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!
Category: Information
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.
The Elements of Art
Last week we began our study of the Elements of Art. We did crayon rubbings with which the students demonstrated their understanding of the six elements. Most of these elements are fairly self-explanatory (colour, shape, line, form) but as an FYI – ‘texture’ is how something feels or ‘looks’ like it feels, and ‘value’ is the lightness or darkness of something. Value can be with colours or non-colours (black, white, and grey). The difference between ‘shape’ and ‘form’ is the dimensionality – e.g. a 2-D shape drawn on the board is a ‘shape’ but as I can’t pick it up off the board it has no ‘form’.
Here are some of the crayon rubbings:
Student Teachers
Our school is hosting two student teachers from Simon Fraser University for their 401 (first) practicum semester. Our class will be ‘sharing’ these student teachers with Mrs. Iverson for the next two weeks. Today they both joined us on our field trip to the Laity Pumpkin Patch. After next Friday they will be back on campus for the rest of October.
Beginning on November 4th one of these student teachers will join our class for the month of November for her first (small) teaching practicum experience. The other one will be with Division 2 and Mrs. Iverson.
It is also very likely that one of them will be with our class after the Christmas break for their 405 (full immersion) practicum experience. I will keep you updated.
School Photos – Save 10%
The following information has been passed on to me regarding on-line school photo orders. If you are ordering school photos online you can use a coupon code for 10%off. You just have to type in ‘save10’ where it asks to ‘apply coupon code’ during payment portion.
I hope this information is helpful to you.
Laity Pumpkin Farm Field Trip
Ms. Nazaruk and I have planned a field trip to the pumpkin patch in Maple Ridge for our two classes. A notice will be coming home in the next day or so. The trip is planned for Tuesday, October 8th in the morning. We will be needing parent drivers to transport the students to the farm. Please look for the notice. We hope you can help us out.
Mrs. Gojevic is encouraging the use of the on-line payment system for all fees and field trip payments. This information will be coming home in a notice and will also be an option on the pumpkin farm notice. Please note that we will still need the completed signed permission form at the bottom of the notice.
Thank you for your on-going support!
Reading Groups / Spelling / Soccer
Today you will have received a letter from me telling you which Reading group your child has been placed in. As previously stated, these groups will normally meet on Tuesdays through Fridays from 9:45 – 10:30 a.m. We will not have Reading groups tomorrow, however, as Class Reviews are taking place with the Resource team. We will re-commence the groups on Thursday.
You also should have received a note from me about our Spelling programme. Students will get their weekly list on Mondays (these will be in their Planners) and will have their Spelling tests on Thursdays. Please help your child practise their words before their weekly tests. These tests will be sent home each week – for your information.
Students have enjoyed two sessions with the PASS soccer coaches so far this week. We look forward to three more days this week and our last lesson next Monday.
McGill Library Visits
Our class will be making monthly trips to McGill Library. These trips will be on Tuesdays (between Recess and Lunch) when Mr. Phelps is teaching the class. Ms. Nazaruk and the Kindergarden class will be going with our class. Today you received a letter from them requesting that you get a Burnaby Public Library card for your child so that they will be able to borrow books from the library.
I will update our ‘Upcoming Events’ page once I have the confirmed dates of our visits. At this point it is hoped that the first visit will be next Tuesday (September 24th). This will be confirmed on Monday. Please ensure that the ‘start-up’ forms – including the one for the Walking Field Trips – are returned by Monday morning.
Thank you.
Primary Reading Groups
Beginning next week our class will begin with our Primary Reading groupings. You will receive a note on Monday, in your child’s Planner, telling you which group your child will be in. The teacher groups are:
Mr. Phelps / Mrs. Anstee
Mrs. O’Meara
Mrs. Svetic
Mrs. Temple
Intake Interviews
I really enjoyed getting to meet the parents of my students this past week during our Intake Interviews. Thank you all for making time in your busy schedules to come into the school!
I hope you take advantage of checking out this blog regularly to keep up on what is happening in our class. I do get busy sometimes but I try to post something each week. You could check out the regular pages for such things as the Weekly Schedule (for example) or Upcoming Events – along with the information posts on the Home page.
Thank you to all who have returned the forms packet that I gave you at our interview. There are only a few outstanding and I hope to receive them on Monday.
Don’t hesitate to email me, drop a note in the front plastic pocket of your child’s Planner, or speak to me after school if you have any questions or concerns.
Thank you