Happy, Healthy & Holy Hearts

We've been learning about Christ's love for us and have been celebrating friendship and kindness. With Valentine's this week, we've had a lot on the go, so here are just a few highlights!

We got sticky and creative and made bright, beautiful "heart art" canvases! 

Aren't they joyful and unique?

The stickiness didn't stop there! We made mailbags for our valentines by filling in a heart with tissue paper:

Delivering our cards was the best part!

What better way to celebrate our hearts than by heading off to the gym for some healthy heart-pumping skipping! We skipped in support of Jump Rope for Heart, a initiative supporting the Heart & Stroke Foundation. 

Valentine's Day gave us a chance to sharpen our numeracy skills! We tackled missing numbers to 20 ...

 ... and challenged ourselves with a number hunt, colouring in the numbers we found on a 100's board! Look at the hidden picture!

We certainly had fun celebrating Valentine's Day, but whether it's Valentine's or not, we share love and kindness in our classroom each and every day. 

May you have a happy, healthy, and holy Valentine's Day!

God Loved Us First

As we stepped into a new week of learning, the focus of our week was "love". We had several meaningful conversations, and our big take aways were:

All love comes from God. 
He loved us first. 
God always loves us. 
God always forgives us. 

We had lots of conversations about love. How do we show it? How do we feel it? How do we experience it? How can we tell it's there? Our new Science unit, Senses, dovetailed perfectly with our exploration of love!

After a little sponge painting...

... we wrote how we experience love, using our 5 senses!

Look at our beautiful work!

Project inspired by Mrs. Mac's Kinders!

Little Leaders

Today the students in our 1/2 class led our school prayer assembly! Our theme was love, and our prayer assembly centered around a well-known reading from first Corinthians:

Graphic courtesy of here

The boys and girls in our class, many of whom are emerging readers, worked very hard to read their parts confidently. 

Those who did not get a speaking role this time led the actions to our song. Have a listen, it's catchy!

In class, the children reflected on what love looks like and how we can be loving every day. They were excited to share their work at assembly!

We gathered, we sang, we danced, we prayed. 

We were all so proud of the beautiful prayer assembly we led today. Leaders come in many sizes, and today our leaders were little!

Valentines Day: Friends and Fun!

Valentine's Day is an excellent reason to celebrate our friendships, as well as sneak in some curriculum, too! 


We all love Splat the Cat. He is such a goofball and it seems he is always into some kind of trouble! This week we read Love, Splat. 

After reading (and really enjoying) the book, we made text-to-self connections. In the book, Splat felt loved when (spoiler alert! eeek!) Kitty gave him a special Valentine. The boys and girls connected the story to a time in their lives when they felt loved. 

The next part of the "craftivity" was to make Splat! This was a super activity that took several steps, loads of patience, and lots of teamwork. This was a challenge!

All the hard work and patience paid off! 

"I felt loved when my cat cuddled me."

"I felt loved when my dad took me to the dog park."

Not only did Valentine's Day give us a chance to sneak in some writing, but it was also a chance to sharpen our Math skills, too! We played a BINGO game that gave us practice identifying and naming numbers to 100! Perfect fit with our curriculum!

Having TOO much fun playing Heart Bingo!

We were thrilled to spend time with our Grade 5 buddies making Love Monster mailbags! Aren't they creative?

Then we delivered our Valentine cards to each other! 

Organized chaos ... or maybe just chaos?

We finished off the day enjoying the friendships we have made in our class by playing Valentine's Minute To Win It! Mrs. Beliveau loves competition and fun, so the students had several crazy challenges to complete in a minute!

The first challenge was Heart Stack. How many candy conversation hearts can you stack in a minute?

The next challenge? Lava Heart! Using only two hearts to stand on, can you make it across the room? Don't fall in the lava!

The final challenge was Broken Hearts. Students passed a tissue paper heart using clothespins! Careful, don't tear it!

Our Valentine's Day was filled with learning and friendship and fun! Happy Valentine's Day!

Love Monster Mailbags are from The Teacher Wife. Splat the Cat activities are from Cara Carroll's mini-unit Love, Splat. Our Valentine's Minute To Win It was inspired by Mrs. Schmelzer's First Grade.