Thursday, November 9, 2017

Getting ready for Remembrance Day

Today we spent the first part our our morning finishing up our Remembrance Day artwork for tomorrow's assembly. We have created poppy artwork that is inspired by Kandinsky's Circles. The project required a lot us to use lots of stamina to stick with it, even when we through we couldn't possibly cut one more circle!! The final products look amazing and will be a beautiful addition to tomorrow's assembly.











After recess we practiced our song for tomorrow and then we worked on our Guess Who games. We are trying to write at least 5 clues (and hopefully more) about ourselves and then we will get to try out our games next week. These games are a warm up for a big project we will be starting about ourselves and our families.

After lunch we completed our primary colours page in our art journals using paint. We had to be careful not to let our red, yellow, and blue paints mix or our primary colours page would have looked more like a secondary colours page!

When we were finished our primary colours page we went to the music room to practice our song with all the other grade 1's and 2's. We sound really great as a big group! Then we had gym and music. At the end of the day some of our grade 2's performed the poem In Flander's Field for us. They have been learning the poem during word work.

Tomorrow is the Remembrance Day Assembly and it is also picture re-takes day. Due to these special events we will be staying indoors for the morning. Students are invited to wear black, white, and red (and maybe something a bit fancier than usual) for the assembly.  Please also remember to bring donations for the Veteran's food bank if you haven't already (our bin is still pretty empty).

Today we are bringing home a special red card that has all of our log-in information for our CBE account, mathletics, and raz-kids. Mathletics and Raz-kids are great ways to reenforce the skills we are learning at school. Our Raz-kids accounts have been set to our current reading levels. In mathletics, the sections about shapes and data (graphing) would be great places to start. 

Our helper on Monday is: Abdul Ahad