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!

Busy Little Bees!

Never a dull moment in the BASES room!  Here are a few of the things that have gone on in our room in the 10 days following Halloween:

• After a WONDERFUL group effort in the Halloween door decorating contest, cleanup was in order
• Student council delivered some bags of treats for a door decorating job well done (despite not winning the class pizza party)
• A group of students went shopping for our first group luncheon and applied their money skills in a real world setting
• Students participated in cooking Hawaiian Casserole (both meat and vegetarian versions).  A DELICIOUS meal was enjoyed by ALL the BASES students, Peer Tutors, SEAs, Teaching Staff and Administrators!  YUM!!
• We have completed our measurement and money units.  We are now beginning a unit on computation, focusing on addition, subtraction, multiplication and division.
• We are continuing of plant unit by measuring our bean plants.  October bar graphs have many bean plants measuring as taller than 20 cm!
• We have been writing a series of character analysis for 'Saved by the Bell'
• Each student has chosen their first novel to complete a novel study project
• As shown in the previous post, students were learning about remembrance day, leading up to the writing of postcards to soldiers.