Division 10's News of the Week

Hello parents and families and children!!
There is sooo much sunshine up here in North Vancouver but when i look down at the Lions Gate Bridge I see fog. I hope that everyone has managed to find the sunshine today!! It is the day to go to the mountains and collect your sun rays and your vitamin d! Hope everyone in having a happy day.

We had a great and full week this last week. Full of learning and some very fun activities and performances as well. This week we continued our Science lessons on matter. We talked about (and demonstrated with our entire bodies) what molecules look like in a solid, liquid and a gas. Then we used Fruit loop cereal to show how close these molecules might look when they are in a cube. The children loved playing with the Fruit loops and were all very capable of recreating the molecules for each of the three states. We will continue to look at the states of matter next week.

On Thursday we had the opportunity to have the Stagecoach Drama team (with Rosie and Karen) come in ...the team from Arts Umbrella at Granville Island. They spent almost an hour and a half doing some drama exercises and games with us. I did not know what a talented group of actors and actresses we had in our classroom. They were unbelievable. Their participation and cooperation and behaviour was outstanding. I was very proud of all of our little actors and actresses.

This Friday we had the Green Thumb Theatre come in for a presentation to the entire school with a play called "Wired". This play was about cyberbullying. It was very well written and showed the effects of cyberbullying in a realistic and honest manner. Prior to the show we discussed what cyberbullying meant and I told them that they might be confused but we would discuss the play afterwards as well. There was some harsh language in the play that startled the children (as I know the words that they saw in print would never be words that they would use). We discussed this after the play and how they felt about the person who was being cyberbullied. They were all very keen to state their disappointment of "Pretty in Pink". It was an amazing play.

Important information:
1. Skating forms due in please sign and send in the money for the trip. So far only half have sent their forms in. Am hoping to have them all in by tomorrow.
2. This Wednesday and Thursday it is early dismissal at 2:00 as it is time for Goal Setting conferences. Each meeting is set for 15 minutes, but essentially it is a little bit longer. When it is yours and your child's time for the meeting come in and have your child start showing you their stuff around the room. Look at their writing, check out what they are doing right now...meanwhile myself or Mrs. King might be having a three way conference at the time, when we are done with our conferencing, then we will come and check in on your family. Is this clear? It will be when you are here.
3. This Tuesday the children will begin to participate in Cardio fit. They will meet Mrs.King in the classroom and then they will go down to the gym where they will do some moving to music. If you are late, go directly down to the gym and find Mrs. King.
4. This Wednesday we will also be having some guest visitors from UBC. They are our visiting nurses. Every year they visit our classroom to teach the children the proper way to wash their hands. Especially as it is cold and flu season right now, we think this is a very valuable lesson to learn. Our presentation time is right at 9:00 am, so please try to be on time.

With that I hope you are enjoying your weekend and I will see everyone on Monday.
Teri