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:

• We are Division 11.
• Our classroom is Room 8 which is just right of the main office.
• For Monday, September 9, pick up after school will be back at their original class just for today.
• Moving forward, pick up and drop off will be in the undercover area on the west side or back side of the main building starting on Tuesday, September 10.
• Your child will receive a school planner. We will use this for home-school communication. You can pay $8 for the planner on School Cash Online once it is available. You can also fill out school forms on School Cash Online.

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)