Learning's Fun ~ In Grade One! April 7, 2019

Reminders - Wear GREEN on Monday, April 8 - to remember the Humboldt Broncos Hockey Team
                   - Wear PURPLE on Wednesday, April 17 - Epilepsy Awareness Day
                   - NO SCHOOL on Friday, April 19 - Good Friday
                   - NO SCHOOL on Monday, April 22 - Easter Monday

HAPPY BIRTHDAY!                               Judah                     April 4
                                                                   Shae                      April 9

PENGUIN PARTY
We had our Penguin Unit final party on Friday.  We watched "Mr. Popper's Penguin's" and ate a Penguin Parfait snack (Blue jello - water, whipped cream - snow, candy fish, crushed Oreos for rocks and stones).  We will be comparing the movie version to the book version this week.

GOOD-BYE FRIENDS
We were so sad to say good-bye to two of our friends at Spring Break - Lachlan and Desayo.  We hope that they will come back and visit us.  We will miss them.

SPRING BREAK READING
Don't forget to send in the reading sheet for Spring Break - Easter Eggs to colour.  There will be prizes for reading for 10 days.

MAPPING
Our next Social Studies unit will be on mapping.

PHOTO GALLERY - Country Week - Chinese Dancing

 

 

 Good-bye Friends -

 

 China Art - Panda Bear Pictures

Penguin Parfaits

Learning's Fun ~ In Grade One! March 15,2019

Reminders - WEAR GREEN - for a belated St. Patrick's Day on Monday, March 18th
                   - SPRING BREAK - March 25 - 29, 2019
                   - First day back to school - Monday, April 1, 2019

HAPPY BIRTHDAY!        Daniella                     March 31

CONFERENCES
Thank you all for coming out to our student-led conferences last week.  The children were very proud and excited to show their portfolios to you and share what they have learned this term.

LEPRECHAUN TRAPS
The whole class was buzzing with creative excitement on Friday afternoon as the children built their leprechaun traps.  We used gold coins to (hopefully) entice those sneaky leprechauns into visiting our classroom and everyone shared how their traps would work.  We'll check our traps on Monday to see if we actually caught some. 
They can wear something green on Monday for a belated St. Patrick's Day (if they wish).

COUNTRY WEEK
This week we are "travelling" to China for country week.  Every afternoon, the children will be travelling to another classroom to experience different activities with different teachers, such as -
Animals, Math, Culture, Art, Sports, Food and Folktales.  We are also having some Chinese dancers visiting the school on Wednesday morning where they will perform and teach us some dances.

PHOTO GALLERY - Painting penguins

BUILDING LEPRECHAUN TRAPS

Learning's Fun ~ In Grade One! March 10, 2019

Reminders - Student-Led Conferences on Tuesday and Wednesday, March 12 and 13
                   - Field Trip to the MTYP to see "The Very Hungry Caterpillar" on Wednesday, March 13

*If you have not signed up for a conference time yet, please contact Mrs. Madden in the office.

LEPRECHAUN TRAPS
We will be needing your re-cycling stuff this week.  We will be making leprechaun traps on Thursday, March 14.  You can send in your re-cycling items anytime this week.
(Please do not send in glass or sharp edged tin cans.)

PENGUIN PROJECTS
We have just about finished up our penguin unit for science.  The children have been sharing their research information with the whole class.  We are learning a little bit about 14 different kinds of penguins.  We also painted our life-sized penguin portraits last week and they should be up in the hallway soon.  They are displayed like a graph - from smallest (Little Blue) to tallest (Emperor).

PHOTO GALLERY - Dress-up as your favourite storybook character day

 Guest Violinist -

Dress as a VOYAGEUR day

 Let do some "jigging" with Mr. B

Guest reader - Lachlan's mom

 DAY OF PINK