Spirit Week

He read from Shazam.

Illustrator Mr. Anderson 

For I Love to Read Month we had Spirit Week. Tuesday was dress up like a Dr. Seuss character or wear a silly hat, Wednesday was wear a readable shirt day, Thursday was dress up like a book character and Friday was PJ day. It was a great week of school spirit. Our class won a prize for our great participation in wearing a shirt with writing on it. What a treat! We even squeezed in a visit from an illustrator and the Fit-a-thon.

Silly Hat Day!

Fit-a-thon

Dress like a book character

Here are our thoughts:
I dressed up like Bat Girl. Pajama day was so comfy and cozy. -Bianca
I liked pajama day because it was comfy and I barely got to go outside. I went to run club. -Brody
I liked pajama day because it was so comfy and we took a picture of us pretending to sleep. We had so much fun in our pajamas. -Adria
I liked pajama day because in my pajamas I could just fall asleep. -Jack
I dressed up as Pinkalicious. People kept asking who I was. I had the book to show them. -Charlotte
I liked pj day because we got to stay in our pajamas all day. -Lily
I liked wearing pajamas. -Chase
I liked wearing my pajamas because I like them. -Andrew
Pajama day was fun. -Desi
I wore a t-shirt that said, Smile, Love, Be happy. It was pink. -Brooke
I liked pajama day because I could fall asleep. -Ava
I liked when we decided to fall asleep and then we woke and I was about to actually fall asleep. -Marshall
I liked pajama day because I can sleep in my pajamas and I don't have to change. -Blake
I liked wearing my angry moose t-shirt. -Dominic

Mrs. Palamar stopped by when we were having a class meeting on Friday. We were feeling so cozy we just put our heads down. . .just. . . for. . . a . . . minute. . .

Thanks to everyone for the great fun this week. Thanks to the I Love to Read Committee for all their organization and hard work. We have had so much fun celebrating reading.
-Mrs T :)

PJ Day! zzzzzzzzzz

Tournament of Books

For I Love to Read Month our school is having a Tournament of Books. We have read two books so far. One was called Edie's Ensembles by Ashley Spires (She is the author of Small Saul which every Grade One student in Canada received as this year's TD Grade One Book Giveaway) and the other one was Morris Micklewhite and the Tangerine Dress by Christine Baldacchino. We were fortunate to have Mrs. Small, our school secretary, come to our room to read them to us. On Thursday we voted for our favourite book out of the two. It was a close vote, but Edie's Ensembles won in our room. All class votes will be tabulated and the winning book for this week will advance in the tournament to go against a new book that we will read next week. This is such a great way to have the whole school talking about these books. I wonder which one will be the winner? Stay tuned!

Mrs. Small had on a lovely ensemble

Edie's Ensembles

Don't you love Mrs. Small's tangerine top?

Morris Micklewhite and the Tangerine Dress

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Good-bye February

It was an emotional week for all of us. Our thoughts go out to our classmate, Ashley and her family. It is times like this when we pull together and support each other. We made cards for Ashley and I was so impressed at how thoughtful the students were in carefully writing a message from their hearts. The voices of Grade 1s are innocent and honest. . . their words touched my heart. We were able to get in some laughter too which is always important. The week ended with students dressing up like a book character. It was a fun way to end I Love to Read month!

Here are our thoughts:
We made cards for Ashley. Mine was pretty. -Hunter
I liked my card because it had three pictures on it and it looked nice. -Xoie
I took my time writing my card. I hope Ashley likes it. -Kody
I was sad when we were making the cards because I was sad for Ashley. -Kyla
I hope Ashley likes the cards we made. -Saydee
I liked making all the cards. They were really cool. -Ezra
I liked that we got to dress up into any book character we wanted. I was a fairy. Isla
I dressed up like a pink pop star today from a Barbie book. -Diamond
I didn't have time, but I would have dressed up as Batman with a black mask. -Brayden
I liked when we dressed up and we got to see everyone's costumes. I am Pete the Cat. -Rylee
I wore my Olaf t-shirt for dress up like a character day. -Brianna

We dressed up like a book character.

I was going to dress up like a monster high character, but I forgot. Since I forgot I said I was a zombie because I made my hair look all messy and I walked with my arms out straight. -Shelby
I liked today because lots of people dressed up. If I didn't forget, I would have dressed up like Brady Brady, a hockey player. -Ashton
I didn't dress up as anything, but I said I was one of the people from Diary of a Wimpy Kid. -Reese
I dressed up as Clifford the dog for book character day. -Kayden
It was fun dressing up as a book character. I liked when I got to see all the book characters. I dressed up as Mr. Incredible. -Andrew

Thanks to everyone for taking care of each other. I am looking forward to what March brings.
- Mrs. T :)

We LOVE to Read!

February is I love to Read Month. We have lots of fun activities planned. There was a reading bingo sent home last week. If you complete an activity, have a parent sign it and if you fill in a row you can bring in the paper to the library on Fridays and Mrs. Dent Scarcello will give you a prize. We are also part of a February Instagram Challenge so if you follow us you can see what we are posting to share our love of reading.

We talked about why we love to read so much. Here are our thoughts:
I get better at reading when I read each day. -Andrew
My buddy reads to me in the morning. -Kingston
It's fun to read. It's nice and quiet when we read. -Hunter
Reading makes us smart. -Kyla
I can learn how to read harder books. -Ashley
I like to read with my grandma. She helps me with hard words. -Diamond
I like the details in books. Once you read a book you will know how to read it again. -Reese
It's fun to try to sound out new words. -Ashton
I like to pick the books I can read. -Brianna
I can learn about different things when I read. -Brayden
I love to read the words on the pages. -Kody
I can read curled up in my fuzzy blanket in the corner of my couch. -Ezra
I like the pretty pictures and when the words are dark to show shouting. -Shelby
I like to read books about my favourite character. -Xoie
I like that I get to pick my own spot when I am reading at school. -Isla
I like to read books out loud in my group. -Kayden

This book is going to be recommended 
on the announcements tomorrow. Have 
you read Smelly Socks?