Tuesday Treat Day

Today we welcomed another student to the Clubhouse! We are very excited to that Kashia is in our classroom and we hope she feels at home soon.

Gymnastics - more of us got to go on the big climber. We are climbing with a "monkey grip" ask me what that means.

It was Treat day today! Thanks to Room 4 for bringing lots of different things. Some of us bought pencils.

It was 100 days of school celebration today. The Kindergarten students worked really hard on their projects showing "100" of something. Ask us about the different things we saw!

Mathlympic trials started today. We sent a "representative" from each country to a different event to learn how to play. We will have another trial on Thursday and then begin on Monday.

After Lunch, our Big Buddies shared their "Battle Bunny" stories with us. They also sang us a song they created with Mr. O'Reilly. We will miss their Learning Celebration tomorrow so we were very happy they took the time to practice with us! Ask me about the story I heard from my Big Buddy.

A FIELD TRIP FORM IS COMING HOME TODAY for next Tuesday, March 6th for our Music trip to Bella Concert Hall at Mount Royal University. You will need to pay online. Please do not send money to school. Thank you!

TOMORROW is FIELD TRIP TO LEIGHTON ART CENTRE. PLEASE DRESS WARM. We will be spending time outside and the wind was chilly today!

PINK SHIRT DAY IS TOMORROW. You can wear pink or red to show your support for Kindness, Friendship, Be Nice Day

Pictures of Opening Ceremonies for MATHLYMPICS

Pictures from Nose Hill Hike on Friday

Monday

Today we got new jobs for the week. Logan and Trinity can bring their favorite books to share. Ingmar and Malik are helping with blog.

Gymnastics - The jungle gym was added today so we can climb ropes and ladders and nets! Mrs. Polski came in to remind us of the safety rules - the wood is for our hands not the blue metal. Only climb as high as you feel comfortable. Have fun!

Country Posters - We made posters with Flags, title and athlete names - that's us! Ask us what else we added

Opening Ceremonies - We walked through the gym with the grade 5 and 6's cheering us on! Mrs. Boyer then lead us through an "athletes oath" to remind us of being great teammates and put our best into each activity.

After lunch we made Little Discovery Books from our Nose Hill hike on Friday. Ask us how we used the 5W's to write what we discovered.

Thanks for sharing your Minecraft book Colin and Tessa the Teacher book, Tessa:). We went outside to end the day because it was so beautiful.

LIBRARY TOMORROW - we will also be enjoying Kindergartens display of 100 days of school!

TREAT DAY TOMORROW - Mrs. Armour will have her "bank of quarters" if you forget you can borrow.

FIELD TRIP WEDNESDAY - Off to Leighton Art Centre! We will plan to leave by 9AM and be back by 3PM. It is PINK SHIRT day too to support BE A FRIEND, BE KIND, JUST BE NICE day!

Looking ahead to next week Tuesday, March 6th the whole school will be going to Bella Concert Hall at Mount Royal University. Forms will be coming home tomorrow.

FUN LUNCH is MARCH 8th.

Pictures from Thursday

We sat so quietly for our presentation...we think it's because we got lots of wiggles out during gymnastics!

                                         Our 100 link Olympic rings ready for Opening Ceremonies!

                                        Thanks for sharing Max!!

Thursday

We have a lot of projects we are working on and so we had a "finish up" time this morning. Then we had gymnastics and did lots of jumping and balancing! Some of us are thinking of really interesting ways to move across, up and down. We are learning to control our bodies and "count to three" when we land.

Today we had a recycling presentation in the library. It was about how much garbage goes into land fills and how we can make better choices. Colin says "Ninja Nick" bacteria is great at his job and ninja slices everything to compost super fast. That's the stuff we need to put in our GREEN ORGANIC bins. "Lazy Larry" doesn't do a good job at breaking down garbage in the landfill because there is no oxygen so most things just sit there for years and years.

Today some of us finished our Family writing and will be starting to assemble our "paper bag book" All About Me.

Every group finished their Olympic 100 chain today!! We will do a final count and then we are ready for the Opening Ceremonies on Monday. We did some Olympic Math by looking at the Medal Count page and asking, "How many MORE/LESS gold/silver/bronze medals does _______ country have than _______?" We can do this at home for practice.

We had Music today and Mr. O'Reilly told us we are going on a field trip soon. We were really excited.

TOMORROW WE ARE GOING TO NOSE HILL SO PLEASE DRESS WARM so we can do our best research as zoologists looking for tracks, smells, scat, habitat, sounds of animals. A good snack would be great too because it's a big hike. THANKS TO ALL who can volunteer. We will leave around 9:30 and be back by 12:00pm

yadsendeW sdrawkcaB - Backwards Wednesday

Hi, we were all mixed up today for "Backwards Day"! We even walked backward in the hallway!
During guided reading we searched through atlases to see if we could find all the countries on the list who are competing in the Winter Olympics. We are deciding which country our group will choose to be for Mathlympics.

Gymnastics - There was more equipment in the gym today, so we had 7 stations to discover how to move across, over, up and down using balance, travel and shape. Ask me which station was the most challenging and which station I'm looking forward to.

