Thank you everyone for coming in for conferences the past two days. It was great to see you all, and hear about the kids' goals! I'm looking forward to working on these all together. 

This weekend's homework is to finish and re-write their spooky stories for Monday. Don't worry about everything being perfect. We will be editing these on Monday all together. Part of the homework is also to underline words that the student thinks aren't quite correct.
The students did a wonderful brainstorm about what we would see/hear/feel in a haunted house. I have attached a picture for inspiration with writing. 

I've also attached a few pictures of what we have been up to the past few days. Please enjoy! 

Finally, we will be doing a haunted house with our gr 1 buddy class. We are looking for parent volunteers to come in the afternoon on Oct 30^th to help us and our grade 1 buddies turn our class into a haunted house.  We are also looking for parent volunteers to help supervise our haunted house in the morning on Oct 31^st and to supervise the activities in the afternoon.  Please send me a note in your child’s agenda or an email mme.jessica.chapelski@gmail.com if you are able to help us on either the 30^th in the afternoon or the 31^st in the morning and/or afternoon.  If your child has any decorations homemade or otherwise (snakes, spiders, pumpkins, etc) that they would like to bring to add to our haunted house please make sure they are labelled with his/her name and send them on the afternoon of the 30^th.   Children are invited to come to school dressed in their costumes on October 31^st! 

Just incase you don't have this werk's dictée words, here they are 

Today we started writing our first letters to our new pen pals! How exciting! We have no idea who they are, or anything about them, so needless to say, our letters were full of questions! 

Students wrote their dictée pre test today, and if they had their dictée book, they brought it home. If your child forgot their book at home, please help them to remember it for tomorrow!

A big merci to everyone who gave us boxes, tubes, etc to help build our houses. If you still have things hanging around home that you could donate, we could still use them! 

Oops! There were notes to go home about the bake sale this week. It is div 1's turn this Friday. Reminders will go home tomorrow! 

Thanksgiving

Here are some pictures of what we have done for thanksgiving. Needless to say, I was exceptionally impressed with all the things they came up with in their brainstorm of what they are thankful for. 

There are also some pictures of the mindful drawing we did in class today. Be sure to ask about all the steps it took!

Welcome!

Bonjour division 1 of Douglas Annex, and welcome to our blog!

I will be posting here periodically throughout the week (2-4 posts a week) of what we are doing in class, dictée words, and ideas for enrichment at home. Stay tuned for pictures tomorrow of our Thanksgiving projects.

Until then, feel free to browse previous posts from last year, or check out the 'links' section. There are lots of interesting links there for learning at home!

I would officially like to invite you to our classroom on June 27th, the last day of school, from 11:00am to 12:00 noon. This will be just after the year-end assembly which is in the morning before recess.

We have two field trip notices coming home today! One for swimming and one for Stanley Park. I saw there was one set left over in the class...so if you are missing one, please make sure to pick up a new one from the bulletin board outside the classroom! Merci!

What a fun week we have had so far!! 

Here are a few points to start some conversation. 

- Tuesday we had a 'body scientist' lesson from the Saleema Noon group. 

- Tuesday we also started our new (and last) social studies project. Be on the lookout for something big!

- Today we had a chance to visit the micro green fair and learn lots about micro greens! 

- today we also had a visit from the librarian from the West Point Grey library. She read us a great (and hilarious) book called 'I lost my hat' by John Klassen. The next book is called 'Fish' and I've heard it's wonderful!! 

She also spoke to us about the summer reading program at the local library, which I highly recommend!!

Four girls in our class organized a scavenger hunt for Monday's lunch recess. For those who signed up, here are the teams 

Visit to UBC

We had such a fun time! Here are some pictures from our afternoon. Thanks for all the parent help we had!