Division 10's News of the Week

Good sunny morning to all of the parents and children.
It is sooo beautiful up here in North Vancouver....but I am looking down into a foggy Stanley Park area. Are you shrouded in the fog? It looks rather spooky down there...it looks like Kitsilano is getting ready for Halloween!!

Speaking of Halloween, I must say that we had a wonderful Friday all looking so wonderful in our costumes. The children handled the excitement and energy with such a calmness. I was very impressed by everyone's behaviour and participation. We started off our Friday with our Halloween Assembly...we paraded around the gym and we not only showed off our costumes but got to see everyone's costumes as well. After we joined our buddies in doing an monsters reading/writing craftivity. Then we got to go and join Lisa and burn off some of our energy with our dancing. In dance Lisa talked about creating our own dances. We worked in little groups and drew our dance moves into our dance journals and then used rhythm words, and movement words to create a vision of our own unique dance. Both Lisa and I were so impressed by how quickly they understood the concepts. The production that will be held at the end of December will be very amazing! I cant wait to see it all put together. After dance we enjoyed some yummy treats that some of the children brought in...thank you and then we did some very scarey monster paintings inspired by the story "Where the wild things are". We will be finishing them on Monday and then doing some writing to go along with our art work. We ended our day with a Scooby Doo movie that the children all enjoyed. Some thought it might be scarey, but realized that it wasnt and it was quite enjoyable for them. Who doesnt love Scooby Doo?? As you can see we had a great Friday!!! Funday Friday is what we call that day.

As a result on Monday we will keep it fairly calm. I still have some Halloween activities planned, such as decorating some cookies that I have just finished baking, doing some Halloween writing, some Halloween math and then ending the day with a sponge bob Halloween dvd with our friends from Division 10 (Ms. Jung;s class) We will munch on our cookies and enjoy the movie. Then they will be all yours to get all dressed up and out for trick or treating!!

Which is my next seque! There will be a lot of wonderful candies and treats that your child will be collecting. But as you know I do a lot of discussion around healthy and unhealthy eating. Our goal is to eat mostly healthy foods, with the understanding that on special occasions (such as Halloween) that they will be consuming more treats than usual. What I am asking is that all the Halloween candy be kept and enjoyed at home under the supervision of their parents. I know from past experiences that children who have their chocolates and candies at school during recess and lunch have a much harder time settling in to concentrate on the days activities and that often if given the choice of their chocolate or their apple, they will pick their chocolate. So I do ask that they do not bring their treats to school...thank you for your support. Also, what may help the lowering of consumption is donating the treats to the classroom box. I will be setting up a box that will be for all extra candy, c hocolates etc and I will be taking it to the homeless shelter in North Vancouver. I have taken them boxes of treats before and it was greatly appreciated. I will tell the children this as well on Monday, The whole school is invited to participate in donating their treats! Isnt the fun of Halloween, just the dressing up and trick or treating??? hahahahhah!!!

With that,
enjoy the numerous pictures that I have taken!
Have a great Sunday...and I hope you are not too fogged in!
teri

Yoga like warm up with Lisa.

listening to lisa with such concentration

working on creating their pathways in teams of three

This is Lori and she is our techno poetologist ...she is showing the children how to add their pictures to their poem on the ipads and how to use some of the different functions and tools.

These are the children who went to the cross country meet so worked on their project with Ms. Whitelaw's support.

This is Deana Michel the VSB Aboriginal Education Enhancement Worker. Deana works with Bayview on Thursdays. I have invited Deana to visit our class about once a month to support the children in their learning and understanding about the FIrst Nations. Today Deana came in and told us what an Elders role was. An elder is our knowledge keepers. She told us that next week that we would be having the opportunity to meet an Elder, Shane Point. He will be coming in and sharing some stories with the children as that is one thing that the Elders do. They pass down stories from generation to generation and help us paint a picture in our mind of how the land was before and how it has changed over time. This will be very interesting for the children.