Here's our blast from the past! Celebrating the 50th day of school!

Last Wednesday afternoon, as part of our 50th Day of School celebration, we pushed all the desks out of the way and learned how to twist and jive and have fun dancing in the style of the past.

Can you find your little bopper in the crowd?

They were such good sports, and tried all the moves we saw on the little videos that I showed them, except for the ones where the girls were getting thrown over the boys' backs!

How low can you go?

The boys learned that dancing with girls is kind of fun!

This little guy helped me demonstrate how to twirl a girl around.

Wouldn't we all love going for a ride in a pink cadillac?

I'll want to know where these two are in about 10 years!!

(SOOOOOO CUTE!)

Waiting for a turn at bowling.

Learning how to make the hula hoop go around!

Thank you! Thank you! Thank you to the mom who rescued us and took these wonderful pictures with her phone!

What a week!

Our 50th day of school was on Tuesday.  I can hardly remember the first day, how about you?

Because of the choir recording for the CBC contest, we pushed back our special celebration until Wednesday.  I forgot my camera at home AHHHH!!!!!

Good news is that a very helpful mom took photos for me and I'll put a few on the blog this week.

I know it seems that the 50's day was just a whole lotta fun,

but in reality, there was a whole lotta learning going on.

We did tons of math, lots of writing and even a little bit of craft time was thrown in for good measure!

One of the new experiences for the students was learning how to write steps or directions in correct sequence.  They can tell you how to make a root beer float!  We used the opportunity to also create a graph and you can see by the results, that almost every student in the class liked them.

Yummy!

We also had our 'new to our parish' priest come and visit.  Father Jim absolutely loves kids!

Actually he loves people, and it shows!

If you haven't met him yet, you really need to!

The 50th Day of School

Back on the first day back after Fall break, we celebrated all things "50's"

We learned about the way children dressed and compared it to today.  We also compared cars, restaurants, clothes, toys, books and toys. Some things are very different than today!

I laughed because my 'modern' version of a music player was an iPod, and the children didn't know what that was!  Our world is changing so fast!

Here's all the gals...

and guys in their finest!  Love the white t-shirts and leather jackets along with the rolled up jeans!

We did a little experiment before the students got to taste their root beer floats.  In one glass we put the ice cream first and in the other glass we put the root beer first.  The students were amazed at how different the results were!

They didn't all love it but they were good sports and all tried this 50's favourite.

We also learned the steps to make a bubble with bubblegum.  

We had a lot of success!

I really do believe that their favourite activity was our little 'sock hop'

We watched a few old dance shows using Youtube and the students knew that the dancing was going to be pretty fast.  We tried the hand jive, the twist and a couple of steps of the jive.

The smiles say it all!

They really were delighted that they had to dance "boy-girl"

Every time the music changed, they had to change partners.

When they wrote about their thoughts about dancing, one girl said "my skirt didn't go up as high as the girls who danced in the 1950's."  I loved that attention to detail!

They cruised off into the sunset with this pink cadillac!

We're dancing in phys. ed. class now and today my class was able to teach another Gr. 2 class how to do the twist!  It was so much fun!

Sock Hop

On Monday morning, the students got to try another part of the 1950's, bubblegum!  For some of the students, blowing bubbles

 was something they were already proficient at,

and for others, this was a new accomplishment!

Look for their writing the directions when you next see their Evidence of Learning binders!

In the afternoon, the students were excited to be part of the Sock Hop!  Thanks to the parents who came and helped keep us all under control!

The students learned how to do the stroll, the twist, the rock step and then

boys danced with girls and learned how to twirl them around!

Lots of smiles,

and giggles!

I think they had a BLAST!!

They loved bowling!!