Gil, the Betta (a.k.a. Siamese Fighting Fish), arrived to our classroom today. We are very excited to have a classroom pet!

Have you ever had a pet fish? What kind?

Today was our Christmas concert! We had two performances – one in the day and one in the evening. The whole school did a really good job :). Way to go grade 3’s!

What was your favourite part of the Christmas concert?

We have a special visitor in our class for the month of December. It is an elf sent from the North Pole who we named Zack. He watches our behaviour at school all day and reports back to Santa each night to help create the Naughty or Nice List. Every day when we arrive back at school, we find our elf in a different spot!

We have been working on this art project in steps over the past couple of weeks and most of the class finished today! The sunsets were made with watercolour paints. To make the grass students blew blobs of black paint with a straw and then used a toothpick to spread it out. After students made their bats out of construction paper. Great work, grade 3’s!

What was your favourite part of making the bat sunset pictures?

In our novel, Silverwing, Shade and Marina have finally met Goth and Throbb.

What do you think is going to happen next in Silverwing?

Students in our class have the privilege of sitting on exercise balls this year instead of chairs!

We were very fortunate to get a class set at our school. The students seem to really enjoy sitting on exercise balls and I have seen a lot of benefits for their concentration and body control.

Why do you like sitting on a ball?