Category Archives: Alphabet Countdown

F ~ We took advantage of the crazy hot weather & headed outside today for some FREE TIME  & cooled down with some refreshing FREEZIES! We enjoyed strawberry, pineapple, green apple & orange!

G ~ 2 days full of GAMES! We celebrated with the run through of Primary Sports Day on Thursday, learning 7 new GAMES as we went through all the stations, & then on Friday we had our annual SPORTS DAY!!

I had so much fun at the scorekeepers table with Miss Gatenby & I hope you all had fun participating in all the stations & competing in the tug-of-wars too! Congratulations to BLUE HOUSE on their big Sports Day win!
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E ~ Jujubes, M&Ms, Jelly Beans, Mike&Ikes… Count the Candies!!
We spent the morning using referents & good ‘ol fashioned thoughtful guesses to ESTIMATE how many candies were in the jars.

After all the Guessing Jar estimates had been counted, the winners were announced in the afternoon. Drumroll please………

Lincoln, Benson, Shathu & Cayla had the closest estimates with Lincoln making a perfect estimate!!
Well done to all Division 8 students for their excellent estimates! Can’t wait to enjoy the candies at another Alphabet Countdown day very soon…

 
D ~ DINOSAUR books, drawing books, matching games, pattern blocks, posters, toys & more! We spent the day learning lots about dinosaurs, doing different dino activities in the morning & then learning more about dinosaurs from Bill Nye the Science Guy in the afternoon.

C ~ pink, orange, blue, green, white…sidewalk CHALK!
We got our creative juices going & decorated Nelson’s cement surfaces with our chalk pictures & writing. Thank you rain for holding off!

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B ~ bubbles, Bubbles, & MORE BUBBLES! Using hand made pipe cleaners & even our hands, we created hundreds of beautiful bubbles!!
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My favourite (soon to be yours too!) time of the school year has arrived!The ALPHABET COUNTDOWN has begun!

For the rest of the school year we’ll be celebrating each day with a letter, or two. We’ll be participating in activities &/or dressing in something special to make our last month together memorable & lots of fun!Today we began with A & spent the day with our favourite stuffed ANIMALS!

Z ~ One last hour together as 2014/15’s Division 8 Grade 3s – marked our last day together this school year before ZOOMING out of Nelson & ZIPPING into summer! We watched Mr. Gurniak’s fabulous slide show of pictures from this year, we took photos for an upcoming When I Grow Up… post & Miss Watt shared one of her very favourite Dr. Seuss books, Oh, the Places You’ll Go.

Everybody went home with their own Flat Stanley selves & I can’t wait to see all the places that you explore this summer! Love you Division 8, have a TON of fun this summer & I can’t wait to see you all in September!

Miss Watt

Y ~ …It’s the Last Day of School!
We celebrated with YIPPEE, it’s YEAR END free time with games & yummy treats!

In the afternoon, a touching Graduation Ceremony – Well done Mr. Morrison, Mr. Phillips & Mrs. Dodd! – marked our last day full together for the 2014-15 school year.
 

X ~ Who doesn’t love eXPLOSIONS!?

We learned more about volcanic eXPLOSIONS  in the morning & then eXPERIMENTED with our own mini volcanoes in the afternoon!
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