I sense some videos are coming up...

We're learning about the five senses and we started off with "sight". Yesterday we were talking about how our sight helps to protect us: we can see dangerous things etc.
Today we talked about how we can enjoy things using sight, especially things in creation. Well, we enjoy a lot of things!
We thought we'd show the things we like to see by drawing them in chalk on the front sidewalk of school. I thought I'd make some videos so you have some idea of what it's like in Grade One and Two.


Boys. Boys are different than girls.



Ugh. Next time I shall remember not to say anything when I'm recording. I don't like listening to myself!

And some pics of the kiddies. Until the memory card in the camera refused to let me take any more.

I wasn't sure of everything that was being drawn. This was very neat when they were finished with it: The Bruce Trail. And then they had to walk all the paths that they had drawn :)

You'd think that the arrangement of fellows would be the other way around, but no. The tall one has to look under the not-quite-as-tall one's legs.

Sunshine and sky and flowers and birds. No bleeding fox for these two!

Good thing I had a lot of blue chalk, much of it was used as lakes and waterfalls.

It was a great buy, these 100 sticks of chalk from Costco! I wonder if they'll last the whole school year long. Yeah, I don't think so either.

Hangin' around

Some assorted pics for your perusal..

Here are some first day of school pictures.

Mrs. VanHof celebrated her birthday on Labour Day and treated the school with popsicles. The kids were happily consuming them at recess.

In math class Grade One had a pile of items that they sorted. They had to come up with their own sorting rules and (inevitably) they started with two: sorting by item and its colour.

Then I told them they could only choose one rule so they sorted by colour.

And then they sorted by item regardless of colour.

When we sorted kids we had some different sorting rules. This one may be difficult for you to notice. Highlight between the brackets for the answer. (They all have velcro shoes)

Know this rule? ( They are all wearing shorts)

Working on their friendship pictures.

Every year I take the Grade Ones outside for their Star of the Week picture. After their picture gets taken they head off to the playground for a little extra play time. Grade Two was apparently watching enviously from their classroom.

That's it for now!

Phew!

It's 11. I just got home from the Convocation.
I'm tired, I can hardly imagine what the little ones who have just finished their first week of school are feeling. I did spy a few of them in different parts of the audience asleep on mom or dad.

Thank you for bringing them!
But, as always, I thoroughly enjoyed watching and listening to them sing. They were fabulous. A little tired yes, but fabulous :)

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Back to School!

I know it would be boring for you if I told you of all the aggravation I've been going through to get back to posting pictures.  Let's just say I've been having blogger issues that I've just figured out.  And now picture me patting myself on my back :)

But here we are!  Back to school again!  As per usual at CCS we begin the year together with an assembly and here they are all stretched out at the front of the room.  (The very hot room as those who were in attendance with us will know)

It's not hard to figure out who my new kids are and who are the returning "veterans" -- the newbies aren't quite as comfy as the Grade Twos are.

And here they are:  the Grade One class being introduced to the school.  Before the assembly starts I have just enough time to tell them that they are going to be introduced to the school and all they have to do is stand there and look pretty (or handsome)  They look a little uncomfortable to be centered out eh?  And check it out, for the first time in a number of years the row of Grade Ones stretch out into a row and a half.

And then the assembly continued.  It may have been a little much for the little ones...

But then we had some comic relief with Dr. DV who was telling us all about his "purple dress".  The kids were enthralled

See?

And so began our first day of the school year 2009 / 2010.  We had a great day together!

In class we've been talking about spending our day praising God and the many different ways that we can do that.  We hope remember this through out the year and we pray for God's blessings on us in this school year.

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