Speak tenderly to them. Let there be kindness in your face, in your eyes, in your smile, in the warmth of your greeting. Always have a cheerful smile. Don’t give only your care, but give your heart as well –Blessed Mother Teresa of Calcutta

Sunday 28 February 2016

Week 23!
Our Star Student this week was Sara!
 Mr.  Walker came for a visit this week to talk about forgiveness.
 We even got to do a little acting.

We celebrated Pink Shirt Day!
We have been learning about Social Detectives.  
Here is a video about the social smarts.
Here is a video about expected and unexpected behaviours.
Here is a video about what a social detective is.  
We are still in need of two volunteers for our magnets presentation on Thursday, March 3rd from 9-11am.  If you, or a family member can help us out we would be very grateful.
We are still collecting individually packaged toothbrushes for the Mustard Seed as part of our Lenten Challenge.  There will be a new challenge announced at assembly on Monday morning.
This week we will be collecting toothpaste.

As always, if you have any questions or concerns, please don't hesitate to contact me at 780 998 7777 or via email at lesleyh@eics.ab.ca






Saturday 20 February 2016

Week 22!
Basileo was our Star Student this week!
Wow, another Lexia certificate was earned this week!

We celebrated 100 days of hard work at school.
We made 100 day hats.
 We played Race to 100.
 We made 100 charts.



 We did a 100 piece puzzle.



 We tried to make a 100 piece paper chain.  

We compared our paper chain with 2AD. 

























We made towers of 100 pennies.


We made chains with 100 links.




We made structures with 100 cups.





 We aged ourselves using an aging app called AgingBooth.  We look pretty good for 100 years old! .https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/agingbooth/id357467791?mt=8 























 We earned our sprinkles and are now working on earning a cherry for the top of our banana split.

 Our St. John Paul II reading buddies came to help us practice "Read to Someone".



















Just a reminder that I can't send cash in the mail so please use the online payment system on the scholastic websitehttp://www.scholastic.ca/clubs/clubsonline/ or send a cheque.