We celebrated our 100th day of school! There were so many fun activities we took part in this week, we had to celebrate over multiple days. We were part of a top secret “mission” to figure out who took our class pencil sharpener, where we completed many 100s day tasks to receive a clue! We enjoyed a yummy 100s day cake, as well as a 100s day trail mix. We did two writing activities, “When I am 100 years old…” and “If I Had $100…” which you can find on our bulletin board outside of our classroom.

We talked about affirmations and what they mean to us. We say them to ourselves out loud or in our heads to lift ourselves up when we are feeling in the blue zone, or need a boost of confidence. Here are the great ideas our students came up with, on “conversation hearts” for Valentine’s Day!

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We filled our class pom pom jar and earned ourselves a Camping Party during our literacy week! We read in the dark with flashlights, built blanket forts in our classroom, and ate warm and gooey s’mores. We also got to visit our school’s book swap, thank you to all of the families who donated their pre-loved books for our students to take home!

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We took a nice walk to Fire Station #4 in our neighbourhood. We visited our community helpers, the firefighters, and they talked to us about fire safety and their important jobs of helping our community and keeping us safe. We got to go into the fire trucks and also slid down the pole!

We read the book “Drawn Together” by Minh Le and Dan Santat as part of our school-wide literacy week. We talked about foods from our families and cultures that we love the most and recreated them!

Happy new year! We reflected on last year and our favourite moments, and then talked about our goals and what we want to learn and do this year in 2025.

We created holiday decorations over a few days. First, we painted our boards light blue, then we painted a layer of white paint for the snowy ground. Once it was all dried, we used our fingerprints and coloured sharpies to create “snowmen” to represent the members of our families, thinking about their favourite colours, their height, and their facial expressions. We learned a few different font styles and wrote a holiday greeting once everything was dry. Once they were ready to go home, we wrapped the presents using our choice of wrapping paper and ribbon.

With the help of Mrs. Austin (our Indigenous Education Resource Teacher) and our big buddies in Ms. Kumar’s class, we learned how to weave cedar ornaments of our very own! We had to use six wet cedar strips because they were easier to bend and work with. We then used blue twine to secure our work!

We had a scientist from SCWIST (Society for Canadian Women in Science & Technology) come to teach us about properties of matter and how to make oobleck! We learned that oobleck is a non-Newtonian fluid, meaning it takes the properties of solids and liquids. Oobleck is also so much fun to play with!

We learned about making repeating patterns and expanding patterns. We practiced using different materials and manipulatives to make patterns of our own and had our classmates ask us questions like, “what goes next?” and “what will the _th shape be?”