Spirit Week and more

Last week students came back to work after a restful 4 day weekend.  They came back to SPIRIT WEEK - a school wide event with dress up days to build and promote Sullivan School Spirit.  Tuesday was PJ Day, Wednesday was Jersey Day, Thursday was Favourite Teacher Day (coming with a Shiv as Mr. Stroh, Alisha as Ms. Yahn, Ellen as Mr. Dewinetz and Janelle as Ms. Ringham) and Formal Day (Hamza, Thomas and Mike were all looking pretty snazzy in their fancy wear).

Other things going on last week included:

• Students busy working on their computation and fractions unit in math
• continued individual novel studies and response journals
• using iPads to explore the world during brain breaks
• receiving more postcards:  from Ohio, Scotland and Russia!  We will be sending more next week.
• studying cooperative games and beginning an UNO competition!
• measuring and graphing out beans' growth. many of us discovered that not all living things last forever - some made their way to the heavens of Bean-opia!  Great opportunity to write down some observations of too much water, not enough water, non enough sunlight etc.  All students with a living bean plant made the decision to move it to the windowsill.
• Be began out social circles - tapping into our emotions (and our drama skills) with thermometer check
• individual art projects during "make-it" time, using our many art discoveries from the cupboard (beading, sparkle paint, door hangers, to name a few)

Upcoming:  our weekly science experiments and observations unit.  Our first experiment will be BLOBS in a BOTTLE!  Stay tuned for photos!