Thursday - Hobbies

Hello! Today we drew pictures and made lists of what we like to do. We had a discussion about what hobbies are and then we read a book and brainstormed about some hobbies. Mrs. Polski came to visit and told us one of her hobbies in the summer is playing golf. We thought her description of "something I love to do and could do everyday!" was a great way to explain what a hobby is.

We wrote a "yes/no" survey question and then asked as many of our friends as we could. Ask me what my survey question was and then maybe you could tell me about your hobby!

It was such a beautiful day that we saved PE/gym until the end of the day and practiced doing our end of the day chores. Ask me what my chore was this week. We will all get new chores next week so we can learn how to care and be responsible for our classroom.

We will be studying all kinds of flying and crawling insects and bugs this year, so if you want to find any extra bug books at the library and keep your eyes open to be a careful observer you will get a head start on being a ENTOMOLOGIST, a scientist who studies bugs!

A big packet of forms is coming home today - thank you for reading through them and signing and returning them as soon as you can.

Tomorrow is FRESH AIR FRIDAY. We are looking forward to being outside most of the morning, so remember to dress for the weather and just pack a snack - we don't need a lunch tomorrow!! 

Welcome to the Clubhouse (Portable)! September is here!

WELCOME and WELCOME BACK

To The Clubhouse!

We have had a couple busy days remembering

and learning our routines and getting to know each other.

Here are a few pictures to give you some idea of what 

we have been doing. Ask us what we drew for our favourite

summer activity, what colour our table group is and if we remember

what we wrote for "All About Me" in our journals.

There is a Family Potluck BBQ next 

Thursday, September 13th 5-7pm. 

A beige form should be in our backpacks today.

Thanks for filling it out and sending it back 

when you get a minute.

Thank you parents for dropping off and picking up your child

in front of the Portable steps. (Unless they are in Millenium Kids). 

Mrs. Armour has enjoyed seeing familiar faces and getting to know

new ones. 

We are excited about a brand new school year - it's going to be great!

Pictures from Monday

We have worked hard on our story writing with our planning sheets, edited copy, 

illustrations and title page! 

Thanks for reading them with us when we bring them home - 

with a few other things

after we cleaned out our desks today!

We will try our best to bring home everything else on Wednesday 

(including our report cards and swim progress report)

Teachers will be at school until noon on Friday if you think of something you may have forgotten.

                        Teachers vs Grade 6's basketball game - ask us who we cheered for!

Monday

Today we cleaned out our book boxes and then big buddies came and helped us assembly our stories and then we decorated our title page.

We had an Coffin Cares assembly to say thank you to all the students who helped in the office, green team and spirit committee. Grade 5/6 guitar club with Mr. O'Reilly sang a song they had written together and then led us in the Dr. Coffin school song - it was great!

We played math games.

After lunch, we worked on decorating the walls of our buildings and adding details.

We went outside for gym and then we watched the teachers play the grade 6's in basketball! It was close but the grade 6's won.

Tomorrow is grade 6 farewell assembly at 2pm. 

Sports Day! (Plus some swimming pictures!)

Sports Day in pictures!! See below. Our favorite stations were Tug-of-war and the Freezie station!

MONDAY is Year End Assembly from 10:30-11:30am
TUESDAY is Grade 6 Farewell Assembly from 2:00-3:00pm
WEDNESDAY is the last instructional day for students

We have finished reading Old Granny Fox! Ask me who my favorite character was and 

what was one of my favorite parts?

 Our buildings and our blue prints...we will keep building on Monday and Tuesday!

Here are some pool pictures from our last Swim Day!

Wednesday - Transition morning and swim day!

We had transition day this morning! The grade twos went to Room 3/4 and wrote 2 sentences and had to highlight 6 mistakes, then we discussed which were wrong and wrote the correct spelling underneath - we did a lot of writing!

Grade ones were buddies to the Kindergarteners and we all met in Room 1/2 and Mrs. Hamby read a story about butterflies and then we got all different colored blobs of paint and folded our paper and magic! beautiful painted butterflies!

After recess, we all built a frame to help add our Heritage park buildings - we learned the more square it is, the stronger it is and the supporting sticks really add strength too. 

We did math groups working on fact families, subtraction and tens and ones.

We didn't have run club today because we didn't want to be too tired. But we have made our goal because all the grade 1-4's have been walking THREE KILOMETERS to the pool. Great work everyone!

Here's what we did in swimming today!

 We did treading water - Tessa

 We learned the whip kick and did somersaults underwater and survival test - Ingmar

 We learned front crawl - we have to circle our arms - Logan

 We did side glides - Trinity

 We did back stroke I was so fast and passed both cones! - Emmaline

 We did spiderman glides and we jumped into the deep pool - Carmen and Kashia

 We did spiderman glides - Lily

 I'm swimming - don't take my picture! - Arthur

 Wait, what's going on? I did pancake glides and improved on it! - Colin

 We did pancake floats - Malik

We practiced doing somersaults - Lucas

We did flutter kicks and somersaults and side somersaults into the deep pool - Samantha

Monday - writers and builders!

This morning we practiced being "literary critics" reading our friends stories and giving them specific ways of making it better ("I liked how descriptive the beginning was, maybe you can add more detail to the ending.")
After recess Mrs. Armour read another Jan Brett book, Fritz and the Beautiful Horses, Ask me what it was about, the problem and the conclusion.
In Math groups, some of us learned about "fact families" Ask me what I did in math today!

After lunch we discussed frames and supporting beams. We all made frames with supporting beams and then worked as a group to make a cube. This will be the structure of our building. We will be adding walls and windows in the next couple of days!

We had gym with Room 1/2 outside today, it was fun!

We had a special "bench dedication" ceremony to honor Ms. Kestner. She was a teacher here at Dr. Coffin a few years ago, who died of cancer. Her family and some friends joined the whole school to say a few things in her honor. We added some chalk drawings to make it pretty on the courtyard.

Today was Max's last day as he is off on summer holidays a little early. Have a great summer!!

Tomorrow, Wednesday and Thursday are swimming days! Thanks for packing a little extra as we all get pretty hungry after our swim and walk.Thanks again to our volunteers that help us in the change room and walk to and from school.

Tomorrow TUESDAY is treat day. Thank you to the Environment Committee who will be selling BANANA BREAD for 50c Prairie Mills Bakery is supplying the banana bread so we know it will be yummy!

Wednesday is Transition Day. The Kindergartens will come for a bit to see what grade one is like, and the grade twos will go to Room 3/4 see what grade three is like.

Friday is SPORTS DAY. If you would like to volunteer for the morning to run a station, please let Mrs. Armour know.