We heard wonderful stories from Ms Fraser, a First Nations knowledge keeper, at the Art Museum this afternoon. Ask your children to tell you one of the stories!
Making Bannock
Photo by Allie.
This week we made bannock. Watch the students’ blogs for their directions to appear as they finish their writing and editing. Below you can see some of the students hard at work.
Avatars and Secret Comments
This week we created our first avatars using the iPad app Telegami. We used those avatars to represent us as we showed off our reading fluency. You can hear us (and see our chosen avatars) on our blogs.
We also talked about the comments we have received and about what makes a good comment. Then, we drew names and made a secret comment for a friend in our classroom. On Monday, we will get to read the comments that others made for us. Although a few of the secret friends did leak out, we tried really hard to not let anyone see what we were doing.
Snow Clothes Challenge
Putting on snow clothes is a time-consuming process, but my students have been getting faster. Today we made a video to show how fast we are.
How fast are YOU? We’d love for you to show us. You can post your video on this Padlet so that everyone can see how fast you are, too!
Animal Projects
For the past few weeks, the students have been researching and writing about an animal of their choice as part of a unit of Inquiry. You can find each child’s final project on their blog. Below is one example to tempt you to read further.
Recommending Books
This morning the students all chose a book they were reading to recommend to their friends. It was interesting to see that some students chose paper books while others chose digital.
Decorating Christmas Trees
What if you had three Christmas trees and a lot of decorations? How would YOU divide the ornaments between the trees? The students all solved this problem in different ways. Check their blogs for their solutions. (We were inspired to solve this problem by other classes talking about this on Twitter.)
It’s Tuesday. What Are You Reading?
Last Tuesday, following the example of some students in Chicago, we posted some of our favourite books on a Padlet to encourage others to read what we were reading. You can see all of our books by clicking on this link. Some of the books are in the image below.
What are YOU reading? We’d love to know.
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.
The Christmas Store
One of the best things we do at our school is the annual Christmas store. The generous people from our school community donate new or gently used items and our School Community Council sorts them onto tables for twenty five cents, fifty cents, seventy five cents and one dollar.
Our big buddies came with us to the store to help us sort out the money issues and we gleefully shopped and shopped.
When all the purchases had been made, more wonderful volunteers wrapped the gifts for us.
There was a class full of happy children who couldn’t wait to get home with their gifts!
