News for February 26

News for February 26


This week the big news was our school-wide celebration of the Quebec Carnival on Thursday. The students went to an assembly, made masks, ate pancakes, played BINGO, went to the tatoos and face painting station, played floor hockey, played computer games, made plasticine sculptures and saw our own version of "Bonhomme Carnivale".

We spent the week sharing the book "Mary of Mile 18" during our read aloud time. Pairs of students read together this charming story of love and friendship in a family choosing to live as the pioneers did hundreds of years ago.

The students read a poem about pioneer toys and how they were made from everyday and/or discarded items. We then discussed about how that is different from today's toys. The children then created their own toy puppets using socks, yarn, buttons and fabric.

The students practised writing in the first person style (for example, "I am a pencil and I don't like being sharpened because I get shorter"). They then learned about paragraph writing and planned a paragraph to write about their sock puppets in the first person writing style.

In math, the grade three students continued to work on multiplication and division. The grade two's reviewed money concepts and began a unit on telling time.

Our new student teacher, Ms. Rodrigues, started this week. She is studying at The Institute of Child Study/University of Toronto - OISE. The children interviewed her and found out she has two big tanks of tropical fish at her home!

The students finished their fairy tale story boxes. Each box has a circular book and character figures inside the decorated box.

The class learned the traditional song, "I Bought Me A Cat" as part of our pioneer unit.
In computers the children visited some math skills sites:

http://www.multiplication.com/
http://arcademicskillbuilders.com/games

and played games with the 2010 Olympic mascots:

http://www.vancouver2010.com/mascot/en/games.php