Woo Hoo! Class Trip!

There's nothing quite like finishing off our Woodland Natives unit like visiting a native village. It's fun to see how the kids were always so interested in their learning and then being able to see the things we had talked about.

"Look a longhouse!"

"It's a palisade!!"

Regaling the guide with their knowledge.

Always a highlight -- checking out the interior of the longhouse.

Pounding the corn into cornmeal.

The games are awfully fun!

Look ma!....

...no matches!

Playing native games like Rattlesnake and Hunter.

They played this game the rest of the year (in class) using their pencils. You placed a stick on top of your hand and then had to try to catch it with your palm facing down. It's actually harder than it looks!

awwww :)

Aw, mom! More sunscreen?!

Going for our stroll around the "lake". And look, they're actually walking. That's more due to the proliferation of poison ivy just off the path. We certainly didn't want them picking flowers on this day!

Painting with Grade 6

It's become somewhat of an annual tradition to invite Grade 6 to help us with our play backdrop. They were very happy to comply and they did a marvellous job designing and painting our backdrop and props.

See, we were wearing paint shirts. It is rather amazing how they can still get half of their paint on themselves rather than the paper.

Mrs. Twinkle Jr. helping out.

Think we should have starting painting in the middle and then moved to the edges? Yeah, me too.




And then I had paint-y footsteps on the floor.




Working away while enjoying the view of the fruits of our labours. Looked good eh?

Play Day

I took lots of pictures this day, but for once most of them were not of Grade One! So this is what I've got.

Watching the team

We practised running long jump a lot. Who knew it was quite that hard? But see how she's checking to make sure her foot ends up on the board and isn't jumping a metre behind the board? Ah, practise makes perfect...or better anyway.

Good ol' Spider Web.

50 metre dash

Here's the Dr. Seussian One Fish, Two Fish, Red Fish, Blue Fish team.

Soccer baseball's terribly exciting when you get on base safely :)

Frisbee bowling, which is actually very difficult!

Also quite difficult was the Centipede, but hey, it's all teamwork! And if your team is working together you can really fly through this event.

But the highlight of the day is always the Wheel Relay Race. It's so much fun watching the school running by.

And it's so cute to see the Grade Ones running with their Grade Eight team members.

Awaiting the results, ok and enjoying the freezie.

The Three Little Pigs

Follow the links for the play in video.

The room was filling up and the day was about to begin...Time to perform our play for the students and parents and grandparents! We had been practising for a long time and were eager to share with others, although I think some were a little frozen at the sight of just how many others came to see the play!

Our narrators:

And the play began with Mother Pig sending her little piglets out into the great, big world.

They met some friendly people along the way.

Well, those pigs met the farmer, the woodsman and the builder, but I think only one of them built a house to withstand the elements...and hungry wolves.

Uh oh, here comes that big bad wolf with bacon on his mind

He's huffing and puffing and those little pigs are getting scared!

Whoa, that wolf is all out of hot air. He can't blow that house down!

The cast!

Thanks for coming and sharing our big day with us!