Category: Class News

100’s Day Activities

On Tuesday, February 21st we celebrated the 100th day that we have been in school – not counting weekends and school holidays.  We did all sorts of fun activities including: making Fruit Loop necklaces with ten groups of different colours; headbands with crowns that they did 20 sets of five tally marks on, as well as counting by fives on coloured dots; 100’s day booklets; and our posters – shown here on the bulletin board.

After such a busy day we celebrated 101st day with a watching of the Disney classic cartoon – 101 Dalmatians.

Lunar New Year Celebrations

We had a very busy day celebrating the Lunar New Year.  We began our day by making Chinese dumplings. A huge thank you to Mrs. Schwarz and the moms who helped us do this fun activity.

We presented our poem – What Colour Were the Dragons? – with our Grade 2’s leading the choral recitation and the Grade 1’s doing the echo.  The Grade 1 students held the dragons that they made.  These are the ones used by the Grade 2’s from the poem.

Divisions 1 and 3 performed their version of the Dragon Dance.

For lunch we enjoyed a fantastic feast!!  Thank you to all who sent in food for our potluck.

Lunar New Year

We have been preparing for our school’s celebration on this upcoming Friday. Students have been practising a poem that they will perform (What Colour Were the Dragons?) and they have been writing their own poems about dragons.  They have made their own dragons (to be used as props for the Assembly) and made scales to add to the school dragon which will be encircling the corner of the Office in the hallway.  They created beautiful water-coloured lanterns which will be strung up in the gym for the Assembly.  Right now they are hanging in our classroom.

Please ensure that your child brings a bowl and spoon to school on Friday in order to partake in the potluck luncheon which has been become one of our yearly, and most yummy, traditions.

 

Gymnastics!!!

Students have been really enjoying our time with Coach Rachel, our gymnastic instructor, who has been with us for seven school days.  It was such a treat to watch the students overcome some fears and nervousness and to develop a good basic introduction to the gymnastic equipment.

Students were placed into teams and they then rotated through the four stations of equipment.  Our grade twos had another opportunity to show their developing leadership skills by leading their groups.

Here are some photos showing the equipment:

 

 

Pancake Breakfast

On Friday, December 16th we enjoyed a wonderful breakfast with our big buddies from Division 2 …

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and then Santa and an elf arrived …

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After breakfast we began to watch “Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone” as we had finished reading the book two days before.  We discussed some of the differences between the book and the movie.

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Between Recess and Lunch we participated in the school-wide bingo that has become a Rosser tradition.  The raffle baskets were also drawn at this time.  After lunch we finished watching the movie.  In the new year we will begin reading the second book in the series, “Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets”.

Just before we left for the holiday break a very cold delivery arrived in the form of return letters from Santa.  I hope you all had a happy and peaceful Christmas break. Happy New Year!!  I look forward to our next six months together.

Reminder about the notice re: The Most Magnificent Thing project which was sent home that last week.  On Tuesday, January 3rd we will be having an assembly at 10:00 a.m. to describe this activity to the students.  For this project students will need to bring in a box that they will be transforming into something.  Please help your child find a box for Wednesday, January 4th.

The Last Week before the Break

The last week before the Christmas Break was a very busy one!!

We had a very lovely and sunny (but extremely cold!!!) day on Tuesday, December 13th at Burnaby’s Heritage Village Museum.  We enjoyed all the buildings and exhibits, along with a fun ride on the carousel.  Thank you to all the parents who helped us out by driving and supervising on this trip.

On Wednesday, December 14th we had our Christmas concert.  Students performed in two performances: one at 1:00 and the other at 6:30 p.m.  I hope you had a chance to come to one of the shows to see the students.

Thursday and Friday were also busy – please see the next two entries ….