Why don't we have lockers anymore?

The new lockers that have been installed are bigger than the old ones and so there is not room for as many. For every 5 lockers that were removed, 4 were put in. Today in math we used tallies to count how many groups of 4 lockers there are in the hall. Answers ranged from the mid-30s to the low 50's! (There are a total of 190 lockers in the school.)

Lucky for us we have a hooks and shelving in our classroom so students have a place to keep all of their things. Now that boots are being kept in the classroom, it might be a good idea to keep an extra pair of socks in the bottom of the backpack (in addition to the bag of spare clothing which is now kept in students' desks).

Stouffville Spirit!

Today we were fortunate to have 3 members of the Stouffville Spirit hockey team in our class to help out. Students had a chance to read their levelled books to them. These volunteers also helped students with their writing. It was an exciting morning and students were sad to see them go!

Optimism in January

 

Monday we were busy preparing for the Optimism assembly on Tuesday. We read a familiar book called The Blue Day Book and talked about what we can do when we're having a "blue day" to try to feel better. Some ideas were: Dance like nobody's watching! Read a book! Smile! Next we watched "Never fully dressed without a smile" on youtube which got the students really excited about optimism, the song and making their optimism posters.

On Tuesday we presented our dance (posters in hand) to the "Never fully dressed without a smile song". Students had a great time and I was VERY impressed with their positive energy.

We have also been learning about optimism from a book called The Pout Pout Fish. There's a great sung version of this book on youtube if you'd like to have a look. Students had their picture taken with their best pouty face and wrote about what makes them feel like the pout pout fish.