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Hello families, just a few reminders:

Pro D Day

Monday April 29 is a Pro-D Day. School will be closed for students.

Student Led Conferences

On Wednesday May 1, students will be dismissed at 1:55.

Student Led Conference times:

2 to 2:30: Amara, Elvin, Leo (Gr. 1), Kien, Lucas, Niharika, Niko, Jessica, Aiden, Evie and Olivia.

5:00 to 5:30: Vihana, Kaiya, Jaydon, Sofia, Leonardo G.

Book Fair

Mrs. Dias has organized for the Scholastic Book Fair to be at our school next week. We will visit on Tuesday for a “sneak peek”. You may visit the book fair on Wednesday with your child between 2 and 4:30 when you come for student led conferences. A portion of all purchases is donated back to our school for new books.

Have a lovely weekend!

Hello families!

Class Photos

Just a quick note to mention that class photos will be taken tomorrow.

Late Arrivals

I also want to mention that I really encourage families to try to have children at school by 8:45 every morning. Classes begin at 8:50 and doors close. It is disruptive for children to arrive after 8:50.

I often have up to 8 students arrive LATE (after 8:50) in the morning!

As a parent, I completely understand that mornings are hectic and we will be late on occassion. However, I have almost half the class arriving after 8:50 on a regular basis. This is also more work for the office staff because they need to mark the late absence at the office taking away from their precious time. Please try to be on time to teach your children the importance of being on time.

Thank you very much!

Spring, Shapes, and Student Led Conferences

We have enjoyed a beautiful week with lots of outside time and opportunities to observe the gorgeous flowers that are blossoming around us.

At the art table this week, students sketched cherry blossoms then painted them. Now we have a beautiful blossoming tree in our classroom.

Shapes

The Kindergarten students have been learning about measurement for the past few weeks. We will now explore shapes during our Kindergarten math lessons.

Today the students played with shapes at various centre activities.

Student Led Conferences

Thank you for returning your purple papers to confirm a time for your visit to our classroom on May 1.

The groups will be as follows:

2:00 – 2:30 – Jessica, Niko, Kien, Aiden, Niharika, Olivia, Elvin, Amara, Lucas

5:00 – 5:30 – Kaiya, Leo G., Jaydon, Sofia, Evie, Vihana

Class Photos 

We will have class photos taken on April 26 (next Friday).

Have a lovely weekend!

Nowruz and Vaisakhi

This week we had the opportunity to learn about Nowruz and had a special Persian cookie to celebrate.

We also learned about Vaisakhi and tasted a sweet treat, gulab jamun.

Thank you to the parents who provided these treats!

Rosie’s Walk

Many of our lessons this week were based around the story, Rosie’s Walk. We explored setting and sequencing in this story.

Your child has brought home their story map and puppets to retell the story for you at home.

Note: I have not sent an April calendar home because the only date to note is Pro-D Day on Monday April 29.

Happy Vaisakhi to those who will be celebrating this weekend!

Welcome back from the break!

We have had a wonderful first week back with beautiful weather.

This week, we continued to look for signs of spring including comparing the heights of daffodils growing in our school garden.

We were excited to see that our potato plants have grown so much over the break. We are looking forward to taking care of them so they can continue to grow this term.

Next week we will be learning about the solar eclipse, Nowruz, and Vaisakhi.

Gr. 1’s – please read your home reading books and return them on Monday.

Date to remember:

• Monday April 29 – Pro-D Day – School will be closed to students.

Enjoy the weekend!

Happy Spring Break!

This past week we enjoyed some warmer weather and noticed many signs that Spring is almost here!

We planted seed potatoes and cannot wait to see what they look like after our break.

Once again, the students have shown tremendous growth in all areas this term. I am very excited to continue to watch them grow in third term. Thank you for all of your support at home!

Reminder that school re-opens on Tuesday April 2.

Please return your child’s report card envelope after the break (you can keep the papers that are inside).

Wishing you a wonderful break!

Buddies

This week we worked with our Gr. 4/5 buddies to build a structure using 10 tile squares and 6 popsicle sticks. This is an open ended activity that encourages higher level thinking. The students were prompted with questions like: How can you build your structure higher? How can you make it strong enough to hold a wood peg person? Here are some of the designs.

Read to Self

Every week the students choose new books to add to their “book boxes”. We work towards reading quietly throughout the week. We practice looking for words we know, reading the “pictures”, and sounding out unknown words.

Kindergarten Math

The K students have been learning about different Canadian coins. Ask them about the symbols on the coins!

Here is a photo of the K’s representing numbers on 10 frames during our group activity.

