Happy Holidays!

Dear Parents and Students,

It has been a busy, cold wintery week! Unfortunately my classroom camera is not working properly so I do not have more pictures to post.

We read a story called Extra Yarn and had interesting discussions. In the story, the young girl had an unlimited (thanks for the great word Matty!) supply of yarn. She knitted sweaters for everyone even if they made fun of her, and also knitted things for random objects, like trees. One day she was offered millions of dollars for the box of yarn. What do you think she did? This story addresses bullying and community.

Thank you to Miss Connie and Miss Jen who gifted Room 5 with a very timely and fabulous book called My Mouth is a Volcano about a boy who has incredibly important thoughts to share, even if it means interrupting! A great, recommended read.

We continued with building number sense in math, colours and senses in Science, and working on developing our literacy skills.

Your son or daughter created yarn hats, and snowpeople with their names on each snowball. We connected this latter activity with math. Whose name was the shortest and whose was the longest? It was actually a trick question as we have a friend in the class whose full name was the longest, but we refer to his initials when we speak with him, so his name was also the shortest!

I hope your son or daughter took home the small gift from me to them. I want to thank you for all the chocolate and hugs! I wish your family and you a very Merry Christmas, Happy Holidays, Happy New Year. Stay warm and I look forward to seeing all "my" kids next year!

Love,

Ms. Cokar