Dear Div. 6 families,

Wow, what a fast week! They say time flies when you’re having fun! We thoroughly appreciated your time to meet with us during our Meet the Teacher night and Parents as Partners Conferences. We are so grateful for sharing your insight and stories about your child. It was a full week but our hearts were full too. We finished the week feeling energized by the relationships we were building with you. We so look forward to working with you this year!

We enjoyed a great Pro-D day too as I presented on the Universal Design for Learning framework. We also had a great session with our district Indigenous resource teacher, Nahani Willis.

CLICK HERE to watch the video summary of last week.

We watched an online course for our Learn2Ride program. On Wednesday, we had such a fun session on bikes! It was so wonderful to see so many smiles!

What a joy this week learning more about each other during our Life in a Bag presentations!

This week’s theme was Kindness to Self. We started the week with sharing ways one thing we appreciate about ourselves or one thing we love about ourselves. For many, this was not yet in their comfort zone so I am excited to watch them grow in recognizing personal strengths.

In line with our theme, we read a story by one of my favourite authors, Peter H. Reynolds called Be You! Click here to listen to the author himself reading this book! Then they had their own opportunity to write the next 10 pages of their own “Be You!” book in their writing books.

After library orientation with Mrs. Papapanagiotou, students can now take out books and exchange them Monday to Thursday after recess.

Looking Ahead

Wed., Sept. 29 – Orange Shirt Day; wear orange
Thur., Sept. 30 – National Day for Truth and Reconciliation; students do not attend; school closed
Terry Fox Run Thank you for supporting Terry’s dream and helping us to kick cancer! Should you wish to donate please go to:   http://www.terryfox.ca/GilmoreCommunityElementary

Ms. Chan will be away on Mon. Sept. 27 but hope to be back the next day!

Thank you for your continued support! We are looking forward to a fantastic week!

Ms. Chan & Mrs. Paulich

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Teachers in the room

	Monday	Tuesday	Wednesday	Thursday	Friday
AM	Ms. Chan	Mrs. Paulich	Ms. Chan	Mrs. Paulich	Ms. Chan
PM	Mrs. Paulich	Ms. Chan	Ms. Chan	Ms. Chan	Ms. Chan

Subjects Taught

Ms. Chan – English Language Arts, Science, Career Education, ADST, Gr. 5 Math

Mr. Anchor – Gr. 4 Math

Mrs. Paulich – Social Studies, French, Physical and Health Education, Arts Education, Indigenous Education

Mr. Phelps – Music Education (Wednesday and Friday)