Month: January 2023

Good morning families!

Our literacy week notice went home in your child’s planner on Friday! Our school theme for Literacy Week is “Literacy is Everywhere!”

Each day there will be some activities to participate in! Below is some information that went home on the notice. Participation in both the theme days and at home reading bingo will enter you in to win prizes!

Monday Jan. 30- Shirts with words

Thursday Feb. 2- Dress up like your favourite character day (from a book)

Friday Feb. 3 – PJ and stuffie day

Thank you,

Ms. Toor

Good afternoon families,

Tomorrow is Black Excellence Day. Staff and students are encouraged to wear black. We also wrote this message in our planners today.

Thank you,

Ms. Toor

Good morning families!

Happy new year and welcome back! It has been a great two days catching up with everyone and sharing about our holidays! Here are a few reminders, house keeping information and the calendar for the month! As it is still early on in the month there may be dates added as we go along!

Extra shoes and clothes:

Please bring back to school your extra clothes and shoes. A friendly reminder to please label your bag and all items of clothing as many students are around the same size. As we go outside each day for recess, lunch and outdoor activities please bring extra socks, rain coat, rain pants and boots. If clothing gets sent home, please replace as needed.

Outdoor Classroom:

We will continue to go outdoors each Thursday rain or shine to explore themes in our curriculum and explore our community by partaking in a variety of learning activities. Please be prepared for the weather each week.

Literacy:

As we are moving into the second term and developing our skills, it’s important to continue reading each day for 10-20 minutes. Part of this time can be going through the previous weeks words their way cards to develop our phonemic awareness, looking at the words of the week on cue cards to develop our sight word vocabulary, playing reading games, reading on raz-kids or writing in journals.

Library:

Library will continue to be each Wednesday morning. To take out new books, please return your books each week. Ms. Ho and I are continuing to encourage Division 12 to take out two books around their reading level and one book a family member can read.

Black Excellence Day – Friday January 13:

In our classroom we will be starting the conversation with age appropriate literature to  introduce Black Excellence Day to students and to continue guiding our learning for students who were introduced to the Black Shirt Day movement the past few years.

Family Reading- Friday January 20:

Please join us for our next Family Reading morning from the first bell 8:50-9:10am.

Calendar:

Below is our calendar for the month

Thank you,

Ms. Toor