Learning's Fun ~ In Grade One! April 9, 2017

Reminders - NO SCHOOL on Friday, April 14 - Good Friday
                   - NO SCHOOL on Monday, April 17 - Easter Monday

HAPPY BIRTHDAY!                DEKARI                      April 9

EASTER PARTY
We will be having our Easter Party this Thursday in the afternoon, April 13. 
The SNACK PARENTS for this party are -
Jacob, Sadie, Sara, Shane  (Do not forget that the school is nut/peanut free)

PENGUIN PROJECTS
We are finishing up our science unit about Penguins this week and then presenting our research projects to the whole class.  We also finished reading the book "Mr. Popper's Penguins" and watched the movie on Friday afternoon (with popcorn of course).

BUTTERFLY
Another one of our butterflies emerged last week and we have a new butterfly in the classroom.  Hopefully the weather will be nice enough soon, so that we can set it free outside.  Until then we are feeding it fruit juice and Gatorade.

Here are a few photos - The Bunny Hop

Palm Sunday - palm branches

(Sorry, this one is kind of blurry.  Pastor (left) is reading the Bible story before we start the parade.)

Painting crosses for Easter -

Learning's Fun ~ In Grade One! March 23, 2017

Reminders - Wear PURPLE on Friday for Epilepsy Awareness Day
                   - SPRING BREAK - March 27 - 31
                   - First Day Back - Monday, April 3

HAPPY BIRTHDAY!                             EJIRO                               March 17

CHILE WEEK
We have been learning a lot about the country of Chile this week.  Christian's father (from grade 8) has been arranging lots of fun activities for us.  He was born in Chile and still visits there every year.  He brought in some Chilean musicians and a dancer from Easter Island (which is part of Chile).  He also shared a number of artifacts for the students to look at.  They are displayed in the hallway across from the office.  On Tuesday he gave a presentation to our class with lots of photos and he answered our questions.  Tomorrow we are having some traditional Chilean "empanadas" to eat.

PHOTOS from this week - making "arpilleras". 
These folk-art wall-hangings are made out of fabric and yarn but we made ours out of paper.  They show pictures of daily life in Chile.

Finished "arpilleras"  (ahr-pee-YAIR-ahs)

 

CHILEAN MUSICIANS

DANCER FROM EASTER ISLAND and Christian's dad. 

Artifacts from Chile

We had a surprise guest emerge this week in our classroom.  We have kept three chrysalises in our classroom all winter.  They came from Alyssa and Isabelle's yard.  One of the butterflies decided to come out a little early. She is a black swallowtail butterfly and yes, we are pretty sure that it is a girl because girl's have more blue markings on their wings.  We are still deciding about a name.
Have a wonderful Spring Break!

Learning's Fun ~ In Grade One! March 8, 2017

Reminders - Report cards come home on Friday, March 10
                   - Student-led Conferences on Tuesday/Wednesday (March 14 and 15)
                   - Scholastic book orders due next Thursday, March 16
                   - Field trip to the MTYP to see "The Baobab Tree" on March 16 at 10:00 am
                   - NO SCHOOL on Friday, March 17

Manitoba Theatre for Young People
We will be going on a field trip to the MTYP to see a play called "The Baobab Tree" on Thursday, March 16 in the morning.  I will be sending home the permission slips tomorrow and we will need parent driver's/chaperones.  Please sign the permission slip and return it to school by Tuesday, March 14 and if you are willing and able to drive, please indicate that information on the form as well.  Thanks.

I LOVE TO READ
We finished up our "I Love to Read" activities last week with a reading of our school-wide "Add-On Story", read enthusiastically by Mr. B.  This year we purposefully left off the ending and each classroom will be writing their own endings.  Then we will be sharing them with the whole school this Friday.  It should be interesting to see how the different grades chose to end the story.

PHOTOS FROM THE LAST WEEK (OR TWO) - Mr. B reading our Add-On Story

Guest Readers - Moe Leggett from the Winnipeg Blue Bombers

Signing autographs -

Erna Michalow - A teacher friend who read us her own published book

 

DRESS AS A VOYAGEUR DAY

 

 

CHAPEL - The beginning of Lent with Ash Wednesday

 

Ceinture Flechee - "arrow sashes" - We made our own Voyager Sashes

Our classroom's Top 5 Favourite Books -