Hi parents,
I thought i would send you some pictures that are late in coming...
enjoy

BAKE SALE!!! We raised 168 dollars...and donated one hundred dollars to the refuge childrens art camp that katarina will be teaching at. You will see their beautiful herons later on. Good job my sales people!!

This is Katarina Thorsen..if you google your name you will see her blog and her information about hte heron project that she is doing..her plan is to auction off her heron pictures later on..she will be making 10 big heron pictures and then sell them off to raise additional funds for the refuge children. It was a fascinating story and excellent art.

Beach Day!! what a perfect day at the beach..not too hot and not too cold and lots and lots of fun and friendship!!

All the children were sooo wonderful...tomorrow is desk cleanup..send bags for extras...and then in the afternoon it is movie and popcorn and more cleaning!!
teri

Good Morning,
As Father's Day is tomorrow I thought maybe everyone would be busy with the dad's in their life so I thought I would send these wonderful pictures out today!
We had a great week and are just realizing that we only have a few weeks left to be together and we certainly are enjoying every minute of them!
The hi light to our week was making pb and jelly sandwiches..
We read a fantastic book about a little racoon who only wanted to eat jelly sandwiches and then talked about just trying new foods to see...as one day they might try something and they will like it!! We talked about how important it was to give exact details to someone when making anything or you might end up having a sandwich with the jelly and pb on the outside of the bread!!! They thought that was funny! After all was said and done they made some delish sandwiches with the help of Michelle..thank you Michelle!!
The pictures are following.
The important details for next week will be in the email as I want everyone to make sure they write them down and not forget after looking at all these pictures!! hahah
Have a great day!
teri

 And now they can make their own lunches!!
The bread was the bread they baked with the ubc students, that i cut up and froze till this great opportunity!
I think when I asked them how they liked their sandwiches...they said they LOVED them!!

Good morning everyone,
It is delightful to see the sun shining this morning. Unfortunately I hear that the weather may be a little cloudy/rainy next week, so get out there and enjoy the sunshine!
Well we were lucky last week with the way the sunshine worked. We had a great beach clean up day. The sun shone down on us, we cleaned a lot of yucky cigarette butts off the beach and felt very good about giving back to our Earth. And the next day it rained, then came Friday and the weather although a little chilly and windy, was much better and we spent the morning at Kits Pool learning about water safety. What an excellent program!!! The children shivered and shook, but all listened soo well and learned soo much! I was very proud of their behaviour and their focus and the way they all tried so hard. I have pictures of both events.

On Friday we also said goodbye to Ms. Fuster. Ms. Fuster was a visiting Student Teacher from Appenzell, Switzerland. She spent three weeks in the classroom helping out and learning and even doing a little bit of teaching. She will be travelling in Canada for another month before returning to Switzerland. We loved having her with us and wish her the very best luck with her teaching in Switzerland.

We are quickly coming to an end to our year and so I will give you a quick outline of some of our wonderful activities that we will be doing to finish our year off. (We will continue to be doing all of our core curricular activities on a daily basis, but will augment it with some little special activities as well)
June 14th....for all children who participated in any sport or athletic activity (track, cross country) you will have received a letter from Ms. Hinds...so on this day there will an Athletic Banquet, which often runs into the afternoon. On this day those children who have received an invite, do not need to bring their lunch.

June20th....We will be going to the beach in the afternoon to do a Beach Art Project in the style of Andy Goldsworthy...quote:I enjoy the freedom of just using my hands and “found” tools – a sharp stone, the quill of a feather, thorns. I take the opportunities each day offers: if it is snowing, I work with snow, at leaf-fall it will be with leaves; a blown-over tree becomes a source of twigs and branches. I stop at a place or pick up a material because I feel that there is something to be discovered. Here is where I can learn.” -Andy Goldsworthy

I will take pictures of their creations. If there are any parents who would like to join us for the walk and supervision, that would be great! Let me know.

June 21st. ....The grade 2/3 math students have been working on learning about money, how to count money, how to give change, how to add different denominations together and meanwhile the grade ones (wiht Ms. Jung) have also just started a money unit. So, on this day we thought it would be fun to have a BAKE SALE...where all the grade 2's will be asked to bring in one dozen of cupcakes, muffins or large cookies, or rice krispy squares...something that we could sell for a dollar each and we would then set up our little shop in the classroom and sell our food. The grade ones from ms. jungs class (and ours) would come shopping. Our children would be allowed to shop as well, if there was anything left. So, Im hoping that for this day, the children could all bring in something for them to sell. We plan to count the money after, talk about what we could buy with it, how much those things woudl cost and have a little party in the last week of school. If you have any questions about this, let me know!

June 22nd...the Vancouver Public Library will be coming to do a summer reading presentation at Bayview in the afternoon

June 23rd...we will be harvesting our spuds and having a little spud fest feast...maybe some kale salad as well..yumm

June 26th or June 27th...Beach Day...if the Monday is hot and sunny we will be going to the beach...if it is not, then we will have our class party with the funds we have earned from our bake sale...if and visa versa...so one of the two days will be Beach Day and one will be party day...

June 28th....half a day classroom clean up and half a day might also be a beach day...

June 29th Last day of school. Assembly in the gym with slide show. Bubble gum chewing in the classroom...I know, they love this...and dancing and loud music...thats what they love!

Okay...Im not sure what else..but if there is more, I will send it to you again. Im sorry this was very long...and now for the pictures..they are great!
teri

Yay we cleaned the beach!!!

Good bye Ms.Fuster...we loved having you!

Good Morning,
This blog is a day early with very little writing...but tooooooons of pictures of our incredible week.
First off..most important the information that you need to know.
1) On Wednesday (June 7th) we will be doing our annual Jericho Beach cleanup. We will be leaving the school at 930 am and walking to Jericho Beach along with most of the primaries at Bayview. We will then break into little groups and pick up garbage. We will be the avengers of the Earth!!! If you would like to join us let me know. Its always a fun, healthy and giving way to spend a morning. We return to the school for lunch.

2) Our Thursday lunch mom spot will be opening up for either a mom or a dad or a grandpa. Our Thursday mom cannot do it any longer. If no one can take this spot on, its not a big deal. The children can go to the lunchroom. It is noisier and they may be hungrier on this day (after school) but they will be okay. Let me know if you would like to do this time or not.

3) