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'.