Bucket Filling

Over the past few weeks, the students have been working on “filling each others buckets” with kind words and acts of kindness. They have so many wonderful ideas to fill imaginary buckets!

Report cards will be sent home on Thursday March 14.

Spring Break begins March 18 with school re-opening on Tuesday April 2.

Have a lovely weekend!

100 days of school!

It’s hard to believe that we have been at school for 100 days this year! We have been keeping track of the days by adding a stick everyday and bundling groups of 10. We have been practicing counting to 100 by 10s, and 5s. Ask your child to sing the skip counting song to you.

Here are our cool collections of 100 things!

and we completed a 100 piece puzzle!

Will Stroet and Skeena Performance

We were fortunate to have an awesome performance by this wonderful duo yesterday.

You can find more of their songs online.

Friends for Foxy

We really enjoy reading “Foxy and Friends” books. Last week, each student made a plan for a new character in the Foxy books. We then created the new animal friends using plasticine. Our plans and characters are on display in the hallway display case.

Gr. 1 Book Bags and RAZ Kids

Parents, please encourage your child to practice reading every day! The home reading books can be re-read many times throughout the week to reinforce reading skills. They can also practice on the raz kids app. The more we read, the better readers we become!!!

Pink Shirt Day

Wednesday Feb. 28 is Pink Shirt Day. Students are encouraged to wear pink in support of friendship and anti-bullying. We will have many lessons next week about being kind friends and problem solving.

Cold and Cough Season

We have many students away every day due to colds and coughs. Thank you for keeping your child at home until they are well enough to return to school. I am encouraging anyone who is coughing a lot at school to wear a mask and I’m encouraging more hand washing. I hope we are able to curb this never-ending cold/cough!

Have a lovely wekend!

Happy family day long weekend!

Just a few reminders:

-school is closed for students on Friday Feb. 16

-no school on Family Day, Monday Feb. 19

– please complete the “family” homework that was sent home earlier this week. I would love to have them all returned on Tuesday if possible.

– our 100th day of school is on Wednesday Feb. 21. Students are invited to bring a collection of 100 small inexpensive items. I encourage the kids to count the items by groups of 10. Thank you!

Have a lovely weekend! I hope you get a chance to play a game, go for a nature walk, or enjoy an adventure as a family. 💕

Gung Hay Fat Choy!

The Kindergarten students made a pattern dragon for Lunar New Year!

We all enjoyed the glass fusing workshop where we used small pieces of glass to create our first initial. I will be picking these creations up next week after they have been heated in the glass kiln. Thank you to the PAC for funding this experience for us. Thank you to Debbie Hungle, the glass artist that facilitated this workshop.

The following information was sent home on a purple notice earlier this week:

Division 14 is getting excited about some special days that we will be celebrating in February.

On Wednesday Feb. 14, we will be celebrating Valentine’s Day.  Students may wish to distribute Valentine cards to their classmates.  If your child chooses to do so, please ensure that there is a valentine card for every class member.  Valentine cards can be homemade or store bought.  I am including a list of classmates’ names to help your child with printing their friends’ names.  We will be making mailboxes in class for the students to put cards into. **It is not necessary to include little toys are treats with the Valentine cards.

Our “100^th Day of School” will be celebrated on Wednesday, Feb. 21.  Each student is encouraged to bring 100 small items in a bag or container for various classroom activities.  Examples of 100 items are 100 pieces of pasta, cereal (cheerios), paperclips, stickers, dried beans, or any other small inexpensive item.  Please encourage your child to count 100 of these items. Counting 10 groups of 10 is a great way to count to 100.

On Wednesday Feb. 28, our school will be encouraging students to wear pink shirts for “Pink Shirt Day.” Pink shirt day is a day when we remember to be a kind friend and to stop “bullying” when we see it happening.  Your child is welcome to wear a pink shirt or other pink clothing item.  Please do not feel that you need to buy pink clothing specifically for this occasion as we will have extra items that the students can borrow to wear.

Division 14 Names for Valentine Cards

Aiden                         Amara                        Elvin                Evie

Jaydon                       Jessica                       Kaiya              Kien

Leo (Gr. 1)                  Leo G. (K)                   Lucas              Niharika

Niko                            Olivia                          Silas                 Sofia

Titus                             Vihana

Reminders:

Friday Feb. 16 is a pro d day so school is closed.

Monday Feb. 19 is Family Day so schools will be closed.

Please look for “Family Day” homework that will be sent home next week.

Gung Hay Fat Choy to everyone that will be celebrating this weekend!