Snowshoeing

We had a blast snowshoeing!

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Dr. Seuss week

We had so much fun celebrating Dr.Seuss this week. "My name is Pam. I do not like green eggs and ham."

On Monday we read Happy Birthday to You! to celebrate Danika's birthday. On Tuesday we read Green Eggs and Ham. We also made green eggs and observed the affect that heat had on a runny egg.

On Wednesday things got a little wacky. When we arrived at school, our shoes and hoodies were strewn all over. Even the numbers on our calendar were mixed up. Wacky Wednesday sure was a fun read! 

On Thursday we read One Fish Two Fish Red Fish Blue Fish.  We ended the week with a book chosen by the class: Fox in Socks. Did I ever have my tongue twisting work cut out for me. We have one more book to read on Monday. I'm sure you'll hear all about it!

Happy 100th Birthday...I mean Happy 100th day of school! We dressed up like we were 100 years. old. We also timed ourselves to see how many exercises we could do in 100 seconds. We wrote about what it would be like to be 100, and we made a 100 day craft. 

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Arctic Animals

My dad and Auntie came and visited today. They brought some Arctic animals with them. An  Arctic fox, a wolf, a black bear (not from the Arctic), a snowy owl, and a polar bear all made an appearance.

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-What animals did you see?

-Which animal was the biggest?

-How come the polar bear has red eyes? (They protect him from the sun kind of like sunglasses)

-How come animals have white fur in the winter? 

-What does camouflage mean?

-What do wolves eat?

-What do Polar bears eat?

-Which was the most interesting animal and why?

Inuit presentation

We learned so much from Goota, an Inuit and guest speaker, today. She shared pictures, artifacts, stories and food. Be sure to ask your child what kind of food they got to try today. You can also ask them about:-traditional housing in the summer and the winter
-tools
-how they make a fire
-how they carry their children/babies
It was a very insightful presentation. She also touched on residential schools and told the students that children were separated from their parents and sent off to schools. They were told never to speak Inuktitut or talk about their traditions. This is a part of our Canadian history and it was presented in a language appropriate to grade 2. Having said that, I would highly encourage you to ask your child about the presentation and see if they have any questions. Some questions that might prompt some discussions:
What's one thing you learned about the Inuit culture?
What would be a challenge living in the arctic?
What's something interesting you saw or heard today?
Do you have any other questions about Inuits or the presentation you heard today? 

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Christmas Fun Calendar

◄ November 2016	December  2016					January 2017 ►
Sun	Mon	Tue	Wed	Thu	Fri	Sat
12 days of Christmas	Bring a (Christmas) Book			1 Lucy’s Birthday Deklan’s Birthday	2 No School PD Day	3  Pancake Breakfast
4	5 Book: Mlle Lange	6 Book:Taylor Book: Mrs. Lyall Christmas Card Day	7 Book: Ashton Book: Deklan Grinch Day. Wear green *Early Dismissal	8 Grade 4-6 Christmas Concert Day 1: Christmas Tree Day Book: Danny Book:Ryly	9 Day 2: Candy Cane Day Wear Red and White Book:Lucy Book: Abby Board Game Day	10
11	12 Day 3: Elf Day Anybody have an elf hat? Book:Sophia	13 Day 4: Gingerbread day Please send a bag of candy to school with your child. We will be decorating gingerbread. Let me know if you want to help! Book: Danika	14 Day 5: Snow Day. Dress warm! Book:Elijah Book:Brooke	15 Grade 1-3 Christmas Concert @ 1&7 Day 6:Santa Claus Day Anybody have a Santa Hat? Book:Ishmael	16 Day 7: Stocking Day Wear your crazy socks! Book: Sawyer	17
18	19 Day 8:Christmas Cookie Day. Let me know if you (or grandma) would like to come help us make cookies.  Book:Hannah Book:Victoris	20 Day 9: Christmas Carol Day You are invited to come and sing carols and eat cookies with us from 2:00-3:10pm. Book:Levi Book: Hailee	21 Birthday Party for Mlle, Abby and Nicholas Day 10:Kindness Day Book: Nicholas	22 Day 11: Reindeer Day Book:Brennan Book: Colin	23 Day 12: Polar Express Day Last Day of School before Christmas! Popcorn, pyjamas, and a movie Book: Maddison	24 Christmas Eve
25 Christmas	26 Christmas VACATION!	27	28	29	30	31

To make these fun activities happen I am in need of some extra materials. Please let me know if you can send any of these items with your child.

Christmas Wish List for 2L (I will supply all the other extra ingredients and things) 

• Candy canes (4 dozen) (need on Dec.9)
• empty milk cartons (2L) (need on Dec.13)
• homemade green play dough (anytime)
• cotton balls (Dec. 14)
• Polar Express movie (that we can borrow on Dec.23)
• Old puzzles to keep us busy on cold indoor recess days

Baking Ingredients (for Dec. 13 and 19)

• a bag of Flour
• 3 pounds of butter
• 1 bag brown sugar
• 1 small bag white sugar
• 2 bags of icing sugar 
• bag of white marshmallows (any size marshmallow)
• 3 boxes of no name rice krispies/ puffed rice (the base for our "gingerbread" houses)
• I will be asking each child to bring a small bag of candy (old Halloween candy or something) for our "gingerbread" houses on December 13. 

Thanks you so much for your help. 

Magnets

We made magnetic slime!

Magnetic slime. Click here for more magnet excitement