The holidays have officially begun!

Unfortunately, our classroom iPad was left in the classroom, therefore our blog will not be updated over the holidays.

We would really like to thank you for the beautiful gifts brought in. We had such a wonderful last day of school and ended off our year in a fun filled way. Ms. Espinosa brought in a popcorn maker, and walked us through the steps of making popcorn. We got to watch it pop and smell it fill the air in our classroom. We also made hot chocolate with marshmallows and enjoyed some treats in the afternoon.

Wishing you lots of love, laughter and quality time with your families.

See you in the new year! :o)

"We are like a snowflake, all different in our own beautiful way."

After Mrs. Ansari read the Gingerbread Man story this week, she worked with the children to cut out and decorate their own Gingerbread men (and for some, women). Then they came to the writing centre to write out a description of theirs.

 

We worked on writing and drawing pictures of winter words, using the examples at the writing centre.

We made a card for Mrs. Goldstein to wish her a Happy Retirement!

We finished up our Winter Snowland, adding some last pictures onto it:

 Some kids:

 

And a Gas Station!!

Here is the finished project, we hung up in our hallway:

We worked together to build a 'Downtown Winter'...

Then some of our friends helped to make signs for the different parts Downtown:

 

A lot of the children in our class LOVE to go around our classroom and take surveys. This one was 'What's your favourite colour?"

We introduced the game 'Snakes and Ladders' during our Math Block and noticed that a lot of the children wanted to make their own game to play with their friends. So, we drew our own version of it on the SmartBoard for them to copy.

 Then one of our students wanted to even make his own dice!! How creative!

Just a reminder that this week is the last week of school.

We are planning to make hot chocolate one day and will send home a note before we do.

It sure doesn't feel like Winter, but we are looking forward to Christmas break :)

Have a lovely weekend!