Dear Division 11 families,
What a wonderful first day together! I love them already! ❤️
We have decided that our Meet Your Teachers Night will be on Wednesday, September 18 at 7:00pm. You will receive a link to attend our virtual meeting on the afternoon of September 18. Please save the date!
Thank you in advance for your interest to meet with us!
Much appreciated, Ms. Chan
Dear families,
We are so excited to be your child’s teacher for this year! We are passionate about building relationships and developing connections with children and families. We’ve had a great morning so far! 🙂
About Ms. Chan
This is my second year at Kitchener as the Head Teacher and absolutely love it here! I have been teaching for 25+ years and love it more and more each year! Don’t get me wrong, I’ve loved it since my very first year of teaching too. In fact, I still keep in touch with some of those students!
I get so much joy spending my day with children by seeing their smiles, hearing their laughter, and witnessing their growth every day. I also love to spread joy, love, kindness, and gratitude too!
If you would like to get to know me better, please have a look around this blog and check out the About Our Class page. It has posts from the past few years but it will give you a sense of what I believe in and what I value. If you’d like to learn even more about me, please check out my website to read some blog posts or listen to some podcast episodes: livchan.com
About Ms. Kim
Ms. Kim has been teaching Grade 2 for six years in West Vancouver before welcoming her child in 2022. She is excited to be joining the Kitchener community, having loved her experience as a teacher on call at the school last year. She will be with the students on Tuesdays and Wednesdays. Ms. Kim is passionate about helping students reach their full potential and fostering a love for lifelong learning. While she enjoys drawing and painting, most of her free time is currently dedicated to balancing motherhood and teaching. She hopes to resume her hobbies soon!
Getting to Know Your Child
Your child will go home with the Families as Partners Information Form today. The children often think that it is funny when I tell them they get to give YOU homework to hand in to their teacher. Please take your time to fill it out in consultation with your child. It would be greatly appreciated if these are returned by the end of the week. Thank you for your time and for sharing about your child so we can get to know them better. This information is invaluable so we can better support your child’s learning and development.
CLICK HERE to download an electronic copy (Word doc) of the Families as Partners Information Form. This is available because I know some people prefer to type their answers.
Some notes:
Getting to Know Us
We look forward to meeting you at our Meet Your Teachers Night on Zoom next week! The date is still yet to be set but we will let you know very soon. We are excited to share a little about ourselves including our teaching philosophy, expectations, answer questions, and to greet you as a group before we meet you in person the following week for our Families as Partners conferences.
I regularly update this blog so you can stay informed about the fun, engaging, and meaningful learning we will do this year. I will add in your email addresses so you will receive email notification every time there is a new blog post published.
We are looking forward to meeting you very soon this week during drop off/pick up or next week during our Families as Partners conferences! Sign up for appointments will open up sometime next week but please save the dates: Wednesday, September 25 (3-5pm) and Thursday, September 26 (3-6pm).
Should you have any questions throughout the year, please feel free to contact us. We firmly believe that we work as partners in your child’s education.
We are grateful for the opportunity to teach your child this year and to work with you! 🙂
With hearts full of appreciation, Ms. Chan (and Ms. Kim)
Dear families of Division 13,
This will be the last blog post you will receive from me. I would like to express my deepest gratitude for you and your part in supporting us last year. We had such a fantastic and memorable year together. Each one of your children AND you helped to contribute to our positive and caring classroom community. You have instilled in them many beautiful core values that will serve them well as they continue to develop in their life journey. Thank you for all of your generous time and effort in supporting at home, in the classroom, on field trips, and for your thoughtful gifts over the year.
As you have heard me mention time and time again, I felt so incredibly blessed to be your child’s teacher. There are too many things that I enjoyed and brought me real joy each day that I couldn’t possibly list them all here but please know from my heart to yours, that I absolutely loved coming to work each day…to see their smiles, receive their love and hugs, and to watch them grow. I feel so grateful. At the core of it was who your children were and how they learned together each day that brought us all joy.
On Monday morning, they will be leaving our classroom and entering into their new spaces with their new teachers. I am excited for them! They already have in them the right mindset, attitude about learning, and skillset to be successful there. On Friday, several students shared their feelings of nervousness, anxiousness, and fear about the unknown. These are all natural feelings because it is just that…”unknown” so I encouraged them to think about what they DO know.
They may have had similar feelings at the beginning of last year (and the year before that) when they walked into our classroom for the first time. They all know how to be Kitchener HAWKS (helpful, accepting, welcoming, kind, and safe). They all know they CAN make new friends and develop new friendships because they DID just that. I reminded them that when they continue to live each day like a HAWK(S), they will continue to thrive and build new relationships.
Thank you for taking the time to read these blog posts. I hope you enjoyed reading them as much as I enjoyed crafting them and sharing and celebrating all of their learning throughout the year.
I also told them that I will ALWAYS be their teacher and one of their biggest fans. Even though they have moved on to have a new teacher, they will forever be my student. They can come to me (and you as well!) when they need support. It will bring me joy to see them and you around the school. I wish them and you all well. Have a great start to another fantastic year! Love you all! ❤️
With a warm heart completely full of gratitude, Ms. Chan
P.S. On Monday, please drop off and pick up your child at the same doors as usual. Starting on Tuesday morning, they can line up with their new classmates. I miss them (and you) already! 🙂
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Dear families,
I hope you had a fantastic summer vacation. I am so looking forward to seeing everyone tomorrow!
Here are a few things that will help with your child’s transition back:
Last year, we said good-bye to Ms. Kapusta as she accepted a full-time position at Windsor Elementary. We are grateful for her dedication to our class and wish her well in her new ELL role there!
We would like to welcome Ms. Kim to our class on Tuesday and Wednesday.
Thank you for a most memorable year with your children full of love, joy, learning, and fun! YOU were a key part in their learning and we are so grateful.
With appreciation, Ms. Chan
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On an unrelated note, as you may or may not know, I am heavily involved in the ringette community. There is an opportunity to try it for free!
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