Holiday surprise !

This morning we received an exciting surprise when we arrived in our class! Our elf, Marshmallow used special elf magic and delivered gifts for our class! We had so much fun opening the exciting gifts, and even more fun playing with them! What a wonderful way to finish our 2014 school year! 

From our classroom to your home, we wish you a safe and happy holiday season! 

Expanding our pallet

Fashion At It's Finest!!!

Watch out Donna Karan, Giorgio Armani and Coco Chanel!! We have some motivated students on our hands that are going to be taking the fashion world by storm.

After noticing a student's interest in clothing design we created an invitation to explore this form of art by providing a few inspirational examples and a special sketch pad. She worked an entire day on her sketch and then made it become a 3D design plan.

She was very proud of her hard work and decided to share with the class during "Je Partage"

Sharing her successes sparked some major excitement amongst the other students which led to design Monday!!

We hope to keep the ball rolling with their interest in designing, creating and modelling their outfits. They even discussed the possibility of having a fashion show. 

We will be adding new materials to their fashion inquiry over the next week but are looking for some help from any parents, family members or friends that may have knowledge about the design process, sewing or materials they would like to donate(fabric, buttons, sequence,velcro,thread, elastics, etc...). I am sad to say that Madame Schertzer's sewing knowledge is very limited and she needs your help. Please write a note in your child's communication book if you can help out. 

Feeling the holiday spirit

With the holidays approaching we have had many discussions and inquiries surrounding the holidays.  Our music teachers Mme. Lee-Diagle and Mme. Bernard have been working with us to learn some new and old holiday favorites.

We've began decorating our class with different Christmas decorations and even added a few different trees. 

Please keep an eye open in my our "sac en plastic" for a special invitation. 

 

Pauvre Marshmallow!

Bienvenue Marshmallow!

We received a special call from the office that Mme. Lira had received a special delivery for our class. We were ecstatic to discover the one and only Santa Claus, (or Père Noël in our class), had sent one of his very own magical elves to look over our class. Together we voted on a name, and came up with Marshmallow! We read the magical book Marshmallow brought and learned all about him and why he's here.

Marshmallow even had a friend from Sundowners who he can play with. 

Welcome Marshmallow!

Merci! Mr.Mike

Mr. Mike our custodian created an importu play while we were outside! 

Important Update

 Important update. Cookie dough order is delayed because of weather. They will be available tomorrow during parent teacher interviews.

We care We can

Preparing for the cold.

Please welcome Mme. Stephanie

Mme. Stephanie will be with us for 5 weeks from the College Boreal Early Childhood Education program. We welcome her to our classroom to learn and gain valuable experience. Stephanie will be interacting with the students preparing and planning activities for her course work.

Mme.Knapp & Mme.Allin 

Some learning stories.

One of the many amazing aspects of an inquiry based curriculum, is allowing our students to learn independently at their individual pace. Below are some examples of everyday learning we captured in our class. 

We have been doing an inquiry into trains ! We have been in the process of talking about what you need for a train station. We have brought in boxes and have brainstormed how to transform our classroom into a train station. We have been so excited we showed them that their is a Holiday Train coming to town. 

http://www.cpr.ca/en/community/holiday-train

Vista Spirit Wear

If you would like Santa to deliver Vista spirit wear on Christmas Day please have your orders in by Wednesday. We will keep your secret;)

The good old hockey game

A few weeks ago a group of our friends began playing a make shift hockey game with tubes and blocks we had in our class. They worked together to decide on rules for their game and even decided on team names. 

As their interests grew we explored different aspects of hockey. We learned about famous players such as Tim Horton and Bobby Ore. We learned how to make a hockey rink and measured out the lines on our carpet. As time progressed we added mini hockey sticks, safety gear, and a rubber ball. We learned the lyrics to a popular French Canadian hockey song to improve our hockey vocabulary. After a month of excitement we finished off our unit with an intense tournament. The cheers were so loud they were heard down the hall!

Our enthusiasm was felt throughout the school and our Vice Principal Mme. Lira graciously donated tickets to an upcoming Spitfires game. And one of our early years teachers, M. Fullerton donated autographed rookie cards by New Jersey Devils player, Adam Hendrique. The students were given raffle tickets every time they did a random act of kindness (filled a friends bucket). 

Congratulations to all of our winners! 

Pumpkin fun

Thanks to some great donations we spent some time exploring our interest in pumpkins! We decorated them with letters. Figured out different ways to measure them, learnt about shapes by designing our jack-o-lanternan. We worked together to gut our pumpkins and ate some tasty seeds. Finally, we cut up our pumpkins and dispersed them in our field for hungry critters. 

Our trip to Colasantis!

We had so much fun exploring Colasantis! Together we learnt about exotic animals from all over the world. Conquered a maze and found pumpkins, and had a wild time on some exciting rides!

A huge Merci to all of our parent volunteers who spent the day with us!

Felicitations! Congratulations!

Please join me in congratulating Mlle. Little as she becomes Mme. Allin on the weekend. We wish her many years of happiness. 

Mme. Knapp 

Mme. Schertzer 

Mme. Dean

Spirit Day !!

 

Halloween has arrived parents please remember:

 

1. Costumes - must be able to be removed easily by your child

                     - NO masks

                     - NO Gore

                     - NO weapons

* if you wish not to send your child in costume, perhaps dress them in black and orange

 

2. If you are bringing treats to share with the class please place them in a bag with your child's name on them and we will have a time where they will trick or treat. NO NUTS

 

3. In the weeks following Halloween we encourage only 1 Halloween treat per day in their lunch. Your support would greatly be appreciated.

 

HAVE A SAFE AND HAPPY HALLOWEEN WITH YOUR FAMILY
Mme.Schertzer & Mme.Dean
Mlle. Little & Mme. Knapp

Scholastic

Book orders are due the end of the week Oct 31, however feel free to send in orders as we sent home OCT and NOV booklets home for Christmas ideas. 

Inquiry at is best

Our adventure to Colasanties

Wow! What a great day and we could not have done it without the great support of all the parent volunteers! Hope you enjoyed the day as much as the kids and us as staff did! 

Giving thanks from our families to yours.

Visit from the fire station !

Vista for the cure!

Today we wore pink to support our high schools football game! Due to the rain we had to change our plans ! We celebrated the team as they walked around our classroom for a victory lap and to hear us cheer :) 

Letters that transform !

Discovering letters is a lot of fun when using paint!

 

We discovered that if you start with the letter I and lines one at a time it becomes a

new letter each time.

 

 

 

We got so excited that we tried to think of other letters that could transform

 

 

Mme. Dean has captured some great moments in our class :)