Christmas Elves

We built 3D elves out of boxes and tubes and cardboard. We had empty boxes wrapped in Christmas paper. The shapes were cylinders, triangles, rectangles and squares. Some of our elves had jet packs and sticks for arms.  We used geometry to make our elves!We took our elves home with us and they are sitting by our trees at home! We also made shapes out of marshmallows and toothpicks.

Geometry

We have been reading a story about reindeer races and making sentences. Today we had to write the reindeer winner and colour a picture. Lots of people thought Tip would win the race.  We are learning about shapes.  Learning about shapes in math is called geometry. We played I Spy using shapes. We played Freeze Tag and British Bulldog at gym. We sang some songs in music.

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!

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.

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.

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.