As part of our St. Patrick’s Day study, Ms. Sue had the students think about wishes that they would ask for if they were lucky enough to catch a leprechaun.
Category: Class News
Spring Break / Ms. Sue
Tomorrow is our last day of school before our two week Spring Break. I hope you all enjoy a lovely break!
Ms. Sue will be with our class for the first week back after the holidays. This is her ‘phase-out’ week as the wrap up to her practicum experience with us at Rosser. Her last day with us will be Friday, April 4th. The students and I have all really enjoyed our time with her. She will be missed.
Be safe over the holiday and we will see you on Monday, March 31st.
Marshmallow Structures
As a follow up to our Math unit on 2-D and 3-D geometry the students put their knowledge of edges, vertices, and faces together to create these lovely 3-D framed shapes.
It was a lot of fun for the students and it really reinforced their learning of this unit.
A huge thank you goes out to Ms. Sue for planning and getting this together for the children.
Vancouver Symphony Orchestra
This Friday – February 28th – we will be going by school bus to the VSO. This is always a great field trip and a lovely experience for the students.
As we are going to a ‘fancy’ place (the Orpheum Theatre) we do allow – and encourage – students to ‘dress up’ for the occasion. While this is not mandatory, if you like your child can wear ‘party clothes’ for this special event.
Acts of Kindness
Students have been working on being ‘kinder’ to each other. Under Ms. Sue’s direction they have been doing ‘acts’ of kindness. They are working on reaching 100 acts. These are displayed on individual small hearts made into groups of 10 onto larger hearts on our bulletin board in the hallway.
They also planned and videotaped a mini-movie showing many of these acts. Students really enjoyed the process of deciding on scenes and then recording each other. This video was introduced by students and shown to the whole school this afternoon during our Celebration of Learning Assembly. When the movie was over all students in the class took small hearts (that they had made with nice sayings on them) and gave them to different students and staff members in the assembly.
I think it was a great process of learning and it was enjoyable to see their pride in a job well done!
Family Unit ‘Faces’
The students have been learning about all different kinds of families. The covers of their booklets are drawings that they made of their faces.
Badminton – next week
Next week we will be visited by the badminton coaches! Students brought home a notice about this today. Please complete it and return it as soon as possible. Students will be receiving 4 lessons next week. This is something that they usually really enjoy. It is a great opportunity to get professional coaching in a very fun sport.
Valentine’s Day on Friday
We will be celebrating Valentine’s Day this Friday (February 14th).
The Valentine holders are attached to desks and are awaiting filling!! Your child may deliver their valentines tomorrow or on Friday.
If you want, you may also send in a small snack for sharing on Friday afternoon during Centres time.
Thank you.
100’s Day Fun!!!
Today we celebrated the 100th day of school!! Students did ‘hundreds’ of things including making Fruit Loop necklaces by counting colour groups of ten cereal pieces onto strings and making crown headbands. These headbands had stickers arrayed in patterns on which the students recorded the counting numbers (by 5’s) to one hundred. Attached to the bands were crowns on which the students made 20 sets of 5 in tally marks.
Students worked through a booklet with activities involving 100. They also decorated a dalmatian dog with 100 spots. This was a prelude to watching the first half of the movie 101 Dalmatians. The second half will be enjoyed tomorrow.
I hope your child had a fun 100th day of school.
Jump Rope for Heart
Last Friday (February 7th) we had a great afternoon doing Olympic themed jumping events in the gym with our buddies from Division 2. It was a lot of fun!
Thank you to all who submitted donations for the Heart and Stroke Foundation – either on-line or by cash/cheque donations returned to the school. I have tallied all the results and it looks like we have beaten our record from last year. I will announce the final results once the Heart and Stroke Foundation has confirmed the totals.
I was very impressed by how many students in our class participated in fundraising – and also by the amounts raised!!
The forms should be picked up by our representative by next week and, once they are tallied, the prizes will then be sent to me for distribution.