Pumpkin Carving

Wednesday afternoon will be our annual pumpkin carving activity!  We ask that all students bring a pumpkin and tools for that day.  Tools should include a metal spoon, a large scooping utensil and a sharp knife for carving.  Our high school buddies will be the only people using the carving tools to carve in the design.  Please label all items sent to school so that we can make sure they are returned to the proper students.  Thanks!

Canada Project

As part of our study of Saskatchewan and Canada we viewed a video of landscapes with the song, This Land Is Your Land, playing in the background. They really enjoyed it so we thought we would ask each of the students to send pictures showing the different places in Canada they have been. Hopefully the students will know where the picture is taken but you can also send along a location in a note that might help our lessons in the link to maps.

A second project may involve locations around Saskatchewan so please try to include at least one photo in the province.

Please email them to dyck.donna@prairiesouth.ca or in an envelope addressed to Mrs. Dyck. She will scan them and send them right back.

Thanks for your help in this project. 

Halloween Lunch

The Coronach Library is hosting a lunch on October 31st.  Please see the note in your child's lunch kit for further information.

Reading Fair

Yesterday we participated in our Reading Fair.  We were lucky enough to hear 4 different people read to us AND we got to bring home a book!  Thank you to Richardson Pioneer and Prairie Mines and Royalty for donating books to our Grade One and Two students!

Our visit with Andrew Meredith

Today we were visited by artist, and former Coronach student, Andrew Meredith.  He talked to us about his coloring book based on Saskatchewan AND we got to pick our favourite page to colour!  Thank you to Andrew for visiting with us and answering our questions.  

Watch for more colouring pages to come home as we will be using them to help us learn about the province of Saskatchewan! 

The Centipede

Sometimes the most random things become the best lessons in a classroom...

Today the students were VERY excited to find a "bug", "creature" and "thing" outside.
They (of course) brought it inside for us to see!  We then recruited our Science expert Ms. Jasmin McKenzie to teach us a bit more about this interesting critter! Ask your child what they learned today!

Picture Retakes

Picture Retakes will take place on Tuesday, October 18th starting at 9:00 am.

October Book Orders

Scholastic book catalogs were sent home yesterday for October.  If you are interested in ordering from these catalogs, please bring the order forms and a cheque (we can't take cash) back to school by Friday!

Thanks in advance for ordering!

Horse and Snake Blog Posts

Last week we studied this picture taken by my talented friend, Carla Froshaug.

The students had so much to say about this photograph that we decided to blog about it.  Have a look at the posts here and feel free to leave a comment. Thanks in advance!

https://kidblog.org/class/MrsEldersClass2016/posts

Important Days in October

Friday, October 7th
No School

Monday, October 10th
Thanksgiving
No School

Monday, October 17th
Professional Learning Day
No Classes

Friday, October 28th
No School

Questioning Strategies

For the last few weeks we have worked on questioning strategies.  We use the "5W" as guidance and ask questions starting with "Who, What, Where, When and Why".

This weekend a friend of mine took some amazing pictures of a bull snake in her pasture.  This is only one of the many great photos, and some of our questions listed underneath.

I wonder WHO the photographer is?
I wonder WHAT the horse is going to do?
I wonder WHAT the snake will do?
I wonder WHEN this happened?
I wonder WHERE this happened?
I wonder WHY they are staring at each other?

I wonder IF they will fight each other?
I wonder HOW the photographer got so close? Did the photographer move or use zoom?