Category: Class News

Remembrance Day

Our school will be holding our assembly tomorrow at 10:45 a.m.  All are welcome to attend.

Here are our poppies on our bulletin in the hallway.  The large ones were created through a directed drawing lesson.  Once the poppies were drawn, students traced over the pencil lines with china markers.  They then painted the red and green on the poppies.  These dried over the weekend.  This week we re-traced the china marker, cut them out, and glued them onto green construction paper.  They all did a great job!

The smaller poppies are made from four layers of coloured (red and green) construction paper.  We did these with our big buddies on Tuesday.  It was great to see the buddies working together!  These small poppies are a lovely complement to the larger, painted ones.  Check them out when you get a chance.

What We KNOW or Think We Know …

We had a brainstorming session where the students talked with their partners and came up with things that they knew, or thought they knew, about bats.  All answers were accepted.  As we learn about bats we will confirm or debunk these thoughts and ideas.

Students then came up with a list of questions that they want to know about bats.

These will form the basis of our inquiry into bats.  We are currently reading, “Zipping, Zapping, Zooming Bats”.  So far students have learned that bats eat mosquitoes (so they won’t bite us) and help protect crops for farmers by eating grasshoppers, moths, and other bugs.  The Little Brown Bat can eat 600 mosquitoes in one hour!

We are thankful for … and some turkeys🦃

We met with our Buddy classes – Divisions 1 and 3 – last week and made feathers on which we wrote our names.  Our big buddies then helped us to write a thing we are thankful for on the feather.  We then decorated the feathers.  These are on the bulletin boards in the hallway outside of our classroom. We will be doing a variety of activities with our buddies as we will be meeting each Tuesday morning for a half hour.

These feathers are joined by the turkeys they made in class.  These were done with pencil crayons and tissue paper.  Students also practised their cutting out skills.  Gobble, gobble.

 

Jolly Phonics

We have completed our second week of Jolly Phonics lessons.  Last week we did the letters s, a, t, and i.  This week we did p, n, c/k, and e.  We have a lesson on most days.  The blue duotangs are sent home each Friday with the pages of the letters learned that week.  Thank you for helping your child with their practice on the weekends.  Please remember to send the duotangs back to school after the weekend.

The Elements of Art

On Friday we had a lesson on the ‘elements’ of art.  We discussed how elements are parts of a whole.   The six elements of art are: colour; line; shape; form; value; and texture.  To explore a few of these elements we did leaf rubbings using waxed crayons on paper.  We will explore each of these elements over the course of this school year in more depth.

Here are a few individual samples of the students’ work.  All of the art pieces are pinned to the bulletin board in our classroom.  Come by and take a peek.

Hello, my name is ….

We spent time last week working on posters to introduce ourselves.  Over the past few weeks students have been practising printing their names – especially in lowercase letters which is the normal way we do most of our writing.  They also counted to see how many letters  are in their names; thought about what is special about their names; and tried to make other words using only the letters in their names.  These posters are on the bulletin boards outside of our classroom, in the hallway.  Here are a few: