Today in your son or daughter's backpack are:
1. Scholastic book order forms (three of them).
2. Kidney Foundation donation request information
3. Fun lunch envelope.
This morning, with the help of two lovely parent volunteers - Ms. Connie and Ms. Jen - the students had the opportunity to create a card using their handprint or fingerprint in paint. When the paint dried, they decorated to pull it all together. Tomorrow we will do a bit of writing. This card will be sent to seniors, who are very important people in our community and city. Did you know that seniors are over the age of 65? Ms. Cokar has at least 40 more years to get a discount on a bus pass :-)
In the afternoon we put on our scientist thinking caps and made predictions before I started an experiment. I asked, "What do you think we can do with water, clear containers, food colouring, and paper?" Max predicted I would pour in water, drop some food colouring and add paper. He was right! To make sure our experiment was performed as real scientists, we made sure we had the same amount of water and same amount of food colouring drops. The students noticed that yellow mixed into the water right away but blue and red took some time. Tamika pointed out that the yellow I used was a different brand. Awesome observation skills! We are excited to see what happens with our experiment tomorrow. Here are a few pictures:
Here are some pictures from Friday when we added food colouring to paper then sprayed the paper with water. We had some lovely colours appear on the paper, paper towels, and desks!
Room 5 had to take a few breaks today to settle. It is really important that all students be aware when they are being silly and not cooperating, it takes away from others learning. I could tell some students were getting frustrated by the distractions and were working hard on ignoring. We will review classroom rules again as it seems some important ones have been forgotten. I appreciate your support.
Ms. Cokar
Thank you for making us welcome in the school. It was a wonderful day seeing what goes on in the classrooms and the beautiful creativity the kids expressed. I wanted to extend my gratitude to you, and the entire grade one team, for how much you do to care for the kids. I witnessed how hard you work to educate and gently guide them to make positive choices, thank you.
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