Terry Fox Walk

Today we had our Terry Fox walk. I was so pleased to see the excitement and concern for others shown by our students. Chants of "Go, Terry, go!" were heard all around the Hugh Beaton community today. We raised a lot of money with our "Toonies for Terry" and the children were inspired by Terry Fox's message of hope and determination. He taught us that we need to dream big and to believe in ourselves to make the world a better place. Terry left us 31 years ago, but his spirit lives on in our children.

Dot Day

On Friday we read the book, "The Dot" by Peter H. Reynolds. The story is a wonderful reminder that everyone can be an artist, that all artists begin with a single dot. Unfortunately, some students come to school with the attitude that they "can't" do art, or that what they make isn't "good enough". "The Dot" is the story of Vashti, who turns from a shy child who refuses to "make her mark", to a brave artist who fills her world with colour and hope, an inspiration to others.Here are our Artist's Work:

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Spelling City

Check out Spelling City to practice your sight words. We have a free version to use. Just go on spelling spellingcity.com/1jhughbeaton
To access cool games. Look for the lists that begin with 2012, for example 2012-sept4-20. Happy practicing!

Graphing our glyphs!

We took a look at out first day project, a glyph I found on Pinterest. Our people showed whether we were a boy or a girl, whether we walked or drove to school, and the number of people in our family. It was a fun activity for the first day and a great introduction to sorting and graphing.

What We Learned About By Playing With our Math Kit

We played with: Cube-alinks(connecting cubes) small toys like Dinos, cars, food, animals Frameworks Geoboards Geometric tiles Square tiles One classmate found out that blocks are not a good choice for buidling a tower, because they fall over. But, we decided that we learned a great deal from this. We learned that some manipulatives are better for different things. For example, connecting cubes are better for towers because they stick to each other and won't fall over. Most importantly, we learned that we need to make "mistakes" to figure things out and to learn. We all agree we already knew that it is fun to play and learn.