Happy October!

Wow, October arrived so quickly! Thank you for your patience during this choppy week. I don’t know about you, but I’m really looking forward to having a full week of school next week!!

Math Lessons

In math, we continue to play games and learn more about numbers to 10. We made number crowns and played a dice game.

We also listened to a story titled One is a Snail and Ten is a crab. 

Click on this link to watch and listen to the story with your child.

Orange Shirt Day

For Orange Shirt day, we listened to some stories written about indigenous people who attended Residential Schools and spoke about ways that we help each other feel better when they are feeling hurt.

If you would like to watch an age appropriate video about Orange Shirt Day please click this link about the student who had her orange shirt taken away when she arrived at residential school:

Phyllis Webstad

Then we created orange hearts for our classroom to remind us to be kind and helpful to others.

Today we read a story called All are Welcome and created a “welcoming” display of ourselves.

Communication Bags

Today the students will be bringing home their “communication bag”.

Grade 1s will have their planner and calendar inside. Please sign the planner and return the following day. Any papers in the bag can stay at home. The Gr. 1s will have their IXL password in the front cover of their planner. If you have not tried IXL, please log in this weekend to try out the program. It is wondeful to support our classroom math program with this practice at home.

Kindergarten students will not have planners but please check your child’s communication bag daily, take out any papers from inside the bag, and then return the bag to school every day. You will find a mask for your Kindergarten student in their bag today.

Mask Mandate

As you have probably heard, all students K-12 are now required to wear a mask at all times indoors. Of course, the students will be removing their mask to eat and drink so I encourage them to have a landyard for their mask. Otherwise, we end up with masks all over the floor and tables. A landyard helps a lot! Ms. Aujla is going to look into purchasing a landyard for primary students but I am not sure how long that could take.

Friendship List

I would like to send out a “Friendship List” to all our families so you have parent contacts (phone numbers and emails) to arrange playdates, etc.

PLEASE LET ME KNOW if you would not like to be included on the friendship list. The information will only be shared with families in our class and I will remind everyone not to share the info with other people.

I also want to mention that the MYed system does not send emails to hotmail addresses. You may miss important information sent from the Burnaby School District if you have a hotmail address. I recommend submitting an additional “non-hotmail” email address to the office to ensure you receive important info.

Have a lovely weekend! Hopefully the weather cooperates and we can enjoy some beautiful Fall weather outside!