October 27th - October 31st

This week we had some Regina firefighters come to our school to teach us about what to do if there was a fire in our house.  Students pretended to be sleeping while the firefighters turned on the fire alarm.  Students then crawled through a tunnel and met at a meeting place.  The students practiced calling 911 as well.  It was a great interactive learning experience.

On Thursday we had a Halloween integration day.  Students rotated through ten different stations including Hovering UFOs, Monster Drool, Witch Toss, and Mummy Wrap.  It was a busy and fun-filled afternoon!!

Some of our class have finished their pigeon books.  Everyone is excited to read their published piece to the class.  They did a fabulous job!

Our class met Stellaluna this week.  Ask your child to tell you her story.  We made a Venn diagram and compared the differences and similarities between bats and birds.

Upcoming Dates: 
Monday November 3rd: Chamber Players perform for the school at 9:15.
Friday November 7th: Remembrance Day assembly at 10:45.
Monday November 10th: No School (PD Day)
Tuesday November 11th: Remembrance Day (No School)
Tuesday November 25th: Field Trip to the Mackenzie Art Gallery in the morning. More information to come.  Please let me know if you would like to join us on this day and have completed a criminal record check.

October 20th - October 24th

This week we have two guest bloggers.  This blog post was written by Danielle and Breanna (typed by Mrs. Sanchuck).

We have been working on goals.  Our teacher has been teaching us how to make goals and every week we will do them.  People are working on math goals, behaviour goals, and reading and writing goals.  It is important to have goals because they help you stay focused.

We've learned how to draw pigeons like the pigeon from the books by Mo Willems .  After we drew them we painted them.  They turned out great.

We are making our own pigeon books.  Some kids are working with a partner and some are working all by themselves.  They are great so far.  We have not seen everybody's yet.

In math we have been working on numbers to 100.  We have three math groups. One is called Roughriders 26, one is called Too Cool For School and one is called Cool Kids.   We have been using ten rods to build numbers.  Sometimes we work by ourselves and this is called MOMO.  MOMO stands for Math On My Own.

We are using wikisticks in wordwork to practice spelling words.  This is hard because it's hard! We will keep practicing every day!

We had a bake sale on Thursday.  There were lots of yummy and fabulous treats.   There were cookies and cupcakes.

Thank you to Danielle and Breanna for writing this blog post!  Stay tuned for more guest bloggers.

Upcoming Dates: 
Monday October 27th: Book Orders due! Colouring Contest will be sent home today.
Tuesday October 28th: Fire Safety Presentation
Wednesday October 29th: Retakes Today
Thursday October 30th: Halloween Integration Afternoon (students will rotate through some fun Halloween stations)
Friday October 31st: Halloween Dance in the afternoon.  Students can wear their costumes in the afternoon today. There is a canteen at the dance.

Secret word is PUMPKIN: Please write this word in your child's agenda so that I know you have read the blog!

October 13th - October 17th

This week we have two guest bloggers! This blog post was written by Ethan and Kendall!  (typed by Mrs. Sanchuck)

We've started to pick our own Daily 5 cycles. We have started work work in our Daily 5 cycles.  We can use wiki sticks at word work.  We can use magnets to make words.  We can use the white board. We do word work to help us practice words.  Word work is awesome!

On Monday we did an OREO stacking challenge.  Surya got 28 OREOs stacked before it fell.  The whole class even got to eat some OREOs!  We made predictions about how many we could stack. We got two tries.

Our PWIM picture has a new title.  The new title is Leaf Throwers.

We have been learning about bats.  After we read some books we wrote what we were right about. If we had any new things that we learned we could write that down. Did you know that bat homes are called roosts?  Did you know that some bats eat bugs? Did you know a baby bat is called a pup?   Did you know a pup loses its teeth when it is 10 days old? Did you know that there are 1100 different kinds of bats? Did you know that bats can be black, brown or grey? Did you know bats use echolocation to find bugs?  Did you know that bats aren't blind?  Did you know that bats can hear one mile away? Did you know that baby bats make chirp sounds?  Did you know that bats are nocturnal?

We started reading a book called "and then it HAPPENED - book one". It is a very funny book and we really like it.

Thank you to Ethan and Kendall for that great blog post!  Stay tuned for more weekly guest bloggers!

Upcoming Dates:
- We will be having a Halloween bake sale on Thursday October 23rd.  Money raised will be used for a Halloween integration afternoon on October 30th.  If you would like to donate any nut free baking (homemade or store bought), you can send it on Wednesday October 22nd!  Items will be sold for 50 cents or $1.00.
- Book orders will be sent home on Monday October 20th and due on October 27th.
- Picture retake day will be on October 29th in the morning.
- We will be having a Halloween dance on October 31st in the afternoon.  Kids can wear their costumes in the afternoon,