This was a busy, but short week in Room 159.  The children created snowmen on Monday.  This was a great opportunity to practise scissor skills and use imaginations to design their own snowman.  We traced 3 snowballs of different sizes and the children were responsible for the rest!  The results are wonderful.  The students also completed their "This is Me in January" drawing and colouring.  This month the children had a choice, they could do a winter picture on blue paper using chalk for the snow or a regular picture on white paper if they were not doing a snow scene.  Miss Santiago and 1 love to see the progress in the children's drawing and writing.  The January pictures will be posted in the classroom later this week.  Our Reading Buddies visited on Wednesday this week and we made snowflakes.  It was wonderful watching all the children work together with their buddies.  The Grade 8's were learning some snowflake making techniques also.
     We have completed our next set of letters in the Jolly Phonics program.  The work was sent home on Thursday and the new poems are in your child's Sound Review Book.  Enjoy sharing your child's Poetry Book this weekend.
     On Thursday, we began an investigation of the book, The Gingerbread Man.  The children are completing a sequencing activity, which assists in retelling the important parts of the story.  This is a wonderful way of practising comprehension which is an important part of reading.  The students are also involved in a problem-solving challenge.  We have put the children in partners and they are building a bridge for the gingerbread man to get across the river, so the fox does not eat him.    Each group has the same materials and they are to work with their partner to build a bridge stable enough to hold the gingerbread man.  The children are doing a great job and I have put some pictures to the right of the blog to show our wonderful bridges.  We will continue with sequencing and bridge building on Monday.
     In the Computer Lab the children are continuing to explore BookFlix; 123's and ABC's.  In the gym, the children began to play "What Time is it Mr. Wolf" using animal addition.  We also played "I Have, Who Has?" with numbers to 30.  We will continue this fun game when we have an extra 5 minutes.  It is becoming a class favourite!
     Our January Sharing Assembly is Friday, January 26.  The award winners will be notified this weekend.  Friday is also Pizza Day!

This Week:
Monday-Music
Tuesday-Snuggle Up books exchanged 
               Library (A), Computers (B)
Wednesday-Happy Wednesday!
Thursday-Library (B), Computers (A)
                 Return your Sound Review Book
Friday-Snuggle Up books exchanged
           Pizza Day
           Sharing Assembly-9:00 am in the gym

Enjoy the last full week of January!