Week 15!

Congratulations to Matthew for earning another Lexia certificate and winning a book prize from Mrs.  Scott.

 We lit our third candle, the candle of joy this week.  The students have brought home their Advent wreaths and can light the four candle, the candle of love next week and finally they can light the Christ candle on Christmas Day.

We made beautiful Nativities to share with our families.

 Christmas concert week is always a busy and exciting one.  

Miss Sebastianelli surprised the students on concert night.

 Finally, it was time for the evening performance.

We got a wonderful surprise on Thursday morning when a package was delivered to our class from the North Pole.  Inside was a letter for each student in response to the letter they wrote to Santa.

 We made Christmas cards for our families.

 These boys worked very hard to put together this puzzle of the Christmas story.  They displayed great tema work and co-operation!

 We also finished our posters Christmas posters and took them home to share.

I shared my favourite Christmas story "The Crippled Lamb".

 We finished off the week with some Christmas carolling in the gym with the whole school.

 I forgot to hand out the door hangers to remind everyone to collect their empty cans and bottles over the festive season to bring to our school bottle drive in January.  The details are below.

 Thank you to everyone for their generosity and kindness this Christmas season.  I am truly blessed.

I pray that everyone enjoys a blessed Christmas with family and friends.

Week 14!

Chloe was our star student this week.

Chloe is learning how to snowboard and would like to be a teacher when she grows up.

Another smarty pants earned their Lexia certificate this week!  

We lit our second Advent candle, the peace candle, this week.  

 Our class has several perspective candidates to take over for Rudolph if required.  Each student wrote out a job application to be one of Santa's reindeer.

Santa could definitely use this group of helpful reindeer!

 We worked on R words with Rosie Raccoon.

We learned her song and completed the song puzzle.

 Rosie Raccoon likes to read so we read a beautiful book about an adult who can't read but decides he wants to learn.  

We started working on our Christmas posters and they'll be ready to share at home next week.

 We've been adding to our Jesse Tree each week as we learn about the family tree of Jesus.  Each day we add a symbol and read from the bible.  We have read about Adam, Eve, Jacob, Abraham, Moses and many others.

I have a request to make regarding snacks.  We discussed this as a class and I'm asking that you please send snacks that can be eaten while we work in the morning and afternoon so that the students don't have to take their snack outside in the cold weather and we don't take time away from instructional minutes.  Things like carrot sticks, cherry tomatoes, granola bars, and grapes are all great snacks that can be eaten while we work without creating a mess or taking up valuable work time.  We discussed making wise choices about what we should eat at lunch and what we should save as "easy to eat and work" snacks.  We'll see how this goes and discuss this again as a class to see if we need to make any adjustments.  Thanks for your co-operation and support as we try to find solutions during these cold winter months.

Please remember that we have Christmas concert on Wednesday, December 17th at 1:15pm and 6:45pm.  Students are asked to be at the school by 6:15pm for the evening performance.  Students are to be dressed in "Sunday Best" with boys wearing a tie/bow tie with dress shirt.  If you have any questions or concerns about the concert please contact Miss Cyca at nicolec@eics.ab.ca