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.

I must bring my penguin book BACK!

We are bringing home our Penguin Expert books!  I will read it to you and teach you all about penguins.  I NEED to bring it back to school for my portfolio.  Please help me remember!  We couldn't wait to read it to you!

Next week is Trickster!  It is going to be amazing BUT LOTS of hard work.  We can't wait to share it with you.

Family Literacy Day AND a Taste Test!

Reading together for Literacy Day!

That chocolate is YUCKY!!!

  The dark chocolate was NOT sweet! It was a trick!

Happy Literacy Day!  We read with the 4/5s in the hallway.  It was cool.  Mrs. Saunderson gave us a book to celebrate Literacy Day.  Let's read it together!

Today was taste test  day!  We tasted chocolate, chips, Skittles and Sour Skittles!  We taste with our tongue and on our tongue are dots called taste buds.  The chocolate was not good, it was BITTER!!!! Some people spit it out in the garbage.  It was a trick from Mrs. Saunderson and Kaitlin. The outside of your tongue has bitter taste buds.  The tip of your tongue is your sweet taste buds.  The middle is salty.  We ate chips for salty. We liked the taste test.  We have 3 meals a day to use our taste buds.

What?! I Can't Hear You!

Today we went to Ms Mahan's class and read them our Penguin Expert books.  They learned some new things from us!

We did a science experiment for hearing.  We made paper cup telephones with string. We could talk to our friends by pulling the string straight! You get two cups, poke a hole in it and put a string in and tie a knot.  It's a good idea to tape it.  We rock, paper, scissored to see who would take it home.  Some people just shared to be kind!

Winter is Fun!

We are almost finished our Penguin Expert books.  When we are finished, we will read them to another class.

We looked at Madame Polege's blog and know that we will learn about boats in Grade 2!

We are learning about winter.  Today we made a video outside for a class in Abu Dhabi!  They don't have SNOW there.  We timed ourselves getting on our snow gear and it took 3 minutes!

We started playing basketball in gym.  We played a tag game using basketballs.  It was a thumbs up game!

Hey, mom and dad!  Ask me if my inside shoes still fit.  Some of us are growing and our shoes have broken or gotten really tight.