Monday - Super instrument Video to watch

Mondays are our busy day but we watched this to end our day and we all
enjoyed it and wanted to share it with you!
FUN LUNCH tomorrow (Tuesday)
PICTURE DAY (Wednesday)
Library (Thursday)
LITERACY NIGHT (Thursday 6-7pm)

Fresh Air Friday - for the birds! (PICTURES NOW ADDED)

We did centres again this morning - so now all of us have tried all 3 centres and will have a turn at each of them next week. Ask me which is my favorite!

With the early snow, we thought about how most of the bird's food (bugs, berries, seeds...) might have been covered and so we discussed about creating "natural bird feeders" from what is all around us!

We read "Welcome Brown Bird" by Mary Lyn Ray about a Thrush migrating and two boys that wait for him.
At the end of the day, we read "Pie in the Sky" by Lois Ehlert - Ask me about what kind of pie they were waiting for.

Here is a website to explore which birds winter in Calgary and might enjoy our bird feeders!

http://www.birdscalgary.com/birding-resources/winter-birds/

Enjoy our pictures of gathering, creating and then hanging our bird feeders. Ask me what I used on my bird feeder!

Have a wonderful weekend. Watch for bugs and birds! Enjoy the beautiful weather outside!

Looking Ahead...
Tuesday is Fun Lunch
Wednesday is PICTURE DAY! 
It also looks great weather wise - we will most likely have Run Club - so IF your child wants to run thanks for putting in a change of clothes - it is hard to run in fancy shoes:)
Thursday is Literacy Night - 6:00-7:00PM - come and see how your child engages in literacy at Dr. E.W. Coffin and get their Home reading all set up in the Library.

Thursday, October 11th

This morning after centres we had a special visit by a real author - Alice Kuipers! She told us about how she much she loves reading and writing and how long it takes to write just one story. She has written a lot of books and some of them are picture books - she read from her newest one called Polly Diamond and the Magic Book - here is her website if you want more details. 

Ask me about what I remember about the author visit.

http://www.alicekuipers.com/polly-diamond-and-the-magic-book/

This afternoon we changed our "quiet desk books" for next week's reading and then we went to Library - it's always fun to look for new books or check out our favorites.a

After library we worked on adding details to our "macro diagram" of our arthropod - ask me what realistic colours I used on my bug!

Thanks to Green group this week for helping with door holding, calendar, door bell lunch bin and library books!

Mrs. Armour will be reading some books all about NAMES because we will be working on our "name stories" and "bead names" next week. 

Today she read an old funny story called, Tikki Tikki Tembo retold by Arlene Mosel - 

Ask me about the 2 boys and their names.

Mrs. Armour gave us all little doodle books so we ended the day by watching a little video of how you can create pictures out of names and numbers.

Reminder to order Fun Lunch by midnight tonight if you want to have Subway on 

Tuesday, October 16th.

Fresh Air Friday tomorrow - the weather report sounds quite nice but remember it will still be chilly in the morning and we will be done at 12:15pm. 

Wednesday

Today we started new centres! Poetry, Literacy Games and Bookmark making...

Ask me which one I was at today.

Grade 1's practiced Dd and Gg during printing today. We thought dog, Doug, dig were all good words to practice because they all have "d" and "g" in them. 

Grade 2's are reading and filling out their "literacy job" books - 

ask me if I was a word wizard, connector, summarizer, illustrator or questioner today.

For Math, we had clip boards and our surveys and went into the school to ask some of the grade 3/4's and 5/6's which was their favorite choice for Fun Lunch! Ask me which choice got the most tallies!

We will add up our tallies and using this information to let our Fun Lunch volunteers know what we found out to help them use our information.

For science, we started our "macro diagrams" for our choice arthropod - we will be labeling and adding realistic colour for our research project. 

Ask me if I can remember which parts I need to label.

TOMORROW IS LIBRARY (please remind me to put my books in my backpack)

Tomorrow we have a guest author coming to speak and read her book in the Learning Commons!

