Wednesday

Green group (Birday, Ingmar, Malik, Max and Georgia) is helping with the Blog this week. We are all trying to give two ideas. Please remind us to be thinking of something musical we can bring in and share with the class (an instrument or a song).

We did a lot of cutting this morning to make a mountain of snowflakes - sometimes it is tricky to remember how to fold the paper and cut the right areas but we are getting more creative and independent in making small and large snowflakes to decorate our Clubhouse!

We played tag games in gym and voted on revenge tag (everyone is it and if you both tag at the same time, you play "rock, paper, scissors" to see who sits down) and "T" tag - this is played with 2 teams and if you get caught, you have to stand like a "T" until someone runs under your arms to free you. Some people are really good at tagging, so we have to run hard or in a pattern to get away.

We worked to find all the rhyming words in the poem In Flander's Fields. We worked together so the grade ones could practice printing, while the grade twos found all the rhyming words and highlighted them. Ask us if we remember any of the words that rhymed.

We started writing our own clues for our Guess Who game. The grade 2's are writing 8 clues and the grade 1's are writing 4 - unless they want a challenge and then they can write up to 8 if they want.

It was a MUSIC day today, so we practiced standing on the risers and singing Waltzing Matilda with just the words on the screen. Ask us if we can sing it and explain some of the "Australian" words like coolibah tree, matilda, billabong and jumbuck!

We are working on some POPPY ART for the Remembrance Day assembly. We were inspired by the artist W. Kandinsky so we used black paper for the background and made gradually increasing circles of different shades of red. If you google "Kandinsky circles" you will see our inspiration. You will see our art work up in the gym on Friday.

REMINDER: Home reading books coming home tonight! Please read with us and then send back our book and bag, so we can exchange them tomorrow. Some grade twos will have their books for longer.

Library was switched just for this week and we have it tomorrow - THURSDAY. If you forgot your book, please bring it back in the morning so you can check out some new ones.

Remembrance Day Assembly Friday at 10:45AM. Thank you for reminding us to dress nicely and act respectfully. We are so excited to share our song with you!

Retakes for anyone wanting them first thing Friday morning.

Have a great evening!