Funny Songs

We checked out Bryant Odens' Songdrops website for some funny Christmas songs!  I think Santa's Solar Sleigh and Three Pairs of Long Johns are going to be some new holiday faves!

Holiday "Jog"

Click on the gingerbread man for some great holiday sites on the web!

Yay! We're Sliding!!

We've been enjoying some great times for outdoor phys. ed. on our school hill.  The sliding has been fast and fun!  Even though it's been a little on the brisk side, you can't beat the smiles and squeals as they fly down the hill!

How to get your kids to be a fanatic reader!

Read this awesome article by famous author, James Patterson.  He gives some great suggestions for books to hook your kids!

Hallowe'en Jog

So I just discovered a very neat thing for us!  A Halloween Jog!  It's a collection of interactive websites from Karen at The Organized Classroom Blog.
Click on the image to get started!

Thankful Turkeys

We are so thankful!  We've had a wonderful week filled with gratitude for so many things and people in our lives.  We celebrated "Do Something Nice" day on Wednesday (5th).  We enjoyed it so much, it's continuing on.... our class is a great place to be!
We ended the week with a delicious school-wide turkey with all the trimmings lunch last Friday.  The entire student body gathered in the gym and enjoyed a tasty meal!

Abracadabra!

Some students had some extra fun finding some simple magic tricks to perform for us!

Terry Fox

We talked a lot about Terry Fox last week.  We watched some news highlights as he began his Marathon of Hope and even listened to some archived interviews.  What an amazing person!  Here are some pictures of us on our school-wide Terry Fox walk.

We also were fortunate to have a visit from Mrs. Reid-Thorpe.  She told a story of working in Ontario during the time that Terry Fox was running in that province.  She shared a memory of a morning driving down the highway and seeing police cars with their lights on.  She drove on carefully and actually passed by Terry as he was running this stretch of highway.  It was pretty amazing to hear from someone who had witnessed his courageous journey.  She also generously shared an autographed Marathon of Hope poster that Terry had signed for her brother.  It was a neat addition to our day.

We learned a lot about Terry Fox and we wrote some poems to share what we learned about this Canadian hero.  Click on the link to student blogs to read them!

We share our talents!

We enjoyed listening to Keaton share his guitar playing skills this afternoon!  We learned that he has only been taking lessons for about a month! We were impressed!  We are looking forward to his next appearance! :)  Thanks to Robby for taking photos.  We are also looking forward to seeing the other talents that our classmates have!



Citizenship Brainstorm

To begin our discussion of citizenship and what it means to be a citizen, we got into groups.  Each group had a different dilemma to brainstorm solutions to.  Each group then rotated through all the dilemmas.  You can see that everyone was working well together to come up with some solutions!  We had a great discussion about what it means to be a citizen afterwards.

Welcome to Grade 3!

What an exciting start to Grade 3!  I am thrilled to be teaching at Taylor School this year!  I'm hoping that this will be a great place to share what's happening in our class!
We used this video as a springboard to discuss our role as a learner in our class.  We had a great laugh and already a week into school, the kids are telling each other to "get off the escalator!".