February is here!

Hi Parents!

First of all, my apologies for missing the last blogs!!!! 

The new year is in full swing!!  We have a lot of things happening in February and March.  Many forms have gone home, please ensure that you send them all back in ASAP if you haven't already!

Over the last week we have been working on how to describe a character in a story.   What features do they have, what do they look like and how to they act and feel inside.  We read the Paper Bag Princess and worked on describing the Princess and the Dragon in our writing journal as well as Moira from the book Moira's birthday.   We are getting much better at understanding how we need many ideas to describe a character and put that to work, by beginning to create our own!  We have started the planning stages and made sure we add all the features we need to so that our words match our drawings!  Next week we will put all our ideas together to write about our created character!

Tech day was a huge success!  We got to use our dash and dot robots as well as code with the ipads.  We had fun working with Ms Redwoods class.

In gym we started hockey!!  We have learned how to use sticks safely and pass the puck to a partner.  Friday we got to play small games!  It was a lot of fun.

We had a great time celebrating CHINESE NEW YEAR!!  It is the year of the PIG!  We made Dragon masks, talked about the Zodiac, had rice and made Chinese lanterns.

Much of January and February we have focused on WINTER.  Reading lots of good books,  coming up with ideas about "I know it's winter when" and writing them down.  This week we started a winter tree project using paper. 

Reminders

Fort Calgary is Feb 20!!

100's day and Valentines exchange will be on Feb 13

Please hand in forms for Swimming and Fort Calgary ASAP

Swimming is March 11-14

STAY WARM!!!!