Christmas Concert Preparations

For this year's holiday show, we are signing and singing the song Up on the Housetop. Here are the words:

Up on the Housetop the reindeer pause
Out jumps good old Santa Claus
Down through the chimney with lots of toys
All for the little ones Christmas joys

Ho ho ho who wouldn't go?
Ho ho ho who wouldn't go?
Up on the Housetop click click click
Down through the chimney good Saint Nick

Signing Lessons

Every Tuesday morning Angie and Lorna facilitate a signing workshop with our class. They are great teachers! We are all learning to communicate better with Angie using sign language.

A boys versus girls "sign off" to finish our session on animals.

What to do with all the Halloween candy wrappers in Qikiqtarjuaq...

For a week after Halloween we collected candy wrappers from students in all classes of Inuksuit school and used them to make a poster reminding people to reduce and reuse their waste. The poster is hanging outside of our classroom.





Joy and Susan show off our wrapper collection

Getting started

Timothy working hard

Adding the finishing touches

The final product: "Reduce and Reuse Your Waste"

Why was the skeleton afraid to cross the road?

It had no guts!


And neither did our pumpkin after we finished with it!

Tyson putting the finishing touches on his Halloween mask

Who lies behind the mighty moustached mask?

Halloween masks and decorations

More masks and decorations including the pumpkin that won us a pizza party

A Few Weeks Worth

Our first Thursday morning music session

Ronald taking a break from work to pose with his wonderful SSA, Geela

Starting to work on flashcards to help our grade 1/2 buddies learn the alphabet

Exploring the human body centre: clay organs with Eric, Marissa and Joel

Exploring the human body centre: Karen posing with "Bones," our class mascot

Exploring the human body centre: organ identification with Leetia

Exploring the human body centre: organ identification with Tyson and Angela

Waves, parties and the wild life inside our classroom...

The Human Knot: an energizer after lunch

...untangling the knot!

Brandon, Tyson and Leetia helping with the class party preparations

Eric posing with his paintbrush

A scene from the first grade 6/7 class party of the year held in our classroom.

A round of beaver tails at the class party

Angie and her younger sister

Grade 6/7s of tomorrow!

Learning about waves on a Friday afternoon

Facing East towards more wave watchers

Reading Buddies with Grade 1/2 Class: Oct. 12

Susan helping out with some pumpkin colouring following a reading session

Joy is on the left with her buddy and Karen is on the right

Brandon entertaining with his wild book of puzzles

Joy captivating her audience

Leetia and her grade 1/2 reading partner showing off the book they read together

Marissa on the left and Ooleesie on the right

All smiles with a book about gummie bears!

Angie and Lorna teaching sign language as they read

Tyson and his cousin in their secret hideout

Joel and his grade 1/2 buddy