TWAS

Dear families,

Today is going to be the best day EVER! We started the day with a school assembly. At the assembly, kindergartens performed "If You're Happy and You Know It" and the choir performed one of their festival songs. To end the assembly, the WHOLE school did the anti-bullying dance to "Good Time". We had to teach the moves to new adult visitors. It was awesome!

This afternoon, we are having a magician!! Thank you Parent Council for this FANTASTIC treat! We are very excited about it!

We are having a teacher swap this afternoon. This means each class has a different teacher right after lunch. The guest teacher will take attendance and read to the class. Ms. Burland is swapping classes with  Mrs. Shabaga. Thank goodness it is only for 20 minutes! Tee hee... we will miss Ms. Burland SOOO MUCH!

Popcorn sale is also today. Bags are $2 and the flavours are caramel, white cheddar, dill pickle, salt and vinegar, butter salt and ketchup. YUM!

Don't forget- no school Friday! Ms. Burland will be here writing our report cards!

Love Team 24

Egyptian Necklaces

The highlight of the day was creating our Egyptian Necklaces! We know that Egyptians were the first to manipulate glass, to use as glass beads in their jewellery. We used glass beads and golden pasta to build beautiful 3 tiered necklaces. It was also a great activity for designing and repeating patterns.

Upcoming this week: Popcorn sale Thursday ($2/bag). No school Friday.

~Ms. Burland

Happy Monday!

Another exciting Monday for Team 24! We filmed our dance for the Safe Schools video (thanks to everyone who wore pink!). We also created 3-D objects from nets. Look for a cube, cylinder and cone to come home today (the pyramid came home on Friday). We have worked on identifying the faces (which are flat), edges and corners of these objects. Ask your child to describe the objects.

As part of our study of Egyptian clothing, we are looking at Egyptian jewelry. After watching a video clip and doing a picture walk of non-fiction books with a buddy, students described the jewelry as large with bright colours and lots of gold. We will be making our OWN Egyptian jewelry and started the process by painting pasta gold today. Tomorrow we will create our necklaces using glass beads and gold pasta. It will be the first souvenir we add to our Egyptian suitcase. Look for pictures of our finished pieces tomorrow!

We finished the day with a visit from my puppy, Malakai!

 

Remember- library tomorrow!

~Team 24

TGIF

A short, but as always, busy week. Please look for TWAS journals to come home and return them Monday.

Mrs. Lockhart introduced the class to a dance the school is learning. We are creating an anti-bullying video for Safe Schools. Our class will film on Monday. Please wear a PINK top on Monday! If possible, bring extra(s) for students who do not have. We ALL need to be in pink. Thank-you!

I am starting report card writing this weekend. Attendance next week is a very important. I will be completing assessments for reports. With it being a busy assessment week (and a short week), we will not do Word Study. Word Study will resume the following week. Report card writing day is next Friday, March 1st (yes, March already!! Eek!). There is no school next Friday.

~Ms. Burland

Egyptian Clothing

This morning, we learned about Egyptian clothing. Egyptian people don't wear the same clothes we do. But they do dress for the weather like we do! Egypt is in the desert in Africa, so it is very HOT! We now know:
-Kids often don't wear clothing. (Damien)
-Egyptian children had bald heads with a "lock of youth" on one side (a ponytail). (Sienna)
-They wore golden jewellery. (Braden)
-Rich Egyptians would have had brightly coloured clothing. (Brianna)
-Workers would wear white clothing because it was cheaper. (Liz).
-In Egypt, they usually wear white clothes because it helps them keep cool. (Spencer)
-Clothing was made from linens. (Emily)
-Egyptians had wigs. They brushed them with combs made of wood. (Ava)
-Necklaces could be big and bright. Men and women wore jewellery AND make-up, to keep the sand out of their eyes. (Sienna)
-They wore cones on their head of perfumed oils that dripped down their head to make them smell nice and to cool them off. (Spencer)
-They wore sandals because it was so hot. (Ava)

~Team 24

Winter Scenes

We just finished working on our French winter scenes and we wanted to tell you about it. We are drawing a winter scene with lots winter vocabulary. Then we will label the pictures in French! Ms. Burland took a picture of us on the camera. We cut it out and glued ourselves onto our winter scene. Here are some of them.... We aren't done yet, but they are looking great! 

~Team 24

Festival du Heritage

Team 24 spent the day participating in Festival du Heritage, in honour of Louis Riel Day and Festival du Voyageur. 

We started our day with maple snow cones. 

(Yes, I was the lucky teacher who had their class START our day here! Tee hee! The kids loved it)

After Voyageur bingo, we headed out outside for toboggan relay races.

Jake & Damian

 Naomi & Spencer

 Anica & Emily

Noah pulled by Amber

 Ava holding on for the corner! Go Calla!

 Sienna pulling Grace

Ms. Burland VS Mrs. MCKenty!!

With a few free minutes, we headed to the playground and the class pushed me on the tire swing!

Here we are enjoying freshly made bannock and hot chocolate with Mrs. Waters:

 Time for the beard growing contest!

After beading, we headed to the gym for arm wrestling, leg wrestling, balance games and relay races:

Spencer & Owen leg wrestling

Don't fall off! Naomi & Braden 

 Sienna & Grace

Look at the concentration! Ava & Damien 

 Weeee! Jake paddling his canoe in the relay.

Balance games with Grace, Sienna, Alisha, Leland, Ava & Damien 

Naomi & Anica

 Amber & Noah and Jake and Damian

 Emily & Calla comparing muscles!

WOW! What a day! Great way to end the week. Remember, no school Monday! Enjoy Louis Riel Day!

~Ms. Burland

Our 100th Day of School!

We have been looking forward to this day for a long time and it finally arrived, and on Valentine's Day of all days! We spent the entire day doing 100th day activities. We did Number of the Day with 100, raced to 100 tallies, saw how far 100 steps could take us, did a graphing activity using a pizza with 100 toppings, had a Name Race for 100 seconds and so much more! We topped our day off with our Valentine's Day party! Students loved giving Valentine's to their classmates and were so excited to see their own mailbox full of treats. Thank you to the families who graciously provided treats for our party. It was a FANTASTIC day! 

Here we are racing to 100 tallies!