Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays!!

Hello families of the Clubhouse!

Our Clubhouse has been a bit like Santa's workshop this last week and we've hardly had time to sit down - but here is a quick look at what we've been doing. Have a wonderful, joyful, restful holiday and we will see you in 2018!! Enjoy the outdoors and lots of reading and family time!

Mrs. Armour for us all.

Coloured coffee filters and our Amaryllis growth

Monday

We realized we only have 3 and a half days to finish up our Festive trees and poems so we started right into our word work after Mrs. Armour read the book Cold Snap. It had a lot of great describing words in it like ears tingled, frosty cheeks, and dangling icicle. We discussed nouns being things we can see and touch like ears, cheeks and icicles. Describing words, or adjectives are those words that show us instead of just telling us about the noun. We brainstormed nouns for Winter/Christmas words for taste, smell and feel and then worked on our "special sentences" for our Winter Poem.

Remind us to look for describing words in our stories that we read and listen to.

Today in gym we played ringette. Girls played on one side, boys on the other. We put benches in the middle so the ring didn’t go to the other side. Hockey has the blade on the stick and ringette only has a straight pole.

This afternoon we continued tracing our hands to make a paper tree. We are using our poems about winter and Christmas to make ornaments, like “I hear Santa’s bells on the roof” or “I smell hot chocolate.” We are working on using interesting words to describe the noun.

Green group is helping with blog this week. Our amaryllis plant grew 10cm over the weekend!! We think having a south facing window is a good thing for plants.

Tomorrow is Christmas/Festive Hat day and Library and Home reading

Predator or Prey Game

Fresh Air Friday - Food Chain

Today we started with centres and watched a short video on herbivores, omnivores and carnivores. Then we joined Room 1/2 to compare our amaryllis plants. They are both growing like crazy, but ours is a bit behind. Some of us are predicting that Room 1/2's plant will bloom next week! We left our amaryllis plant in the Room 1's south facing window, so hoping it will be a good growing weekend!

Together we brainstormed about what kind of animals live on Nose Hill and then discussed what herbivores, omnivores and carnivores need to eat to survive and which animals would be in which category. Then Mrs. Boyer, Mrs. Hamby and Mrs. Armour went over how to play the predator/prey game and handed out red, yellow and green pinnies. Ask us what colour we were and what we could "eat."

After indoor recess, we all went outside to play. The three teachers were "Mother Nature" and we had to look for the "food/water" (pennies) stations hidden in Whispering Woods. It was really fun. Some of us learned being an animal (especially a herbivore) is hard work! We learned that being "stealth" is really important in survival.

A couple more people achieved 6 stars and were able to choose something from the Star box. Our marble jar is almost full - we are shining stars!

We are still collecting things for "Fill a Sock" campaign until Wednesday - please check the school website for more details

Have a great weekend!

REMINDERS for next week:
Monday - Lego club at lunch
Tuesday - Festive Hat day 
Wednesday - Dress like an elf 
Thursday - Polar Express Day (wear your pjs) HALF DAY - done at noon

Hands into Trees...

Thursday

Today the grade one’s finished printing the letters of the alphabet, X and Z and we had a celebration clap!

In music we are working on rhythm, pitches and melody using our hands and voices.

We played hockey in the gym. Girls played on one side of the gym, boys on the other side. We used new hockey sticks and cones.

We wrote a letter to Mrs. Polski to ask her to come and listen to our survey results. Jared and Georgia delivered the letter but Mrs. Polski wasn’t available so we left it with Mrs. Rennie. We hope she will be available to come to the Clubhouse next week.

We are making our trees with our hands. We discovered if we fold the paper and cut out our hands it looks like a butterfly!

All three yellow group members are away so we all helped with the blog today!

Tomorrow we will be playing the game "Predator/Prey" in the Whispering Woods discovering the needs of plants and animals, herbivores and carnivores. Even though the weather has been unseasonably warm, please remind us to dress warm in layers with hats, coats, mitts and boots.