Christmas approacheth!

It's ever helpful Miss J trying to make your Christmas shopping easier. Oh what to get Oma and Opa, Grandma and Grandpa for Christmas? Our school CD of course! No home is complete without one! [including yours, do you have one yet? :) ] Our classroom often rings with the joyful sound of first graders singing lustily along with the CD!


And...it's almost here!
Update!! It is here! Playing on my tv right now and in my car a few hours previously. And it's fab! :)
Coming very soon to a school near you, the students of CCS in the Easter and Christmas Messiah. We were fortunate enough to watch a sneak peek in choir on Wednesday. They were certainly excited to see themselves on the small screen! And what fun to listen to them all spontaneously burst into the Hallelujah Chorus along with the DVD!

The package includes a CD of the Easter and Christmas Messiah and two DVDs. One DVD contains the Easter and Christmas performances and the other DVD is the play and special features and a few hundred still photos.


You can contact the school to order Messiah for Young Voices or purchase The Music Within.

The week that was...

Check out the speedy fella! Every other Thursday we are fortunate to spend 45 minutes at the gym. They come in and warm up practising their skipping or galloping etc.

Here we are practising our over hand throw. I'm determined to get my girls throwing properly by the time I get them again for the baseball team!

READY...

SET...

THROW!

One of our favourite activities is noodle tag. This is Everybody is It tag. You can tag anyone and they're caught and have to sit down. On the other hand, anyone else can come along and tap you with their noodle and you're back in the game. Sure makes you run!

We also play hospital tag. The green noodled people are the germs trying to make the students sick (caught) and the students with blue noodles are doctors healing people and putting them back in the game.

We're in trouble when the doctors get caught!

Ah Blizzard. Not in my good books this week. We let him wander the classroom for a bit. I thought he was hiding under my computer desk for some peace and quiet. Yeah. He was actually busily chewing my computer mouse cord in half.

Here we are playing math facts Around the World. If you're fast enough with your facts that you make it around the world (class) you get a turn being the teacher. And I get to play :)

Looks like it was a tie






We had Shadow the kitten come in on Friday for a class visit. She certainly was a cute little thing!


Shadow introduced herself very quickly to Blizzard. Blizzard was interested for a moment. And then was introduced to a clawed foot through the cage.

Robert Munsch isn't just a class fav!

I think they'd have been quite happy for Shadow to take over for me for the day.


Shadow did this a few times, seeking a quiet place to hide maybe?

Star of the Week! November 13-17

It's Monday, the first day of being Star of the Week, and you've gotta do a good job of pointing out all the pictures on your poster!

...because you've got a rapt audience...

....and they've got lots of questions.



Cool camel eh?


Yay! Friday's fab for hearing what we say about you! Class consensus...our star is really fast!

Book Week

It was Book Week this week at CCS.
Although we do spend time after lunch reading, this week being book week we spent a few extra minutes Dropping Everything And Reading. We especially enjoyed having some guest readers come in to our class and read a few of their favourite books.





Friday was book character day.
Dress up days are always fun -- here we are in our costumes with our books. The kids looked GREAT! We went by our book character names all day. Or we tried to! :)













There. Never let it be said that I won't put myself in this blog! Of course, it is true you won't find very many pictures...


For Book Week the class received their own copy of Franklin in the Dark. Here we are showing off our copies and reading the book. This was also the story our student teacher told us a few weeks ago!