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house
found
round
clock
block
sick
pick
stick
word
corn
sticky
stuck

Arts Umbrella

Our class had a chance to work with Arts Umbrella today!  The two leaders, Maureen and Asia talked to us  about how to draw birds.  First Maureen showed us some pictures of birds.

Then she demonstrated how we can use the chalk pastels to make our background...

Next, she showed us how we can draw a bird.   We all watched and listened carefully.

Then it was our turn!

We started with the background...

 

We all chose different colours.

 Once the backgrounds were done, we were ready to draw our birds...

We looked carefully at the pictures we chose.

Finally we were ready to use the paint.  We LOVED the different colours!

Our masterpieces!


We will be bringing these home soon!

Valentines' Day is Coming Soon

Can you believe it is already February?? Valentines Day is just around the corner so we got busy this week preparing for this day that celebrates love and friendship!

Can you guess what we are making?

First you fold....

And then you cut!

Adding legs and...

arms!

All our valentine bags are unique!  

Our friends help by hanging the bags up in alphabetical order.  That way it will be easier when we deliver our valentines!

These bags have a great seat by the window!

 All ready and waiting for our cards!

This week Mrs. Duncan, our guest teacher came and helped us make these very tricky and BEAUTIFUL hearts!  

There were many steps but we enjoyed the challenge and are all so proud of how they turned out!  "Thank you" Mrs. Duncan!

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These are our spelling words for this week...

low
blow
slow
town
how
show
down
flower
ago
goes
blew
gone

Happy Lunar New Year Everyone

We listened to this story and then thought about what we would do if we got some lucky money and were told we could do whatever we wanted to do with it!



Here are a few of our stories.  The rest of our stories are on the bulletin board outside our classroom.  Drop by and read them if you have some time!

On Friday afternoon we had the pleasure of watching a Lion Dance in our gym.  It is believed that the Lion Dance scares away the evil spirits and brings good luck!

The lions are reaching for the lettuce.  They got it!  And then they tossed it out to the audience.  It is said that if you get a piece of the lettuce, you will have good luck!

Gung Hay Fat Choy!  

Watch video about the Lunar New Year

because
friend
want
where
were
very
long
better
water
song
singing
giving

The Year of the Rat is coming soon!

This week we had a guest teacher come in to make rats with us for the upcoming Lunar New Year!  She had all the material ready for this very tricky project.

Mrs. Duncan had everything ready for us in individual zip lock bags!

We carefully removed everything and checked that we had all the pieces

Then we all got busy...stuffing, gluing, twisting!

They are beginning to look like rats!

 We used paper clips and clothes pegs to hold down the spots where we glued.  That way our hands were free to keep working

Getting the shape of the ears right was tricky!  

We could twist the tails so many different ways!

 These rats are sure cuter than REAL RATS!!

When we finished making our rats, we named them and wrote a little bit about them.  They are nibbling on fortune cookies!

 Thank you Mrs. Duncan for all your hard work.  AND thank you for this wonderful display!