Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!

Here are a few pictures from our very busy week here at Fairvale!

I had to get a picture of the three musketeers in their matching shirts on Concert Day!

Our "good" PJ picture.

The "better" PJ picture. What goofs!

 I hope everyone has a very Merry Christmas and a prosperous New Year! Have a great break!

 

Mrs. Ashley Daley-Creamer

Gingerbread Men

Yesterday Mrs Veale came in and did some fun activities with gingerbread men with our class. We have been doing a lot of math and literacy activities with gingerbread men and this was a fun day to wrap it all up! Mrs. Veale read the kids a few stories, made a Gingerbread man glyph with the kids and decorated cookies with them! We love having volunteers in our classroom-especially when we get to make things we can eat! Below are a few pictures of the kids with the gingerbread men. Unfortunately I only snapped a few pictures before the kids had their cookies gobbled up!



Mrs. Ashley Daley-Creamer

Holiday Information Items

    We are working on many surprises this week for our parents and for our big buddies. We have mini hammers going,glue sticks ready and sparkly beads all shined up for the wonderful surprises for our families. The kids must feel like Santa's Little Helpers!
   Next week will be a very fun week here at school. On Monday, we have rehearsals for our Grades

1-5 Christmas Concert.On Tuesday we have our actual concert . I hope you can all make it-the kids have been working very hard! We have the pleasure of attending  the Kindergarten Concert on Wednesday. The Grade 1's think it is so silly that they just did that last year. They are getting to be big kids at school! On the 20th, just roll out of bed and show up to school because it is PJ Day!

     We will be sitting in the gym in our jammies watching all of the older kids perform in the lip sync. Mrs. McNeil always has a great line up for us. The last day (December 21st) is a FULL day. We have a very special visitor coming. HO HO HO! The kids will be eating a yummy turkey dinner and will be participating in their spirit squads. We are all geared up for an exciting week and a half. Let me know if you have any question, comments or concerns with any of our upcoming events.

Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays!

Mrs. Ashley Daley-Creamer

Gingerbread Man

 This week, in Literacy, we have been reading many different versions of the story The Gingerbread Man. We have been writing about the stories, using the stories to look for text features and talking about the similarities and differences in each story we have read. The kids were very proud of their observations and asked to have their work posted. I think they just enjoyed feeling grown-up and using post-its to write down their observations while we read. I told them this is something big kids do when they are studying and they really got into it!

 

 

Mrs. Ashley Daley-Creamer

Place Value and Skip Counting

 Here is a quick update about what we have been doing in Math class!

Our One's have been working on skip counting. We talked about different ways we can count (by 1's, 2's, 5's and 10's). The One's were given baggies of objects to count. They needed to decide how they are going to count their objects (by 2, 5 or 10), put the objects into groups of 2's, 5's or 10's and then skip count the objects. They are getting very good at this!

 

 

Counting his group by 5's. 44 objects-the kids even know what to do when they can't put their objects into even groups of 5!

This little lady was counting by 2's. You can't see it, but she stacked her counters into stacks of 2.

They loved counting by 5's.



This little one finished counting by 2's so she decided to count her group of objects again but this time by 5's!



Another little one who finished counting by 2's and has started counting by 5's.


 

 

 

 



The Two's have been working on place value.The development of the concept of place value centres around grouping activities and the children's understanding of unitising (the concept of 10 ones equals 1 ten). We have been using ten frames and place value mats to help teach this concept.

 

 

 

Mrs. Ashley Daley-Creamer