As a school, we’ve partnered with IAK (Intentional Acts of Kindness) to spread some holiday cheer. Every student in the school is drawing a picture or writing a message on a card so that it can be given to seniors who live at senior homes in our community and bring some joy during this upcoming holiday season.
Our class worked hard at drawing beautiful winter themed pictures!

Today we got our glitter out, picked out some colours, and made our own snow globes! We are ready for the holiday season in our classroom.

We did it! We skated, we enjoyed, we fell, we laughed, and we smiled. Thank you all the parents who came and joined us and helped make this field trip possible! We are grateful for you!

Last week we learned some volleyball skills and got to practice throwing and bumping with a partner. Today we practiced our cutting skills and started on some winter art! We made little snow hills and triangle winter trees. After some art, we had centers and some of us built a huge train track! Ms. Shen loves trains because it helps us with our teamwork, problem solving skills, spacial awareness, and so much more!

“UFLI is a phonics curriculum that provides explicit and systematic instruction for early reading skills. The program is designed to help students develop foundational reading and spelling abilities by teaching them to decode words and use a structured, sequential approach to learning letter-sound relationships.”

Every morning in our class we practice new letter sounds, how to write them properly on a line, and how to spell and sound out words. We’re practicing how to slow down, listen to how many sounds there are in a word, and to write down every single sound we hear. We’ve also been practicing “heart words” like “the”, “is”, “said”, and more. These are words that cannot be sounded out and words that we need to remember in our heart. Practicing these skills have helped us slow down in our journal writing and allowed us to be better writers and readers!

Have a listen to our class song! AI helped create the lyrics as well as put it to music!

(Verse 1)
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In our class we learn and play,
Smiles and laughter every day!
Shaurya builds a stop-mo show,
Bryden helps the stories grow!
Kaavya paints with colour bright,
Ysabella shines so bright!
Lalalala — come sing along,
In our class we all belong! 🎵

(Chorus)
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We’re friends together, you and me,
Learning, laughing happily!
Reading books and counting too,
Pumpkins, math, and things we do!
Ms. Shen and Ms. D are near,
Helping us all through the year!
We’re friends together, yes it’s true,
I’m so glad to learn with you! 🎵

(Verse 2)
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Lara builds and Winston plays,
Aiden smiles through busy days!
Tiara draws, Khazie sings,
Malk builds amazing things!
Catus shares and Myrah P.
Shows kind hearts for all to see!
Mijat, Avan, Myra S. too,
All have something great to do! 🎵

(Chorus)
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We’re friends together, you and me,
Learning, laughing happily!
Writing stories, centre time,
Sharing hearts that always shine!
Ms. Shen and Ms. D are near,
Helping us all through the year!
We’re friends together, yes it’s true,
I’m so glad to learn with you! 🎵

(Bridge)
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Pritikka loves to read out loud,
Oscar’s laughter fills the crowd!
Justin makes the group all cheer,
We love learning all year here!
Stop-motion fun on iPads too,
Every day there’s something new! 🎵

(Final Chorus)
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We’re friends together, side by side,
In our class, our hearts are wide!
We care, we share, we dream, we play,
Together we shine every day!
Ms. Shen and Ms. D we say—
Thanks for helping every day!
We’re friends together, yes it’s true,
I’m so glad to learn with you! 🎵

After a morning filled with phonics, reading, and spelling, we had the opportunity to play with Cubie! We filled his brain with different codes to make him move across his mat. Then after lunch, we walked in the pouring rain to go visit our public library. We had a fun time checking out our own books, reading in a new space with our friends and classmates, and exploring the kids section in the library!

Today we learned about Stop Motion! We watched some Lego stop motion videos that led us to wonder how the lego moves by itself! Ms. Shen then showed us a Stop Motion app on the iPad and how to set our iPad up so that it doesn’t move, move an object just a little bit, and take a picture! We absolutely loved moving our class toys around, taking pictures, and having it make a cool video! Some of us even had a colouring sheet colour all by itself!

We loved it so much that Ms. Shen already booked the school iPads for next week so we can make more stories and videos!

Today we enjoyed costumes, getting and eating treats, and spending time with our big buddies!