Wow! I can’t believe that the calendar says December. Time flies when you’re having fun. This week the class was busy creating a snowflake art project, working on Dream Box, reading every chance they could get, learning about their sense of smell, and starting our service learning project.
It snowed on Monday, so we decided to make snowflakes! We used watercolour paint to create our backgrounds and added salt before it dried to create the effect we wanted. The kids then glued their snowflake to their backgrounds in a way that made it look like it was falling. Their creations are hanging in our hall and the kids are looking forward to sharing them with their families.
This Friday, we started our winter mission and we couldn’t be more excited! The Super Kids have challenged our whole school community to donate new or gently used winter gear to our winter mission. There are many kids in our own school division that come to school not dressed for the harsh weather. Many schools in our division welcome donations so they can give these items to their students. Our classroom motto is, “A persons a person no matter how small. – Dr. Seuss” . We strongly believe that we as 6-8 year olds can make a difference and help. After first asking our principal for her help and support we got to work. Our custodian got one of our school’s Christmas trees out for us to decorate with mittens, scarves and hats. We plan to wrap boxes to go under and around the tree for our fellow students to put their donations in. We even have made a connection with our local high school’s knitting club. They plan to knit scarves and donate them to our cause! The ball is rolling and I’m so proud of my students for tackling this challenge!
We plan to support other charitable class projects this month too! Our 3/4 buddies and our class will be partnering up to support a local family for the Christmas Cheer Board, and we plan to bake cookies with the Kindergarten classes for them to donate to local charities. It really is amazing what a group of kids can accomplish and how we can make a difference. We hope we inspire your family this holiday season. 🙂
Check out some of the week’s highlights.
Using our sense of smell to try to identify items. The kids couldn’t stop laughing!
“Read to Self” time
Dream Box learning
Looks like there is a lot of snow in the forecast this week! The Super Kids will be thrilled!
