Halloween!!

We are all soooo excited for Trick or Treating tonight, we have been vibrating with excitement all day.  First thing this morning we tried to burn off some of our energy in a double gym class with our friends from Room 11.  

Then we got to spend two periods in a Dance-a-thon.  We danced our feet off, and some of us even won prizes.  Congratulations to Joaquin for raising the most money in our class.  Thank you to everyone who helped us raise money for classroom and school resources.

Tayanna burning up the dance floor

In the afternoon we had the opportunity to see everyone else's costumes in our Halloween Parade.  To finish off the day we got to spend some time together watching videos and having some treats.  Thank you to everyone that brought treats for our Halloween Party.

Have a happy and safe Halloween everyone!

      

Artist In The School

This week we had an artist come to teach at our school.  She worked with us for three double periods to help us create beautiful works of art.  She taught us about The Group of Seven painter Tom Thomson and his paintings.

We learnt how to hold a paintbrush and mix colours.  We also learnt how to paint a background, mid-ground, and fore-ground using a technique called "patchworking" to create texture.  We used Tom Thomson's art work as inspiration when painting our own canvases.

When we finished our paintings we took time to celebrate our work together.

Our paintings turned out beautifully!

Our paintings were inspired by Tom Thomson's "Round Lake" and "The Jack Pine" paintings.

We also had the opportunity to do a work of art as a class.  This masterpiece was inspired by Tom Thomson's "Autumn Foliage".

Making Patterns With Shapes in Math

This week in Math class we were using shapes to make patterns.  We each made a pattern with three elements in its core and then challenged our neighbour to repeat our pattern.  We used hexagons, triangles, squares, rhombuses, and circles to make our patterns.  When we completed the pattern we had to name the shapes we used.

Patterns are fun and easy, especially when you get to play with shapes.

Our Thursday Outside

On Thursday we spent a lot of time outside.  In the morning we celebrated International Walk to School Month by walking to school together.

It was a chilly morning but the walk kept us warm.



The police even came along to make sure that we were safe.









Thank you Constable Sue and all your friends for keeping us safe!









Later that day we went outside again for our Science class.  We were learning about movement and what it means to be in motion.  We practiced different kinds of movement like: bouncing, sliding, spinning, zigzagging, rolling, swinging, and turning.

It was fun to spend time outside learning different forms of movement.

Room 12 Is Thankful

This week at school we made Thanksgiving Turkeys.  On our turkey's tail feathers we wrote the things we are thankful for.

Room 12 is thankful for many things!

Reading Time!

This week we had a guest reader in our class.  Mr. Miller read the book "Hogwash" by Karma Wilson to our class.  It was hilarious!  It was about a farmer who tried to wash his pigs, but the pigs tricked him and he ended up all muddy.  We hope to have Mr. Miller read to our class again soon.

Thank you for reading to us Mr. Miller, you are welcome to come back anytime!

 This week we also got to read with our reading buddies from Mr. T's class.  We each had the opportunity to make friends, while reading, with our new buddies.

 Thank you room 9 for reading with us!