From October to December 2023

Falling into Winter

Blog updates tend to go in hand with newsletter updates and it seems I have been lagging this year in doing both. So lots of pictures to share the happenings of the past 3 months!

School Adventures

I stepped into teaching a class of all boys with a little fear and trepidation but they have turned out to be a refreshing joy to teach and have renewed my passion for teaching.

Reading Day 2023

Traditions stayed alive with this year's Reading day at the end of October.

I had just finished reading Fantastic Mr. Fox to my boys so decided that was the costume of choice this year.

 

We had buddy reading and bookmark making and Where's Waldo Hunting. A day enjoyed by all.

Learning about our Senses

This year I am teaching Science and Social Studies to both the grade ones and twos. SO I still get to teach all 20 of them for one class.

This year we got to explore our senses and visit the Museum of Senses. So much fun watching these kids learn about their world and how amazing God is in creating our bodies to explore, create and understand.

 

After learning about the senses we moved on to learn about Celebrations around the world

We received packages from our friend Globe Trot Scott who taught us about Remembrance day, Thanksgiving, Diwali, Hanukkah, and Christmas traditions.

Hanukkah

Christmas!

Making Wrapping paper

Celebrate!

Students dressed up in traditional clothing and we had a celebration with food and games

I made stockings again this year for the boys and filled them with 

chocolate coins, candy canes and a toy car for Christmas.

Thankful for such an amazing team of teachers that I get to work with!  Full of holiday joy as we dressed up for pyjama day on our last day of school before the holidays.

It's Tradition!

There are many traditions that I continue from year to year and having my students memorise Luke 2 verses 1-20 is one of them. They worked hard this year and we managed to learn all 20 in time for our Christmas program. With the help of the grade twos they illustrated all 20 verses.

Can hear their performance and see their pictures in the video below

Also if you would like to watch our Secondary School Christmas performance click the link below

This post got very long so in my next post I will share all my adventures outside the classroom :)