The last two weeks have been full of important learning and connecting. We have been growing together as a class family, welcoming new members, and sharing about ourselves.

Today, we wish everyone a beautiful National Day for Truth and Reconciliation. This week, we read stories and shared in activities to recognize and honour this day at school.

We had our first Amigos Alados session last week with Alison and learned about the three birds we will be learning about this year! Amigos Alados is an international classroom exchange and migratory bird conservation project that spans across Canada, United States, and Mexico. Through this program, we will have pen pals in Mexico and will be studying different birds that migrate through all three countries following the Pacific Flyway migratory route. Your child has chosen their inquiry bird: the Orange-Crowned Warbler, the Black-Throated Warbler, or the Wilson’s Warbler. We hope you enjoy the beautiful colourings they brought home this weekend! 

We had our first garden workshop day! Even though it was pretty rainy, we had so much fun! We explored and sorted seeds, collected them around the garden and wondered how they spread, and harvested our amazing garden vegetables! We hope you enjoyed the vegetables that came home to you!

Last week, we had our first introduction to story workshop in the library! This week, we returned to building on or creating new stories! We even got a chance to start sharing them with the whole class!

In math, we took our graphing and tallying outside! This week, we started learning about picture graphs (pictographs).

We added a new morning choice of connecting through story boxes with our new table partners during mindful minutes! We continue to learn and build our routines together.

Next week, we will be meeting our big buddies for the first time on Tuesday! And on Friday, we will be meeting our little buddies from the University Child Care! We will be exploring the forest together and building our relationships with one another.

We can’t wait for our adventures of learning and exploring next week!

October events for families to look forward to and join us for:

  • Oct. 2 – National Day for Truth and Reconciliation – no school
  • Oct. 6 – Little UCC Buddies in the Forest
  • Oct. 11 & 12 – Parents as Partners Conferences (a sign-up will be coming home this week!)
  • Oct. 13 – Picnic Celebration in the Park! (all family members welcome!)
  • Oct. 17 – Little UCC Buddies in the Forest
  • Oct. 24 – Little UCC Buddies in the Forest
  • Oct. 25 – SFU Science Field trip
  • Oct. 31 – Halloween & festivities

Please let me know if you would like to join us for any of these October dates! We would love to have you!