Category Archives: Holiday Actitivies

Concert Program Contest Time!!

Attention all Nelson students who like to draw! We need your skills!!
Our annual Nelson Winter concert will be happening on Tuesday, December 19th & we are looking for artists to create the program covers that will be handed out to all audience members!
The cover must have the bolded words below & have pictures that suit the theme of winter. It must be spelled correctly, detailed, neatly fine lined with a thin black fineliner & NOT coloured.
Your finished cover should look like a colouring book page.
Name and Division # on the back please.

This must be on the cover:
Nelson Winter Celebration
Tuesday, December 19th

There will be:
2 primary covers chosen (used for the primary concert)
2 intermediate covers chosen (used for the intermediate concert)
DUE DATE: Please hand in to Ms. Watt by 3:00 on Wednesday, December 6th
* late entries cannot be accepted *
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Good luck everyone!!!

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A balloon bearded Santa!?
Have you seen the large helium balloons in the Santa Claus Day parade? What’s your favourite shape? I remember a very cool looking Rudolph.

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Window Stickies! Have you ever seen store windows decorated with stickies, frosted snow or painted Christmas scenes? Do you remember your favourite?

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A stocking, ornaments & a stuck flying reindeer!
Do you help your family put up decorations at home? What’s your favourite one?

PEACE POPPIES

Have you ever wondered what does Peace Looks like? Smells like? Feels like? Tastes like? Sounds like? Our Grade 2 and 3s wrote beautiful poetry with accompanying pictures to describe what Peace means to them.
Click HERE to see their heartfelt work.

In Flander’s Fields

A few brave souls from Division 8 worked hard and practiced often in order to present this famous Remembrance Day poem written during the First World War by Canadian physician Lieutenant-Colonel John McCrae.
Click on the poem to see their wonderful reading of this special poem.
Well done everyone! I’m so proud of our contribution to this Nelson tradition.

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IMG_1835Christmas Clock! What time do you wake up on Christmas morning!?

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A Santa cookie jar filled with the names of division 8 students…
Do you make cookies around Christmas time? With who?

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Do your parents or grandparents celebrate Christmas customs from somewhere else in the world where they’ve lived?

CHRISTMAS IS COMING

FullSizeRenderohmigoodness, are you as excited as I am Division 8?! Over the next couple weeks room 203 will be transforming into a bit of a winter wonderland in anticipation for the BEST MONTH OF THE YEAR!!christmas-lights-smiley-emoticon
Tune in here to see the daily additions to your home away from home as I do a 10 day countdown to December!