Welcome Back!

This blog will be a space where you can stay up to date with our school events and happenings, what we're learning and discovering in the classroom, and some fun photos of us in action! 

It is so great to see everyone fresh faced and ready for a new year! I can tell heaps of fun was had over the summer, and can't wait to hear everyone's stories this week. 

Here is a quick peak into our room this year!

A Few Reminders: 

• Sept. 12th is the deadline for Hot Lunch Orders  
• Sept 13th - Motivational Magic Performance at 9:00 am.
• Thursday, Sept. 13 at 6:30 pm - Parent Information Night for Camp Warwa. This will be an information session on the fundraising, volunteers needed and exciting news about our year end trip to Camp Warwa. 
• No School Sept. 14th  - PD DAY
• Sept. 26th - AD-Mazing Orders due 
• Sept. 26th - School Photos
• Sept. 28th Terry Fox Run - Bring a toonie for Terry!

Our Week!

 This year started off with students grabbing their acceptance letters from the fireplace, and heading to find a desk. 

As we settle in, we're getting used to new routines, meeting new friends and talking about our summers! It sounds like everyone had an awesome break! 

Right off the start, students were sorted into their houses! This is classroom management tool, that helps reinforce positive behaviours and encourage participation in classroom discussions. 

I always like to start the year off getting to know the kiddos and we created  HAVE YOU SEEN THIS WIZARD posters where students share about their favourite, food, colours, and activities in a creative way! 

Can you match these Magical People to their Wanted Posters?

    

Students also worked on a summer writing project. This is a quick chance for me to get snapshot of them as writers (especially after two months off) and see what they can do! To get this snapshot, students created some Summer Selfies! We talked about how to pick one event from our summer (our watermelon seed) and how to expand and talk about it. 

I think lots of students were excited to share, because they got right down to work doing amazing jobs! 

We also had a Facebook video win! Over the summer you may have seen videos of a Rock Paper Scissors hoola hoop game, and we gave it a shot! It was a pretty fun way to practice our hopping skills from hoop to hoop, challenge friends and then when there was points gained students had to complete a fitness action (i.e. 10 jumping jacks, runing on the spot for 30 seconds).