Our Anti-Bullying Video

Please check out the video we made for anti-bullying week...click...here!  Let us know what you think by leaving a comment below:)

Mixing Solids and Liquids

What happens when you mix solids and liquids? on PhotoPeach

Mason's Snow Day Gami

Mason's Snow Day Gami

Patterning and Snow Day

Want to practice your patterning skills?  Check out this great site!

The Snowy Day and Spelling

The Snowy Day (1964) from waanaki on Vimeo.

This weeks spelling list can be found at Spelling City.  Be sure to check out the games to practices your words. If you have Smart Notebook on your computer, you can play the Anagram Game too!

Patterns in the School

Mason and Ava G.

Howard B. Wigglebottom and the Bully Dance

Today, we listened to the story Howard B. Wigglebottom and sang the song that went along with it!
Some friends created patterns and used the educreations app to show their thinking.  Take a look!

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We watched the video 'The Bully Dance' and talked about what it meant..

Bully Dance by Janet Perlman, National Film Board of Canada

Changing Attributes

Changing Attributes on PhotoPeach

Spelling and Anti-Bullying Awareness Week

You can find the word wall words for this week here and a word wall game here.
We kick started our Anti-Bullying Awareness week in the gym this afternoon.  The Grade Threes prepared a wonderful presentation and the school recited a pledge to stop bullying.  The school listened to the powerful story "Don't Laugh at Me".  We also read the story called "The Juice Box Bully".Stay tuned for some activities the grade two classes are working on to prevent bullying.  We learned a little about the artist M.C. Escher and began to make our own tesselations.

Who is Sam Harrington?

Today, we read the book "Who is Sam Harrington?".  Ask your child to tell you who Sam Harrington is...you will be surprised!

Ariane Test Drives 'Educreations'

Educreations is one of my favourite ways for students to show evidence of learning.  Ariane test drove the app for the first time today and she did a wonderful job of explaining her patterns.  Well done! She did this all by herself...way to go!

Privacy Pirates

Here is the link to a game we played yesterday for our Digital Samaritan lesson. Enjoy!

November Newsletter

November newsletter is out!

Patterns!

Patterns on PhotoPeach   Patterns! on PhotoPeach

Looking for fun Pattern Games?...well, click here, here  and here!

Samaritans on the Digital Road

We began our week long unit in Religion called "Samaritans on the Digital Road".  This valuable resource builds upon the parable of the Good Samaritan (Luke 10: 25-37). Yesterday, we watched a video about the Good Samaritan. Later, we discussed how we can be a good citizen both at school and home.  As we get further along in the unit, we will be learning more about the responsible use of technology.  The Citizen wrote an article about this school board wide initiative. If you would like to follow along with us, please click here!

Poppy Audio Boo

My apologies for the sound quality...not sure if it is my microphone or the pods where we recorded...but the thinking is there!

listen to ‘Keira's Poppy’ on Audioboo

listen to ‘Annabelle's Poppy’ on Audioboo

listen to ‘Aidan's Poppy’ on Audioboo

listen to ‘Anyuan's Poppy’ on Audioboo

listen to ‘Ilica's Poppy’ on Audioboo

listen to ‘Ashlynn's Poppy’ on Audioboo

listen to ‘Mason's Poppy’ on Audioboo

listen to ‘Amelia's Poppy’ on Audioboo

listen to ‘Angie's Poppy’ on Audioboo

listen to ‘Jacob's Poppy’ on Audioboo

listen to ‘Farzaan's Poppy’ on Audioboo

listen to ‘Ava G's Poppy’ on Audioboo

listen to ‘Hannah's Poppy’ on Audioboo

listen to ‘Andy's Poppy’ on Audioboo

listen to ‘Ava D's Poppy’ on Audioboo

listen to ‘Griffin's Poppy’ on Audioboo

listen to ‘Ariane's Poppy’ on Audioboo

listen to ‘Cam's Poppy ’ on Audioboo

The Poppy Story

Here is a short movie that explains why we wear the poppy.  It is from Scotland but can apply to all countries.

By Jason Addison

I am sending home the Smart Notebook software download information if you would like to install it on your home computer.  Here is the link to a Smart Notebook game to practice the word wall words for this week (to play the game you must have installed the software) Sending note home on Tuesday

Scholastic

Scholastic book orders are due this week...take a peek at what's on for November!

Patterns

Using anything in the classroom, students were asked to create a pattern.  Here is what they came up with:

Spelling Words

This weeks spelling words can be found at Spelling City...

The Great Liquid Race

PD Day on Friday...Buy a poppy on Monday...Remembrance Day Ceremony at 10:45 in gym (all welcome)...Book Orders due Wednesday!

The Great Liquid Race

We wanted to see which liquid would make it to the bottom of a tray first.  The three contestants were: Ketchup, Mustard and Maple Syrup.  We all predicted that the maple syrup would win the race.  Here are the results!

Remembrance Vignette 2013 and Wear a Poppy

Wear A Poppy And Let It Be Known That You Will Never Forget For Remembra...

http://www.youtube.com/v/XQnNEgHsQgI?autohide=1&version=3&attribution_tag=7hoUUWgqzzH8j4uDKy_D-Q&showinfo=1&autohide=1&autoplay=1&feature=share

Fotobabble, Remembrance Day and Christmas Card Contest

On Monday, November 11th, St. Cecilia will have a Remembrance Day ceremony at 10:35 in the gym.  All are welcome!  If your child is a member of brownies, cubs or scouts, they are asked to wear their uniform. We will be selling poppies that day as well...a donation is appreciated.

The school is also hosting a Christmas card contest.  In the agenda, you will find a template for the contest. Please return by Monday.  Thanks in advance!

Secondary Colours and Lines...ART TIME!

One day we took some primary colours and mixed them together...voila!  We created secondary colours...purple, green and orange.  These three colours scream "Hallowe'en" so we created art using only secondary colours...a pumpkin. a Frankenstein head and a witches hat!

We also have been learning about all the different kinds of lines there are...vertical, horizontal, pointy and curvy.  We had to fill 8 boxes with a different kind of line...some of us even invented our own line like 'tornado'!

Before reading the poem called 'Help', we had to draw what we thought the monster looked like.  After reading the poem together, we visualized what the monster really looked like...seven legs!

Love the monster on the head!!!

Halloween Countdown

Halloween Countdown on PhotoPeach

Happy Birthday, Anyuan, Pumpkin Seed Estimation and Wicked Wind

Happy Birthday, Anyuan!  Hope you have a 'whale' of a time!

Today, Mason and Jacob took the 'guts' out of our pumpkin...then Hannah and Ashlynn cleaned the seeds and placed them on paper to dry.  Later, we decided the best strategy to count our pumpkin seeds was to place them in groups of ten.  Mason came closest to estimating the number of seeds in our very large pumpkin...he guessed 340 and there were actually 653!!!  Mrs. A only estimated 200 pumpkin seeds.  Take a look at our Fotobabble about our pumpkin seed inquiry!

I had to record this on my iphone!  Wicked wind today...power out and lots of things blowing around...