Be Kind and Wear Pink!

It was so great to see the "sea of pink" today! We watched a "kindness is cool" book - a teacher challenged her class to count all the things they did that were kind at school, at home and in their community and they were able to do 100 acts of kindness! We had a Coffin Cares assembly and watched the video of where/when/why "pink shirt day" started (Hint: Nova Scotia in 2007...ask me why?)

We studied a map of Canada and printed the Prairie Provinces, Arctic Ocean, Nunavut and two cities, Calgary and Iqaliut. Can you find all of them on the map below?

Mrs Armour had a "Inuit Art" calendar from last year that she kept...we all chose a picture to draw and colour in our art journals. We noticed most of the Inuit art is quite simple with white backgrounds and only a few colours. Ask me which one I chose to draw and why.

In gym we did a few more relay games with sticks and soft pucks and hoops and bean bags.

We had music today. Ask me what we did.

Mrs. Boyer and baby Claire came for a visit!! Claire is so cute and she was even wearing pink! She is now 3 months old.

LIBRARY TOMORROW.
NO SCHOOL FRIDAY. 

Tuesday, February 26

Today we made discussed "WHAT IS KINDNESS?" What does it LOOK like and what does it SOUND like? We tried using only positive words and the challenge was to not say "don't" It was tricky but here are some of our great ideas! Then we made Thank you cards (a great was to show kindness!) for our Big Buddies in grade 5/6 that helped us with the Arctic games on Friday. We delivered them after gym.
Ask me what relays we did in gym.

Thank you Room 4 for bringing Treats for the whole school!

After gym we did an experiment called "Fool your senses." We used cold, warm and room temperature bowls of water. Ask me what we discovered!

Tomorrow is Kindness day so we can wear pink to remember to be kind and treat others the way we want to be treated. It's always cool to be kind!

A reminder non-instruction day Friday so no school for students. Friday is also a new month - yay March! Have you heard the saying, "In like a lion, out like a lamb?" Do you know what it means? Do you think the beginning of March will be like a lion or a lamb?

Ted Harrison today - Treat Day tomorrow!

https://tedharrison.ca/

Check out Ted Harrison's website to see who inspired our Clay For Kids art today!

Mrs. Armour read O Canada by Ted Harrison, which has a painting for each province (it's an older book, so there isn't a painting of Nunavut. Ask me if I remember what the words INUIT and IQALUIT (it is tricky not to spell it with a "U" after the ") mean?

First we drew our "plan", next we used dark glass to make our Inukshuk, next we glued our "hooks" and lastly we added all the colour glass around to try and fill in all the spaces. Ask me which colours I used!

We missed gym time today because of our art, but we did a few laps around the gym before Music to get our wiggles out!

TREAT DAY tomorrow (Tuesday)

No School Friday (Non-instructional day)

RMR: Rick at the Labrador Winter Games I

Fresh Air Friday - Arctic games!

What a great day for Arctic games! A big THANK YOU to the grade 5/6's that helped us run the events.

We watched a video with Rick Mercer showing us a few of the traditional winter games - I will post a link to one of them. 

We bundled up and headed outside to try 8 different events! Snow shoeing, High Kick, Harpoon throw, Seal race, Stick and Bone, Snow building, Running Jump and Curling. 

Ask me what events I tried and which was the most challenging and the most fun!

We did a temperature activity where we had to try and guess which temperature went with what event. Did you know that 0 degrees celsius is when water freezes, 37 degrees celsius is normal body temperature and 15 000 000 degrees celsius is the centre of the sun??? What other temperatures do you know?

This week we kept track of the temperature - 

Tuesday was -1C in the morning and dropped to -8C in the afternoon

Wednesday was -5C

Thursday was -17C

Friday was -5C

Does it make a difference in temperature if the sun is shining or the wind is blowing?

Have a great weekend! 

Wednesday, February 21st "Glass Art" and Math games

Today was a special day with Clay for Kids coming to help us make cool glass art. We used little pieces of glass and glue to create a little picture. Ask me what colours I used!

We are so excited to share our math games with you tonight - even if we aren't quite done, we want to explain the rules to you. MATH NIGHT at 6-7PM. We will be in Room 1/2 and the Library.

We watched a youtube about arctic games - ask me which game I like the best.

We are still doing gymnastics - ask me how I challenged myself by going on one foot or backward.

Tomorrow is Fresh Air Friday and we will be outside for ARCTIC games! The temperature is supposed to be going up to -5C but remember to dress warm because we will be playing in the snow!

Monday Clay for Kids is coming back to make something to do with the Arctic.

Tuesday, February 19th - 100 days of school!

Wow! It almost felt like Spring today! We took the temperature in the morning and it was -8C and then at lunch, it had gone up to -1C. It was so nice to go outside for recess and lunch and hard to come back inside. Some of us were wondering why it is so hard to see in the classroom after we have been out in the sun and the snow - maybe someone would like to research that question and find out!

Another challenge Mrs Armour (yes! I'm back in the Clubhouse! THANK YOU for all your support, thoughts, cards, valentines waiting for me - plus a huge welcome back poster the students have all signed - thanks to Mrs Allen for her super work and committing to the Clubhouse for the whole time I was away ) gave us was an experiment. Would you help us find a few things and carry out this experiment? We will try and do it at school on Fresh Air Friday but thought it would be fun to try at home first. Being a scientist is all about testing, observing, repeating and recording. 

3 containers
3 rocks or pucks (something with a flat bottom that will slide)
A patch of ice (maybe a sidewalk that hasn't been quite shovelled)
An old towel or paper towel

Step One: Fill one container with hot water, one with room temperature water, one with ice water.
Step Two: Place a rock/puck in each container
Step Three: Wait a few minutes (you could practice counting by 2's/5's/10's!)
Step Four: Take out the rocks/pucks and dry with the towel
Step Five: Place the rocks/pucks in a line on the ice
Step Six: Push them forward
Step Seven: Observe - which one goes the furthest/fastest? 
Step Eight: Think - what do I think happened?

Today Kindergarten was celebrating 100 days of school!! We brainstormed different questions we could ask our friends and then went to the Library to see all of their cool "100" projects. Ask me what some of them looked like.

We played a new RACE to 100 game in Math - ask me the rules and what my group's "magic number" was that we had to roll!

We had GYMNASTICS today - ask me my favourite station and 2 rules we need to remember.

Wednesday is FUN LUNCH day and students from Simon Fraser are coming to volunteer at Dr Coffin.

Thursday is LIBRARY and CLAY 4 Kids - we are so excited to work on a new art project! 
We hope you can all come to our MATH NIGHT from 6-7PM to see some of our math learning and games. 

Our "Ice Village" we made on Wednesday. We will be observing and recording what happens when the temperature gets warmer and colder. Ask me what I noticed today.



Here we are "racing to 100"