It's the week before the holidays :)

Balloon Volleyball
It's a rainy day. Or was it a muddy day. It was an indoor Phys. Ed. day anyway. We're playing balloon volleyball. (or as Grade One says every year -- balloon bolleyball) We're theoretically supposed to stay on our bottoms while trying to whack the balloon in the opponents' court. You'd be surprised how difficult it is to aim a balloon!






Math
Are we ever glad all that counting money business is behind us! This patterns stuff is a breeze! Here we're making patterns with link-its and trying to do more complex patterns than a simple AB pattern. (Just ask your child for an explanation for AB or AAB patterns)




It's an AABB pattern!



We were busily making "stained glass windows" for our class windows.

They looked nice and festive!







It's somebody's birthday! And she's wearing the birthday hat! (not all the grade ones are quite so brave) Our birthday present was (of course) a song that we learned to sign as well. I was too busy signing to get any pictures though!

Inundated with good wishes and birthday cards!




Skating!
It's a great way to end the day and start off the Christmas holidays. We had to work off all that sugar that we had consumed in the previous 2 hours.

I remember those boards were very friendly to me too when I was in Grade One.



There's nothing quite like an afternoon of skating to see dads come out with their kiddies.



oops. :)

Now he's got it!

Look ma! No hands!


Yep, my feet hurt too after an hour!

:)

So. When do you think this ends??

Star of the Week!! December 10 - 15

It's our new Star!! We get to learn a lot about the Star of the Week on Mondays

Awww...he really really wants a dog!


One of the perks of being the star on Monday. When everyone else is busily writing the things we've learned about you, the teacher writes your massive agenda message for you and you put stars all over your page.


Enjoying the Messiah at lunch

Choir!

Friday we found out that the class thinks our star is really funny.

Sure was a busy couple of days!

Dress Up day!!
This is always one of my favourite days of the year because I'm laughing all day long at the kids' outfits. They looked fantastic! It's a great way to illustrate how much growing they still have to do when they come to school dressed in their mom or dad's clothes.
However, while I love the day I think the kids can't wait until they get back into their own sized clothes. If you see the size of some of their shoes and the length of their sleeves I'm sure you'll understand why.




One of the reasons I laugh all day. Students with a tight grip on their pants..er shorts all day long.

Check out those shoes!!

Check out those shoes!!



You get to see how many times those pants were rolled up later!


All day long I thought the kids were asking me questions when they put their hands up in the air. Turns out they were just trying to pull their extra long sleeves back.


Amazingly no one tripped over their shoes or shirts all day.




Here we are showing off our not quite Grade One sized feet.

Whoa look how much longer my legs still have to grow!



A singing we will go
Here's the big day, off to sing at the nursing home! They were excited to go, clutching their cards in hand ready to regale the folks with their musical prowess.

Ah, don't we just love car seats?

Here we are singing and signing Jesus Loves Me


That's my poppa on the left! He enjoyed the show :)

Singing along with our choir teacher extraordinaire!
Let's see...was it the Hallelujah Chorus they were singing? Maybe For Unto Us. It doesn't look like the Mozart song (aka beep, beep, vroom, vroom. That did it. It's stuck in my head now!)

They're all admiring the musical talents of our two piano players.

What a good job they both did!