Terry Fox

This week, as a school,  we raised money for the Terry Fox Cancer Research fund. Each day we were asked to bring in a small donation - nickels and dimes on Tuesday, quarters on Wednesday, loonies on Thursday, and toonies on Friday.  The school goal was to raise $1100. If we raised that much money or more Ms. Lirenman and a few other teachers including the principal are going to have their hair spray painted by one of us at a school assembly.

We watched this movie on Terry Fox not once but twice because we were so interested in his story.

On Friday we also took part in our school Terry Fox run. While Ms. Lirenman didn't have her camera Jaslehna's mom did and was kind enough to share photos with Ms. Lirenman.  Here are some photos from the Terry Fox run.

Heading to meet the rest of the kids in the school.

Almost there.

We don't want to be late.

Getting ready to start the warm up.

We're off!

Running around the field is hard work.

A special thank you to Jaslehna's mother for taking and sharing all these wonderful photos.

Our Giant Dot

On Monday, we celebrated Dot Day by creating a giant dot with our bodies.

We then made an even larger dot with our big buddies too.

Looking at Patterns

We have started to learn a bit about patterns. Here are a few picture of us patterning away.

Reading to Someone

Today we learned how to read to someone.  We learned about EEKK which stands for elbow to elbow, knee to knee. Here are some photos of us practicing.

Learning with Twitter - What's Outside Your Window?

Some of you may be wondering why we used twitter this way? Not only did it allow us to share with the world, but it also helped us with our observation skills, questioning skills, and connecting skills. Ms. Lirenman also modelled  polite commenting and questioning too and she tells us that one day we will do the writing too.  It's also a pretty cool way to learn with others.

How are ways that you use twitter to learn?

International Dot Day - Part One

Today we learned about Vashti, the main character in the story The Dot by Peter Reynolds.  Vashti didn't believe in herself but just by making her mark her world changed. Today we all used our class iPads for the very first time and we created dots just like Vashti.  Here are some photos of us being artists.  

Learning to Read to Self

We are working on our reading stamina. We know there are three ways to read. You can read words, you can tell a story from the pictures, and you can retell a story.  Here are some pictures of us practicing.