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!