Division 16

Dear Families

On Thursday April 20th we will be having our school wide Student-Led Conferences from 2-6pm. Students are encouraged to bring their families to our classroom and show them what they  have been learning this year. We will also be hosting a school wide display in the gym with some of our artwork. This conference is an important part of your child’s school year and all families are encouraged to attend.

Please click HERE to sign up for a 30 minute time slot. 

If you need any help with registering for a spot or have any questions please let me know as soon as possible. I look forward to seeing you all on April 20th.

Important Dates for April

April 13th: Twin Day

April 20th: Student Led Conferences – 2:00pm  Early Dismissal

April 24th: Pro D Day – Students do not attend

April 26th: PAC Pizza Day –  please see email from Mr. Briscoe

April 28th: PAC Popcorn Day

Summer School Info

Burnaby will be offering summer school programs for students this year. There are many exciting programs to choose from, but spaces do fill up quickly. Registration opened on Tuesday, April 11, at 10:00am. To find out more, please visit the district web page at: https://burnabyschools.ca/summersession/ 

Take care,

Ms. Hutchinson

Dear Families,

It is our last week before Spring Break and we are so excited to welcome Lucas to Division 16. He joined our class on Tuesday and we are very happy to have him with us. Welcome Lucas!!

This week, we will be finishing off our alphabet  – we made it to the letter Z! We have also begun to explore making numbers to 5. We are learning about sets of objects and understanding that 3 and 2 is the same as 4 and 1 which is the same as 5.

Report Cards went home today. If you have any questions or want to chat about anything please send me an email or check in with me before/after school and we can set up a time to meet. Please return the envelope signed.

I want to wish you all a relaxing and enjoyable spring break. Remember there is no school for two weeks. We will be back on Monday March 27th.

Take care,

❤
Ms. Hutchinson

Dear Families,

This Monday is Family Day. I hope you all have a lovely long weekend and are able to spend time together enjoying yourselves. We have been listening to this song for the past couple weeks and some of the students asked me to share it with you so they can listen at home.

Remember that next week is a short week – we have no school on Monday or Friday.

Take care,

❤

Ms. Hutchinson

Dear Families,
Welcome to February!! Thank you for your enthusiastic participation in Literacy Week. It was so lovely to see so many of you come and read with your child and others during our Family Reading. We also want to congratulate Amrit who’s name was chosen to win the Primary (gr. K-3) prize for the BINGO activity sheet.

February is a very busy month. As well as our routines, and our literacy and numeracy activities, we continue to focus on learning about our families and ourselves. We are doing a lot more printing of letters and sounds and are very excited to write notes and cards to our classmates. This week we did an activity with the word love (a book went home with your child) and finished off the week by painting our very own Love Monster. You can watch the inspiration for our art below.

Important Dates for February:
Tuesday February 14 – Valentines Day – A notice went home on Friday. Please feel free to send Valentine’s Day Cards to school (this is optional.) If you are sending cards, please make sure there is one for every child in the class. There are 18 students and 2 teachers.

Monday February 20 – Family Day No School

Wednesday February 22 – Pink Shirt Day – We will be focusing on being a kind friend and a caring member of the Morley Community. Please wear Pink shirts to school.

Friday February 24 – Professional Day – No School for Students

Have a lovely weekend.

❤

Ms. Hutchinson

Dear Families,

Next week is Literacy Week at Morley! We will be participating in many literacy activities throughout the week such as “Drop Everything and Read, Guest Readers, Flashlight Buddy Reading in the gym…etc.

Monday January 23rd – Drop Everything and Read – the whole school will be reading together in the hallways at 1pm.

Tuesday, January 24th-“Wear Words Day.” Students are welcome to wear clothing that has appropriate words on it.

Wednesday, January 25th-“Flashlight Reading in the Dark.”  Students are welcome to bring flashlights from home to use to read with their big buddies.

Thursday, January 26th-“Family Bingo” cards due. Family Bingo cards were sent home on Thursday and need to be completed, signed and returned if your family wishes to participate. Students will receive a small prize if they complete 5 activities or be entered to win a large prize for completing 10 activities.

 Friday, January 27th-Families are invited to join us for reading time from 8:45-9:15 am in our classroom. Come and read with your child and others for the first 30 minutes of the day.

This week we have been learning about hibernation and migration. We learned about bears hibernating through the winter and then drew pictures of what we like to do in the winter. We also completed two art pieces that are displayed on our bulletin board in the hallway. A painting of our family and a self-portrait.
We continue to make our way though the alphabet. We have begun a phonics program that is helping us understand that letters make sounds and that sounds put together make words. We watched  a Super Why video as a way to help us understand this tricky concept. I have attached the video if your child wants to watch it again.

