Valentine's Day fun!

We celebrated Valentine's Day today because we won't be at school on the 14th.

This morning we did all sorts of math: sorting, counting, graphing, adding, measuring and dividing with "conversation heart" candies.
This afternoon we read the story "Enemy Pie" and then discussed the qualities of friendship.  Students then wrote recipes (poems) for Friendship.
To end the day we made Friendship fruit salad. Each contributed fruit to the salad, each fruit represented a friendship quality. Lastly, exchanged Valentine cards.

Michael Mitchell

Today we met Canadian Musician, Michael Mitchell.  He sang his Canadian songs and performed for the whole school this afternoon.

Heart Art

Here's our latest art project.  We completed this with oil pastels and watercolours.

St.John's Ambulance Presentation

Today, Stacey, from St.John's Ambulance came to teach us about First Aid and what to do in an emergency.
We completed the "glove" challenge.  Kids had to get the two gloves off without getting any shaving cream (pretending it was blood or other body fluid) on their hands or clothes. Fun! And Challenging!

Hearing & Sound - kazoos

In science, we are learning about hearing and sound.  On this day we built homemade kazoos!  Check out the video...very musical!  Sounds IS vibration!

Skating!

The weather cooperated and we've had two skating days so far.  What fun!

Flat Stanley arrives from Australia

Hearing & Sound - Guitars!

We finished building our guitars this week.  Students are now able to demonstrate the difference between pitch and volume on their own instruments.