Friday is the cut off date for ordering this month's Fun Lunch - 

which is Subway on Tuesday, October 16th

if you would like to volunteer let either of our Fun Lunch Coordinators know

flor_mam@hotmail.com

laurajill30@yahoo.com

Fresh Air Friday - Terry Fox Run!

                                   We are thankful for so many things! Check out our flags!

     It's always fun to read with our Big Buddies! Thank you!

                    Pep Rally/Warm-up for the Terry Fox run by Rooms 6/7 - Thank you!

                   Ready to start our 2018 Terry Fox Run/Walk - Thank you volunteers!!

                                        High 5 Encouragement for every lap! Thank you!

                                                    We did it Dr. Coffin - thank you!

                                                    We did it together - thank you!
                                Orange forms coming home for FUN LUNCH orders today. 
                 HAPPY THANKSGIVING WEEKEND - See you on Tuesday, October 9th.

Wednesday

This morning we worked on gathering all the parts to our Harvest recipe books, making a front and back cover and tying all the pages together. When we were done, we played a spelling game where we chose a card with a word on it, then we had to find all the letter tiles to spell it, then we had to print it on a white board. It was fun to see how many words we could write. 

Grade 2's had quiet reading while the grade 1's had printing. We are working on Cc, Oo, Ss, Vv, Ws this week. We are trying to make careful letters - 5 neat letters are better than 15 squished, so it is okay to take our time! Then we look through alphabet books to find words that begin with those letters and print them in our books. 

We watched a video about arthropods and reviewed the characteristics and learned they are divided into four categories by the number of legs. Ask me how many legs in each category and if I can remember an example. Then we chose one that we are interested in researching and wrote it on a sticky note. 

This week we are practicing soccer skills in the gym - forward, backward and stopping with control with our feet - today we tried keeping the ball on one colour while Mrs. Armour called out, "Red light! Green light!" and then played "Keep Away" and a couple short games. 

 In Math we are finishing up our Vehicle Survey graphs and discussing "What do we notice?" or "What information can we learn?" from a graph. We looked back at our Birthday graph and tried to think of all the "math things" we notice about our graph - here are some of the things we thought of...

REMINDER - LIBRARY TOMORROW

...Thanks for bringing back your books so you can check out more!

Yes! We are still planning our TERRY FOX RUN on Friday. Assembly at 10:30AM, then walk/run after. Please join us! Depending on what the path looks like we might walk/run on the sidewalk around the school instead.

Tuesday - SNOW!

There is a lot of snow out there!! We tried to be really careful walking to and from the Clubhouse, but whoops - down went Colin on his belly! Good thing he had an extra shirt - thanks Mom!

Mrs. Carpentier (our OT) was back and she taught us another meaning for STOP to use when we are working at school.
S for space.
T for time.
O for objects.
P for people.
Ask me what these all mean. She gave us a really fun project - ask me what we made.

During gym time, we are working on soccer skills - controlling the ball with our feet, passing and stopping. Ask me what my favorite station was, and which one was most challenging.

This afternoon we talked about the 6 characteristics (what they look like) of an anthropod. Ask me how we know humans are NOT anthropods:)

1. They have jointed limbs.
2. They are invertebrates - no backbone.
3. They have an exoskeleton.
4. They have good senses.
5. They have bilateral body symmetry.

We went on to the computers to research bugs, but some of the computers weren't working so here is the website if we have time tonight to take another look at which anthropod looks interesting.
www.insectsofalberta.com

Thanks Abigail and Colin for helping with blog today!

Running Club is cancelled tomorrow because of the snow...but....

Terry Fox run on Friday is still planned. Assembly at 10:30AM. Please join us if you can! Thanks to all those who have donated to Toonies for Terry! Here is the link if you would like to donate online.
http://www.terryfox.ca/drewcoffin2018

Looking ahead: Monday, October 8th Happy Thanksgiving - school closed.
Picture Day is Wednesday, October 17th.