Has everyone adjusted to the time change yet? I was up at 430 am just because my body is used to waking up at 530am. Is it time to go to sleep yet???? hahaha
The children were all really productive today and very busy. We started the morning off with our spelling and for the grade ones their two new spelling words to add to the spelling words that they have gotten in the last few weeks. Their new words are he, in...practice them and the others and before you know it, their writing and their reading will flourish, just like my grade twos did. The grade ones also focused in on the vowel sound e and worked very hard at differentiating it from the a sound.
I had a long discussion with the grade two children as well. I told them how important it was to practice their spelling words not only for their test, but to put it into practice in their writing. I was a little surprised at how many got the word Halloween right on their spelling test, but how many wrote the word incorrectly when they told me about what they did on Halloween in their journals. So it is important to work hard at transferring their knowledge to their actual practice of it!! Please continue to practice the words with your child for their spelling "test" which is either on a Thursday (if there is a holiday Friday) but most often on a Friday.
Today we also talked about Remembrance Day. We worked on a Remembrance Day poem/art project that is almost finished and is hanging up inside our classroom. This Friday at 11am we will be having our Remembrance Day Assembly. This is our opportunity to express our thanks and show our respect to our Veterans and to those that helped us find and keep peace. Together with our friends from Division 11 we will be doing our annual "Poppy Procession". It is a beautiful, solemn, tear inducing march that you won't want to miss. For this event we are asking the children to come dressed in black, red, or white (if possible). Children who are part of the cubs or brownies, or boy scouts are invited to wear their uniforms. Due to the fact that we are in the poppy procession, the children from our class and Ms. Jung's class will not be a part of the Colour Guard Party that marches in at the beginning of the ceremony. They will just sit with their own class. Please review expectations of this solemn assembly. I already told the children that they were to be on their best behaviour. That this was an assembly that would be a no clapping, no talking assembly. Thank you for your support.
For those returning families, you will recall that we had an amazing lady who came into our classroom to teach us about gardening, that was Catriona. Catriona has gone back to school to become a teacher herself, she loved it so much so this year we have a colleague of hers named Nikoo who is from SPEC and will continue to support us with our study of gardening. Her first visit with us this year is this Wednesday where she will take small groups to the garden at the church across the street to first clean the gardens, plant the garlic and then mulch the gardens. We will be participating in the gardening whether it rains or not, so please make sure that your child is dressed appropriately. As we confirm the number of lessons that Nikoo will be teaching, we will need to charge the children $2. for each lessonb, but i will send out the that request and information at a later date.
Final bits of information:
1) If you hear your child talking about "Caleigh" she is our new volunteer that will be helping out on Mondays. Yay. Caleigh helped out last year as well, so we are excited to have her back.
2) There will be no school next Monday or Tuesday. Monday is a district closure day and Tuesday is Remembrance Day, so i will see everyone on the Wednesday after a four day weekend.
3) I hope everyone had a great Halloween. Thank you for respecting the no treats at school (besides a cookie, or home baked snacks). Mr. A's and our buddied up to make posters inviting people to bring their excess candies, chips etc. to the office and then I will deliver it to the Shelter here in North Vancouver as well as to the Salvation Army here as well. If anyone would like to deliver some to the Covenant House, that would be great too. Just let me know. It looks like we have received a lot of candy surplus donations. We will accept the candies till Friday, at which point i will haul it to my car!! Thank you to the children who have already shared their goods!!
Take care and have a great night and I will see you all on Wednesday,
Teri
hmmmmm. kind of blurry!! much better if you come in and take a peek in person
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