3-2-1 Update: Sept 15-19 By: Max

This week was kind of busy!  We had lots of guest teachers.  One thing I learned was francais! I learned the abcs, days of the week, months and seasons.  Today is vendredi!

Another thing I learned was to save Fred in science.  Fred is a gummy worm and he likes sailing on his boat but he doesn’t know how to swim and never wears his PFD. Finally, it happened.  Fred’s boat got capsized and the PFD was under the boat and we tried to get it.  Did we get it, or did Fred meet his doom? 

One more thing we learned was more about bar graphs.  We did two and we each did our own question.  My question was “what is your favourite reptile?”  The choices were: komodo dragon, bearded dragon, crested gecko, fat tail gecko, leopard gecko, snake, and other.  Other won! 

What I enjoyed was phys. ed.!  We won our silver sneaker award (choice class) and we played British Bulldog, Yoshi, Sleeping Lion, Spongee Polo and Swamp Ball!  I also enjoyed when Ms. Dodds gave us smile cookies!

My goal is to write quicker.

3-2-1 Update: Sept 8-12 By: Rebecca

I had an awesome and busy week at school.  One thing I learned is to say how are you in French which is comment ca va?  And you would answer: ca va bien, which means happy, ca va mal which means sad and comme ci comme ca which means I’m okay.

In math we did a bar graph.  My question was, what place do you want to go to? Most people chose Paris! In music we learned how to sing “Make New Friends.” 

I enjoyed doing line art because we did lots of different designs.  Another thing I enjoyed was gym when we did the relay race.  It was fun.  One goal I have is to remember everyone’s names.  I think it will take a long time.  Thanks for listening to my awesome 3-2-1!

Terry Fox Run 2014

We had a scorcher of a day on Friday for our annual Terry Fox Run.  The students ran to support and continue Terry Fox's dream of raising money to find a cure for cancer.

Each student received a map of Canada before the 'race' began.  For each lap they completed, they received a stamp on a province or territory.  Some students ran all the way "across Canada"-13 laps! Wow!  Whatever their goals were, 3, 5 or 13 laps, they pushed themselves in the heat to reach them.

Thank you to the families that have sent in donations.  Our goal was to raise $1 per child and staff member in the school and we're well on our way to surpassing that goal.  We'll be accepting donations until Sept 30th.

I managed to snap a few pictures when the students weren't running, check them out below!

International Dot Day!

Yesterday was International Dot Day!  If you don't know what that is you can click here to learn more about it!

We read (re-read for most of us) the book "The Dot" by Peter H. Reynolds to get inspired by the main character, Vashti.  Vashti and her teacher tell us about the importance of encouragement, support and trying new things.

Yesterday, we created our own dots pictured below to let a little creativity flow.  We decorated our dots with our favourite things, people and anything that celebrates US.  I think dot day should be everyday!

School's in!!

Wow, what a great start to the school year!

It's only day two, but I have a great feeling about our class this year.  I'd like to take this opportunity to welcome all the new families to our class blog.  I look forward to meeting you at our Open House next Thursday.

Here we try our best to update with student work, pictures and exciting things that we're doing at school.  The students are encouraged to come up with ideas for interesting blog posts and, together, we'll try to make them happen!

Here's to 2014/2015 being AWESOME!

Instrument Design!

To complete our unit on Sound, the students got to design their own instrument at home.  Their instrument was required to make two distinct pitches and have some form of volume control.  We had a great variety of home-made instruments!  Guitars, drums, whistles, flutes, xylophones, ukulele, shakers, and a banjo!

The students all did a fabulous job and exceeded my expectations.  Have a look at them presenting their instruments!

3-2-1 Update from May 20-23 by Aliyah

This week at school was short because we had a day off on Monday. Three things that I learned this week is in Art we started to learn and draw with Zentangles. I will tell you what they are they are hills and inside of them they have cool lines and shapes that are different from the other hills. So we started to draw them in sharpie and we had to make something on the ground and something in the sky!

The second thing I learned was in Heath we started a new subject on teeth. And we did a little experiment we got an egg and we had three of them and we put it in these things grape juice, Pepsi and last but not least, we had vinegar. So we left them for a day and I will tell you what they looked like.  The vinegar was all squishy and the shell came off. The grape juice was purple. And the Pepsi was brown and all of them looked disgusting. The last thing I learned was in Science we watched people present their science musical instrument. And we had to sign up for it and I choose to go on Wednesday because I don’t want to be first.

Two things I enjoyed this week was when we had 15 extra min to play outside and those days that we had were super-hot. And we got time off because people kept on talking out of turn. So the more we talked the less time we had to play outside. And the last thing I enjoyed this week was when we had TUSC we had to start it again after lunch because we had to do three extra things because some people were doing the wrong job. But my TUSC job was Healthy Snack and I did it on Strawberry’s and Oranges. I got to bring them in and share them with the class.        

One goal I have for this week is in ELA because I want to not do run on sentences. And I can get better at that by practicing at home!

By Aliyah