February 23

Lumberjack Day

100's Day...look closer!! We used technology to turn ourselves into 100 year olds. (These are some of my favourite pics. Too funny!)

We used both Lumberjack Day and our 100's Day pics to spark some writing as we practice editing and revising and making our writing more detailed.

The children are always asking, "Can it be MY turn to read to the class today?! Please?!" I love seeing how proud they are of their growing skills and confidence.

 We did some shared reading of a Valentine Poem and then the children took turns unscrambling and reconfiguring the poem again.

We've been taking a few moments to recenter ourselves with some Mindfulness Moments, Deep Breathing and Calming Strategies.

The children are working on Numeracy Skills right now, particularly the 'part, part, whole' strategy of recognizing two parts can be combined to create a whole. They've been engaged in some deep learning, and collaboration using sentence stems, "I agree with you because..." & "I disagree because..." & "I think...because..." in creating number sentences and addition problems.

We had a beautiful day for our Winter Carnaval and we even got to welcome Bonhomme to St. Anne! The children had a blast engaging in more than 12 different physical challenges outside in the deep snow, including snow soccer, ball hockey, frisbee golf, freeze tag, and more. There was friendly competition and lots of collaboration. We won some, we lost some (we learned that Mrs. Wong's grade one class is super strong, as they repeated beat us in tug of war with ease!) and we had so much fun. I bet the children slept really well last night.

Enjoy a beautiful weekend!!

Mrs. Riley