Class Donation

I would like to thank you all for your donations this year.  We have collected a total of $232 from our classroom for a grand total of $523 when combined with the Grade 3&4 class!!

The donation will be presented to the Regina Humane Society, and Miss McLean and I thank you very much for your support! 

A few of our Christmas activities

Christmas Dinner and Christmas Holidays

Friday is our traditional Christmas Dinner at school.  We will be having a traditional turkey dinner at noon, and students are asked to dress formal/semi-formal for the occasion.  Friday afternoon we will spend in our classroom, having a casual celebration before Christmas holidays ~ we will watch a short video, read a few books, etc.

I have told the students that over the Christmas break I would like them to read, read, do some Mathletics, and then read some more.  I understand that the holidays are busy but thank you in advance for reminding and for helping your child to read and practice Math over the break.

I hope that you all have an enjoyable Christmas break, and I will see your child back at school on Monday, January 6th.

Merry Christmas!

Boy Soup

Today your child is bringing home a free book from TD Bank Financial Group to help encourage family reading time. We have read this book in class and the students LOVED it! Please read this again with your child, and remind them to ask questions, make connections, talk about their favourite parts, etc.

Happy Reading!! 

Christmas Concert

Tomorrow evening at 7:00pm is our Christmas Concert.  I would like the students to be in our classroom at 6:30 tomorrow evening.  They will stay with me for the duration of the concert, and then we will meet you back in the classroom when the concert is done.

See you tomorrow evening!

Letters to Santa

Today we posted our letters to Santa.  Have a look at how our letter writing skills are improving!

P.S.  The formatting of the computer changes how things look BUT we have been working on the proper arrangement of a friendly letter.  Copies of our original letters are displayed on the bulletin board outside our classroom.

http://kidblog.org/MrsEldersClass2013/

Photo of the Day ~ Hayden

These are our Santa leters. By Hayden

Gift Exchange

This year our class will once again join with the Grade 3 and 4 class to make a donation to a charity at Christmas time.  Last year our donations went to the Humane Society.  We are asking that each student bring a donation (suggested $10, but ANY amount will be accepted) rather than having a gift exchange within the classroom.

We thank you in advance for your participation and donations!

Bake Sale CHANGE

Due to a conflict with scheduling, the SRC bake sale has been changed to TUESDAY, December 17th.  Thank you for your understanding.

Spelling Words (Dec. 9th - Dec. 20th)

**test will be on Friday, December 20th
**All students will test these words.

Christmas
merry
jingle
family
cold
giving
love
snow
gift

SRC Spirit Week

Monday, Dec. 16th
Pajama Day

Tuesday, Dec. 17th
Red and Green Day

Wednesday, Dec. 18th
Ugly Sweater/Christmas Sweater Day
Bake Sale ~ All items $1, or less

Thursday, Dec. 19th
Santa Hat Day

Friday, Dec. 20th
Formal Day
Christmas Dinner

Christmas Concert

This year's Christmas concert will be on Tuesday, December 17th at 7:00pm.

Our class has been asked to bring a Santa hat and sunglasses to wear for their part in the performance.  I will update with more information as we get closer to the performance date.

Thank you!

Fact and Opinion

The last few days we have been working on the difference between fact and opinion ~ a fact is something we can prove, and an opinion is something we think.

Our blog posts today reflect that today, so please have a look at what we are learning.

http://kidblog.org/MrsEldersClass2013/

Scout, Our Classroom Elf

Scout was trapped in the
microwave this morning.
Was he trying to warm up?

Photo of the Day ~ Cheyanne

Scout was looking for a snack...

Outdoor Art Project

I would like to ask you for assistance in an outdoor Art project.  Please save any cardboard milk cartons, egg nog cartons, etc. for our class to use.  You can send them to school right away, I just ask that you rinse them before they are sent as it will be a few weeks before they are used. 

Thank you in advance for your help!

Predicting Freezing Time of Water

Today we predicted how long it would take for water to freeze when outside and when in a fridge freezer. We predicted that the outside water would probably freeze faster because it was so cold outside today.

Final results: 

Outside water froze in 1 hour 45 minutes

Inside water froze in 4 hours 25 minutes

Further discussion will take place in the days to come about our predictions, how close we were, and what our predictions taught us.  

Work Experience

This semester Miss Noll has been working in our room. She helps us with many things and we love having her! Today she read us a story called "Katie the Candy Cane Fairy".

Spelling words (Dec 2nd-6th)

Grade One
three
blue
yellow
look
not

Grade Two
around
found
would
your
goes
does