The Grinch and Writing Similes

We had a great time reading and discussing the classic Dr. Seuss story How The Grinch Stole Christmas.  The students brainstormed characteristics and adjectives of the Grinch, and his heart.

After discussing similies, and identifying some that the students had heard before ("As hard as a rock", "As cold as ice", "Easy as pie"), the students wrote some similes about the Grinch and his heart.  This idea came from a teacher blog that I follow, and the students did a great job!  Enjoy reading a few...

Mission Walk...

We had a wonderful walk to the Downtown Mission.  Our final can total for the class was 108 cans - WOW!  Thank you again for helping our community.  The students delivered all our class cans to the front foyer, and then we helped to walk some cans down to the Mission.  There were so many cans, that we actually made two trips!  It was a beautiful day, and we sang as we walked - what wonderful memories were made!

 

Helping the Community

WOW - thank you for your generosity! 

Our class has collected 105 cans for the Downtown Mission. 

Dear Parents:

We will be participating in Dougall’s annual Walk to the Downtown Mission on Wednesday, December 7, 2011.  The entire school will walk to the mission and deliver all the canned goods we’ve collected since Halloween.  Thank you for generously giving to support others in our community.  The walk will begin after morning announcements, and then we will return to the school as soon as we’ve dropped off our cans.  Please check the weather and send your child to school ready for the walk.  We are looking forward to taking part in such a worthwhile community outreach activity. 

Thank you once again for your support!                 

Making a Difference...

Thank you so much for your support of our Halloween For Hunger can drive.  We had a class goal to collect at least 50 cans.  Due to your generosity, we almost doubled that total and collected 93 cans!!  As a school, we surpassed our school goal and collected more than 1000 cans for the Downtown Mission.

Helping others in our community is very important not only to Dougall, but to the students in our class.  Thank you so much for supporting others in the community, and for truly teaching your children the importance of helping others.

Our can drive is not over - if you have any other cans you would like to donate, please keep sending them in.  As a school, we will take part in our annual walk to the Downtown Mission to hand deliver all these cans at the beginning of December.

I can't say it enough - thank you, thank you, thank you for giving!

We remembered...

We took time to remember all the men and women who have worked so hard, and given so much to bring peace to Canada and the world on Friday, November 11th, 2011.

We read this story, and had some time to talk about what Remembrance Day is really about...

The students wrote postcards that will be sent to Canadian Service Members in Afghanistan.  They shared words of thanks on Remembrance Day.

Dancing and Mapping??

We have been having an amazing time with Miss Louise - our LTTA artist.  LTTA stands for Learning Through The Arts.  This is an amazing program that allows school to partner with artists to help students learn about curriculum topics, but using the arts.  Our focus has been Social Studies - Mapping.

Miss Louise has helped us to understand how we use maps, and what important places are on maps.  The students have not only been dancing, but creating their own dances and performing them for each other.  We have one visit left this week - and we will be sad to see Miss Louise go.  However, the dance techniques and mapping skills she has taught us will be hard to forget!

(Sorry some of the pictures are a bit blurry - it's hard to catch how quickly they were dancing!)

Good, Clean Words

The students are having a blast at our newest literacy centre.  All we needed were a few cookie sheets, and a can of shaving cream.  The students have been practicing writing their letters, numbers, names and practicing their WOW words.  This is a fun and easy activity you can try at home.  Both cookie sheets and shaving cream are available at a dollar store near you.  Take a peek...