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.
Category: Special Days
Easter Craft Fun!
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!!!!
Breakfast Television Visit
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’.
Breakfast TV Visit
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.
Pink Shirt Day
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.
Jump Rope is on Friday!!
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.
100’s Day Activities
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.
Valentine’s Day Fun!
We had a really fun day today! When students arrived they delivered their valentines to their friends. Some were a little large for our heart holders!
For Math today we did some addition questions with missing addends as a reminder of how to solve problems with different unknown numbers. Students then got to work on some Valentine puzzles and word searches.
This afternoon (after our library visit) we wrote a poem following the format of a story that we read yesterday – How Much Do You Love Me? We worked through a process of brainstorming things that our family members love a lot. The students then put these together in the framework of our poem. For example,
I love you as much as DAD loves TO WATCH FOOTBALL ON SUNDAYS ON THE COUCH.
They wrote about 3 different family members and then for the finale they had to decide HOW LONG they would love them – i.e.
I’ll love you until DINOSAURS RULE THE EARTH AGAIN. That’s how much I love you.
Once they completed their frames they wrote these poems out on heart-shaped papers, cut them out, and glued them to pink construction paper. These are now posted on a bulletin board outside of our classroom. Come by and check them out – they are quite well done!
Students had a choice between a Valentine’s activitiy (card making) or Centres for the end-of-day period. At this time students got to enjoy the snacks sent in – and the treats from their Valentine’s holders. A huge thank you to all those who sent in goodies for us to eat today! We have some leftovers which will be enjoyed tomorrow.
REMINDER to send in the 100’s Day vests and small treats for our 100’s celebration tomorrow.
Jump Rope for Heart
Friday, February 17th is coming up quickly. We will be participating in the JUMP event in the afternoon with our 40 minute skipping session with Divisions 3 and 7.
In preparation for this event we have spent some PE periods learning how to skip – on our own and with Mr. Hamilton’s grade 5/6 class. The students really enjoyed that experience!!
Please remember to complete and return the Heart and Stroke Foundation Pledge envelopes and return them to school. The red heart also needs to be completed and returned by Friday so we can post them in the gym as further incentive for our event.