Learning About Trees

After "adopting" Princess Peach the tree, our class has been learning about many different kinds of trees. The students took a real liking to Cherry Blossoms! Luckily for us, there was a cherry blossom statue in the school office, which we borrowed to check out. Many students decided to try and draw their own cherry blossoms at the arts and crafts centre.

Terry Fox Run

We learned about Terry Fox today and we had our annual Terry Fox Run at school. Our Kinders didn't run and we just took a long walk around the school yard to honour Terry Fox.

Here are some samples of student work after the run to document our activities:

Library Book Bags

Beginning today your child will be bringing home library books from school. They will be brought home in these special Library Book Bags:

Please read these books at home with your child every week and then return them to school in these bags before the next library day.  Our library days are marked on our monthly calendars.  Students must return their library books every week in order to take a new book, so make sure to return them on time!  Also, books must be returned in these bags as they will be labelled with your child's name and that is how we keep track of which books were returned to school in preparation for the next library day.  Thanks!

Poem #3 - I Am Special

Here is a picture of the poem we are learning for the week of September 24th. As we have been learning about the letter S, students were asked to circle that letter in the poem and to draw a picture of something they like to do.

Poem #2 - I am

This is the poem we learned over the week of September 17th:

I Am (sang to the tune of Frere Jacques)

I am (insert student name here).
I am (insert student name here).

That's my name.
That's my name.

I am glad to be here.
I am glad to be here.

At school today!
At school today!

Students took this poem home in their yellow poetry books and were asked to draw a picture of something they like to do at school.

We have "adopted" a tree!

To learn about seasonal changes, the environment, as well as many other important things, our class has decided to symbolically adopt a tree!

This tree resides in front of our school and we visit it often. During a data management lesson in math we took a vote and decided that this tree is a girl. We also voted to decide on a name.

Introducing Princess Peach the tree!

Poem #1 - The Rules of the Class

This is the poem we learned over the week of September 10th:

The Rules of Our Class

We raise our hands to speak,

We work quietly in our seats,

We use voices soft and sweet,

We keep our places tidy and neat,

We are helpful, friendly and fair,

We take turns and we share!

Students took this poem home in their yellow poetry books and were asked to draw a picture of one of our class rules.