Wednesday, January 8th

Post by: Alexander & Kieran

We played math games.

We have 7 IPads now. Hurray!

We are staring Daily 5 tomorrow.

Sara, Joceline, Ben, Noah and Sydney are having a play called Frozen.

December 8-13 - Another Friday 13th!

Only one week left before the holiday break and we keep on working and working!
This week we studied many good things.

We mailed our letters to Santa Claus. Fingers crossed everyone is on the Good List this year! :)

We worked hard on making our cards and gifts for our parents. Only a little more paint and we're DONE! It's well worth it! Just you wait and see! Everyone is very excited!

We decorated little Christmas trees and wrote about them in French.

We even got invited by the Heritage Retirement Home to come and sing to the residents next Monday. That means we had to practice our carols. (And still practice them this weekend! Here are the songs we plan on singing (youtube.com has great videos for these songs along with the lyrics):

- Frosty the Snowman
- Mr Grinch
- Oh Christmas Tree
- Quand le Pere Noel vient me visiter
- We wish you a Merry Christmas
- Jingle Bells
- Rudolph the Red Nose Reindeer
- Deck The Halls

Since we're practicing those songs, might as well practice our Winter Concert song too.

December 2 - December 6

Well, another week has come and gone. My! My! We have been busy!
This week we wrote to Santa. We composed our letters and they are ready to go! Now if we can just find the time to address our letter. :S

We also learned new holiday vocabulary in French, in particular pieces in a Christmas Tree. Dans un sapin de Noel, il y a des grelots (bells), des guirlandes (garland), des lumieres (lights), des etoiles (stars), des boules de Noel (ball ornaments), des decorations (decorations), and many more. (See Vocabulary section for pronunciation and pictures) ** VOCABULARY SECTION WILL NOT BE UPDATED UNTIL NEXT WEEK** (my iPad died-where the video is stored-and my recharging cord is at school.)

We also had 3 assemblies this week. On Tuesday, we had the Minister of Education and a few MLA's come to our school for an announcement. On Wednesday, we had Take Pride, Winnipeg! come and present us with a bench! That's right! We collected more than 31,000 plastic bags during the Bags Up, Winnipeg campaign and earned 2 bird houses and a bench all made with plastic bags. Then on Friday afternoon, the Kindergarten classes presented their monthly assembly. At this last assembly, 4 of our very own, Pauline, Declan, Benjamin and Sydney were recognized for speaking well in French and being a good friend. Congratulations!!!

On Friday, we got together with Mme Kirk's class across the hall and made 2 different art projects to celebrate Diwali (a celebration of lights) for the up-coming Winter Concert. We made Rangoli, typically rangoli is made on the ground using coloured rice flour, but we made our designs on cardboard using glue and coloured rice. We also decorated elephants with jewelled stickers and lots and lots of glitter. How our art is beautiful!

**PICTURES TO COME! Once iPad recharged!**

Conferences, Field Trip and more

Another week has passed and can you believe it, it's already DECEMBER!!! How time flies!!

I have attached a few photos of our trip to the Manitoba Museum and the Science Gallery. I have also attached the video of everyone building their vehicles and a photo of our Retro Dance-A-Thon.
Enjoy!

It's funny how the public hotel house became the jail. :)

Retro Dance-A-Thon, everyone was styling on Wednesday!

Ahoy Matey! Aboard the Nonsuch!

School is fun!

Joceline says: We talked about snow in French and in English we learned about nouns. We also watched a video of the Cat Came Back and changed the lyrics.

Pauline says: We made snowflakes.

Alexander says: We made cars out of legos, K'nex and wooden blocks.

Benjamin says: Sara sang us a song called "Roar" by Katy Perry.

RACING!!

This week we created a car for science and we had a chance to race it against Mme Eyjolfson's class.
Then we added a 1 kg weight to see how things would fair. 

This week we did...

Ben says - The Grade 5 students came to our classroom to read with us. We read them a story and they read us a story.

Cole says - We got to wear our P.J.'s at school.

Elizabeth adds - We wore our slippers too.

Emily says - Mme Towells let us make engines to show how we are feeling, low, just right and high.

Alexis says - Yesterday we had a school party for Hallowe'en.

Kieran says - We practiced a new math game.

Sara says - Mme read us It's The Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown! and we watched the video.

Joceline says - We got to wear our Hallowe'en costumes.

Jordyn B. says - We tested our pumpkins to see if they floated.

Braeden says - We did experiments on our pumpkins.

Adam says - On Hallowe'en all the teachers were dressed as crayons.

Noah says - We put chains around our pumpkins.

Kieran says - On Hallowe'en, we had Grade 1 partners during the morning activities.