Highlights:
- We got to play ringette. After some drills to practice stick and ring handling we got to play a game! Since we had so much practice with floor hockey it was not too difficult to pick up the skills of ringette. Trying to get the ring was a bit of a challenge so we adapted the game to where you were not allowed to move your feet after getting the ring - this forced us to pass the ring to our teammates.
- For word work the grade 2s started their poetry reading and writing while the grade 1s learned about the letter P and R.
- We had more students share about their family traditions:
1. "every time we get a real Christmas tree we slice off the bottom inch of the trunk. Then my mom and I turn it into an ornament. Then we put a word on it which had significant meaning that year. This year we put Legoland on the ornament."
2. The red Chinese knot is used to wish good luck and a happy life for the Lunar New Year.
3. "Our family tradition is to visit a the Farfar tree. In the summer we water the tree and in the winter we put Christmas ornaments on it."
- We ended our week by building snow villages at the bottom of the Whispering Woods. We decorated them with berries, twigs, skipping rope and rocks.
"We made a little house with a stick in the middle."
"We are picking Wild Rose Hip berries to decorate our village."
"We made a bridge then it turned into a tunnel. We used a cup on a stick to make a flag."
"We made a snow tunnel for a large city."
"We built a snow castle and a village with a statute and a mayor."
"We built a city."
"We got large branches to fence of the snow city. We also made 20 towers."
"I go to every fire with sticks."
Reminders:
- Please remember to bring library books back for Monday :)
- Beginning Dec 9th (Monday) we will be accepting items for Fill a Sock Campaign- Running from Monday Dec. 9 – Friday Dec. 13, Dr. Coffin will support the Drop In Center’s “Fill a Sock, Fill a Need” Campaign again this winter season. On Christmas morning the Drop in Center likes to surprise their clients with a sock filled with the things that we all need on a day-to-day basis. Here are some of the items we are collecting starting on Monday: Socks (this will be what we use to stuff everything into), Gloves, mitts and hats, Lip balm, Travel size toothpaste, Toothbrushes, Hand Warmers, Calgary Transit tickets, Cough drops, Travel mugs, Deodorant, Brushes and combs, Chocolates and Candies, Razors and shaving cream, Travel size Shampoo and conditioner.
- Dec. 12 (Thursday) is Festive Evening from 6:00pm to 7:45pm
