A Sneak Peek

We have been working on a project about Animals in Winter and we read the story called "The Mitten" by Jan Brett.  It gave us an idea to write our own story.  

We had a few ideas of what to write the story about using different pieces of clothing. We thought of snowpants, shirts, gloves, boots and then decided on a backpack.  We chose to have two backpacks because there are two children in the story and we couldn't decide whether to have a boy or a girl so we chose to have both.

We have been learning interesting information about each of the animals from different books and put those facts into our story.  We have also been making this like a math story because at the end of each part, we made a math equation to go with what was happening in the story.

We are still writing our story (because it takes  a long time to write) but are planning to have a book launch when we are done.  We will let you know the details when it comes closer to the date.  

This is a sneak peek from our story called The Backpacks.

Before long, the sun started to set and the first star appeared.  Millions of other stars joined the first star and when the moon was at the highest part in the sky, it was night.  The moon shone brightly on the two lonely backpacks lying all by themselves behind the school. 

Suddenly two mice appeared from their tunnel under the snow out looking for a warm place to sleep and a little bedtime snack.  “Sniff, sniff… It smells like cheese and crackers.” They said.  They kept scurrying on the snow until they came upon the backpacks. They buried themselves deep, deep in the backpack and started snacking on the leftover cheese and crackers.  0+2=2

Stay tuned for the rest of our story.  We hope to be done by the end of April.

An Update from Room 117

Our New Project

This week we found out our new project! We watched the story "Bear Snores On", looked at pictures of animals changing colours and hibernating, read the story "Under the Snow" and played hangman to figure it out. We are so excited about it! We started to make a web about all the things we know about Animals in Winter and next week we will start building things about what we know. We will also be going on some field visits in the next few weeks to learn more. Stay tuned for more information.  If you have books about animals in winter at home, any artifacts about winter animals in Alberta or know of any experts, please let Ms. Johnson know.

Dear Snow

We finally finished writing our letters to the snow and telling it why we either loved or hated it. We had some great ideas! If you are in the school, you should come in and take a look at them to see what we did. We will put them up on our blog next week in case you can't get in to see them.

Beach Day/Ice Cream Sale

Today was Beach Day and we got to wear our beach stuff to school! It was funny wearing shorts when there was snow outside. We had ice cream at the ice cream sale. It was yummy!

Pizza Lunch

Next Friday(February 4) is pizza lunch day! We love pizza lunch. Well, some of us don't but most of us do. We get to have our own big piece of pizza. Thank you for ordering it for us!

Our Snowy Day Adventure

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November News

Our Remembrance Day Ceremony

Last Wednesday, our class got to go to the Remembrance Day Ceremony in the gym with the rest of the school.  It was a sad ceremony so we didn't clap.  We were listening to the videos and the speakers.  Our class performed a poem called Little Poppy:

Little Poppy

Little Poppy given to me

Help me keep Canada safe and free

I'll wear a little poppy 

As red as red can be

To show that I remember

Those who fought for me.

Vy:  It was sad in the ceremony and everybody almost cried. I cried.

Payton:  Some of us had family members who were in the war.

Madeline:  Some of us had grandpas or dads that went to war.

Aarsheya:  It made me feel sad because there were a lot of soldiers who died.

Sartaj:  My grandpa went in the war and I thought he was going to die but actually he was still alive.

Our Interesting Teacher Visits

We interviewed teachers we thought were interesting and did a project about hem.  We wrote invitations and invited them to come to our class so we could share our work with them. They came this week to see what we did.

Anas:  Mr. McMullen came to see mine and he said I did awesome work.

Muaaz:  We made comment cards for them to write about what they thought about our work.

Hannah:  Ms. Overacker came to see my work and she said that I was a great artist.

Nathan:  Mr. Evans-Rymes came and he said that I was the greatest artist in the world.

Shaan:  Mrs. Kivitt said that I was a good artist.

Brody:  Mr. K came to see what I did and he said he liked my work.

Mansour:  Mrs. Woelber teaches Kindergarten.  She likes to go swimming and she likes to go play piano and she likes to play bingo.  She liked the picture and the work I did.

Jayden:  Mr. K came he liked my work.

Aarsheya:  Mr. Evans-Rymes said that he thinks I am a smart girl.

Madeline:  Mrs. Paulsen was very surprised about the work I did.

Viral:  Mrs. Kivitt came and she said that your writing is so cool and Shaan's writing is good too.

The teachers felt special that we chose to interview them. 

Two Months are Already Gone!

Halloween Party

On Friday, October 29 we had a Halloween party.  We got to go in a haunted house.  In the haunted house we got to touch, hear and see scary things.  We got spooked by touching in boxes that had spider webs around them. Inside there was a light that creeped us out.  Frankenstein would goof around a lot in the haunted house.

We got to wear our costumes.  We dressed up as, angels, skeletons, princesses, Batmen, stealth ninjas, Avatars, fire fighters, pirates, butterflies, Superman, candy corn witches, pumpkins, sugar plum fairies, Michael Jackson, race car drivers, giraffes and Captain Rex (from Star Wars).

We ate lots of snacks and had a lot of fun!

Teacher Interviews

As a part of our school project, we were wanting to know who the teachers were, where they came from and what they teach now.  We went on a tour to find teachers that looked interesting to us.  Once we decided, we interviewed them and asked them a few questions about themselves.  When we had our information, we wrote a rough copy first then we wrote our good copies.  Some of us painted pictures of our teachers, some of us built teachers out of plasticine and some of us built teachers using recycled materials.  We are going to invite all of the interesting teachers we interviewed to come in our classroom and see our work.  

School Photos

We all got our photos taken and we all had big smiles on our faces.  We are looking forward to getting them back.

Goal Setting Conferences

Our Moms and Dads came into the school on Wednesday and Thursday to meet with us and talk about how great we're doing.  We set a goal about something we want to get better at and figured out what we already do well. 

Diwali

Today is Diwali!  We are excited because some of us celebrate us Diwali.  To celebrate the festival of lights, children get to use fireworks and fire crackers.  You have to eat lots and lots of sweets.  We read the story about Diwali and it told us all about how Diwali got started and why we celebrate it today.  

A few photos to catch you up on what we've been doing

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Welcome to our Room 117 Blog!

We have finally gotten our blog set up!  We are so excited to be able to share what we do in our classroom with all of you.  We thought it would be a great idea to share some of our favourite things that have happened so far in the first few weeks of school.  Here's what we came up with...

Madeline:  I like lunch because we get to stay with all of our friends.

Anas:  I like recess because we get to play and play with our friends.

Sartaj:  I like lunch because I got hot dogs in my lunch today.

Shaan:  I like gym because we can play fun games.

Payton:  I like painting because we can make colour wheels.

Muaaz:  I like gym because there are games to play.

Brody:  I like music because we get to sing and I like O Canada.

Sulabha: I like lunch because my Mom packs me very good stuff like yogourt tubes.

Viral:  I like third recess because so many of my friends play soccer.

Mansour:  I like to play with the balls at recess.

Vy:  I like collecting rocks at recess.

Maple:  I like painting because I like to paint flowers.

Nathan:  I like recess because you get to play with your friends that aren't in our classroom.

Hannah:  I like recess because you can play outside.

Christian:  I like that we always get to play with balls at recess.

Kelton:  My favourite part of school is recess because you get to run around because you're not allowed to run around in the classroom.

Jayden:  I like recess because we get to play.

Rajan:  I like playing soccer and basketball with Viral, Anas, Muaaz and Shaan.