The final whirlwind of a week is over and the winter holidays are here! Thank you to all the grade 2 families for your support and care over the first half of the school year. This week was one of the busiest but also most fun of the year. Here’s a video with all of the highlights:
During language time, apart from practicing for this week’s spelling tests, the students created their own Christmas trees and then decorated it by colouring different ornaments. The language and unit connection here was that instead of decorating their own ornaments, they decorated ornaments to hang on their classmates trees and wrote kind messages and compliments to their friends.
On Tuesday, we had a wonderful time making gingerbread cookies and reindeer poo treats together with Mathieu’s grandmere and Gabriel’s mom. The treats were a lot of work, but they were worth it as they turned out super tasty! We even made another batch of reindeer poo on Wednesday just to make sure that we would have enough! Then we made some nice “one-of -a-kind” reindeer cups to sell them in, and on Thursday, the students helped sort the cookies into baggies for the market.
We also had a special visitor on Thursday and the students each got a book as a gift.
Then finally, today was the big day for the Christmas market and lower primary concert! The grade 2 students did an excellent job of running our shop and we managed to sell all 57 cups of reindeer poo and 41 packs of gingerbread cookies! We raised just over 15000yen for charity! Thank you to everyone for your support.
To end the year, we played one last Kahoot quiz that was all about Christmas!
Now that the holidays are here, they can enjoy a couple weeks of family time! We wish everyone a wonderful holiday season and look forward to seeing everyone back in the new year on January 9th. For homework over the holidays, the students are encouraged to do a lot of reading, finish up work on Seesaw (especially adding things to their portfolio on Seesaw - 3 unit activities and 2 specialist class activities for both unit 1 and 2) and they can also practice their math or language skills at Prodigy.com.
Merry Christmas, and a Happy New Year to all!
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