Kindergarten and Grade 1 Experiences at Rosser Elementary
On Friday we will be having our Terry Fox Assembly and Run. This will be followed by our annual Corn Roast. Parents are very welcomed to join us for this important event.
I will be telling the class about Terry and his journey across Canada – as well as his battle with cancer. Students will be decorating a paper ‘running shoe’. They will be encouraged to dedicate their run to someone they know who currently has cancer; has survived a bout with cancer; or who has lost that battle.
I hope all the mothers enjoyed the tissue paper flowers that the students made last week. Today we heard that a few moms have already enjoyed their ‘pot of tea’, as well.
We are looking forward to a fun – and sunny – day!
This is just a reminder that our class will be visiting McGill Library this Thursday morning. Please remember to send your child’s library card with them to school on this day.
Students have been learning some valuable skills this week. We began by learning weaving for our Easter baskets – and also braiding for pipe cleaner handles. We used yellow tissue paper which we collaged over styrofoam eggs. When we added the details they became these adorable little baby chicks.
We then took pipe cleaners, google eyes, and pom poms and created these cute little bunnies on another set of styrofoam eggs.
These will be placed amid a bed of ‘craft grass’ in their Easter baskets (maybe with a few chocolate treats). Ask your child which craft was the hardest to do. You may be surprised by their answer.
Happy Easter!!!!
We have a confirmed time for the assembly tomorrow. It will be right after Recess (approximately 10:50 a.m.). Students will be called to the gym for the presentation of the cheque and then to do their performance. Parents are very welcome to come to see this exciting opportunity that our students have to perform for a television station. We all look forward to seeing the final clip that they produce and air on their television show. We will let you know when that date will be so we can all set our TV’s to ‘record’.
This Friday (March 30th) Breakfast Television will be visiting our school to film our Fine Arts assembly, interview a few Grade 7 students, and look at some art samples on the various class bulletin boards. They will produce a 3 minute video which will be shown on their TV show at a later date. You will be notified of the date of this airing when we know.
They will also be giving us our ‘winnings’ from the contest that we entered. This money will be used to further our great Fine Arts programme.
All parents are welcome to attend our assembly on Friday. I will let you know the exact time when the details are finalized. This will hopefully be done by tomorrow.
This Wednesday (February 29th) Rosser is participating in this national anti-bullying day. This campaign began in response to a situation in Nova Scotia a few years ago (2007) when a boy was bullied by some students who targeted him because he was wearing pink. Two other boys got several other students involved and they all wore pink shirts to school to stand up to the bullies.
The pink shirts that were ordered through the school were sent home with students today. Don’t forget to wear them (or another pink shirt) on Wednesday to show that bullying is not acceptable.
We are looking forward to a fun event this Friday afternoon! We will be doing our jump event with our buddies in Division 3.
Please send in your completed donation forms for the Heart and Stroke Foundation. The deadline is next Wednesday, February 22nd. If you have chosen the on-line option please indicate this by writing this on the donation form and returning it to school.
The red hearts that were sent home need to be completed and returned by this Friday.
Thank you.
Wow – what a day today! We loved changing our calendar straws to 100! We then began a full and eventful day of hundreds of things! We made:
– Fruit Loop necklaces with ten colour groups of ten pieces of cereal each
– headbands with 20 stickers in colour and shape patterns, counting by 5’s to 100. We also did tally marks on the ‘crown’ with 20 groups of 5 tally sets.
We also:
– divided our 100 little snacks into bowls to share with our friends. We enjoyed these while watching 101 Dalmatians with the kindergardeners this afternoon.
We worked on several activities in our 100’s Day booklet and some students worked on completing their 100’s Day poster.
We took a group photo wearing our vests. These vests are now on the bulletin board in the hallway. The collections look great – hopefully you can come by and see them.