Learning's Fun ~ In Grade One! April 25, 2017

FIELD TRIPS
I have booked two field trips for the end of the year.  I thought that I would let you know early so that if you would like to come along, there would be time to make arrangements.  Both of these trips will be for the whole day and we will definitely need parent chaperones/drivers. 
The first trip will be on Tuesday, June 13.  We will be going to Oak Hammock Marsh. 
The second trip will be to the Assiniboine Zoo on Friday, June 23. 
I'll be sending home permission slips and more information later on but mark these two dates on your calendar!

FLAT STANLEY PROJECT
We will be starting a new Social Studies unit this week about Canada and mapping.  As part of this unit, each child will be mailing a "Flat Person" to someone that they know who lives in Canada.  "Flat Stanley" is a book about a boy who gets squished flat by a falling bulletin board and his parents mail him in an envelop to visit friends. We will be making our own flat people and what I need from each family is the name and address of a friend or relative that lives somewhere in Canada (preferably not Winnipeg).  The people receiving our letters and flat people need to be willing to write back to the class and tell us something about their town.
Could you please contact these families and confirm that they are willing to help us with our Flat Stanley project over the next week or so and then send their names and addresses to school.  (If you do not have anyone to contact, please let me know and I will find someone for your child to write to.)  This project also ties into the Canada's 150th birthday this year.

PENGUINS
We have finished up with our Science unit about Penguins this week.  The children presented their research projects to the class and we learned something about all 17 different types of penguins.  They also painted a "life-sized" penguin portrait of their penguin species.  These paintings are hanging up in the hallway as a pictograph - biggest to smallest.

PHOTOS - Day of Pink

PAINTING PENGUINS

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!