100’s Day Celebrations

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Our Hundreds Day celebrations started with students counting their steps (in groups of hundreds) during our morning fitness.  Calendar was rather exciting when we bundled up our 10 groups of 10 straws into one large ‘hundred’ bundle. Naturally our Number of the Day was 100. Students had a lot of fun coming up with math statements where the answer was 100, as you can see from the photo.

The day continued with the making of headbands (on which the students needed to put 20 stickers and write the numbers on – counting by 5’s) to which crowns were attached. On the crowns students were to make 10 groups of 10 marks (stars, dots, tally marks, etc.).

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Students also worked on their large 100’s Day Poster. These will be put up after Spring Break. The highlight of the day was (as it usually is) the making of their Fruit Loop necklaces.  Students worked at the green side table where they collected Fruit Loops in groups of 10 (same colour) and then added them onto their string.  They needed to make 10 groups of 10 and to ensure that each coloured group was not next to a same coloured group.  Of course, a few Fruit Loops were harmed (eaten) in the making of these necklaces:)

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During P.E. students learned just exactly how long 100 seconds can be when they are seeing how many: double footed hops; hops on one foot; frog leaps; jumping jacks, etc. that they can do in that time frame!  Suffice it to say that they were rather tired out at lunchtime!

All in all, it was a very fun-filled day for the students.  I am sure that you heard all about it when they came home.

 

 

Field Trip to the V.S.O.

Last Thursday we enjoyed a very fun trip to the Orpheum Theatre to see – and, more importantly, HEAR – the wonderful Vancouver Symphony Orchestra!!  What a great treat for all of us. Just being in the magnificent Orpheum Theatre is a treat on its own. The architecture is truly a sight to see!  The students seemed to very much enjoy it. Then we were introduced to all the sections of the orchestra; woodwind, brass, string, and percussion.

The orchestra played a variety of music, each of which told a story.  Many of these stories were familiar to the students, such as the waltz from Sleeping Beauty.  The bus trip is always fun for the students, as well.  We enjoyed the sights of downtown Vancouver.  It was great to see the cherry blossoms and magnolia trees in blossom! As usual, a few students napped on the way home!  It is all part of the experience!

Lunar New Year Celebrations

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We had a very busy and full day on Thursday, February 19th.  We began the day by preparing dumplings in the staff room.  We thank the moms who came in to help us in this process.  After Recess we went to the Assembly in the gym.  Our class performed their poem – “What Colour Were the Dragons?”  They did a very nice job!  Then our grade one students read the poems that they wrote about dragons.  We thank Jana for holding the microphone for them so that they could be heard by the whole audience – including all the parents who came to the assembly.  I think that the grade ones enjoyed their moment in the spotlight!

After the assembly we enjoyed a lovely buffet feast in our classroom.  Thank you to everyone who sent in food for this event!

Our lanterns turned out very nicely and look great hanging in the classroom .  Some of them are in the hallway on the bulletin board with the dragon poems.

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All in all, it was a great day!!

Lunar New Year Celebrations

Next Thursday will be Lunar New Year.  We will be having our traditional dumpling making, our assembly, and our pot luck luncheon.  A form about this has already been sent home.  We will be performing a poem at the assembly.  A copy of this poem will be sent home tomorrow for students to do extra practise.

Last week we began making our lanterns.  These are being made out of water colour paper, on which the students have painted a scene.  Tomorrow they will be drawing lines on the back, cutting them part way through, adding a top and bottom border, and turning them into lanterns.  These will be hung in the gym, along with other lanterns created by other classes, as decoration for our assembly.

JUMP Rope for Heart

On February 6th we participated in our JUMP event, during the afternoon, with our Division 2 buddies.  We had a lot of fun doing a variety of skipping techniques including partner skipping and the long rope.  We decorated our paper hearts and began the heart wall in the gym.  Other classes added their hearts to the wall, as well.

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Through the generosity of our parent community we have raised a great deal of money for the Heart and Stroke Foundation – over $2800.

Mobile Dairy Classroom

On January 16th we were lucky to have a visit from the Mobile Dairy Classroom.  A huge trailer came onto our school grounds with a mother dairy cow and her baby calf.  Students learned what cows eat, how they have 4 stomachs to digest their food, and how they produce milk.  They saw the cow being milked by the milking machine and saw the calf being feed this milk via a baby bottle.

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It was a very enjoyable and educational experience for all of us.

Christmas Clay Project


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We had a great time working with clay for our Christmas presents to our families.  Students began with the raw clay which they formed around a wooden doweling (forming the hollow centre necessary for the firing process).  The grade ones created snow people and the grade twos created gingerbread people, as they had made snow people last year in my class.  They created the bodies in three sections and then made the hats. These needed to dry for almost a week before they could be put into the kiln.

After they had been fired the students glazed them and then they were re-fired.  Students then decorated their people and they were ready to be wrapped to be given as gifts.  I hope you all enjoyed them!!

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