Sept. 30

Today was the Terry Fox Run! Before we ran we had a Terry Fox assembly lead by our grade 5 and 6 friends. Our class ran a total of 110 laps. That's 110Km! That's like running to Canmore! Our class did really really well, each person in our class ran at least 4km.

Please check your child's agenda for a photo form and a notice about next week's Fresh Air Friday activity!  This Friday we are planning to harvest our garden. We will start harvesting at about 9:45. If you have completed your volunteer forms and would like to join us please feel welcome!

Tomorrow our helper is: Isla

Sept. 29

Today we kept working on our Natureground plant study by adding water colour to our Wild Blue Flax sketch. We also found some sticks to add to our fabric art project. We are hoping to have them done soon!

We also worked to finish up our journals. We made a target to help us to do our best work.

Today we practiced running the real Terry Fox route! Don't forget that tomorrow is the REAL Terry Fox Run! Please wear our best running shoes and comfortable running clothes. Please also bring a water bottle and an extra snack.

Tomorrow the special helper is: Jessica

Sept. 28

Ms. Boyer was away at the dentist this afternoon so Mrs. Wilkens came to see us! We will have a longer post tomorrow when Ms. Boyer is back.

Thanks for all of the Terry Fox donations so far. Don't forget our run is on Wednesday!

Our helper tomorrow is: Ellie

Sept. 24

Today we had a chance to tour the book fair. We each made a wish-list and put them in our agendas. The book fair will be open for shopping tonight and tomorrow during parent-teacher conferences.

We also harvested our beans today! We are planning to eat them next week. We will be harvesting the rest of the garden in a few weeks.

Toonies for Terry started today. We will be collecting donations everyday until our Terry Fox Run on Sept. 30th.  You can also donate on-line at: http://www.terryfox.org

Please remember there is no school tomorrow due to parent teacher conferences. Have a great long weekend!

Our helper on Monday is: Isabel

Sept. 23

Happy Autumn!

Today we have 2 new notices coming home in our agendas.

The first page is a fundraising form for the Terry Fox Run. We have been training hard for the Terry Fox Run and we hope you will support our efforts!

The second page is the Parent Viewpoint form.  Please fill out this form and bring it with you to your parent-teacher conference. The first side of the form is to be filled out by parents and the second side should be filled out by students with help from their parents. We will be using these forms to guide our conversations on Thursday and Friday.

Our helper tomorrow is: Aiden

Sept. 22

Today we kept working on our Natureground study. We sketched cone flowers. We also kept working on our Smarties graphing project and our All About Me posters. In gym we kept training for the Terry Fox run and then we played little chicks. Evelyn's brother was at the playground so he joined in!

Yesterday we made a team goal to be ready to listen more quickly. We did a good job working on that goal today. We were successful because we gave each other reminders about the goal, we made better seating choices and didn't sit beside people we often talk to, and we made sure to keep our eyes pointed on the speaker.  Well done!

Please remember Parent-Teacher conferences are on Thursday and Friday. We are also excited about the Book Fair!

Tomorrow our helper is: Claire

Sept. 21

Today we started our new after recess routine. We will be doing 15 minutes of solo booktime after recess everyday. Some of us are ready to read books all by ourselves and the grade 2's are even reading chapter books! For those of us who are just learning how to read we are learning to read the pictures and to go on word-hunts to find the words that we can read. We had inside gym today. We played snowman tag and hotdog tag.

Today we did really great work but we ran out of time to complete some of our projects because it took us quite awhile to get ready and organized.  Our team goal for tomorrow is to get ready to listen quickly and to keep our eyes on the speaker.  We know we can do it!

Tomorrow our helper is: Emma

Sept. 18

Today was Fresh Air Friday!

We had 3 stations that we got to try today.

Station #1: Planting Bulbs
Before we started planting we loosened the soil and pulled out the grasses, roots, and weeds. Then we learned how to dig a hole that was 15cm deep. We used rulers to measure the holes. Then we got to plant 5 bulbs in each hole. We found worms, ants, and some other insects while we were digging.
A great big thank you to Jung, Kelli, Jennifer, and Xun for coming to help us out and a big thank you to Claire's family for donating the bulbs!

Station #2: Natureground Sketching
We discovered some hare fur while we were sketching in the Natureground. We noticed that insects were attracted to the Goldenrod. There are still some wasps in the Natureground but we were careful to avoid them. We saw grasshoppers and other insects that are living in the Natureground.  We have a lot of plants that are still growing and quite a few flowers still in bloom.

Station #3: Whispering Signs Hunt
We searched all over the Whispering Woods and found lots of signs. The big Whispering Woods sign was the hardest to find because it was so far away. We also had trouble finding the "Z" sign because it was hiding in the amphitheatre! While we were hunting for signs we found a Pocket Gopher burrow. While Julia and Haotian were looking at the burrow the gopher peeked out to see them!

On Monday our helper is: David

Sept. 17

Today we continued training for the Terry Fox Run by running 3 laps of the field. We also had library and we finished up the stitching on our Flower Power project.

We had our first fire drill this afternoon. We talked about fire drill expectations. The expectations are:

1. Quietly line up at the classroom door.
2. Walk quietly to our safe spot outside.
3. Wait for the "All Clear" bell.

We are excited for the Welcome Back BBQ tonight!

