Treat Day Tuesday and Catch up!

Hello all and apologies for the absence of the blog in the last while - the flu knocked us all for a loop. We are all ready for the holidays, but have a few more fun days of learning first...! Here is what The Clubhouse is up to! Thank you so much for supporting your child in their discoveries!

TUESDAY: Thank you for sending in all the yummy treats! Thank you to all those who helped set up and sell at recess today! There are still some to buy, so they will put them out tomorrow as well if you want to send another quarter.

New Festive Centres: we skipped guided reading today to introduce our new festive centres. Snowflake making and 3D Tree decorating give us good "fine motor" practice and help our hands and fingers get stronger!
Card making and poetry keep us working on our printing and creative writing skills.
Graph paper and colour by number give us some number and pattern practice!
And well, colouring is sure fun! Ask me which centres I'm looking forward to!

New Math Centres: to wrap up our patterning unit, we have five centres to discover - music and action patterns, bead making, wooden shape patterns, "opti-design" sheets, name and number patterns using 100 charts. This will show our learning by using all our knowledge about patterning in different ways.

If You're Not From the Prairie Books: Inspired by the book by David Bouchard, we are excited to start brainstorming our ideas for our own "Prairie Books". Today we listened and watched the video of the book online to refresh our memory of how the pattern of the poem sounds like. We then made a list of "Prairie nouns" and "Prairie adjectives/describing words" (sun - hot, yellow, blazing. wind - strong, blow-you-down....)
If you're not from the prairie you don't know the _______, you can't know the ______. 
Ask me if I can remember some of my words. 
We will be both author and illustrator and will be working on our books for awhile. If you or a grandparent grew up on the prairie - talk about what you remember. 

WEDNESDAY: Constable Rich will be coming to our class for a visit from 9:30-10:30 - we have met Constable Rich during our practice lockdowns and are looking forward to getting to know him better.

THURSDAY: Spirit Day - wear something "festive" red, green, elf/santa hats...
FESTIVE EVENING 6-8 pm We are looking forward to spending time with our families and with each other! Mr. O'Reilly has requested students dress up nice to perform Mr. Grinch. Please find something you have at home - we do not want you to think you need to go shopping. Some of us thought dressing up like a "who from whoville" would be fun too!

Fill-A-Sock Box - to think about those who are less fortunate than us, thank you for bringing in new, toiletries to "fill a sock" Travel size lotion, shampoo, toothpaste, band-aids, transit tickets, gum are just a few ideas! THANK YOU!!