{"id":824,"date":"2014-03-02T17:56:00","date_gmt":"2014-03-02T23:56:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/funwithfirsties.com\/2014\/03\/2014-winter-olympics-and-compound-words\/"},"modified":"2014-03-02T17:56:00","modified_gmt":"2014-03-02T23:56:00","slug":"2014-winter-olympics-and-compound-words","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lsdesignssites5.techsurgeons.com\/index.php\/2014\/03\/02\/2014-winter-olympics-and-compound-words\/","title":{"rendered":"Winter Olympics and Compound Words"},"content":{"rendered":"
\nIs it spring yet?! We have been stuck in what the news is calling a “polar vortex” (not kidding)<\/i>\u00a0for WAY too long. I am jealous of all my southern-state friends who are enjoying morning tea outside on their porches right now!\u00a0<\/div>\n
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\nBut, although we’re facing arctic conditions up here in the north, it really does set the stage for a celebration of the WINTER Olympics with my firsties!<\/div>\n
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\nSince we had two “snow days” last week (I put that in sarcastic quotes since one of the downsides of living in a northern town is that huge dumpings of snow, ice storms, and other insane winter weather is apparently no biggie so school is always open, busses just get cancelled)<\/i>\u00a0I ended up having 12 of 22 kids (grrr! haha)<\/i>, where some classrooms had as little as 2 kids. The upside to all this is that our awesome principal let us watch the gold medal hockey game as a school in the gym. GO CANADA GO!<\/div>\n
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\nTo show our team spirit, my kiddies whipped up a couple festive crafts:<\/div>\n
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\nThis is a great go-to activity for pretty much any occassion. All you do is cut out the shape you want, colour around the edges of the shape (in this case a circle)<\/i>\u00a0with pastels, and hold the shape against your paper as you smudge the pastels outward onto the background paper with your finger. Smear the pastel all the way around the cut shape and then when you remove it, you get a silhouetted “glowing” effect on your background paper. Let me tell you, my kids were all over this craft!\u00a0<\/div>\n
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\nAfterwards, we marched down to the gym to watch Canada beat US\u00a0<\/i>in our nation’s game with our home-made Olympic torches:<\/div>\n
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\nAnd in no way related to the Olympics, earlier we learned about compound words and started this anchor chart:<\/div>\n
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\nWe added to it throughout the week and it now hangs with our other poems and whole-class charts in our reading centre:<\/div>\n
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\nStay warm, friends!<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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