Fairy Tale Ball

Dancing, food, costumes, photo booth, and games; what more could you want in a Fairy Tale Ball? We had a blast on Friday as we celebrated the end of our fairy tale unit with a wonderful party. Miss O'Krafka did a fantastic job at decorating and we all had a great time dancing and playing. There were dragons, knights, princesses, and a king. We ate fairy cookies and fairy-coloured popcorn.
Have a wonderful Spring Break and a happy Easter and I will see everyone on April 13th!

 

 

 

Sunflowers with Miss O'Krafka

Today we finished our sunflower pictures in art class. Miss O'Krafka taught us about texture, painting, and explained how van Gogh created his sunflower painting. I am very impressed with how they turned out and am excited to put them on the bulletin board once they are dry. Way to go 1B!

 

 

Grande Cache, connecting with Peru, van Gogh, and Stone Soup

We had a busy week in 1B, with all of our many projects on the go. We are finishing up on the building of our model town of Grande Cache and the students are beaming with pride! They designed, built, and set up the entire town and I couldn't be prouder of them. We also began our study on van Gogh and students recreated Starry Night, one of van Gogh's most famous paintings. The students loved watching the animated video of the painting, which you can check out here. The parcel of school supplies, art work, and books was shipped off this week as well. The students waved good-bye to the very heavy box and wished it safe travels as it zooms off to find Jhinanti in Peru. She will use the items to help out students in need. Grade 1B hopes that the students in Peru will love the valentines that they made for them. Finally, we finished off the week by making stone soup. The students learned that by sharing ingredients we could create a delicious soup to share with all. A huge thank you to our parent volunteers for doing the slicing, monitoring, and cleaning of the soup!

Building our Community

Last week the students took an icy walk around the town to take photos of places in our community. They snapped pictures of a church, trailers, the school, the rec centre, houses, and much more. We then looked at where in the world Grande Cache lies by using Google Earth. Finally, we mapped out our walk on Google maps and made a plan to build Grande Cache. The next day students began to turn recycled boxes into buildings that are in our community. We will finish up the project this week. Take a look at the map we made!