Week 24

We had Worry Dragons twice this week! Worry Dragons is when Ms. Alley, a registered nurse, comes in and talks to us about anxiety and what we can do to make ourselves feel better. Anxiety is when you feel nervous and worried. Some things I can do to make myself feel better are watch T.V. take deep breaths, drink water, listen to music, and think green thoughts.

Yesterday was our last day with Mission Impossible :(  It was so fun and it was cool because our class was the class that got to help set up mission impossible this year. Mr. Collins even added a new obstacle every day! We had to be silent when we were spying through the obstacles because spies don't make any sound, if we talked we had to go to the penalty box!

Last night was Literacy Night! Not all of us went but some of us did and it was so fun! There were different stations set up around the school that gave parents and students ideas about how to improve our literacy skills and what it means to be literate. Thank you Ms. Kemski for setting that all up!

We finally got to start typing our good copies of our stories on the computer! Most of us are done and will be done typing our final copies soon. We are then going to work on our 'about the author' page and our illustrations. We started making plans for our cover pages too.

    

  

Our volunteer teachers came on Wednesday, they helped us type our stories and work on our multiplication books this week.

Ms. N and Ms. V

For Social Studies Miss Klem and Kolb got artifacts from the Glenbow Museum that we got to explore and look at. We HAD to wear special gloves when we were handling the artifacts. We got to go around the room and guess what the artifact were made from, used for, and called. Sometimes we got it right and sometimes we were surprised to learn what they were! Ask me who used these artifacts.

    

  

  

    

  

    

We continued with our multiplication books in math this week. We worked on 7s and 8s. 

    

Yesterday we had a pretty tough day. We had to have a class meeting about showing respectful listening and actions. Some of us made some poor choices and we all made a plan for how we are going to fix this. Free choice has been suspended and we will see if we can earn it back today. We will do an update at the end of the day.

As always though, we had free writing. Unfortunately we were not able to have a prize draw this afternoon because of how we acted in gym. We were not following safety rules or showing Mr. Collins respectful listening. We will try again next week.

Until next time,

Love,

Room 7 & 8

Week 23

Our pet plant is now also officially dead. When we start our plant life cycles unit in science perhaps we will be much better at keeping things alive...

Now we take care of a jar of water.

We got to start using the climber in gym this week, it is awesome! Today in gym Mr. Collins told us it was the last day of the gymnastics stations and that next week MISSION IMPOSSIBLE begins! Because the climber is out open gym will be cancelled for this week and next week.

  

Today we had our Roots of Empathy baby visits! Baby Lena sat up for the first time all by herself today! It was neat to see and exciting for her mom!

Tomorrow is the Kindergarten assembly, we are so excited to see our little friends share their learning in their first assembly!

This week in math we have been learning more about patterns and multiplication. We learned about attributes this week in patterns, some attributes in a pattern can be shape, size, colour, position, thickness (2D or 3D) and number. Ask me what these words mean! Next week we are going to continue learning about our times tables by going into 7's, 8's, 9's and 10's!

    

We had our first right to play assembly of the year! Right to Play is an organization where it goes to different countries to teach children learning games to help improve learning. We got to keep a ball called "Red" to remind us of the importance of the connection between play and learning.

We read a very funny tumble book called "Joseph's Big Ride" we laughed and laughed. It was about a girl that had a bike, a guy named Joseph/ Tomorrow Hey that wanted to ride her bike. Turns out the boy was talking to the bike and not the girl and it was all very humorous and confusing and had awful grammar!

This week we have been continuing to write our story drafts. They are really coming along and we are beginning to realize how much work it is to write a story and what it must actually be like to be an author.

In writing we took a break from our story writing for one day with Ms. N and Ms. V (our student teachers who come every Wednesday to learn about how to become a teacher) who showed us a video called "Carrot Crazy!" We had to do a similar activity to when we watched "The Dot." We stopped the video and had to write about how we thought it would end. We came up with tons of creative ideas! Watch the video below:

Today we had lunch this week... everyday. Yum. One day was even a pizza fun lunch, extra yum!

Yesterday was pink shirt day, check out the blog post we made about it! 

Until next time,

Love,

Room 7 & 8

Pink Shirt Day 2017

Today at CJFS we celebrated Pink Shirt Day! As a class we brainstormed what pink shirt day meant to us, here are some of the things we came up with: 

"Pink shirt day is a day to show people that bullying is not a good thing to do and if a boy wears a pink shirt that no one should go up to them and say that’s a girl colour because anyone should be able to wear any colour and be happy about it."

"Wearing pink today is like a promise not to bully anyone."

"Pink shirt day is like if someone is left out you can call them to play with you or if someone is hurt you can help them."

"Some people bully because they got bullied and now they are bullying back. You should be able to wear any colour you want, pink purple or any colour and not get made fun of."

"Some bullies become bullies because they are lonely so wearing a pink shirt today means that you will include others."

"If you are wearing a pink shirt on pink shirt day it shows that you care."

"Even if you didn’t wear a pink shirt today it doesn’t mean you can’t still celebrate it and show kindness."

Pink shirt day is basically like giving an oath: “I will be nice to everyone every day.”

"One small act of kindness can do a lot."

"Pink shirt day is just a reminder to be nice no matter what. It doesn’t matter if someone is not nice to you it is important that you are nice to everyone anyway."

"Bullying is not nice and it is not an example we want to set."

Here is a video we watched that tells the story of how Pink Shirt Day started. It's pretty amazing that it is now a Canada Wide celebration all because two boys wanted to make a difference to someone.

Click the link below to go to the website if you want to learn more about Pink Shirt Day and how it is making a difference for people in Canada :)

Pink Shirt Day

Today, along with wearing our pink shirts, we also designed some pink shirts to show our support, check them out! 

    

  

    

Love and Kindness from, 

All of us in Room 7 & 8!