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" 

Happy New Year - Welcome Back!

We are back and excited to share all our adventures during the holidays! Thank you from Mrs. Armour for all your generous cards and gifts - I was spoiled!

Check out the pictures of our new Literacy Centres we started on Tuesday during Guided Reading time - ask me which one I've been working at.

We are so happy Ms Allan can teach us while Mrs. Armour is away looking after her mom (she spent Christmas in the hospital but is returning home Wednesday - hurray!) 

Ask me which math centre I worked on today and what my pattern was. 

Ask me how basketball is going and what skills we are working on!

LIBRARY Thursday - thanks for returning your books so you can check out new ones!
Deadline to order for the January 17, 2019 Fun Lunch (Panago) is at 11:59 pm Friday, Jan 11. 

All Aboard! Just Believe...Polar Express Day

Thank you to all the parent volunteers who made hot chocolate and cleaned all the cups
so we could have a wonderful taste of the Polar Express as Mrs. Kidd read the story!
Then Mr. O'Reilly led us in the song "Believe" - a great way to finish off the day!

We also did a desk clean so our backpacks are pretty full! Thank you for helping us
sort through all our papers and getting right to the very bottom...

We had library today so we have some new books to read over the holidays!

We played a game of ringette with 4 teams and offense and defense. We are getting the
hang of passing and stick handling!

TOMORROW IS FRESH AIR FRIDAY - we are planning to go for a Winter Walk with our
Big Buddies in Room 6. Thanks for dressing warm! Have a wonderful break everyone!

Keep reading and observing the beauty all around us. See you in January 7, 2018!