Week 2

We continued learning about and working on some new art techniques to cover our work journals. This week we got to rip up a bunch of colourful paper and glue it to the journals in any way we wanted to. They look so cool, we can't wait to show them off at parent teacher conferences in October.

On Wednesday we had our first visit from "It's a Crime not to Read" (ICNR). It is a program run by public libraries in Calgary that partner with the Calgary Police. A police officer comes in to visit with us and read to us. We will meet with our police officer once a month and get to choose two library books a month to read and take home that we will then exchange at our next meeting. The police officer that we met was Constable Kim. She was so cool! She showed us everything on her police belt but we did not get to see the gun because she isn't allowed to take it out at school. She told us that she has never had to use her gun, which is pretty cool! She told us that her most important tool is her voice.

We got onto computers this week! We logged into iris and posted our goals for the year. Check them out here:

iris.cbe.ab.ca

When we had finished writing our goals we got to write them onto a paper leaf that we will be adding to our classroom wish tree!

In writing we made a "Writer's Checklist" and made a list of all the important things to include that make a good piece of writing. Here is our checklist:

We started free choice this week! Free choice is when we get to have 30 minutes to play games with our classmates, draw pictures, or do anything we want in the classroom. You have to earn free choice, so only those of us who finished all of our work in class time get to have free choice. Those of us who didn't finish all of our work have "WOW" time (work on work) to finish our activities from the week.

This Friday was also Pancake Breakfast! Yum!

Until next week,

Love,

Room 7 & 8