Good Morning Parents,
Welcome back to school!!! Happy New Year to everyone...it is 2014 now...wow. Did you get upstairs to read our wonderful resolutions??? There are some very good ones up there. We spent last Monday talking about resolutions, goals, promises and how to achieve them. Many are going to be reading alot this new year, I can tell already that their reading and writing has really improved!!
This next month we are going to be focusing in on the following themes: Winter (overall theme that will be the focus of our reading and writing projects), in Science we will learn about Matter. On Wednesday we talked about Matter and how Matter is almost everything that we can think of...if you can hold it, weigh it, measure it, it is matter. Emotions, and singing is not matter. We will over the month be looking at the different states of matter and doing tiny experiments to look at how some matter can be changed.
In math the grade ones are focusing in on single digit adding and subtracting while the grade twos are beginning their double digit adding without regrouping. We will be doing hands on activities with both groups and many many practice sheets to reinforce both age group concepts. Help at home to reinforce these ideas would be very helpful!!
Coming home on Monday:
A permission slip for Skating will be coming home on Monday. Please sign the permission slip and send it back as soon as possible with a cheque or cash for the payment. We will need many parents for driving and for skate tieing. We hope you can come. The children love it!!
Goal Setting Conferencing:
On Wednesday January 22nd and Thursday, January 23rd is the goal setting conferencing at Bayview.
The times are Wednesday from 715-845 (with me)
Wednesday from 200-500 (with Mrs. King)
Thursday from 715-845 with me
Thursday from 200-500 with me
These conferences are 15ish minutes long.
They will be student led conferencing with the following format, first five minutes student shows their notebooks and writing and projects to the parents, next 5 minutes the teacher, student and parent review the goals from the report card, last five minutes, parent teacher little chit chat.
Please select your day and your time frame and i will send you back a confirmation. It is first come and first serve.
Both Jen and I look forward to meeting with you.
Finally just a few reminders and updates:
1. Please send back the report card covers.
2. Gym days are Mondays and Wednesdays...please wear appropriate footwear and clothing for gym.
3. Library book exchange days are Tuesdays.
4. We will be doing a little arts umbrella sponsored workshop this Thursday in the morning. We will be participating in a Stagecoach drama workshop so hopefully everyone will be here. I applied for this in the summer and Ms. Jung's class and I were the lucky recipients of this program.
5. This friday we will be having a school wide performance in the gym called Wireless....it is a performance by the Green Thumb Players. I was told that children younger than grade one may find this a confusing presentation as it has a lot of information about cyber bullying etc and computer safety (which i will be introducing to the kids throughout the week)
With that, I hope everyone has a great rainy day and that you are able to get outside and play anyway!!
Please remember that all the children need to have indoor shoes to change into after their play time at recess and lunch.
Take care,
Teri
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