Suncrest Division 12

Good morning families!

Welcome back! Hope everyone had a great Spring Break! We are already in our last term of the school year! Time has flown by so fast! Here is some information and upcoming dates!

April Calendar

As we are saving paper as a school, here is your electronic copy of the calendar. Feel free to also take a picture of the calendar on our classroom window.

Extra Clothes and Indoor Shoes:

Thank you to those who have already brought their indoor shoes back and extra clothes. I have had a good talk with students about how warm our classroom gets on sunny days especially in the afternoon during the spring. We have a “south facing classroom” and after lunch I encourage students to change into lighter clothing, shorts and t-shirts. We will also encourage drinking water throughout the day.

**Extra clothes during the spring and summer can include extra pairs of shorts and light material shirts** Feel free to bring extra for your child’s cubby.

Thank you in advance!

Curricular Topics this term:

Language Arts: Continuing building our literacy skills, sentence and paragraph writing, story writing/ writers workshop and phonics

Math: estimation, measurement, geometry and financial literacy

Science: animal lifecycles and adaptations, raising butterflies in our classroom and more outdoors!

Socials: Community stewardship, mapping and more

Art: Visual arts and dance

ADST: coding, designing structures and building

Upcoming Dates:

Monday April 7: Family Reading 8:50-9:10am

Friday April 18: Good Friday (no school)

Monday April 21: Easter Monday (no school)

Friday April 25: Family Reading 8:50-9:10am

Monday April 28: Pro-D-Day (no school for students)

Wednesday April 30: Whole school and class photo day (time TBA)

Thursday May 1: Early Dismissal/ Student Led Conferences (TBA after school)

Friday May 2: Early Dismissal 2pm

Field Trip (sometime hopefully in May with Ms. Sharma’s class) location and time TBA

Thank you!

Ms. Toor

Good afternoon families,

Cannot believe we are this close to Spring Break.

Book Forms:

Our class is creating a collective story, forms were sent home this week along with ordering envelopes. You can purchase online or using the notices/ envelopes sent home earlier this week.

A reminder that Monday March 3 all forms are due for book orders. At this moment I have received 7/ 21 forms (I have also checked the online orders). Please submit your envelop with information for purchasing and if you are not ordering, please hand in your “pink” form as well. All forms need to be handed in for the class to receive a free copy of the book (whether you are or not purchasing. 

We fill finish writing our book before spring break and then will be created by the publisher after that process. Our books will be here for our student led-conferences next term.

March Calendar:

Attached is our March Class Calendar.

We are looking forward to families joining us on Monday March 10 for our portfolio share before reports go home on Wednesday March 12.

Spring Break begins on March 17 and our first day back to school is March 31.

Thank you,

Ms. Toor

 

Good afternoon families,

Our class has been working on book making this term for our writing focus. We have been creating books in the classroom, working together with our buddy class who are illustrating our stories using a program called “book creator” and now we are onto our big project for the term.

Our book is called “If You Give Division 12 Exploration Time” and we will be working on it the next couple weeks during classroom time before Spring Break. Each student gets two pages (writing/ image) to add to our collective book.

You have a chance to order a good copy of the book published by Student Treasures Publishing. It will be published and look like a book you can buy from a store which is very exciting!

Orders for this project are due on Monday March 3 (no later as the publishing company needs the orders ahead of time).

ALL FORMS HAVE TO BE SENT BACK TO ME IF YOU ARE ORDERING A BOOK OR NOT ORDERING A BOOK. If you are not ordering please select “no” on the bottoms of the form. A copy of the form is below. This form along with the envelop for orders will be going home today in your child’s planner.

You have two choices for ordering:

1. To order your book online
2. Order your book using the paper copy and envelop

**This is not a mandatory book to buy, but it is a nice keep sake

If you are not ordering please select “no” and return the form

Thank you! We are so excited for this project!

Ms. Toor

 

Good afternoon families,

Here are some updates for the month of February.

Welcome to Ms. Raj!

Ms. Raj is our student teacher from SFU who will be in our class until Spring Break. She will be a familiar face we see in Division 12 during the next 6 weeks. We are very excited to have her join us!

February Calendar

Attached is our calendar for this month, a copy will go home in your child’s planner tomorrow.

Feb 2025

Dress for the Weather

Loved seeing everyone’s winter gear today! The weather will be cold all week, bring your snow/ rain pants, mittens/ gloves, toques and extra socks. Keep brining extra clothing if wet items are sent home.

Writing Contest 

Interested in Suncrest Shines Writing Contest? Check out the details. Submissions are due Friday February 14th. It is an optional contest.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Click to download the image of the criteria for the writing contest.

Valentine’s Day

Our class will have an in class celebration on Friday February 14th. If you’d like to make Valentine Cards for your classmates please bring them in the morning. If you are also bringing a treat to share, please ensure there are no nuts inside and that treats are individually wrapped. Keep in mind we also have a couple students who cannot eat treats with Gelatin. We encourage the class to include everyone when creating their cards.

