Beautiful Savior Lutheran School: What's New in One and Two?: March 2017

Thursday, March 23, 2017

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!

Wednesday, March 8, 2017

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