Have a great weekend.

❤

Ms. Hutchinson

Dear Families,

Welcome back to school and Happy New Year!

We have welcomed a new friend to our classroom – Welcome Natnael!!

We are beginning our unit on identity by learning about our families. This week we have made a class book that shows our family as well as painting our family. Next week, we start to discuss how are families are different and the same. This term we will be focusing on several learning goals. We will be learning:

• The ways in which individuals and families differ and are the same
• Our personal and family history and traditions
• The needs and wants of individuals and families
• How to engage actively as listeners, viewers and readers to develop understanding of self, identity and community
• How to create stories and other texts to deepen awareness of self, family, and community

Some Important Dates:

Monday is the last day to order Pizza Lunch – please do that online as directed on the letter that was sent home. Pizza lunch is on Jan. 24th.

Friday January 20 – Popcorn Day $1

Week of January 23rd – Literacy Week – More information to come next week

Monday January 30th – Professional Day No School for Students

Have a lovely weekend,

❤

Ms. Hutchinson

Dear Families,

This week, we have spent time doing winter artwork. We have continued to learn about patterns and numbers. We are working our way through the letters and sounds of the alphabet and have begun to explore early reading skills.

This upcoming week: The Grade 6/7 Leadership Team has planned a great week of events and spirit days to celebrate our last week of school before the break.

Monday: Holiday Spirit – Students are encouraged to wear festive clothing to school

Tuesday – Seasonal Giving – Students can bring non-perishable food for the food bank

Wednesday – Pajamas and Pancakes – PAC and Leadership students will be making pancakes throughout the morning. We will be going with our Buddy Class. Students are encouraged to wear pajamas and can bring a stuffy. If you have any questions about the pancakes please ask.   Report Cards will also be going home today.

Thursday – Winter Wonderland – Festive stations and activities in the gym. We will be going with Ms. Baker’s Red Kindergarten Team

Friday – Door decorating contest – Please stop by and see our classroom door. Unfortunately due to the fact that our door has student pictures, I am unable to post it on the blog but you will get a photo of the door in your child’s portfolio.

We have a new favourite song this week. We heard it in Music class with Ms. Rapp and have been listening to it frequently.

Have a lovely weekend,

Ms. Hutchinson

Dear Families,

What a fun week of snow. We have spent lots of time playing in the snow, talking about how cold it is and making observations about what we notice when we are outside. We have also been practicing putting on coats, doing up zippers, putting on boots and wearing our mittens and gloves independently.

We worked with our buddies to make a pastel snowman and added it to our bulletin board display in the hall. We have also been working on our door decoration. We are making triangles that once we put them all together will make a Christmas tree.

In math we have been focusing on patterns. We did dot art to make ABAB patterns, learning to use only 2 different colours. Here is a video that we will be watching on Monday:

We have also began a Social and Emotional Learning series called Everyday Speech. This is a series of lessons that teach feelings, emotions and how to act in different social situations. This week we have begun talking about feelings, noticing how others around us might be feeing and how our actions impact those around us. Here are a couple of videos that we have watched this week. Click on the links to watch with your child and discuss what they notice and have learned.

Counting Breaths

Thinking About Others Feelings

Saying How You Feel

Important Dates

December 14th – Pajama Day and Pancake Breakfast (more info to come)

December 14th – Report Cards Go Home

December 16th – Last Day of School before Winter Break

January 3rd – School Back in Session

❤

Ms. Hutchinson

Dear Families,

Just a reminder that there is no school for students tomorrow (Friday Nov. 25).

Optional – Please return the popcorn form by Tuesday Nov. 29th if you are buying popcorn. It is $2 for a bag and MUST be ordered in advance. Popcorn will be delivered on Friday Dec. 2nd. If you can’t find your form or have been absent please send the money and I will get you a new form. Forms look like this:

Today we worked on a beautiful art piece that we titled “Our Rainbow Snowmen”. Here is picture of our bulletin board outside our classroom.

This week we have been reading a book called “We Don’t Eat Our Classmates” by Ryan T. Higgins. Students found it hilarious and we have read it multiple times over the week. If you want to watch the story together, I have attached the YouTube video of the book.

Have a wonderful weekend.

❤

Ms. Hutchinson

Dear Families,

Just to let you know that this Friday November 18th is Rainbow Day at Morley School. Kindergarteners are invited to wear the colour RED or else to dress in rainbow colours.

Friday is also our PAC Popcorn Day – popcorn is $1 and will be available at lunch time.

Also next Friday November 25th is a professional day so no school for students.

Thank you to you all for keeping your children home when they are sick. There are a lot of germs about right now and we appreciate your care for our classroom and school community.

Happy Tuesday ,

❤

Ms. Hutchinson