TWAS March 2

Hello All,

I hope that everyone is safe and sound as we endure/enjoy (depending on your perspective haha) yet another very wintery day!

It has been such an amazing week.  I will let the following student quotes speak to our many activities, and have asked the children to expand on these memories with you when they get home.  A couple of highlights to ask them about:  the amazing trip to Dr. George to meet the monster artists (the cards that your children made are pictured below; so much work and love went into them); community building (what do communities need to have to make humans happy and how can you incorporate that knowledge into a creative urban community design); performing key magnetism concepts, non verbally, through drama. 

A request:  Our class is hoping to create a type of welcome wall in Cranston School.  Our goal is to write hello in every language that is spoken in Calgary so that every family that enters our school feels welcome.  We know it's a big goal but if anyone can make it happen it is this crew!  If possible would you have some family conversations about all of the languages that you know to be spoken in Calgary; that would give us an excellent starting point. 

One more request:  As swimming is coming up in April, and we always struggle to cover supervision for the boys, it would be wonderful if some dads would consider joining us. We have one amazing dad who is able to cover 2 days so we are off to a good 'volunteer' start.  If you don't have volunteer clearance we can get started on that right away.  Just email me or call the office and we'll get going on it.  

We are beginning drum fit next week so there is no artist of the week to share about.

A very real math problem that we worked on and figured out this week:

We need to make 68 thank you cards for our artists.  There are 20 of us.  How many cards does each of us have to make? There can be more than one correct answer. 

Thank you so much volunteers who made our trip to Dr. George Stanley possible. It was an incredible experience that was all the more special because you were there!

Room 73 student TWAS quotations:  

“We have been doing hockey in gym.  It is hard on the scooters to try to score. I did it though!”  Chloe Ma

“We went to Dr. George Stanley and saw our Arteeeests. It was fun seeing our monsters. I just really liked how they drew it.  It didn’t turn out how I thought it would be but they tried their best and they were nice.  One of my partners was twice my size and I kept on thinking they were adults. They said I was funny.”  Riley M.

“We started to do the yearbook pictures. I think that it is going to be fun because last year was really fun.  I like that we get to draw the back cover.” Emily M

“The walk to Dr. George Stanley was fun because there were moms there with us.” Lincoln

“Over break someone was not playing nicely with the ice from the snow fort and I got his on the head.  It hurt a lot and Xander helped me to feel better when we were walking down the hallway.” Tate Z.

“On Wednesday we played with our grade 1 buddies.  We wrote on pink paper for Pink Shirt day and went on Razz Kids” Sophia L.

“In music our genre of the week was disco and it was cool and on Friday morning we danced to the YMCA.  Ms. Tuff and Ms. Thomas thought is was snowy and blue so we should dance to the YMCA!”  Caeden K.

“We did our magnet plays in science. We are not allowed to use words and they have to guess what the actors are doing. It is hard to perform.”  Malika S.

“This week at Daily 5 we are doing funny story with our sight words.  They stories are confusing . . . we share them in Author’s Chair.” Jericho D.

“We made 68 cards for the artists who made our monsters. The artists were really good and I really my pictures”  Zurie

“This week at school we were talking about building communities and in our science green books we had to write what we are going to put in our communities.  The communities need to make humans happy and they have to have grocery stores and trees and other stuff.” Camilla E.

“This week at school we did a map for our communities.  I can’t wait to build the communities so we can paint them and put on the roads and stores and libraries and other things.” Brinn

“This week at school we learned about disco and practiced our plays for magnets.  We also went to Dr. George.  Going to Dr. George was fun because Kyron and I jumped in the snow on the walk.” James

“Story walking is fun because you step into the middle of the storyboard when you talk about the main idea.” Coco

“Mr. Scout came with us when we went on the community walk. Dr. George Stanley School was pretty big but it was also pretty cool. My grandma came with us too.  It was really cool that grandma came.” Kyron B

“I have really good plan to build my community.  People will really want to buy a house in my community.” Noah S

“We planned communities so the world will be a better place. We also did science and we took notes and we are doing a play about those notes.”  Maksim

“Today at school we did all kinds of things. We did math, science, socials studies go to music. Right now we are doing TWAS and I am giving a note to my parents about school.” Carson  

"Hello, we are doing fun art in school it is pretty fun.  We are doing TWAS this week.  I am making mine into a comic.  We are doing music and in music we are doing disco.  It is fun because the people who make it are super awesome."  Xander C

Drive safe, stay warm and have a wonderful weekend!!

Mrs. McArthur