50th Day!

Today was a very important day in grade 1... the 50th day of school!  We focused quite a bit today on celebrating.  The students were quite excited!

Earlier this week we compared and contrasted how students would dress in the 1950s and how students dress today.  

Today we practiced counting to 50 by 1s, 2s, 5s, and 10s.  We put together a book about how to make a Root Beer Float, and then we made Root Beer Floats this afternoon!  Many students LOVED them and were very excited. 

 Working on our book on how to make floats.  The biggest question was, "Are we actually going to make floats?"

 The books were sent home today with the students (I'm sure you have already seen them).

 Root Beer Floats are delicious!

YUMMM!!!

 Showing off our books.

 Doing our best impression of how we think we will feel after eating our floats.

Starting on Friday November 15^th from 12.30 – 1.05 p.m. parents are invited to come and join us for reading.  This will happen every Friday unless noted.  Parents do not need to RSVP – please come when it fits into your schedule.

Parents are welcome to bring their own books, use books from our classroom library or use books from student book boxes.

Younger siblings are welcome to join us as well!

Hope to see you on a Friday!

Important Dates 

Friday November 15th: Read with Me from 12.30 - 1.05

Monday November 18th: Report Cards will be sent home.  Due to a technical error beyond our control, we had to push it back 1 day.

Friday November 22nd: Library.  Read with Me from 12.30 - 1.05 

Friday November 29th: Read with Me from 12.30 - 1.05

Tuesday December 17th: Assembly

Thursday December 19th: Christmas Concert at the High School

Monday January 6th: First Day back after Christmas.

The Snow is Here!

Just like that! Winter!  Wow.
I would like to say that I am surprised over the amount of snow that fell over the weekend, but I'm not.  It was bound to happen, I'm just happy it waited this long.

Snow is very exciting in Grade 1!  Just think of all of the snow gear, the shlockey games, the snowmen building, the cold weather, and the snowballs.  Oh, the snowballs.

Along with the snow comes wet snow gear.  I would highly suggest that students come with an extra pair of mittens, an extra toque, and extra socks in their backpack.  These will stay in backpacks as we learned today that mittens tend to walk awayand socks easily  become wet at school.  Both myself and Mrs. MacAleer encourage students to become as independent as possible when it comes to dressing and undressing themselves with their snow gear.  This includes putting ski pants on, jackets on, zippers done up, toques/mitts/scarves, as well as putting on own boots.  Then undressing, hanging up gear so it dries, and putting mittens on the drying racks if needed and storing our stuff safely on the shelf.  This is a very slow process right now, but it will speed up.  If possible, please encourage your child to do the above at home as well.

Our school yard has a small hill that is used in the winter as a tobagganing hill.  Grade 1 students are able to use the hill at lunch recess.    If you choose to, you can send a sled for your child to use at school.  These sleds must be foam (no plastic) and labelled.  Please keep in mind that any sleds that come to school may be broken or "borrowed" by other students as we keep these in a bin in the hallway.  I would suggest that once a sled comes to school, it stays at school.  It can become quite the ordeal if a sled is constantly coming and going.  The students are also responsible for ensuring their own sleds stay safe.

Interviews are next Wednesday and Thursday (November 13th and 14th).  Interview times will go home this week.  If you have any specific time or date requests, please let me know ASAP as we will start scheduling these in the next few days.

Stay warm in this cold weather!

Halloween and November

WOW!  It is hard to believe that it is already November!  This year is quickly going by.
Yesterday, we celebrated Halloween.  We had some stations where the students made ghost pudding, a treat bag, and played a candy eating game.  It was fun!  After that we went to our school dance.

Halloween is very exciting!  Please limit the amount of Halloween treats that you send in you child's lunch.

 It is starting to get very cold out, please make sure that jackets (not just bunny hugs), mitts, toques, and scarves are coming to school.


Important Dates
Friday November 8th: Remembrance Day Assembly at 1:00 p.m.  Everyone is invited
Monday November 11th: Remembrance Day - No School
Wednesday November 13th: Parent Teacher Interviews from 3:30 - 9.00 p.m.
Thursday November 14th: Parent Teacher Interviews from 3.30 - 8.00 p.m.
Please let me know if you have any specific date or time requests.
Friday November 15th: Report Cards go home
Thursday December 19th (tentatively): Christmas Concert
Friday December 20th: Last Day before Christmas Holidays
Monday January 6th: First Day back after Christmas Holidays.

Have a great weekend!