Heritage Park Field Trip

This week at school our highlight was definitely the field trip to Heritage Park.  It was a little bit chilly but the wood stove in the classroom really helped to heat things up.  Many of us found the chairs a little bit cold to sit on at the start of the day.  We had lots of opportunity to stand up though.  Just like students 100 years ago, we stood to answer questions and also when we had our hands and hair checked for cleanliness.  We all had a chance to write our names with a quill and ink and it sure is a lot different from using a pencil.

We got to check out Sam Livingston's house and see many old artifacts.  It was a surprise to us that pioneers could build houses that had two floors.  Did you know that Mr. and Mrs. Livingston had 14 children that lived with them?  That's a lot!!!

A lot of kids thought the best thing about the trip was eating bannock in the fur trading post.  Bannock is a bread like a scone and it came from Scotland.  All in all it was a great trip and part of a really good week at school.

Finally, an important reminder for Monday:  We will be having a Halloween celebration in the afternoon.  Please don't wear any costumes in the morning.  there will be lots of opportunity to dress up at lunch time.  Children are invited to join a Halloween parade around the inside of the school at about 12:45.  After that we will be having a class party that will have some activities and crafts.  If you have a disposable water bottle to use for the craft, please bring it.  It should be a fun afternoon!

Spooky Week

We had another awesome week at school.  One of the things that has been exciting this week is that there are now Halloween decorations starting to appear in class.  So far we have two bats, two cats, a hanging skeleton, a Happy Halloween sign, and a pumpkin in class.  Many kids in class are starting to get excited about Halloween.  We heard a Scooby Doo spooky story this week and after that we started to hear about how there might be a ghost janitor in our school.  Is it for real or just a prank?  All we know for sure is that there have been some weird things happening ever since some kids chanted "Ghost Janitor" three times in a whisper.

We also finished our Go Dogs Go craft.  Our pictures took a long time because there is so much detail in each one.  We think it was worth the time though because we did a great job and are happy with how it all finished up!


We had our regular spelling test this week, but there was one difference from other weeks.  This week we had two bonus words that fit with our "ick" word family.  Can you think of some "ick" words?  Ask me how I did on my test.

Have a great weekend!

Go Dogs Go!

We had a short week at school.  On Tuesday when we came back from Thanksgiving, our class had a visitor for the morning.  We had Leppy the leopard gecko in for a few hours.  We learned that a leopard gecko can drop its tail if it feels threatened by a predator.  The tail will keep wiggling and the gecko will try to escape.  The gecko will even be able to grow back a new tail.  How cool is that?

Another highlight of our week at school was our experiment on "Racing Liquids".  We learned that some liquids pour very slowly and some pour more quickly.  We learned that liquids with low viscosity, like cooking oil, pour out fast.  Liquids like corn syrup have high viscosity and pour out VERY slowly.

On Friday we started to do a "Go Dogs Go" craft and we are looking forward to finishing it next week.  Stay tuned!

Roctober begins!

The month of October has begun.  We are going to call it Roctober though, because we are going to enjoy different rock songs at the end of each day.  Moms and Dads can ask what music you heard when they see their children.  So far we have listened to The Boss, Sheryl Crow, and AC/DC.  Today we listened to The Tragically Hip.

This week we did a Thanksgiving turkey craft.  We wrote about things we are thankful for, we practiced our colouring and cutting, and we had to organize and glue our turkey together.  We did a legendary job of putting quality into our work.  We started our home reading program this past Tuesday and we will be trading in our books every Tuesday from now on.

At our Monday morning assembly two kids from our class were recognized for their work as leaders in the classroom and the school.  Way to go Penelope and Trenton.