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Working on building our shoulder strength while reading 'Mr. Zinger's Hat' together.
Each year Children's Book Center teams up with TD Canada to gift a book to every
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Christmas Concert
Thursday, Dec. 10th at 1:00pm and 7:00pm at DayStar Church. Each family has been given two tickets. They were sent home to the eldest child enrolled at WPS on Thursday, along with report cards. Mrs. Gray has requested that our class wear Pajamas/Housecoats and Slippers for our class performance. If you are not planning on using your tickets, please return them to the school so that other families may use them. There are very limited 'extra' seats, so make your requests ASAP!
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| Playing board games with our Grade 6 Buddies |
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| Building our people, animals, and houses this week |
Building Unit
This week, we continued our building unit. We discussed the difference between domestic animals, like pets or farm animals, and wild animals. Students chose a domestic animal to build out of salt dough, and then built themselves out of salt dough as well. We discussed how it is important to use the right material when something is being built. Students had the choice to build out of cardboard, flat paper, wood scraps, or dough. They decided the best material to build a person and an animal with was dough, because you can roll it and make it round. First we made a 'blue-print' plan, then we built, then we painted. Once they were done, they began on their houses. Since it was such a snowy week, discussed how we needed to put something on the roof to protect from rain and snow, so students glued plastic straws to the roof as 'shingles', and added 'siding' to their homes to protect from the elements. Next week, we will build Willow Park School and work on creating a pathway from their homes to the school. The students are very engaged in this project, it is exciting to watch them plan, experiment with which materials work best, and take pride in what they are building!
Thank you to everyone who donated items to build with! We have many items for many different projects.
Language Arts
We continue to spend some time focusing on vowel sounds. Students are motivated to learn the vowel sounds- they understand that it is important to know these sounds because there is at least one vowel in every word. We focused on the 'short e' sound this week.
BOOK ORDERS
Book orders were due Thursday, Nov. 26th. I placed the order after school, so no late orders will be accepted.
RAZ KIDS
I sent home access information for RAZ Kids yesterday. https://www.kidsa-z.com/main/Login, username willowpark1. RAZ Kids is an excellent program for students to be able to read books at a level they understand, and then answer comprehension questions upon completing the story. I have included the link on the 'links and resources' page for future access.
Tobogganing and Winter Wear
Please take some time to review the information package sent home on Wednesday, which explains the rules for the tobogganing hills. Please return the permission form sent home as soon as possible, if it is not returned, your child will not be allowed on the hill.
As the weather get colder, it is very important for your child to practice putting winter wear independently. In order to encourage the development of important fine motor and organizational skills, we do not help them unless they are very stuck! The faster they are able to get dressed, the more time they will have outside. We have had some instances of students leaving with other student's mittens. We have many students with the same gloves or mittens as a classmate, so please make sure these items are correctly labelled so that they make it home! Lost and found is located in the hallway by the gym. If an item goes missing, that is where you will likely find it!
December Calendar, 1H
