Quiet Time 2023

Dear student.  We have been doing Quiet Time for a few months now…15 minutes, 3 times a week:

1. What things do you choose to do during your Quiet Time?

2. What do you like or don’t like about Quiet Time, and why?

3.  What do you feel during Quiet Time?

4.  What do you notice about it?

5. What does it mean to you?

6. What surprised you?

7.  Who would you recommend it to?

8.  Do you have any questions?

Before you blog, I expect you to read the QUIET TIME BROCHURE posted on our class website. I look forward to hearing from you.

Our Daily Walk

  1. On a scale of 1-10, how much do you enjoy our daily walks?
  2. What is your favourite part of our daily walk?
  3. Is there anything you would like to see changed or added to our daily walk?
  4. How does going on a daily walk make you feel?
  5. Have you noticed any benefits from going on a daily walk?
  6. Do you feel like our daily walks are a good break from our academic schedule?
  7. Have you formed any new friendships or connections as a result of our daily walks?

Is walking 8 km a day better than going to the gym? - QuoraEarly Childhood Physical Education: National Walking Day - April 3, 2019People characters walking in windy rainy day Vector Image

Our Plasticine Paintings 2023

VIDEO:  Making plasticine pictures with Barbara Reid   YouTube 7:20

Barbara Reid illustrates all her books with plasticine.

 

Hello,

Plasticine paintings are incredible and so fun to look at, not to mention inspiring.

Plasticine (also called modelling clay) works especially well for kids because it’s a forgiving medium. You don’t have to be great with fine motor skills or details.  It’s movable and moldable and kids are not intimidated by it!

Students were instructed to come up with a SPRING THEME.

How do you get these amazing results?

  • begin with the background
  • then add on top of it; this becomes your foreground
  • blend colours
  • add texture

Our Plasticine Paintings 2022

VIDEO ~ Making Plasticine Pictures with Barbara Reid

Barbara illustrates all her books with plasticine.

 

Hello,

Plasticine paintings are incredible and so fun to look at, not to mention inspiring.

Plasticine (also called modelling clay) works especially well for kids because it’s a forgiving medium. You don’t have to be great with fine motor skills or details.  It’s movable and moldable and kids are not intimidated by it!

Students were instructed to come up with a SPRING THEME.

How do you get these amazing results?

  • begin with the background
  • then add on top of it as the foreground
  • blend colours
  • add texture

Our Marble Mazes 2022

THINK FUN!

THINK CRITICAL THINKING!

THINK SPATIAL REASONING SKILLS!

THINK MENTALLY STIMULATING!

Our class made a box with a maze on top with holes and a marble. The object of the game is to try to tilt the playfield to guide the marble to the end of the maze without letting it fall into any of the holes.

Quick video 0:48 / us making our marble mazes

Marble mazes are designed to test your child’s critical thinking, visual perception and spatial reasoning skills. Unlike a straightforward marble run, where the object of the exercise is to construct a structure for marbles to tumble down, a marble maze is far more mentally stimulating.

A marble maze is a logic game. A child has to think very carefully about what path their marble will take. If they choose the right path, the marble ends up in the right place and they win the game. But, one wrong move and it’s game over!

Marble mazes are great for children and adults alike!

Quiet Time

Dear student.  We have been doing Quiet Time for a couple of months now…15 minutes, 3 times a week:

1. What things do you choose to do during your Quiet Time?

2. What do you like or don’t like about Quiet Time, and why?

3.  What do you feel during Quiet Time?

4.  What do you notice about it?

5. What does it mean to you?

6. What surprised you?

7.  Who would you recommend it to?

8.  Do you have any questions?

Before you blog, I expect you to read the QUIET TIME BROCHURE posted on our class website. I look forward to hearing from you.

HAPPY FATHER’S DAY

Father’s Day is a great day to spend time with your father.  Although my family doesn’t really celebrate any holidays, even Father’s or Mother’s Day, this year I still did something special for my father.
Although this year was quite different from others, it did stop me from making my dad a gift, I noticed when I was short on supplies because I didn’t have any at home to make the gift, I eventually found replacements for some of the items. So, what gift did I make? I made a quite fascinating bag that looked like a tie with candy in it, I also tried making a pull-out card for my dad, which was great because now I know how to make these things.
I just want to say, HAPPY FATHER’S DAY!!!

 

Father’s Day

Father’s Day just felt just as another day as family time, but in ways it’s different and special. Even if it’s a simple day or a special day it’s always different and that’s what makes it unique. My father is usually always busy with work trying to support his family, I mean anything for family right? We try and make our family happy, have fun, just trying and live life to the fullest, and that’s what I’m guessing my father is trying to do. Father’s Day is the day where you can thank your father or “father” figure for how much time and effort they put in making you happy.

This is how I was able to use my strengths to contribute to my family. I was able to create a little pocket thing that was shaped as a tie filled with these tiny chocolates that you could bring to work as a sweet boost. To create that you would have to sew the plastic bag that you cut out like a tie, which to me was hard because you needed it to be the shape like you paper cut out and also the sewing. I also made a card that had a acrostic poem inside and it also ended with a question “What about me makes you proud?” My father went out early in the morning for work so we just made brunch for him with his favorite food such as bacon. The brunch consisted of rice, egg, bacon, sliced up apples and cucumbers which to my surprise was pretty simple, but also tasted delicious.

We can have the most simple meal on earth, but what makes it really special are the people around you or who you share it with. Yes, something might be hard to do like for me making the gift and cooking, but at the end of the day it was all worth it. You can see all your hard work paying off as you can tell how happy the person is. All I want is for my father to be happy on Father’s Day.

Here’s what I created for Father’s Day as a gift.

ooops… we can’t figure out how to add a pic… Is a pic even allowed!?

Father's Day Gift

A Time to Recognize Fathers

Father’s Day was Sunday, June 21, 2020

Father’s Day is a relatively modern holiday. Different families have a range of traditions. These can range from a simple phone call or greetings card to large parties honouring all of the ‘father’ figures in a particular extended family.

Father figures can include:

  • fathers
  • step-fathers
  • fathers-in-law
  • grandfathers and great-grandfathers, and
  • even other male relatives

Some students do not have a father at home.  Some mothers fill in as a father-figure. And some families have another male person who is a caregiver to you.

STUDENT VOICE

The people who make up our families love and care for us. Mother’s Day, Father’s Day,  Grandparents Day, and Family Day are special days in which we show our appreciation for the wonderful people in our families.

“This is how I was able to use my strengths to contribute to my family.” 

Mother’s Day

On Mother’s Day I used my strengths to cook her breakfast and dinner. My Mother’s Day started with my sister yelling so I could come downstairs so i could cook. For breakfast we cooked bacon, egg, muffin, hash browns, and a yogurt bowl. After breakfast we played cards and I lost every round. For dinner I made mash potato and steak and salad.

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