December 18-22

Hello families!

We had an awesome week leading up to the break! All of our spirit days were a blast! 

We had so much fun with our sock exchange! Thank you to all the families that sent in socks. The students randomly picked a classmate, then picked out a pair of socks they thought they would like, made a card and then exchanged gifts! 

On "Rock Your Socks" day we had fun collecting data about the colour of everyone's socks and graphing this data in a bar graph. 



We also graphed our earnings from the Calgary Humane Society fundraiser which was a bit of a challenge because we had to graph up to 75 for quarters! Our graph's scale had to increase by 10s which was a big challenge for our grade 1 students but we just did our best! 

This week we learned a silly Shel Silverstein poem called Snowball and students drew a picture to represent the poem. 

We were busy making some really cool ornaments and making Christmas cards! I will try to link the Instagram video of the ornaments if you want to try them at home - you need a pretty specific type of cup! We baked ours at 350 for about 2 minutes each. 

Link to Video - https://www.instagram.com/reel/CzkfP87rFua/?igsh=MWZhMWY4c2llNjFscA==

These cups work best - you can find them at the Safeway in Lake Bonavista!

For Winter Wonderland day we learned a bit about snowflakes and learned how to make symmetrical snowflakes. 



Words for the week after break! 

Gym
Please note that after the break, our gym schedule will be changing. We will be having PE with Ms. Greenhall's class first thing in the morning (8:15am) Monday through Thursday and outdoors on Friday.





Upcoming Dates
  • December 25-5 Winter Break
  • Monday, January 8th - Classes Resume
  • Monday, January 15th - PD Day - No School
  • February 15 & 16 - Teachers' Convention - No School
  • Monday, February 19th - Family Day - No School

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