Singer and comedian Norman Foote visited our school this week. His show had lots of student participation, and as you can see below, the students loved him.
special day
Meeting Emmy
Today we got to meet Emmy Barr! She came to our classroom and told us about what school was like for her and about making caramel. She even told us some of the ingredients in her grandma’s super secret caramel recipe. And she brought treats! Each of the children got a piece of caramel, a caramel covered apple and, to make sure those treats didn’t hurt their teeth, a toothbrush!
Before Emmy left, she gots lots of good by hugs from a class of happy children.
The Winter Carnival
The Winter Carnival was a special activity that involved all of the children in the school grouped into multi grade teams. The teams moved through eight stations with enticing activities at each stop. Since Mrs Cassidy was in charge of the “Decorate a Cupcake to Look like a Snowman” station, that is the only station that we have pictures for, but the students assured me that they enjoyed all of the stations. Clearly the cupcakes were engrossing!
Family Literacy Day
Secrets About Santa and Mrs. Claus
Did you know that Santa goes to the beach for vacations? That Mrs. Claus likes to wear bows in her hair? Last week, the students made up and tweeted secrets about Santa and his wife. Ms. Lirenman’s class from Surrey, BC also tweeted secrets. You can see all of the secrets here, but below is a small taste of the students’ creativity.
Letters to Santa
Making Advent Calendars
How many days until Christmas? My students can all tell you!
Today we made Advent calendars that we could take home to count those oh so important days. First, we cut out and decorated the Christmas trees…
Then we made patterns out of twenty-four coloured paper strips. We wrote the numbers (grade one) or the ordinals (grade 2) on the strips and then made them into chains.
Here’s our finished product. We’re going to take off one link every night until Christmas.
Halloween
Here are some of the Halloween moments from our classroom.
The day before, we talked to Ms. Lirenman’s class on Skype. Each student in both classes acted out their Halloween costume to see if the other class could guess who they were. Some of the costumes were tricky!
We read…
We had a mystery number Skype call with a class in Florida…
And best of all we had snacks.
PJ Day
Terry Fox Run
Terry Fox is a Canadian hero. Many years ago, after one of his legs was amputated because of cancer, he began a run across Canada to raise money for cancer research so that others would not have to go through what he did. Terry was not able to complete his run, so every year thousands of Canadians run to raise money in honour of him.
Terry ran for us. We all chose who we were running for and wrote it on stickers that we wore on our T-shirts.