Family writing - most of us are working on our good copies, so we can use the fancy paper. We are learning to self edit - check our writing by reading it out loud to see if it sounds right and if we are missing words, capitals or periods.

There is a big mountain of snow from the parking lot that is a lot of fun to play on during recess. A lot of us are playing there and having fun!

Special visitors - we had some visitors from Kindergarten come for a "Happy Lunar New Year!" parade. It was exciting and fun to have Mrs. Wilkins surprise us with clanging cymbals and lead her class through the Clubhouse and see all the dragons they had made.  We also had Simon Fraser students come in the afternoon to discuss friendship with us. We "watched" the book, Invisible Boy on the Smart Board, then designed our own T-shirts. Ask us about the story.

Mathlympics - we ended the day making more links for a 100 chain to compete in the challenge. Most of us have 70 links...almost there! We are excited for the opening ceremonies on Monday!

THURSDAY after gym, we will have a presentation on recycling.

FRIDAY WE WOULD LIKE TO GO TO NOSE HILL...The weather is warming up and looks perfect for a hike to Nose Hill to look for evidence of animals. WE NEED VOLUNTEERS so we can go. Please email Mrs. Armour or call the school if you are available this FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 23rd from 9-12pm THANKS SO MUCH!

Happy Lunar New Year!

                                      Watching "Invisible Boy" with Simon Fraser students

                                                             Designing our T-shirts

                                                       Be Kind - No bullying

Olympics have begun...

Today we got new jobs and they will last all week. Trinity, Tessa, Lily and Samantha will help with Blog.

We had our busy morning with guided reading, gymnastics and library all before recess. In gymnastics, we are learning to balance and move high, low, fast, slow and dismount from the benches onto the mats. Ask us what "sticking the landing" means and how long we should hold it.

After recess, we watched Tessa Virtue and Scott Moir skate for gold!! We met together with our fellow "athletes" to begin our Olympic Math Challenge! We watched a few minutes of the half pipe skiing and watched our Canadian come first with over 90 points! That got us excited and in the mood to compete.

Our first job in our groups is to create "Olympic rings" and string 100 of them together! We need to make every tenth ring black. The other colors are red, yellow, green and black. It was fun. We learned why the Olympic flag has the colors, blue, black, red, yellow, green. Ask us if we remember what the colors stand for. We have to choose a country and then will be competing in different events discovering how to work together and be mathematicians at the same time.

Today we had lunch in our Clubhouse. For the next while, we will have lunch in Room 1/2 because the gym is full of gymnastics equipment.  

This afternoon, we worked on one chain of our Olympic rings, then we wrote in our journals and tried to finish up our good copies for our family writing. 

It was Lily's birthday today! Happy Birthday to you!

DAY BACKWARDS IS TOMORROW - TOMORROW IS BACKWARDS DAY

Wear your shirt backwards or your hair if you'd like to join in our school spirit day!

WEDNESDAY FEBRUARY 28th is our FIELD TRIP TO LEIGHTON ART CENTRE

We have our two parent volunteers, thank you! If you would still like to come, you are welcome to drive and meet us there. (It's about a 50 minute drive, so you might want to carpool).

Friendship/Valentines Day

 Finding patterns in the our boot prints!Sharing time!

Valentine Math

Friendship card making.

Did you know...?

Sharing another favorite book.

A Valentines from Mrs. Armour

Our mailboxes are full - yay for friendship!

Tuesday - Chinook!

Today we started with our friendship card creating and writing. We watched the original "mini-movie" called Ferdinand. Then we did a friendship circle on the carpet...each of us had to think of a kind word for our friends on either side of us as we passed the heart around the circle. We tried to think of "inside" words vs. "outside" words, so say something about the person, not just what they are wearing. "I like that you are a good listener" instead of "I like your shirt."

Ms. Vivianne led us for our last yoga class. She asked us to each think of an animal or something from nature and then we tried to make our bodies move like that, so arch our back like a cat, or stand tall with our hands stretching up like a tree.

After recess, we worked with our group to measure and sketch a life size outline of our animal. The moose is really, really big in real life! It took up the whole hallway! Ask us how many sheets of one inch graph paper we needed to sketch our animal. We are working on outlining and coloring and writing the measurements to let everyone know the actual size.

We finished our Friendship circle, had some reading time and then did another friend activity. We had to walk around the room and think of kind words to write on all our classmates paper. The tricky thing was we were only supposed to use words that started with the same letter as their name! We discovered, "M" "I" and "J" words were a lot harder to think of than "A" and "C"!

Georgia shared her book, Junie B. Jones. Thanks Georgia! We had some extra time to read Old Man Coyote. Ask me if Granny Fox fooled Old Man Coyote or the other way around!

Tomorrow is our Friendship Celebration in the afternoon. You can wear pink, red or purple if you would like! Please remember to put your cards in your backpack if you have valentine cards for the whole class.

February 15/16: Teacher's Convention - no school
February 19: Family Day
February 21: Spirit Day - Backwards day

Here's a look at our SNOW SHOE day yesterday! Beautiful!