TIA (The Integrated Arts)

Today Daina, an actress and mime, came to our class to teach us how to act. We pretended to be in a forest and the arctic. We played some mime games and learned how to put on different faces. What fun it is using our imaginations!

Family Fun Night

Thanks to all of our families who were able to attend! It was a great night of fun and learning together!

Wonderful Writers

I had the privilege of attending an incredible professional development workshop with one of the leaders in teaching young children to write - Regie Routman. In applying her techniques, it has been so exciting to see our Room 8 students grow as writers.

We are currently writing non-fiction chapter books. The students are writing on topics of interest, such as race cars, parties, sharks, video games, snowboarding and much more.  The children have learned to plan across their fingers, group like facts together and write more by using "twin sentences". Most students are writing books with four to five chapters with many interesting facts in each chapter.

Our classroom library will be richer when these wonderful stories are published!

Dental Health

Today Natasha from Kid's Dental World came to visit us in Room 8. We learned all about how teeth work and how to take care of our teeth. Natasha gave each child a bag full of treasures including a new toothbrush! Be sure to brush your teeth twice a day and floss once a day.

Day of Pink

Today we participated in The Day of Pink to raise awareness about bullying. We made pink badges to wear for those who did not have a pink shirt, watched a video made by Room 4 and had some great discussions!

Viewing and Representing

Today we worked on the "viewing" and "representing" strands of the language arts program. The children scanned QR codes that were placed around the room which connected them to short animal videos. After viewing these videos, the children represented their learning by making a word web using the Popplet app. 

Dance-a-thon

We had a lot of fun at our dance-a-thon! Our class performed 2 dances by ourselves and 4 dances with the whole school!  Here are a few pictures: