Category: Special Days

The Pumpkin Patch Field Trip

We had a great visit to the Laity Pumpkin Farm today!  Students enjoyed the petting zoo part of the trip.

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They then enjoyed playing on the wooden farm structures, ‘milking’ the cows, and making farm fresh ‘pizza’.

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We then had a tractor ride and saw some goats and the emus.  After washing our hands (from petting the animals) we enjoyed some juice with our snacks in the tent area.  Once we were finished we wandered through the forest exhibits.  Students really enjoyed checking out the different displays.

Students, and their parent helpers, then explored the corn maze – some of them even did it quickly enough to go through twice and still have time to go and ‘rescue’ some fellow students!

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Whilst we were awaiting some of our class to get through the maze a few of our boys were playing ‘follow the leader’ with one of the emus!  They had lots of fun doing that.

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Students then got to choose their very own pumpkin which they took home this afternoon.  I hope you all enjoy carving them with your child.

All in all, it was a great trip – no rain, lots of wonderful parent volunteers, and interesting things to do.

Thank you to all of our parents who came along to help us out today.

 

Goodbye, Ms. Sue

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Last Friday we had to say good-bye to Ms. Sue.  Earlier in the week I had read the book “The Important Book”, by Margaret Wise Brown, to the class.  Students then each made a page for our class book which was titled “The Important Things About Ms. Sue”.  Each student used their own unique experience with Ms. Sue to write and draw about what they felt was something that was important about her.  This was put together (with photographs of events from her time with us) into a book that I am sure she will treasure forever!

We then presented her with a ‘suitcase’ full of books and other items to start her on her ‘teaching journey’.

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Of course, we also had to eat cake!!

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Vancouver Symphony Orchestra

This Friday – February 28th – we will be going by school bus to the VSO.  This is always a great field trip and a lovely experience for the students.

As we are going to a ‘fancy’ place (the Orpheum Theatre) we do allow – and encourage – students to ‘dress up’ for the occasion.  While this is not mandatory, if you like your child can wear ‘party clothes’ for this special event.

100’s Day Fun!!!

Today we celebrated the 100th day of school!!  Students did ‘hundreds’ of things including making Fruit Loop necklaces by counting colour groups of ten cereal pieces onto strings and making crown headbands.  These headbands had stickers arrayed in patterns on which the students recorded the counting numbers (by 5’s) to one hundred.  Attached to the bands were crowns on which the students made 20 sets of 5 in tally marks.

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Students worked through a booklet with activities involving 100.  They also decorated a dalmatian dog with 100 spots.  This was a prelude to watching the first half of the movie 101 Dalmatians.  The second half will be enjoyed tomorrow.

I hope your child had a fun 100th day of school.

Jump Rope for Heart

Last Friday (February 7th) we had a great afternoon doing Olympic themed jumping events in the gym with our buddies from Division 2.  It was a lot of fun!

Thank you to all who submitted donations for the Heart and Stroke Foundation – either on-line or by cash/cheque donations returned to the school.  I have tallied all the results and it looks like we have beaten our record from last year.  I will announce the final results once the Heart and Stroke Foundation has confirmed the totals.

I was very impressed by how many students in our class participated in fundraising – and also by the amounts raised!!

The forms should be picked up by our representative by next week and, once they are tallied, the prizes will then be sent to me for distribution.

Lunar New Year Assembly / Luncheon

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We all enjoyed a really nice assembly for Lunar New Year on January 31st.  The K’s sang a song, Mrs. O’Meara’s class told the story of the zodiac, and Mrs. Schwarz’s class did a ribbon dance.  We saw a martial arts demonstration by a student of Mr. Lee’s and from Mr. Lee (Morris’ dad) himself.  Divisions one and three did their dance with the lion and the dragon.  We presented our poem, What Colour Were the Dragons, which students had practised at home.

Back in our classrooms we enjoyed a very tasty lunch!!  We had a very good ‘spread’ this year.  In fact, other adults in the building came by to check it out and all agreed that it was particularly well done!

Thank you to all our parents for helping your child practise their poem homework and for sending in the great food for our lunch.  It was all very much appreciated.