"The International Baccalaureate aims to develop inquiring, knowledgeable and caring young people who help to create a better and more peaceful world through intercultural understanding and respect. To this end the organization works with schools, governments and international organizations to develop challenging programmes of international education and rigorous assessment. These programmes encourage students across the world to become active, compassionate and lifelong learners who understand that other people, with their differences, can also be right."

Tuesday, March 29, 2016

Welcome Back (again!) :)

I hope everyone had a great Easter! My family and I enjoyed very much!
This is how our day went:
- Gym class
- Snacks and morning circle time
- Library - Daily Five - read to self
- Lunch and recess
- Daily Five - word work - students built 3 letter words
- Math/UOI - we played a game where we sorted types of transportation into air, land and sea. We also learned a new song about our new unit.
- Math - students reviewed the 3 Bears story and we made puppets. Students used simple measurements terms, medium, short and tall.
- Lunch and recess
- Story time - Daily Five - listen to reading
- Centers
- Pack up





Thursday, March 24, 2016

SCHOOL IS CLOSED

Due to the weather school is closed today.
Have a great Easter everyone!

Wednesday, March 23, 2016

Happy Wednesday!

This is how our day went:

- Gym class
- Snacks and morning circle time
- Daily Five - read to self
- Spring activity - students crumbled up tissue paper into small balls so they could glue on a flower.
- French class
- Lunch and recess
- Daily Five - listen to reading
- Finished the spring activity
- Daily Five - work on writing - students completed their journals by writing about something they like to do at school
- Math - we read about the 3 Little Bears story and made a comparison about their sizes. We will resume this activity next week, as we will still make different size puppets.
- Lunch and recess
- Art class
- Daily Five - read to someone
- Pack up

Tuesday, March 22, 2016

Great Tuesday!

We had an awesome day!
- Gym class
- Snack and morning circle time
- Library
- Daily Five - read to self
- French class
- Lunch and recess
- Daily Five - listen to reading
- Daily Five - work on writing - today for journal writing students pretended that the Easter bunny went on vacation. JKs used their imagination, drew a picture and practiced copying a short sentence from the board.
- Math - as part of our new unit on measurement, students had a variety of objects which they sorted smallest to biggest.
- UOI - students made coffee filter butterflies for our bulletin board.
- Lunch and recess
- Centers - dress up, lego and cars
- Pack up

















 

Monday, March 21, 2016

Welcome back!

So happy to see everyone today!
Take a look at our first day back:

- Gym class
- Snacks and morning circle time - everyone shared what they did over the break.
- Daily Five - work on writing - students completed a journal page where they had to finish the sentence "March break was ______." Together, we wrote a couple of words on the board to choose from. After that we drew a picture of ourselves.
- Daily Five - read to self - students chose a couple of books to read.
- Lunch and recess
- Daily Five - listen to read - we all listened to "The Fox Without a Tail"
- Math - centers - students practiced counting, number recognition, patterning and sorting.
- UOI - this week we will be working on our "Spring bulleting board". Today we started by making colorful butterflies.
- Lunch and recess
- Music class
- Daily Five - read to someone - students used a variety of guided readers
- Pack up









Friday, March 4, 2016

So exciting!!!


Happy Friday!

You will only be able to watch this video on your computer. :) Enjoy!
 
This is how our Friday went...
- House game and dance party
- Snacks and calendar
- Language - students worked on word families


- Math - students practiced their counting skills and graphing
- Story time
- Lunch and recess
- Music class
- Pack up
Have a safe March break everyone!

Thursday, March 3, 2016

Happy Thursday!

Nice to see lots of superheroes and princesses!
Check out our day:
- Gym class
- Snacks and calendar
- Songs
- Students colored either their favourite princess or a superhero picture
- French class
- Lunch and recess
- MYP - Shakespeare full dress rehearsal for PYP students to watch. Everyone did really well as the audience! :)
- Story time
- Lunch and recess
- Pack up
- House game in the gym with the whole school

Wednesday, March 2, 2016

Happy Pj Day!

We had a lot of fun with the snow!
Take a look:








This is how our day went...
- Gym class
- Snacks and morning calendar
- Audio center
- French class
- Lunch and recess
- Reading buddies
- Math - students made a pattern pajama
- House game in the gym with the whole school
- Lunch and recess
- Music class
- Pack up