Happy December! This time of year is always very busy at school and at home, so please continue to check the blog each weekend for up to date information. With the assistance of our Reading Buddies on Monday, the children completed a Santa countdown activity. Each day in December, have your child cut off 1 loop of Santa's beard. When all the loops are gone, it will be Christmas Day. Have fun counting the days until December 25. We continued with graphing activities and the children have the opportunity to create their own graphing question, ask their friends and graph the results. It is great to see all the learning happening around this activity. Miss Paska also discussed healthy and unhealthy foods on Thursday. The class enjoyed looking through the grocery store ads and creating their own list of healthy and unhealthy food choices. We were excited to have Mr. Currie visit Thursday afternoon post some pictures of Room 159 on the Lambton Kingsway Twitter feed. You can see Mr. Currie's tweets on the Lambton Kingsway website. Follow the link to the right of the blog.
Next week we will be participating in The Hour of Code. The Hour of Code began as a one hour introduction to computer science to show that anyone can learn the basics and to broaden participation in the field of computer science. It has become a world wide event to celebrate computer science. Coding activities help to develop problem-solving, logic and creativity. We will be participating in a variety of activities to teaching simple coding to the students. Coding is a set of instructions (directions) that computers can understand, it is similar to a recipe.
A reminder that we are collecting donations for our Stonegate basket. Details of our family and suggested donations were emailed by our Grade Parents. Please contact them if you have any questions. Thank you in advance for your generosity. We have been discussing how important it is to help others with the children. Please include them in your shopping if you are able. Friday, December 8 is the last day for donations.
December calendars were sent home on Thursday. Please look inside your child's Poetry book or Sound Review book. I will be working on the January calendar before the holidays, so please let me know if you will be away in January. Thanks so much.
Our December Sharing Assembly is Friday, December 15 at 9:00 am. We would like the children to wear a festive hat and wear red, green and or white to add to the celebration. See you there! Award winners will be notified later in the month.
This Week:
Monday-Library (A), Computers (B)
Tuesday-Snuggle Up books exchanged
Wednesday-Library (B), Computers (A)
Thursday-Bring your Stonegate donations
Return your Sound Review Books
Friday-Snuggle Up books exchanged
Last day for Stonegate donations
Author visit (Keri Lynn Winters) in the
library
