I Love to Read About China Assembly

There was a Chinese lion that did a lion dance for our I Love to Read About China assembly. -Mason

The lion came up really close to me and Elissa! -Kennedy

The lion did really cool tricks! -Danika

We loved the assembly! -Aliyah, Airianna & Shayla

I liked it! -Kynan

Kwan used handkerchiefs to dance. She spun it around with one hand. It was really awesome! -Anna

Kwan had some volunteers to come up and try to spin the handkerchiefs around.  Some people's handkerchiefs fell on the ground. -Nolan

I got to try the handkerchiefs.  It was kind of hard. -Brooke

It was really hard trying to eat popcorn with chopsticks. -Kynan

It was too hard to use chopsticks! -Anna

The popcorn was good and it was really really fun eating the popcorn with the chopsticks. -Danika

I got some popcorn with the chopsticks, but I ate the rest with my hands. -Brooke

It was fun using the chopsticks. -Josh

At the end of the day we got to eat popcorn with chopsticks and it was really fun! -Elissa


When I was eating popcorn I only got to eat one with chopsticks and then I ate some with my hands.  Then I put the popcorn in my pocket and ate the rest of the popcorn. -Jesse

It was really fun using the chopsticks.  I had a lot of fun! I ate most of it with my hands. -Shayla

I liked using chopsticks! -Chelsey

It was the funnest thing in the whole world! -Mason

The popcorn was super duper yummy!  I got my first one with no butter on it. -Kennedy

We were watching a movie and then the SmartBoard bulb popped! -Aliyah, Airianna & Dylan






It was hard to get the popcorn. -Megan

It was lots of fun eating the popcorn! -Camp

I stabbed the chopstick into the popcorn. I put lots of popcorn in my mouth in this picture! -Nolan

Nolan was very funny when he put lots of popcorn in his mouth! I had fun eating the popcorn! -Veronica

Charlie Comes to Visit St. Andrews School

We saw Charlie and Pat Harrison.  They came to St. Andrews School to visit and tell us about how they make "Fluffy and Charlie" books. -Camp

Charlie is a dog in books that we like to read. Lots of people have "Fluffy and Charlie" books.  They are awesome books! -Josh & Brooke

Fluffy and Charlie are cute! -Chelsey & Megan & Veronica

Fluffy and Charlie are good friends. -Anna

 Pat Harrison told us a story about one day when they went for a walk with the dogs. When they got home there was a black hat in their front yard. She had always wanted to do a snowman story, so this was a little freaky.  Then she made the snowman story "Snowdogs" about Fluffy and Charlie. -Shayla

Fluffy and Charlie are famous! -Airianna

 We got to see how they made the books. They showed us pictures of the four machines that they use to print the books. There was four different colours- yellow, blue, magenta, and black.  Then they showed us all the Charlie books. Then she read us "The Three Little Pugs" and Charlie has allergies and he kept knocking down their houses. The only one he didn't knock down was the Lego house. After Fluffy introduced him to the little pugs.  They used the hot water to make bone soup. I really liked the book! -Jesse

 We got to pet Charlie at the end. -Danika

We enjoy reading her stories. -Kynan & Elissa

Fluffy and Charlie books are funny! -Nolan

Fluffy and Charlie's newest book is going to be about a sugar rush! Miguel and Maddie in grade 3 gave her the idea.  The grade 3's in St. Andrews are going to help her make the new book. -Kennedy

"Fluffy and Charlie" books are the best books of all! -Mason

We love "Fluffy and Charlie" books! -Aliyah

Happy New Year!

 We had a New Years Party! -Danika

We watched a countdown video and got to throw streamers and blow horns. -Nolan

We had lots of fun! -Shayla and Joshua

 Mrs. Bailey popped a thing that shot off confetti and streamers, while we blew our horns and threw our streamers! -Jesse and Brooke

 We counted down from 36. -Chelsey

It was really noisy! -Anna

I liked the countdown! -Aliyah and Megan

We made our faces out of paper and wrote down our goals on the hats. -Mason

We coloured a 2015 sign. -Camp

I think it was fun. -Kennedy

Yay! It's 2015! -Airianna

Christmas Cookie Scene

Today we had a lot of fun decorating our sugar cone Christmas trees and making snowman out of cookies and marshmallows.  The children loved doing this activity, and their final products showed great creativity!  Hope you enjoy the pictures!

Grade One Selfies

We got large paper and laid down on them. Our grade 6 book buddies helped trace us. - Airi

Our book buddies added detail and they helped us colour them. - Danika

We had to put our body parts on them. Some of us put the labels on the back. -Jesse

We cut them out for parent teacher. -Joshua

We put them up for parent teacher conferences. -Mason

On the back of our people we put a ruler to help it stand up. -Aliyah

Our teacher taped them to our desks so we couldn't open them. -Kennedy

We put them on our chairs. -Rowan

Our moms and dads looked at them. -Camp

We had parent teacher interviews. -Kynan

Our teacher took pictures of them. -Dylan

We got to take them home. I put mine on my door. -Brooke

We had fun! -Shayla

They look awesome! -Aliyah

We hope our moms and dads liked them. -Chelsey

Our book buddies are really good at helping us! -Elissa

They worked hard and we thank them for helping us! -Megan

We love them! -Kynan

They also read with us well! -Mason

Problem Solving

The problem was that the animals didn't like to be together.  So we had to move them so that there was 2 of a kind and 1 different in each row going down and across. Then the animals would be happy. -Megan

It was very hard to match them in each row. -Josh

We worked in partners. -Aliyah

We had to keep trying and not give up! -Mason

We matched them in their rows. -Nolan

First we moved the animals on a piece of paper, then we recorded our answer on paper. -Danika

I liked it.  It was easy! -Chelsey

It was fun! -Shayla

Happy Halloween

Our class had so much fun today!  We had a parade and then a class party this afternoon.  Here are some of the pictures.  We sure love Halloween!