As a reminder – Friday, February 21st is a District Pro D. Teachers will be at a variety of workshops at different schools. There will be no school for students.
Category: Information
Badminton – next week
Next week we will be visited by the badminton coaches! Students brought home a notice about this today. Please complete it and return it as soon as possible. Students will be receiving 4 lessons next week. This is something that they usually really enjoy. It is a great opportunity to get professional coaching in a very fun sport.
Student Teacher
As you all know, our student teacher (Ms. Sue) has now entered the full immersion phase of her practicum. She is in her second week of ‘taking over’ the class.
Students have been enjoying her theme unit on ‘family’. This is part of our Social Studies curriculum which we are doing this year at a very opportune time as we just celebrated Family Day. I hope you all enjoyed the long weekend.
There is a letter coming home tomorrow about a family crest project. Please help your child get some ideas on their paper and return it on the date stated in the letter. This will ensure that your child completes their project at school successfully. Thanks for your continued support.
Students are also learning 2-D shapes in her geometry unit. They enjoyed a great story and then created their own ‘geometrical’ mice. I think they look great on our bulletin board!
What do you think?
Video Release Form
As you know, Ms. Sue – our student teacher – has re-joined our class for her full immersion practicum. Last week a notice was sent home regarding the videotaping of lessons. This is a requirement of SFU and will only be seen by a few people (teachers, student teachers) and will be erased once her practicum has been completed. It will not be published or put on-line.
Please complete the form and return it on Monday.
Your support is appreciated. Thank you.
Reading with our buddies
We have been enjoying reading time with our big buddies!!
Christmas Gift Basket Raffle
Well, Division 5 is ‘going to the dogs’!!
We would appreciate donations of new items to be donated to our division’s basket:
DIV 5. PET (DOG) BASKET: (dog toys, treats, doggy baggies, leash, collar, etc.)
This year the donated items need to come into the classroom by Tuesday, December 3rd. There will be a box in the classroom for your child to put the items in.
Ticket sales will commence between December 9—19th every day from 12:00-12:15pm and 3:00-3:15 pm.
We would like to thank you in advance for all your generous donations.
Have You Filled a Bucket Today?
Students have been learning about – and working on – their personal relationships with their fellow classmates. This is a great book which speaks about the invisible ‘buckets’ that we each carry around every day. When people are kind to us (through their actions or their words) then our buckets become more full and we feel better about ourselves. Through being kind to others we also fill our own buckets. When people mistreat others (through their actions or their words) they ‘dip’ into our buckets and take away our good thoughts and feelings. We cannot fill our buckets by being mean to others. In fact, oftentimes, people who have empty buckets end up mistreating others because they don’t feel good themselves.
We also read a second book on the same subject.
I hope you take the opportunity to talk to your child about these two books.
Student Teacher
Beginning on Monday, November 4th Ms. Deanna Sue will be joining our class for the month of November. She is completing her 402 practicum from the PDP programme through Simon Fraser University. I am looking forward to having her in our class. I am sure that the students will also enjoy her presence as she begins to take on some of the class routines and teaches a Science ‘mini-unit’. More information on this will be forthcoming once she and I have time next week to tee everything up for her lessons.
Hallowe’en Food Drive
The Leadership group is running a Food Drive this week to help to replenish the local Food Bank. Please help out by sending in some canned or non-perishable food items with your child for our class box.
Thank you for your support!
Clothing Drive
The leadership group are running a clothing drive until October 29th. If you have some used clothing that is no longer suitable (size-wise or other), please bag it up and deliver it to the stage in the gym. These bags of clothes will be delivered to a needy, local charity after the 29th.
Thank you for supporting this cause.