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!

odds 'n ends

I have hundreds, no probably thousands, of pictures that I've taken of the kids this year that are stuck and hidden on my hard drive.
So here you go. Assorted odds and ends :)

I tried hard to get this one :)

Birthday hat for the birthday boy. That's a birthday cake hat BTW.

The end of Snuggle Up and Read! Here they're posing with their new books and last certificate. Yes Kevin Henkes is one of my favourite authors, how'd you know??

This is way back when we were studying animals. The shark 3D book was a favourite of most of the boys. I liked it too, but that's because I had a hoot looking at them looking at the book.

Language Arts time. Yep, nothing like fixing all my mistakes on the board. And hey, look what they can do! Read handwriting!

Math class. We were learning to count by 10s.

I think.

It was all so long ago!

It was easier to make sense of the pattern of 10s and 1s using manipulatives. Plus it's fun :)