Happy Holidays!

Dear Room 10 Families,
Just wanted to send a quick thank you for entrusting me with you most valuable treasures. Each and every one of our students in room 10 is cherished and contributes so much to our little Room 10 community. Wishing everyone a very Merry Christmas and a very restful winter break. Here's to a joyful and healthy 2020!

Love,
Stacy McCaw

This week in room 10...

NATIONAL MUSIC CENTRE
We started off the week with a super amazing trip to the National Music Centre. We had the chance to learn how music is made up of many patterns and to explore all the different instruments and exhibits at the National Music Centre. One of our favorites was the Kimbel Movie Organ. It was amazing to see how all the pieces worked together to create the musical sound track for old black and white movies. This was extra interesting for us because we are just finishing up the novel Hugo Cabret which is about old black and white movies. Thank you to all the volunteers for joining us!

VIP

Thank you to Spencer for a great job being our VIP this week. The class loved your estimation jar and your super cool egg and bottle experiment! Matthew was chosen as VIP for next week.

Last Week Before Winter Break

We have a busy week planned next week! 

Spirit Week:

December 16th-19th
*Caroling and Talent Show - students will be going to the gym to participate in caroling each day this week as well as watching the grade 3/4 talent show each day (Grade 1/2 talent show will be happening at the end of the year)
*Holiday fun - students are encouraged to participate in wearing fun socks, sweaters, green/red and fun hats this week - the list is below
*Gingerbread houses - we will be building a gingerbread community in our classroom on Tuesday and Wednesday this week - we are looking for volunteers to help with building and working at our "candy store table", if you are available to help out please email your child's teacher
December 16th - Fun sock day, Caroling and Talent Show at 9:30am
December 17th - Ugly Christmas sweater/Cozy sweater day, Caroling and Talent Show at 2:30pm, Gingerbread Community building 1:30
December 18th - Wear green and red, Caroling and Talent Show at 9:30am, Gingerbread community building at 11:00.
December 19th - Fun hat day, Caroling and Talent Show at 2:30pm

Caroling daily

Ginger Bread Community: grade1 one's are making ginger bread communities in their classrooms. Please be aware that the structures may be on the floor or on a mat being made into a community. The students will be able to bring their structure home but we recommend that they be for display! 

Thursday: Last day for students. 

December Fun!

December is going to be very busy at Maple Ridge School and in Room 10. Here are some important updates and information:

December 9th-13th
December 9th - National Music Centre Field Trip - all grade 1 classes
December 13th - Last day for Food Bank donations - we are collecting donations for the Calgary Food Bank this holiday season

December 16th-19th
*Caroling and Talent Show - students will be going to the gym to participate in caroling each day this week as well as watching the grade 3/4 talent show each day (Grade 1/2 talent show will be happening at the end of the year)
*Holiday fun - students are encouraged to participate in wearing fun socks, sweaters, green/red and fun hats this week - the list is below
*Gingerbread houses - we will be building a gingerbread community in our classroom on Tuesday and Wednesday this week - we are looking for volunteers to help with building and working at our "candy store table", if you are available to help out please email your child's teacher
December 16th - Fun sock day, Caroling and Talent Show at 9:30am
December 17th - Ugly Christmas sweater/Cozy sweater day, Caroling and Talent Show at 2:30pm, Gingerbread Community building at
December 18th - Wear green and red, Caroling and Talent Show at 9:30am, Gingerbread community building at
December 19th - Fun hat day, Caroling and Talent Show at 2:30pm

Sled Challenge

Room 10 is exploring what makes a good sled. We have decided to try to make our own sleds (mini) out of LEGO. Together we came up with a criteria for what a good sled would entail. We decided that a "good" sled should have a flat bottom or base, it should hold the passenger in, it should be stable, straight and balanced and it should look cool! After the students finished constructing their sleds they documented them in their math journals. We then learned about the feedback process and in small groups we gave each other feed back regarding how our sleds met the criterial that we created earlier. Some of us took this feed back and changed our sleds to better meet the criteria. Today we had the chance to try out our sleds on the small snow hills in our yard. We decided as a class that LEGO is not the best material to use for sleds because it is not smooth enough and the small holes on the bottom stop or slow down our sleds!

Tomorrow is STEM night please join us from 6:00-7:00 for some fun STEM activities.

Friday is PJ and stuffy day for room 10!!!!! We have been working hard to earn this.

Our kindness Gnome has joined our class, ask your child what he is looking for!

LEGO Math!

Today we had a LEGO math challenge. We gave our LEGO pieces points and had to build a structure that added up to 25 points. Most of us built our structure first and some of us gathered our pieces that added up to 25 then created our structure. We then had to document our structure in our math journals.

STEM NIGHT: Please join us for our STEM night this Thursday from 6:00-7:00 pm. Each classroom with be hosting a different STEM activity for you to try out with your child. 

Food Bank: We are collecting for the Calgary Food Bank until around the 12th of December.