Grade 1/2 Experiences at Rosser Elementary
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.
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.
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.
As you all know, our student teacher (Ms. Sue) has now entered the full immersion phase of her practicum. She is in her second week of ‘taking over’ the class.
Students have been enjoying her theme unit on ‘family’. This is part of our Social Studies curriculum which we are doing this year at a very opportune time as we just celebrated Family Day. I hope you all enjoyed the long weekend.
There is a letter coming home tomorrow about a family crest project. Please help your child get some ideas on their paper and return it on the date stated in the letter. This will ensure that your child completes their project at school successfully. Thanks for your continued support.
Students are also learning 2-D shapes in her geometry unit. They enjoyed a great story and then created their own ‘geometrical’ mice. I think they look great on our bulletin board!
What do you think?
We all enjoyed a really nice assembly for Lunar New Year on January 31st. The K’s sang a song, Mrs. O’Meara’s class told the story of the zodiac, and Mrs. Schwarz’s class did a ribbon dance. We saw a martial arts demonstration by a student of Mr. Lee’s and from Mr. Lee (Morris’ dad) himself. Divisions one and three did their dance with the lion and the dragon. We presented our poem, What Colour Were the Dragons, which students had practised at home.
Back in our classrooms we enjoyed a very tasty lunch!! We had a very good ‘spread’ this year. In fact, other adults in the building came by to check it out and all agreed that it was particularly well done!
Thank you to all our parents for helping your child practise their poem homework and for sending in the great food for our lunch. It was all very much appreciated.
Last week we finished our read-aloud of this wonderful book by J.K. Rowling. Students learned a lot of new vocabulary and seemed to really enjoy meeting the characters in this book. We enjoyed the many adventures that Harry, Ron, and Hermione experienced. As a finale to reading the story we used our new video monitor and computer set-up to enjoy the movie.
It was a wonderful treat!
Today students wrote Dragon poems using many descriptive words. We began with a great brainstorming session of the different kinds of dragons and how they may have looked.
Students then made their own very colourful dragons. These are on display in our room. Hopefully you will get a chance to come by and see them.
Gung Hey Fat Choy! Happy New Year!!
As you know, from the earlier notice, we are having our annual Lunar New Year luncheon on Friday.
Please remember that your children should bring their own utensils and bowls.
Also, we are looking for one or two parents to help out with setting up the food and helping to serve the students in our room. If you are interested in helping us out please let me know.
Thanks,
Mrs. Temple
Students will be presenting this poem at our assembly. Thank you for helping your child practise this poem at home.
In a continuation of our ‘elements of art’ lessons, students have been learning about ‘value’. They had previously learned that the colour that we see is in the light and that without light there is no colour.
Students now know that black and white are not colours – they are examples of values. Black is the darkest dark and white is the lightest light. They created pictures on white paper only using a black crayon.