Hope this message finds you all happy and healthy this week and settling in to a bit of a home-school routine.

By now you will have heard from your child’s home-school teacher (Ms. Tazumi, Ms. Baker or Ms. Lafave) and they will have discussed how they will be providing online or distance learning for your child. In addition to the literacy and numeracy activities they will be providing, I would like to offer your family some additional websites and resources to supplement your child’s learning as well as some suggestions to help offset any unexpected behaviours you may be seeing from your child right now.

Depending on your home situation, it may be preferable to have a set schedule or a very flexible plan for your child. I have provided two possibilities under the Shape of the Day link (above) to help you design a Shape of the Day for your child.

Moving forward, our K-Plus Team will stay in contact with all of our K-Plus families. We are available to connect via telephone, email, FaceTime or Zoom. We are also in the process of gathering resources for our blog to help support K-Plus parents with any behavioural challenges they may see at home. In the meantime, please be sure to visit our Burnaby School District website at https://learning.burnabyschools.ca/ for additional resources and updates.

No one is quite sure what school will look like at this point but I assure you that when we are back at school and looking for each of our K-Plus students to begin their new school year, myself and my team will be here to support your child and your family with that transition.

For now, please take care of yourselves and your loved ones and feel free to contact me if I can be of any help and I look forward to speaking with you again soon.

Warmly,

Ms. Fortin