Don't forget tomorrow is Fresh Air Friday. We will be working in the Natureground, Whispering Woods, and at the front of the school. Please dress for the weather.  If any parents would like to join us tomorrow we will be starting our work outside at approx. 9:45.

Sept. 16

Today we had music. We played a stick game.  We learned a song that came from Africa.
We also had our first round of sharing today. Teagan brought a chapter book to share.  We had gym outside today. We are training for the Terry Fox Run. Today we ran 3 laps!

This afternoon we also learned how to sew. We were sewing as part of our Flower Power project. We will be bringing these home soon! We also worked on a graph about our families and we worked on our All About Me posters.

Tomorrow our helper is: Evelyn
Don't forget that tomorrow is library. Please make sure to bring back your books. 

Sept. 15

Today we started having special helpers. Everyday we draw the next days helper out of our helper jar.

The special helpers get to:
- Sit on the helper chair.
- Lead our lines.
- Lead our gym warm-up.
- Help Ms. Boyer with special jobs.
- Bring sharing.

This round the topic for sharing is books. When it is your turn to be the helper please bring your favourite book to share with the class. Ms. Boyer will read your story to the class at the end of the day.  Our helper tomorrow will be Teagan.

Other exciting news today was that we got to see a picture of Ms. Coulson's new baby!

A great big thank you to our Room 2 friends Isabel, Jessica, Evelyn, Claire, David, Eiman, Ellie, and Pania, who helped to collect garbage during their recess time. That was a GREAT idea!

(p.s Some Room 1 friends also helped collect garbage. Thanks to Chelsea, Freya, Inga, Saorsie, Hailey, and Julia.)

Sept. 14

What a rainy day! Please remember to bring your raincoats and rain boots on rainy days. Some of us had very wet feet!

Today we had music with Mrs. Lim. We played the button game and we sang a snail song.  We had gym class inside because of the rain. We played tag and freeze dance. We also warmed up with some exercises.

We worked on our journals this morning. We do this at the start of every week. We worked on making our birthday graphs in math and then we worked on our All About Me posters this afternoon.

Important Info: We are going to be planting bulbs this Friday. If you have your security clearance completed and would like to come help out please let Ms. Boyer know. 

Fresh Air Friday - Becoming Explorers of the World

Today we started looking at a great new book. It is called "How To Be An Explorer Of The World".

To start our day today we went on a native plant hunt in the Natureground. We noticed that bees are attracted to some plants more than others. They seemed to really love goldenrod. We learned to identify purple aster and white aster, wild blue flax, bergamot, yarrow, goldenrod, and cone flower.

We used Flower Power today to make some art. We used white fabric and we smashed flowers and other plants and the colours came out on our fabric. We discovered that when you pound the juice out of the flowers they dye the fabric. We didn't know that flowers had natural dye in them!

Sept. 10

Today we worked on our "colours in nature" project. We worked on naming our colours. We made leaf colour, wildrose colour, shadow colour, sky colour, grass colour, forest colour, emerald colour, slime colour, bluebell colour, sun colour and lots more.

When we were outside for gym we saw a Cat Faced Orb Spider! It was hiding between the two red sheds. It was very cool and soooo big!

Today we also added some new centres to our morning routine. We also had library this afternoon. Our library exchange day will be Thursdays this year. Please bring your books back every week. 

Please remember to bring your labeled bag of flowers and grasses for our Fresh Air Friday project tomorrow. We will be working in the Natureground and in the Sun Circle.  

Sept. 9

We have a new notice in our agendas.

We had our first read-around today. We went to visit a different teacher and they read us a story. We will do this each day until we have visited every teacher. Room 1 went to see Mrs. Saunders in Room 7. Room 2 went to see Mrs. Wolff in Room 1 (Mrs. Hamby was away today).

We started a new poster project today. The posters will be all about us! We also started a birthday graph. We have already 4 birthdays in our classroom this year!

Sept. 8

We have a new notice in our agenda.

Today we read a really fun book called "That is not a good idea!" by Mo Willems. Then we talked about some GREAT ideas for our classroom. Some of the ideas we came up with were:

- Clean up your space
- recycle
- Use both sides of the paper
- Share our books
- Share our tools
- Work quietly
- Be a good listener
- Focus on the speaker
- Be kind when you play
- Stay inside the fence
- Help each other
- Use a whisper voice
- Keep your hands in your own space
- Ask before you leave the classroom
- Be kind to nature

We are excited about having a GREAT year!

Sept. 4

Today we went outside and learned about finding explorer spots. Explorer spots are places where we stay very still and try to notice what is around us. We went to the whispering woods today. We did a rainbow chip walk to look for colours. Then we did some painting inside.

Sept. 3

Today we did a craft to begin our talk about classroom expectations. We also had our Welcome Back assembly. Don't forget that tomorrow is Fresh Air Friday. We will be learning outside. Please dress for the weather! We are bringing home our agendas today. There are 2 new notices in our agenda pockets.

Sept. 2

Please check your child's backpack for some important forms. Today we had fun painting something about our summer and then writing about it. We will be bringing these paintings home soon. We had a great day!