Friday, January 17, 2014

Just be Friends

Hey Parents,

Check out our updated school locker on the JBF Kids website.  Our Just Be Respectful Rules Poster is on it and a couple of our students.  The Mayor has also taken on the Million Acts of Friendship Challenge.

You need to have an account to be able to see it.

We are pretty excited about it.


https://www.jbfkids.com/


Ms. Johnson's Grade 2/3s


#grade23life

Friday, January 10, 2014

Just Be Generous - December

In December, our theme of the month was Just Be Generous.  We did a ton of things to learn how to be generous to other people.  The first thing our class did was collected socks, toys, school supplies, shirts, games, soap, hard candy, toiletries, etc. for Operation Christmas Child. As a class, we gathered together 26 boxes of all of these things to give to other children all around the world.  We think the children will be happy when they receive the gifts.  We watched a video of children in different countries receiving their gifts.  Seeing the children makes us sad that they do not have very many things but it makes us happy to see them receive their gifts and look so excited for them.  Making these boxes for other children made us excited to be able to give generously to other children around the world.

In December, we learned about Polar Express and did many different activities around that theme.  One of the activities was making Candy Cane Cookies.  When we watched the movie we invited the Grade 1/2 Class to watch it with us and surprised them by sharing our cookies, that we had made, with them.

Our school did Operation Christmas Stocking.  It was different than Operation Christmas Child.  The gifts were given to people that are living here in our own city that don't have very many things to wear outside when it's cold.  Some of us in the class were still feeling super generous and collected socks, toques, mittens and toiletries to put together for OCS.  On the last day of school we had a school dance.  To go to the dance, we were asked to bring a non-perishable food item or a money donation.  Our whole class brought lots of food and some of the students brought money from their own allowance.

Giving all these gifts to the people that needed them made us feel good and taught us that we don't need to have all the gifts that we get.  Being generous also taught us to be able to give a gift without expecting anything in return.

"Just Be Generous" is one of the many qualities that makes a good friend.


Written by Ms. Johnson's Grade 2/3s