"Pumpkin, Pumpkin what do you see?"

Students worked together to create a classroom book called "Pumpkin, Pumpkin What do you see?" (One in the morning and one in the afternoon)

These books are based on Bill Martin Jr. and Eric Carle's "Brown Bear, Brown Bear What Do You See".

Instead of animals as in the original book, our books have a Halloween theme and are full of ghosts, vampires and skeletons! Students had fun deciding what they wanted to put in their book. Everyone had great ideas! After writing the book as a group students worked in pairs to illustrate it.

Everyone will have an opportunity to take the book home to share with their families. It must be returned the following day. Thanks for your cooperation and enjoy!

Monthly Stories

Every month students draw and write about an experience they had.

Almost everyone has finished writing about October and as you can imagine Halloween factored greatly in the students' work!

These monthly stories are completed by your child with as little input as possible from adults. This allows us to see where each child is developmentally and in what direction they need to grow.

It also shows your child's progress throughout the year!

These pictures will be posted in the hall before they are glued into your child's year book.

Season tree

The morning and afternoon classes worked together to make a terrific tree! The afternoon class made the trunk and the morning class made the branches. Some of the grade 5 and 6 students from room 308 helped put up our name cards.

This project is a collaboration with Mr. V's class in room 211. We hope to fill the hall between our classes with seasonal projects throughout the year. Watch as our trees go from fall to winter to spring and then summer (it seems so far away!).

This season watch for our Junior's pumpkin patch!

"Five Little Bats"

Our bat mobiles and "Bat Books" were inspired by a poem called "Five Little Bats". Take a look inside one of our books!

Senior bat projects

Senior students worked hard to complete their bat mobiles. In the process of making these, students learned about symmetry. This project also gave them more opportunity to practise their scissor skills (which helps develop small muscle control!). If you haven't had a chance to see them stop by for a visit.

They look fantastic "flying" in our hall!

Remembrance Day

Although this was a short week it has certainly been busy! With the help, support and leadership of Maria (our supply Educational Assistant) the students created beautiful tissue paper poppies which the morning class wore to our Remembrance day ceremony on November 11th. We were lucky enough to hear a soldier from world war ll (and the grandfather of two Clinton students) speak about war and peace. During the ceremony we sang a song with our reading buddies called "Peace". It was sung in a round and it sounded beautiful! The tune is the same as "Hey Ho nobody home..." and the words are as follows:

Peace, peace,

Is our dream.

Respect, respect,

For all in kind.

Then we will be happy, very happy

Peace, peace...

November

Halloween was a great success! We all had alot of fun.

The rain stopped long enough for us to go on our community Halloween parade in the afternoon.

Thank you to everyone for bringing in wonderful treats for us to share.

This week we have been focusing on the letter "F". Students learned the song "Five green and speckled Frogs" and read and illustrated the tongue twister "Four fat frogs found food in the forest".

Our poem this week has been about apples:

How many apples do you see?

Can you count them?

One, two, three.

How many green ones?

How many red?

Now eat an apple and go to bed!

Students developed actions to go with this poem!

We started a new activity this week called "guess the word". Students work together at carpet time to complete a sentence thinking about what words might make sense. One letter at a time is revealed and they must revise their guesses until the whole word is revealed.

Next week is Remembrance Day and students will be making poppies and going to a school wide assembly in the gym. Students will be thinking about how to make our world a better place to live.

Please make sure your child brings their backpack to school everyday and check it regularly for news letters and other information. Thanks for your continued support!