I will send home a Class List on Wednesday this week for Valentine’s Day when I am hopefully back to work. I think I caught the stomach bug that’s been going  around our school.

Upcoming Dates:

Thursday Feb 6: Fire Presentation @9:15am

Monday Feb 10: Family Reading @8:50am

Friday Feb 14: Valentines Day and Writing Contest Submissions Due

Monday Feb 17: Family Day (No school)

Friday Feb 21: Family Reading @8:50am

Wednesday Feb 26: Pink Shirt Day and Assembly @11am

Friday Feb 28: Pro-D-Day (No school for students)

Thank you,

Ms. Toor

Good afternoon families!

Literacy Week:

Next week is literacy week and the teacher’s at Suncrest have planned some fun and engaging activities to encourage and promote reading!

Here is a quick schedule of the main activities going on each day along with more in school activities throughout each day

Tissue Boxes:

Our class has been going through many tissue boxes the last few weeks. If everyone can bring in one tissue box we will be able to have enough for the rest of this cold season and into the spring. Thank you to those that have already contributed to the class right before Winter Break as we started to run through the pack boxes I purchased in September.

Softball

Today the South Burnaby Softball Club came to Suncrest for K-2 classes to show us some Baseball Skills and Drills. Students will be coming home with a notice and a tattoo from this session.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Indoor Shoes and Extra Clothes

Some students still need to being extra clothing and indoor shoes. Please label all clothing

Enjoy your weekend!

Ms. Toor

Thank you to all families who are willing to drive this Friday!

Our trip is on!

Today in your child’s planner will be the information for rides and booster seats.

Please fill out the booster seat information by Thursday January 9th.

Please bring your booster seat on Friday morning with your name on it ready to go if you are driving in another vehicle other than your own.

For those forms I do not have, they are due latest tomorrow and payment closes this evening on school cash.

Thank you again for everything,

Ms. Toor

Good afternoon families!

Thank you families who connected with me over email or in person today after school! We are almost there!

We now have spaces for 14 students and looking for 6 more spots in cars (I am also driving two students in boosters).

As I do not check my email after hours I will see if we have any more parents willing to drive there and back in the morning when I arrive at Suncrest.  I will need to make a decision by 12pm tomorrow afternoon if we are going on Friday or will have to cancel.

*Families who are driving please fill out forms and Volunteer Driver Authorization forms as soon as possible. If you need one, please email me and I will send one home in your child’s planner.

*If the field trip is cancelled, Ms. Boleak will be able to refund all families who have already paid.

**If the trip is on, I will be sending out another form with information on boosters seats either on Tuesday or Wednesday.

Thank you for everything!

Ms. Toor

Good morning families!

Happy new year! Very excited to be back after a great holiday!

Just wanted to give everyone a quick update. As of right now we have 2 families (4 spots of students) that are able to drive on Friday for our field trip to Burnaby South and Ms. Macdonald-Chow has a family with two spots available for us. At this time that is only 6 car spots for students in Division 12. We do need car spots for 20 students in order to not cancel the field trip.

Please email me back as soon as you can if you are able to drive Friday afternoon to and from Burnaby South Friday January 10 12:15- 3:00pm.

Thank you again for all of your help!

Ms. Toor

 

 

Good afternoon families,

Today your child is bringing home a field trip notice along with their report card envelope. Our first trip is down the road to Burnaby South Secondary for their Winter Dance Show. Division 11 (Ms. Mac Donald- Chow) has invited Division 12 along with her class.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Please fill it out as soon as possible or latest by January 7th (ignore the old date on the bottom as it had the previous date… they added new spots and we got one of them).

We are looking for parent drivers for this trip on Friday January 10th at Burnaby South. If we cannot get enough parents we will cancel this trip. School Cash Payment is open and parents that join us on the day of are able to pay in cash.

If you are on holidays you will be able to fill out the form and pay in the new year.

Thank you,

Ms. Toor

 

Good afternoon families!

It was so lovely seeing everyone this morning for our portfolio share.  Ms. A and I wanted to get started with a huge thank you for the gifts today. We feel so spoiled before the start of our holiday!

Tuesday December 17:

• Sing-a-long and Farewell to Ms. Silva Assembly @ 11am in the Gym
• Library Open Book Exchange @ 1pm

Wednesday December 18:

• Reports Home (please return envelopes so we can use them for the next term)

Thursday: December 19

• Spirit Day (Wear Holiday Colours or Festive Sweaters/ Clothing) for a point towards your house team
• School Wide Bingo @ 11am with our buddy class
• Library Open Book Exchange @ 1pm

Friday December 20: Last Day of school

• PJ Day
• Pancake Breakfast (Time for Div 12 is @ 11:15-11:45am)

-please bring a snack and a lunch (students can eat when they are hungry anytime in the afternoon during our film if they are not hungry exactly at noon)

• Cubby Clean Out (we will be sending home indoor shoes and extra clothes for the holiday break)

Thank you for a great first term! Hope everyone has a safe and fun holiday!

Ms. Toor

P.S. School returns on January 6th! Please bring your indoor shoes and extra clothes back on the first day!