OCTOBER 31st Special Activities

Am
- Costume Parade
- Pumpkin Judging (our students are the judges!)
- Black Cat Art
- Spider estimating
- Witches Brew Science

Pm
- Board games

Student of the Week- Brooke

Brooke did an outstanding job telling about herself and sharing her gymnastics and preschool medals.  

CLASSROOM NEWS

We have a number of activities happening before the end of October. We've been working on Halloween art, writing, and science activities over the past week and this will continue until after Halloween. Below are important dates to note:

OCT. 26- Hot Lunch

OCT. 30- Goldstream Classroom Visit on bats

OCT.31- AM- Costume Parade

 - Pumpkin judging- we have been asked to vote on our favourite pumpkins carved by intermediates

PM- Board games in the afternoon.  Students are welcome to bring in a favourite board game to play with friends.  

Parent Readers- If you are interested in volunteering your time as a parent reader please let me know.  This would involve listening to 3 or 4 students read in one on one format  (approximately 25 minutes total).  This is usually scheduled at the start of the day but I can be flexible depending on what works best for parent volunteers.

Thank you to Sarah Iles for taking on the Scholastic Book orders.  I feel extremely fortunate for Sarah's help this year. 

Student of the Week- Please see the schedule below for your child's week.  Adjustments can easily be made so let me know if your child's week falls on a family vacation, etc.  We are looking forward to our first presentation tomorrow!  

Happy Halloween!

STUDENT OF THE WEEK SCHEDULE

SCHEDULE

Oct. 22-26 Brooke

OCt. 29- Nov. 2 Matthew

Nov. 5- 9 Arianna

Nov. 13- 16 Cole 

Nov. 19-23 Ali

Nov. 26- 30 Hayden

Dec. 3-7 Hannah

Dec. 10-14 James

Dec. 17-21 Shayla

Jan. 8-11 Curtis

Jan. 14-18 Nick

Jan. 21-25 Ava

Jan. 28- Feb. 1 Teagan

Feb. 4- 8 Melia

Feb. 11- 15 Brendan

Feb. 18-22 Dominic

Feb. 25- March 1 Keira

March 4-8 Shyla

March 11-15 Jordan

March 25-28 Jesse

April 2- 5 Alejandro

April 8- 12 Jenna

April 15-19 Taylor

April 22- 26 Sara

HOORAY FOR DPA Div. 9 Display

The final result of our art display for daily physical activity is quite stunning.  Students had to show movement in their art through their pose, the lines they added to their silhouette, and by using paint to complete their creation.  They had to choose between a cool or warm colour palette to finish off their piece. Our work is in the upstairs hallway down the hall from our classroom.  Come upstairs and check it out- we've had lots of compliments so far!

Poet's Corner- Fall Sense Poems

Fall is pumpkins ripening in pumpkin patches.
It sounds like the wind is here.  Hooray.  Hooray!
It tastes like maple syrup and apple pie.
It smells like burning leaves in bonfires.
It looks like people decorating their houses with spiders.
It makes you feel happy and like you could shout Hooray!

By Keira 


Fall is hopping in piles of leaves.
It sounds like crackling leaves falling from trees.
It tastes like Halloween candy.
It smells like warm chocolatey hot chocolate.
It looks like squirrels stealing food from the bird feeder.
It makes you feel warm, relaxing by the fire.

By Ali

Fall is leaves changing colours.
It sounds like leaves blowing.
It tastes like burning muffins.
It smells like steaming chicken soup.
It looks like carved pumpkins.
It makes you feel warm and cozy.

By James


Fall is leaves fluttering to the ground.
It sounds like the flapping of birds wings.
It tastes like pumpkin pie.
It smells like apple cider.
It looks like shiny spider webs.
It makes you feel cozy.

By Hayden

SCHOLASTIC book orders due on Monday.

Glass Jars Needed

Please send in your glass jars before they are recycled.  We will be creating pumpkin lanterns for Halloween!  Old spagetti, peanut butter, and jam jars will work very well for this activity.

October 15-19

Monday
-Spelling Quiz- Unit 3
-Home Reading due and please return book bags
-Remember library book

Friday
-Professional Development Day- No School for students

Classroom Reminders- October 10

An impromptu school-wide p.j. day has been planned for tomorrow.  

Remember that tomorrow is also HOT LUNCH day.

Spelling City Sign in

Go to "Find a List"
Go to "Enter Search Term"-  moregan
Go to "Search By"- username

Weekly lists should be listed and students will have access to the quiz and fun spelling games.

SD #62 Numeracy Support Site

 www.numeracysd62.com

Our district's numeracy website has useful math links for K to 6.  I have found www.abcya.com to be the most popular with children.  They can play fun games while practicing basic math skills and concepts.

HOORAY FOR DPA (Daily Physical Activity)!

To begin their art project, students traced one another in movement.  Next, they added different types of line to their shape.  Finally, they had to choose between a warm or cool color palette and paint their shape.  The results were quite dramatic for our "Hooray for DPA" school display.  Check them out down the hall from our classroom.

September Acrostics featuring Div. 9 Poets

S- Summer has ended
E- Erasers, pencils, and glue
P- Plants die
T- Try your best
E- Extreme fun
M- More leaves on the ground
B- Birds fly south
E- Expert rakers outside
R- Red leaves

By: Matthew

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S- Shorter days
E- Exercise more
P- Pens and paper
T- Trying our best
E- Extreme fun
M- Making muffins
B- Brown leaves
E- Excited for school
R- Remember agenda

By: Hannah

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S- School is fun
E- Early mornings are back
P- Playing outside
T- Trying again
E- Excited for school
M- More things to learn
B- Birds fly south
E- Erasers
R- Read more

By: Arianna

Our Picasso People