Merry Christmas and have a happy (relaxing) holiday!

It has been a busy week!  A concert, indoor recess and lots of learning!!! Today we celebrated the last day with patterned Christmas crowns,  elf addition and a Santa story that had a surprise ending.  I hope you all have a very relaxing and restful holiday. Thank you very much for all of the wonderful gifts and thoughtful heartwarming messages. Take care, enjoy the time you get to spend time with loved ones and I will see you in January!!!! 

Discovering the joy of giving!

The students have been very busy making holiday cards at the discovery table in our room. They can't wait to give them out. Tis' the season to be generous! , and kind, and thoughtful, and caring.....Room

 14 is all of that and more! 

Gearing up for a Beary Merry Holiday!

We have been very busy practicing our concert songs. We have also been learning about a whole bunch if different cultural celebrations that happen in the winter. Can you name some of the holidays by looking at some of the symbols we created? 

A Haiku Deck for You: Beautiful Snowflakes

Krystal wrote a poem during Daily 5. Today she turned it into a slide show with illustrations using the haiku deck App on the class iPad. Enjoy! 

I'd like to share this Haiku Deck with you.
"Beautiful Snowflakes": http://www.haikudeck.com/p/cLP2mwXZZq

Haiku Deck makes presentations simple, beautiful, and fun. Download the free iPad App or sign up for the Web App private beta today to set your story free.

Sent from my iPad

Designers designing

Today we learned a new word.."prototype".  We made many prototypes of containers and then we picked our favourite to embellish using a variety of materials to add texture. Next we will be designing and creating a one of a kind masterpiece of our very own...but you won't see those until Christmas. 

Rangolis

WE learned about the Hindu Holiday of Diwali. It is a celebration from India that happens in November.  We learned the traditions that are associated the celebration.  One tradition we learned about was how people make Rangolis at their door to bring good luck for a new year.  We have been creating Rangolis in our room.

Painting texture

Today we painted but we did not use brushes. We used a bunch of different tools because we were painting to show texture. We used a variety if different techniques instead of just long smooth strokes. We dabbed, swirled, stamped, scraped, and combed.  Our textured painting looks very interesting. It almost makes you want to touch!! But not yet....it's still wet!!!

Concert preparation...

We are busy rehearsing for our concert! It's going to be "beary" exciting!!!!

Absorb or repel?

Today we read Mudpuddle by Robert Munsch.  The little girl kept getting covered all over with mud!!! She had a good idea because she decided to put on a rain coat to keep the wet sticky mud from soaking into her nice clean clothes. We did an experiment to see if water would soak in ( absorb) or if the rubber in a rain coat would repel the water (and mud)!  We found out the rubber raincoat repelled the water! Tomorrow we are going to test out other materials.  You could try some at home.  We wondered if our mitts absorbed or repelled water.... We will have to investigate that too!