Things in BASES are buzzing...

After an ‘interesting’ first few two weeks of school, which included several glitches with the bus company.  However, we seem to be settling into our school routine.  THANK YOU for your patience and understanding.

The BASES classroom is buzzing with activity!  Highlights of the Week include:

• a morning routine of lockers, checking schedules and handing in planners.  This is followed by calendar, weather and current events (in the coming weeks, students will be bringing news stories as part of their homework)
• beginning a Science unit on Plants.  Each student has a bean seed germinating in a plastic cup.  We are excited to observe the first signs of growth so they can be planted.  We will be graphing each stage
• learning some basic French vocabulary, including les actions (actions) and les couleurs (colours)
• delivering the fruit and vegetables to the whole school as part of the school-wide fruit and vegetables program.  In keeping with this, our students are learning vocabulary for  les fruits (fruit) and les legumes (vegetables) .  Mr. Stroh and Mrs. Becker plan to play French BINGO with the new vocabulary words, during Block 4.  BRAVO!
• preparing their duotangs for Response Journal, Journals and Math.
• a collective effort in creating our first display in the display case of ‘Signs of FALL’ from leaves and branches we found on our Nature Walk
• beginning our unit on Geography and the world by sending our first 5 postcards to  Finland, Germany, Russia, Netherlands and Michigan.  We look forward to receiving our 5 postcards from Around the World!

Upcoming Events:

• In-class music program on Tuesday afternoons, with Sheila Lee
• Swimming program start-up for some students
• Grocery shopping trips to prepare for our...
• Thursday lunch program