Grade 1/2 Experiences at Rosser Elementary
Our Grade 2’s did a great job presenting their “I Knew It Was Fall …” poems to the whole school during our Halloween Assembly this morning!!! They managed to get over their cases of ‘nerves’ and performed wonderfully!
Well done, Blissany, Gregory, Jacen, and Talia 🙂
We had a great time this morning carving our pumpkins with our Division 2 Buddies!!!
These pumpkins were picked up at lunchtime by the wonderful volunteers at the Confederation train. I hope you had a chance to check them out there tonight!!
Be safe – Happy Halloween!!!
Next Monday we will be celebrating Halloween at Rosser. Here is the schedule for the day:
9:00 a.m. – Halloween Assembly and Costume Parade – our Grade 2’s will be presenting their Fall poems!
** Students should come to school in their costumes prepared for this early assembly. They may bring a change of clothes for after the assembly if they will not be comfortable in their costume all day. A reminder that Burnaby School District has a “No weapons” policy which includes any ‘toy’ weapons. Please do not send any of these ‘accessories’ to school with your child’s costume.
10:45 a.m. – Pumpkin Carving with our Div. 2 buddies
** These pumpkins will be taken to the Confederation Park Train for their Halloween display.
Mrs. Anstee has had to change the days that she is at Rosser in our Library. As a result our Library day will be moved from Tuesdays to Thursdays – beginning next week.
Please ensure that students return their books by Thursday mornings each week.
Thank you for your continuing support.
The season is welcoming some interesting creatures to our room …
As part of our discussion on the changing seasons, students wrote poems about things they see in the Autumn.
These are on the bulletin board by the Office in the hallway.
The grade 2’s did a more challenging version.
Check them out when you get a chance.
Rosser Leadership students are planning a Bake Sale next Tuesday at noon to support several of their causes: their Adopt a Village in Ecuador, Community Homelessness, and the Grade 6/7 Camp next June. If you are interested, please send in cash on Tuesday for your child to purchase a treat. All items are either $.50 or $1.00.
Next week Rosser Leadership students are holding a Scare Hunger Food Drive in support of the Burnaby Food Bank. Please send in canned or packaged food items with your child to donate to this worthy cause.
After our trip to the Laity Pumpkin Patch, we did some Mathematical explorations with our picked pumpkins. These involved the concept of estimations. I gave the students a baseline to judge by with my pumpkin – i.e. its weight, stem length, circumference. Students then did their own ‘good guesses’ on their pumpkins (in comparison to mine) in regard to:
Then students did the actual counting of lines, the weighing, and the measuring of the stem and circumference. We charted the numbers for each student and determined who had:
Students then completed their booklets. These are pinned to a bulletin board in our room. They look like this …
The pumpkins were sent home on Tuesday. Once the students have carved their pumpkins at home, they are asked to count the number of seeds inside their pumpkin. They should then write the number in their planner so that they can record it in their booklet. They are also asked to bring in 6 seeds to glue into their booklets. This is from a story we read called, ‘Pumpkin, Pumpkin’ about a boy named Jamie who grew a pumpkin and at the end, after carving his Jack O’Lantern, he saved six seeds to plant the following Spring.
Thank you for helping your child do these two final stages to complete their booklets.