After a very sunny, and warm-ish September, we are definitely now into the Fall weather.  We have a few Autumn visitors, and decorations, in the classroom now.

Please join me in reminding your children that jackets are a good idea for outdoor times at Recess and Lunchtime.

We will be doing activities to do with the changing season in our classroom, along with our look at Thanksgiving and our upcoming trip to the Pumpkin Patch (please see the notice that went home today).  We will also be enjoying the vibrant colours in the changing of the leaves and be discussing the harvest.

We have spent time this week looking at ourselves and sharing things with our classmates.  We did a booklet called, A Book About Me.  In here we wrote about our likes / dislikes, our families, things we have recently learned, and things we want to learn next.  We also did initial drawings of our faces.  These booklets are posted on the bulletin board at the back of our classroom.

We began our lessons from this kit last week.  You should have received an explanatory letter in your child’s planner.

These lessons are meant to open a dialogue with the children.  The goal is to inform children of their rights and responsibilities in taking care of their own bodies.  We have currently completed 5 of these 12 lessons.  In these lessons we talk about feelings and the differences/similarities between people.

Lesson 3 focussed on the correct scientific names for private body parts.  We approached this as a science lesson.  In spite of some embarrassed giggling, most students took this information in stride.

We will continue these lessons for another two weeks.  Each day that we have a lesson a half paper comes home which described that day’s lesson.  Please take time to discuss these lessons with your child.

Thank you for your continuing support!

On Thursday, June 2nd Cst. Jari of the Burnaby RCMP came to Rosser to speak to the students.  The Primary students had a presentation on road/sidewalk and bicycle safety.  There were several small video clips on the different topics.  Child actors presented the ideas in a very ‘kid-friendly’ manner.

He touched on the topic of ‘stranger-danger’ and spoke briefly about the recent incident at St. Helen’s School which is just down the road from us.  This subject will be discussed in much more detail during our classroom lessons through the C.A.R.E. kit.

Students had a great week of badminton lessons last week.  Coach Thomas taught them the correct way to hold the racket and how to hit the birdie.  They also used balloons to learn how to be gentle with the rackets and to use a light touch to keep the balloons aloft.

Many students were able to keep the balloon in the air for a long time.  Some counted over 100 hits before the balloon got away from them!!