THE PARTY!!!

Well, the highly anticipated day finally arrived today!  And what a day it was!!!

You can't help but have the "best party ever" when you combine 4 big celebrations into one!  

Here are a few pictures of some of the things that happened...  

We started by reading all our valentines and thanking our friends for the cards! 

Thank you everyone for taking the time to "share your friendship" with one another!

One of our valentines was a fortune teller.

Hmmm...who is this from?

Carefully packing all my cards away.

Next, the activities began!

There was exercising...

...hat making

...picture making

... and bookmark making

Then came the FOOD!  And my goodness, did we have food!!!

We needed 3 tables to put all the food on!

There was jello...

...chips, chips and more chips

...cookies and popcorn and homemade donuts

... MORE cookies and egg tarts

...and coconut buns

...and yorkshire pudding!

And... THE CAKE!!

We ate all day and STILL have treats to enjoy next week!  Thank you everyone for bringing in all these goodies to share!!

And, as one of our little party planners said in her "toast"... cheers to 100 days of hard work and learning!!  (And happy valentines day and happy lunar new year too!)

Our "BIG" celebration is finally here!

February may be the shortest month of the year, BUT it is also one of the busiest months of our school year!  This February, The Lunar New Year, Valentines Day, our 100th Day of Grade 2 AND  a birthday all landed around the same time!  So, as a class we decided to hold one BIG party to celebrate all these special days!  Well!  That day is finally here - tomorrow, February 19th!

A very active committee, (made up of 6 great little planners) has been organizing this big day for a couple of weeks.  They made a list of things to do, made up a sign-up sheet for food classmates can bring to share, and planned the day (which will include, physical activities, arts and crafts, lots of counting, games, a movie, and of course, FOOD!) 

Today, with a little help from our visitor, Ms. Bake and our teacher Ms. Quon, the six children gave up their gym time to set up the classroom, cover tables, decorate with streamers, prepare activity centres, and blow up A LOT OF BALLOONS!  We are ready for tomorrow!!

The door is decorated with streamers and signs 

Look at what we are celebrating tomorrow! 

A "happy" sign is up and ready to greet the class tomorrow! 

Make your own hat station 

Heart-shape pictures station 

Here is a planner from the committee making a sample to show her classmates what they can do at this activity.

At this station we can make a 100-day bookmark.  A committee member hard at work making a sample to show her friends

No party would be complete without BALLOONS!  Here they are ready to hand out to everyone!!
It is going to be a memorable day for all of us!  

A really good book!

Today Negar  came to our class to read a book called Cloud Country. Its about cloudlings graduation .                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        

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 Our favourite part is when they are getting ready to graduat from school. We really like this book.  Wish you were there.Bye Bye

ud country.

VSO - The Vancouver Symphony Orchestra at the Orpheum

Yesterday we went to the VSO. When we got there the lights turned off. they started playing music. we sat down and we heard a song .It made me happy and made me sleep. I fell asleep because it was a good song. The lights turned back on. we felt super happy.

And, here are some of our stories and pictures of the trip.  Enjoy!

Our Heritage Projects

For the past few weeks we have been busy at work learning a little bit about our "roots".  Thank you to ALL our families for helping us with our homework, and talking to us about our family's countries and nations.  With the information we got from home and our research on "culturegrams" using the iPad, we gathered a lot of interesting information about our countries.  The last two weeks we have been writing and writing and writing!  Once we edited our work we were ready for the next step...putting our writing together!  Here are a few pictures of us preparing our posters!

First we laid things out on the background of our choice.

Then, we cut out our work.  The border made a nice frame for our writing and drawings!

Some of us went on line to find some "food" pictures to add to our posters.  We learned to search for images, copy and paste an image, and make it the right size!  There were many steps to remember!

Here, everything is ready to paste onto our poster board!  We are SO excited to be "almost finished"!

It is coming all together!  
The projects look beautiful AND we are all so proud of our work!!  We can't wait to share it with everyone at our School's  Multicultural Fair which is coming up at the end of this month!  Make sure you come to the gym to see our work on display.  There will be hundreds of other students' work up to read too. Keep your eyes open for the notice about when this event will be!

Ice Skating at Britannia

This week we went skating at Britannia Ice Rink.  We had so much fun with our friends!  When we came back, we made little scenes of us at the ice rink.  It was tricky figuring out how to make our cut outs stand up.  But everyone put on their thinking caps and figured it out!  And, our pictures show such creativity!  Come and look at them on our bulletin board!

Here are a few ...

List 14 (N)

Here are the list 14 words


boat
coat
float
long
along
belong
paw
fawn
tall
wall


♪Have a nice day!♫  And practice your words!