Today was Dot Day, named after the book The Dot by Peter Reynolds. Check out the fabulous dots made by the students.
Arts Education
Mixing Colours
Do you know what the primary colours are? Do you know what colours you get when you mix them? We do! Just ask us.
Acting Out Fairy Tales
Recently, we retold some of our favourite fairy tales using drama. Do you recognize any of these “characters”?
Helping a School in Africa
The Generosity Club at our school is leading the way in raising enough money to build a school in Kenya. After months of hard work, we are almost there! This weekend we had a garage and craft sale in the school gym to try to raise money to finish it off. Our class contributed these gorgeous frames and pictures of cherry blossoms. (If you just want to use the frame, that is OK as well.) If you missed your opportunity purchase one of these limited items, there are still some available. They are all signed by the artist. What a deal!
Santa Koala
Tonight was our Christmas concert! The theme was Christmas Around the World, so our class chose to sing Santa Koala, a song written about Australia. We recorded our song earlier today as we did our final practice.
Projects
Christmas means lots of exciting projects with glue and colored paper!
Bells and Books
It’s not too long until Christmas!
Today the children made special advent calendars. Beginning tonight, the students will take one link off of their chain every night until Christmas Eve. When they teach the bell, the big day will be here.
Several weeks ago, our class won a school wide contest for reading the most pages in one week. Finally today we got the books we picked out as prizes! Some great reading ahead!
Dance
Lots of celebrations include dancing, and that is just what the students are learning to do. Ask your child to show you some of the Egyptian dance moves he or she practiced today!
Using Colour to Show Feelings
Finishing off our unit on exploring colours and feelings, students got to choose the medium they wanted, to convey an emotion of their choosing.
Check the students’ blogs to see their choices and the feelings they demonstrated with their art.
Halloween Crafting
Our wonderful craft ladies made their first visit of the year today. The students loved their Halloween creations.
