“We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.”
- Albert Einstein IMPORTANT INFORMATION Family Halloween Dance Tickets have come home today. A reminder that students who are going to the Family Halloween Dance are dressing up only for the evening. We will have our Day of Costumes on the 31st. Callout for Yarn! The Grade 3 team is currently getting the Peruvian Centres together. We are asking for brightly coloured wool to be donated to the class for a weaving centre, and a Worry Doll centre. Also, if anyone has wooden beads that are burning a hole in your pocket, we are more than happy to take them off your hands. Halloween Halloween is fast approaching, and here is what we have planned. Students are invited to dress up for the whole day. From 1:30 – 2:30, we will be having a wee Halloween do, of strategic games and a build project. We do not need any volunteers, as I will still be doing curriculum instruction during this time. As per CBE regulations, students may bring in a HEALTHY snack (e.g., fruits, veggies, cheese, crackers, …), as I’d like to send them home as relaxed and ready as they can be for the evening. Peruvian Artifacts We will begin our Peruvian centres shortly. Jacket Racket Coat Drive Grade 6 Students are collecting warm winter coats, toques, snow pants (why that is not a compound word is beyond me), and mittens for children in the K-Gr 12 age range. Please make sure the items are in gently used condition at most before donating. They are collecting items until November 1st. IMPORTANT DATES October 26: Family Dance (evening). October 31: Halloween. November 1: Last day to donate to Jacket Racket. November 7: Photo retakes. November 10: Remembrance Day Assembly at 10:45 am. OUR DAY 34 days under our belt, 146 days to go! Things are just ticketed-boo here! Students be-BAM! the day playing, you guessed it, BAM! This is a fun spelling game, focusing specifically on the sight words for different levels. (I also have also made this game for the math facts, which we will dive into next week.) After this, students sang their hearts out in Music. After recess, Mrs Ferrari led the class in an art class of 1-point perspective. All you engineers, draftsmen, architects, interior designers, artists, and comic book illustrators would be so proud of these guys! While it may seem simple to draw squares, and then lines going to one point on the horizon, there are many elements that need to fall into place. First, the teacher needs a good cup of coffee. Wait… First the students need a ruler, patience, a sharp pencil, patience, their Visual Journals, patience, an eraser, and patience. Ask your child to show you what they can do. After the Fun Lunch, I read some more from The One and Only Ivan and write a Feelings Response. I am excited to read how students felt about what they were hearing. Once students wrote their response, they continued working on their Rights of a Child, adding in more details. I like listening to the conversations they are having at their tables as they bring in what they are doing into their conversations. In Gym, we began volleyball, learning the building block skill of serving by using the heel of their hand. In Library, Mrs Cornford read the wonderful, loving, and colourful book, Thunder Boy Jr, by Sherman Alexie, a story about a boy who is figuring out who he is, and how he feels he could go by many different names. Cheerios! Ms Lauf Comments are closed.
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