Thats all Folks

It has been a great year!  We have all learnt new things and taken risks in order to grow.  When I look back on all that your kids have accomplished this year, I am so proud of them!  There has been sweat and yes, there have been tears, but we have all pulled through stronger and ready to take on new challenges next year.  

Sadly, I won't be here next year to see their first days in grade 2 and 3, but I know they will all shine! Your kids are so precious, they made even the hardest days all worth it!  Thank you room 12 and Stevenson for making this year amazing!  And thank you to you, the families, for raising the wonderful children I have had the pleasure to teach!  I will miss you all, but with any luck I will see you again soon.

Here are some pictures from our year:

Thats all Folks!  Have a great summer!

Finishing Up

We have finally finished our Social Studies research projects and they look wonderful!  Our class had been busy all last week gathering information about the different provinces and territories that the students chose to learn more about.  This week we began putting all of our information on a poster to show the school.

Everyone worked very hard on their research and it shows in their posters!


We have all learnt new things about the different places in Canada, but most people still want to visit Ontario!












We also worked on a new art project this week.  We made bubbles using chalk pastels.  They are all so colourful and beautiful!  They represent the students in our class, just like bubbles we will be floating on to grade two and three.

Calvary Place Concert: Monday 10:30-11:30 a.m., in the gym.  

On Monday, June 22 Stevenson students will be performing for the Calvary Place Carehome.  All are welcome!  

Walking Wolf Performance

This week Walking Wolf, an indigenous artist, came to our school.  He taught us about indigenous singing and hop dancing.  He was very interesting, and he even gave the students a chance to be part of the performance.  

Research in the Classroom

We have been learning about Canada in Social Studies class.  So, this week, we have started doing some research on the different provinces and territories.  We will be using our findings to create posters to advertise the fun and interesting attractions in each province or territory.  It should be interesting to see what we discover.

So far, most of the class is interested in visiting Ontario to see Canada's Wonderland, Marineland, the Prime Minister, and Niagara Falls.  I wonder if any minds will be changed once our posters go up.


Family BBQ

We also had our annual family BBQ this week.  Lots of us turned up to have a hot dog and chips in support of the school.  It was a lot of fun and the face painting was awesome!

Healthy Eating

We have been discussing healthy living habits in our classroom this week.  We learnt about the importance of getting enough sleep, and eating healthy foods.  

Some of us were wondering about the effects of drinking soda on a regular basis, so we did an experiment.  We placed an egg shell into some coke and left it for a couple of days.  The results are scary!  We compared the egg shell to our teeth, and discussed the importance of coke only being a once in a while food.

This week has also been a big week for assessment!  We have been working on year end math assessments all week.  In Writing, we finished a writing assessment that shows all the growth we have made this year.  We are still working on reading assessments, but we will be finishing those up next week.

Celebration of the Arts

This week, we celebrated the arts with our annual Arts Show.  We put up the visual art we were most proud of for all the school to see, and we preformed to show off our talents.  Our class preformed a dance and sang Wavin' Flag.

We are very lucky to have so much talent in our school, and the children love to show off all their hard work! We have to give a shout out to Mrs. Remple, our music teacher, without her this night would not be possible!

Thank you to everyone who was able to make it out to the Arts Show, you helped make it a success!

The Zoo

To begin our week, we took a trip to the zoo.  The weather wasn't great, but the animals were all out and about! We saw animals from each of the animal classifications we have been learning about in science.  The wolves even came up to us and tried to smell us through the glass.  It was quite an experience!

We spent the morning touring around the zoo, and in the afternoon we participated in a lesson on animal life cycles.  We got to see and touch all sort of interesting things, some of our favourites were the alligator skin, and the ostrich egg.  It was a fun day, but by the end we were exhausted.

Thank you to all of our volunteers who helped make our trip a success!

We have been learning about graphing all year in math.  This week we had the chance to make our own graphs.  First, we worked with a partner to come up with a question.  Then, we got to survey the people in our classroom.  Next week, we will be putting all of our information into a graph.

Don't forget, Wednesday, May 20th, will be our Celebration of the Arts in the gym!

Spring is in the Air

This week we spent time working on a spring art project.  Over the course of a week, we used multiple art techniques and steps to create beautiful watercolour paintings.

First, we created the background using a wet on wet watercolour technique.  To do this we sprayed our papers with water before using watercolour paint on them.  This allows the watercolours to blend into each other in interesting ways.

Next, we painted the middle ground.  Our middle ground was a tree in the spring time before the buds begin to emerge.  To do this we had to learn how to use the paintbrush in different ways to get thick and thin lines.

The last step in our art project was to create the foreground.  For the foreground, we used tissue paper to make small flowers emerging from the trees.  We used tissue paper to make the flowers pop off the paper, and to give them texture.

Our art turned out beautifully and will be displayed in the display case beside the office for May.  Drop by to see it anytime!

Also this week was our Music celebration.  We all gathered in back of the school Friday morning to sing Wavin' Flag.  We were organized into the shape of a Canadian flag and video taped from the roof.

Our Flags looked great waving in the wind.
The full video will be posted on Mrs. Rempel's Music Blog this Monday.

We have also been learning about animal classifications and life cycles this week.  On Friday, we watched a video describing the life cycle of the frog.  Then we had the opportunity to see real tadpoles from a swamp.  It was very interesting to not only see the tadpoles, who were starting to grow their legs, but also all the other creatures in the water.  We found dragonfly nymphs, mosquito larva, bloodworms, snails, and lots of others we could not identify.