Nothing "despicable" about this day!

On Friday, the boys and girls in Room 208 enjoyed "Despicable Me" day and it was so much fun!  Students started their day with a challenge: can you use your Play-Doh to make a minion? It was easier said than done, let me tell you!  

After that, we headed outside for some hilarious games based on the movie. The favorite was "Pop-oi". Students used the toilet bowl brushes to paddle a beach ball from one end of the field to another. In the movie, a Pop-oi is a toilet brush unicorn! 

In the afternoon, we made our "Minion-Mix" and enjoyed the movie together. Each ingredient in the mix is tied to the movie in some way, shape or form! 

The Cookie Crisp represents the cookies the girls sold. 

The Corn Pops are the moon that was stolen. 

The cheezies are for Agnes' caterpillar that never turned into a butterfly. 

The Goldfish crackers represent the sharks that swim under Vector's living room floor. 

The Lucky Charms had unicorns in them and Gru wins one for Agnes at the amusement park. 

And the mini-marshmallows remind us that "It's so fluffy!!!" 

 It was a perfect way to celebrate a year of hard work, the completion of EQAO and Miss Katlynn's last day in our class. We've been blessed to have the most incredible Junior Teacher in our room for the last four months and we will miss her very much.  

Then and Now!

What' the wifi password? 
Do you have Lululemon? 
What do you mean we have to make our own bread?

On Thursday, the boys and girls learned about "push" and "pull" factors that brought people to Canada around 1850. In addition to reviewing what we already learned about life a kid during that period, students also learned about how little people arrived WITH! Imagine living in a sod house because that's the best you could afford at the time!  


We had lots of fun watching a great video (shot here in Ontario!) about life as a pioneer kid! The video is called "Pioneer Life in Canada" and it was a really fun way to revisit the topics we've covered this year and add some new learning to our schema!  The character in the film goes back in time and experiences life as a pioneer child. 

While preparing this blog post, I found a great little booklet that parents may want to view/print out to help reinforce and explore further some of the information students have learned this term.  You can find it here.  It was created by the City of Vaughn, but many of the activities are still very suitable for any Ontario child studying early settlers.  

Can't wait 'til Friday!

Despicable Me day is Friday!
Details are in Tuesday's agenda! 

A relaxed end to a busy week!

We're getting our room ready for the last big holiday of the year: Canada Day!  It's hard to believe it's almost the end of our time together!  

The boys and girls have been working very hard on a craftivity about their EQAO experience last week. These smart cookies have a lot of great words of advice for their friends in grade 2 who wonder, "What's that EQAO all about?" We're not quite finished, but when we do, you can bet I'll post the photos here! 

We wrote our last Math test on Thursday and spent a good portion of this week reviewing those skills and and also looking at patterning, probability and transformational geometry as part of our Morning Work.  Some of that great work is coming home on Friday night! It does not need to return to school. 

As part of a very relaxed Fun Friday, we talked about an item that's been in the news lately:  banning drinking straws. We discussed the pros and cons of the matter, along with our suggestions for ways to make them more eco-friendly.  

After that, we watched a favorite movie of mine with a wonderful eco-message: Fern Gully!  It was a lovely (and funny!) way to cap off our 37th week together!