Wednesday September 6th was Miss Kolb's birthday! What a special treat it was for her to get to spend it with all of us! We sang to her and gave her lots of hugs and happy birthdays, even some lovely cards and gifts! She feels very lucky to have such nice students in the classroom.
Together we all made some class rules that we think are important in making sure we have a great year together. We put them on a big piece of paper and got to sign it and mark it with our fingerprint in paint!
We started learning about the Calendar this week. We watched a brainpop video about calendars and talked about what we use calendars for. We learned how many months there are in the year and what order they go in. We talked about the days of the week and how the first day of the month is not always on a Sunday. We made a large classroom calendar together and added all of the important events for the month on it.
In gym we have been playing cooperative games to learn how to play nicely and by the rules with each other. It is also good practice for us to learn how to work together in gym and in the classroom.
We will be practicing our art skills and learning new art techniques by decorating all of our notebooks for the year. This week we started designing our optical illusion art for one of our notebook covers. They are turning out really cool!
On Friday we got to meet our little buddies! We are paired up with Room 11a/b and they are in grade 1 and 2.
In math we have been working on some "Math About Me"! We have been sharing numbers about ourselves and using a cool template to show information about ourselves in numbers! We talked about what room we are in, how many letters our name has, our birthdays, how many members are in our families and what our favourite numbers are!
In writing we started learning about the elements of writing a friendly letter. We wrote letters to Miss Kolb and Miss Klem. Ask me what you need to include in a letter.
During the week when we are doing our jobs in the classroom Miss Kolb and Miss Klem hand out tickets that we get to put into a glass prize jar. Every Friday the teachers do a prize draw and pick 2 names out of the jar. They get to pick an awesome prize from the super cool prize bin!
It's only week one and we have already started learning so much and we have made lots of new friends so far this year! We are looking forward to having lots of fun while learning about the world in room 7/8 this year! Our classroom looks pretty great too!
Until next week,
Love,
Room 7 & 8
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