Hello families!

I hope you all had a restful and enjoyable holiday season 🙂  Welcome to 2017!

The first two days back at school was wonderful.  It was so nice to hear all of the students’ stories about what they did over the holidays!

Before the break, we had a lot of excitement.  We finished our Holiday Calendar Extravaganza activities which involved learning about Hanukkah, Kwanzaa, the Winter Solstice, and Christmas around the world (Russia, Uganda, and Mexico)…

We even got together with Ms. Perkins’ class and engaged in a compare and contrast activity using a Venn Diagram.

As a class we read “The Polar Express,” made our own Polar Express books, engaged in literacy activities, and then watched the movie.  We discovered there were many differences and similarities between the book and the film!

Then, with our buddies we made paper bag puppets! Some of us made reindeer, Santas, elves, or  snowmen.  We had a lot of fun and our grade 7 buddies were wonderful!

And of course, we went bowling!! Our buddies were, again, very helpful and encouraging.  We had such a great time 🙂

Looking forward to our first full week!

Ms. Holmes