April 28th

I  hope that you all had a great break.  I have a few pictures and videos from before the break that I will try and post soon.

A few notes for this week.
1.     COOKIE ORDERS need to be picked up tomorrow (April 29^th) between 3:00 – 6:00 in our pod area.   The SCC is unable to store any orders.

2.     “A Night At The Movies” Musical

TICKETS:  $5.00 per person (FOR THE EVENING SHOWS ONLY) available for purchase on Mon. April 28 and Tues. April 29.

PERFORMANCES: *WEDNESDAY, APRIL 30 - 7:00 p.m. ($5.00 per person)

                                       *THURSDAY, MAY 1 - 7:00 p.m. ($5.00 per person)
 *Coffee and dainties, provided by the SCC, will be provided for the evening performances.
 Thank you for your support of the Arts Education program here at Jack MacKenzie School.  

3.     It is wet outside.  Please keep a change of clothes and fresh socks in your child’s backpack. 

April 7th - 11th

This week we tried out a new exercise website called GoNoodle.  It has a few neat exercises but our class seems to prefer Just Dance as part of our morning exercises. 

We had some students come talk to us about bullying.  The read us a book called One by Kathryn Otoshi. It was a wonderful book with a great message. 

This week we are working on Genius Hour projects.  Students picked a topic that they were interested in and are working on their non fiction reading skills.  Ask your child what their project is about!

As you may have heard we have been busy practicing our Robert Munsch plays.  We had two groups perform last week and two more should be ready this week.  I have recorded their performances and will share them soon!

Here is our One And Only Ivan reader response bulletin board.  We are still enjoying our newest read aloud called Rump!

Upcoming Dates

- Easter Holidays start on April 18th.  School resumes on April 28th.

- Swimming notes were sent home.  Please return them this week.  We are walking to the pool so you do not need to send the $10 transportation fee.  

March 31st - April 4th

Thank you all for attending 3-Way Conferences on Friday March 28th.  Many great conversations were had!

We have been talking a lot about RESPECT in our classroom.  Students are working in groups discussing respect.  They made posters and we are in the process of sharing them with the class.

Tuesday was April Fools day.  I made Brown E's for the class.   Some students also worked on a fake word search!

Here are some of our boys during a Daily 5 cycle.  Some are working on iPads and some are reading to self. 

We are working on a drama unit.  Students are working on acting out Robert Munsch books.  Ask your child what book they are working on.  They are very excited about this project!

Upcoming Dates
~ Easter Holidays are from April 18th - April 25th.

~ We will be starting swimming lessons in May.  The dates are: May 14, 21, 26, 28, June 2, 4. We will be going in the afternoons from 1:45 - 2:45.  Thank you to Jason (Peter's dad) who has already volunteered to help us out! Please let me know if you would like to come help out too!

March 17th - March 21st

This blog was written by Aidan and Isabelle H. (typed by Mrs. Sanchuck)

Mrs. Renwick came and taught us about STOP, THINK, PICK A PLAN which is about dealing with people problems.   We made our own poster. 

We had fun making handprints for the front bulletin board. 

We had fun graphing and eating Lucky Charms on St. Paddy's Day.  We were trying to find out how many marshmallows there were in one box.  The clovers had the most!  Classes from all over the world did the same project too!

We are learning about liquids and solids.  We got to make and eat ice cream!  

We just finished the book The One And Only Ivan.  We made pictures about the story and are hanging them in the hall for other kids to see.  We are starting a new book called Rump and the guy is named after the rear end of a cow.  Don't ask questions because we just started the book. 

Note from Mrs. Sanchuck: Rump: The True Story Of  Rumpelstiltskin is our new read aloud!  It is highly entertaining thus far!

Upcoming Dates:

Monday March 24th: Hug a Tree and Survive workshop in our class

Friday March 28th: 

 ~Three - Way Conferences

~ Cookie Orders Due!

Here are a few pictures from last week that I forgot to post.  We were working on procedure writing and then we went outside to build snow sculptures.  

March 10th - March 14th

This week we experimented with snow.  We tried to figure out who could melt their snow the fastest.  Ask your child how they melted their snow. 

On Thursday we had our Outdoor Olympic Day.  Students did many activities including biathlon, team bobsled, luge, and alpine skiing. 

On Friday we went on our outdoor adventure to Boggy Creek.  Fred was our guide and he did a few science experiments with us.  We got to build a campfire and had lots of fun sliding down a hill.  Thank you to Isabelle's dad, Stuart, for helping us out.  

Upcoming Dates:

Monday March 17th:Green Day!
Monday March 17th: Book Orders Due
Friday March 21st: Progress Reports Sent Home
Friday March 28th: 3 Way Conferences (note were sent home on Monday March 10th)