Completed Christmas Tree

We completed our tree this morning using the colourful snowflakes that the students made. It is a beautiful tree.


Classroom Kindness

Many thanks to the parents of Gary for donating items for the classroom Happy Box. Their kindness is much appreciated.

Walk like a Penguin

After reading Penguin Chicks by Betty Tatham, a few of the girls used the balls as eggs and waddled like daddy penguins. Adorable.
Desiree, xxxxxxxxxx, and Rhian

Trimming the Tree

Desiree, Vida, and Dhruv trimmed the tree with the reindeer tags that they made.

Rudolph the Pom Pom Nose Reindeer

Students made reindeer with hand antlers and then we hung them on the classroom tree.

Bryce, Dhruv, and Robert

Joshua and Julien

Lyla, Rhian, and Vida

Desiree and Gary

Aiden and Sammy



Joshua thought that he would make a "roadkill" reindeer. LOL

Joshua's Roadkill :-)

Star Students!

Congratulations to Vida and Lyla for earning the title of Star Student for the week of December 13th!

Happy Birthday!

Today, Aiden turns 7 years old! Happy Birthday!

Making Words or are These Silly Movie Titles?

Run Funny Boy the God - starring Byrce :-)
Lyla is in the House - starring Lyla :-)

Hard Working Student of the Day!

Joshua has begun to conquer his penmanship challenge. He tried so hard to write neatly and succeeded today!

Penguins and Their Environ

Each student made a book about penguins and where they live. After making the books we read them together and learned some fun penguin facts.

 

-at Family

Students practiced the -at family of words today. We changed the beginning sound as we explored spelling patterns to create rhyming words. We even made silly sentences that made us laugh.


Book It! Super Readers!

Sammy (not pictures), Lyla, Gary, and Desiree earned a free, Pizza Hut certificate for completing their November Reading Log as a part of their homework. The Book It! program is a great reading incentive.

Congratulations!
 
 

Star Students!

We are beginning a new week and have two new Star Students!

Congratulations, Gary and Dhruv!!

An Afternoon at the Theatre

Ms. Osberg and I attended Jade's performance at the Venue Theatre on Saturday afternoon. He played Schroeder in A Handful of Peanuts.

We had a great time! Jade and all of the children did a fabulous job.



Happy Box Time!

It feels as if we haven't used the Happy Box in weeks! Today, was a wonderful day because Gary made his first pick out of the Happy Box! Yes, his first. Gary made great progress this week!

Gary was very proud of himself this week and so he should be! Congratulations!

And let's not forget the other well deserving students....





Time for Kids - Edel Rodriguez

We began a new unit about penguins and serendipitously an issue of Time for Kids this month was about Edel Rodriguez the creator/illustrator of Sergio the soccer loving penguin.


After reading about Edel and Sergio, students had the opportunity to draw their own penguins.







Number Neighbors

Students continued their Number Neighbor grids today. To make it more fun the students came to the white board and wrote the correct number in the box, in addition to writing the number on their paper grids.