mr. MacDonald and we played soccer and tag.  We are almost finished our Me in a Bag presentations. We learned a lot about our classmates.  We made our class promise - all things that we promise to do in our class and school! Yesterday was our after school BBQ and Mrs. Saunderson met some of our parents.

Library

We went to library for the first time.  We can take 1 or 2 books out BUT we need to bring them back next Monday.  We went to music and we sang a Mountain Top song. We went to gym and we played Hula Huts.

The Welcome Back BBQ is on Wednesday at 5:30 pm.  Please join us!

Happy Friday!

We started an art project and we made self-portraits. Today we read the book called Chrysanthemum and we did a number page with the letters in our name.  We went to an assembly.  Mrs. Clark said there is a Golden Garbage Can trophy that every class can win.  We have to be a good sport and keep our classroom and boot room clean. 2 people shared their Me in a Bag. We read 'We don't eat our Classmates'.

Notes, Notes and More Notes

We read a pirate ABC book. We had to find all the letters of the alphabet in magazines. We finished our first writing project and hung them up on the walls.  We had an extra recess and played at the park.    Today we learned a new math game called Bump and we learned actions for the alphabet. We went to gym and used the hula hoops and we will learn a new game with knocking pins off. Mr. MacDonald was sick so we had a guest teacher.

We need to practice our Me in a Bag before we bring it to school and our parents have a note to fill out, too!

Another day in 1/2

Today we played FaceOff.  We wrote a sentence in our agendas and put notes in the pockets. We started building a puzzle. We glued it to the cardboard and we are counting the days of school to 100.  We had gym and played a new game called Dog and Pig Rescue. We went to music and seen Mr. Hibberd and we listened to a song with monsters in music.  We sang O'Canada this morning. We wrote about where we were all summer.  We did some GoNoodles. 

Happy New Year!!!!

We watched the story, Jitter Juice and then we drank some Jitter Juice. Most of the students liked Mrs. Saunderson's special recipe to calm our jitters.  Today we wrote in our brand new agendas!  We had fun in the gym with our NEW gym teacher, Mr. MacDonald. We had an assembly this morning and met all the teachers. We had fun doing some GoNoodles. We had fun at recess and we got an extra recess.  One student made us rice krispie squares saying You Rule!  We did our first Read To Self and read for 2 minutes independently!

It was a great day!

Welcome to 1/2 Saunderson!

Welcome to Grade 1/2 Saunderson! I am SO excited to meet you on Tuesday morning. It is going to be a GREAT school year!
Make sure you label ALL your school supplies and bring a yummy lunch!

We went camping!

We were going to go camping but Mrs. Saunderson's locked her guidebook in a lockbox!  We had to get them OUT.  We had to use the light pens to get a clue, read a map and figure out directions and find a key.  Some teams helped other teams. We ate s'mores with chocolate chips and squished marshmallows. We had gym with Ms Little and played Fruit Bowl. We took most of our things from school today. 
We have electronics/board game day tomorrow.

Painted Ladies and Sports Day

Today we had Sports Day and got freezies.  We played Tug o' War, soccer, javelin throw with pool noodles and had a lot of races. We had to stay outside all morning long.
We let our butterflies go today. One of our butterflies died and we got to touch the wings.. Griffyn held a butterfly on a flower. We almost stepped on a butterfly.  A butterfly liked the nectar of a flower. 

10 Day Countdown

Our Father's Day presents are ready to go.  But it is a secret - shhhhh!  Today was Bubblegum day and lots of people brought bubblegum to share! Some of us are getting very good at blowing bubbles! Katherine got to pop the 9th day balloon and it is sidewalk chalk day.  The school will supply the sidewalk chalk.  We popped the 10th AND the 9th balloon today!  We had gym today with Ms Mahan's class and we played Waspital.

Measurement AND a chrysalis!

We prepared our art in Eric Carle fashion! We had to use 4 crayons and find a texture and rub it against a rock, gravel, tree or cement.  There were all kinds of different textures.
One of our caterpillars is on the roof and in a J! It has a red ball which means it is done eating. We watched a video of caterpillars. The caterpillars split their skin when they make a chrysalis.
We watched a Mystery Doug movie about hot lava and when it's cold it becomes lava rock.
In math we did measurement centers. We raced cars down ramps to see which ones go farther. We measured how many cards covered a box. We weighed different materials and tried to balance the scales.  We filled jars with popcorn seeds, too.

Measurement!

Containers to measure!

Which one holds the most?

We are working on measurement. Today we learned that you do not need a measuring cup to measure. You can measure with different cups! We can measure with water or beans or bubblegum or a bunch of things. We can compare containers to find the biggest container.  We went outside and used water to measure. We measured how many cups were in a container.  We used small bins and big bins! The biggest container held 20 cups. Ms Mahan's mom came to help us. We measured and then we played outside!

A Class Pet!

We got a class pet!  It is caterpillars and THEY grew bigger over the weekend. Some of the caterpillars and making silk in their containers. The caterpillars ate lots of their food. The caterpillars are pooping black stuff! We are writing a book called Diary of a Caterpillar.
We had a mixed up day - we had gym after math!  We went to Heritage Park last week and on the ipads, we compared Now and Then.

Heritage Park

We went to Heritage Park today! We saw lots of artifacts. We did an artifact Bingo and it was really tricky to find some things. We had to find a doll, a bell, a telephone, a clock,  a beaver skin and more. They had to use horses and carriages mostly.  There were a few cars and trucks. 
We even got a special treat and most of us picked cotton candy.  A few got an ice cream cone.

We noticed that many of our changes in artifacts are better.  Now we do not need to stand in the kitchen to use a phone.  If there was an emergency, we can use the phone anywhere. The music players are better today because they play music longer. 

One of our parents bought EACH of us a piece of gold!!!!   

We brought our pinto bean plants home today!

Lockdown, plants and Ninja School

We had a lockdown today. We had to be very quiet and sit for a long time. The principal tried to trick us to open the door by rattling the door. She told us we were the quietest class in the school! We studied our plants again. They are getting very big. Two friends read books to the class. We had Ninja School again.  In Ninja School we use yoga balls, we climb ladders, we do monkey bars, we go on top of bars, we walk across a beam and try not to drop beanbags.

Little Bow Schoolhouse

We went to the Little Bow Schoolhouse. Some students dressed up with suspenders, hats and even brought their lunch in a pail! Kids used to go there 100 years ago. It had grade 1 - 9 all in one room! Kids had to write and do arithmetic in the past! They wrote with ink or chalk.  If kids were bad in the olden days, they would get a strap!
We played tug of war, potato sack races. We did summer skiing which was very hard.  We went on a nature walk and looked for living and non-living things. We looked into two olden day houses.
It was a long walk but we rode our horses to get there!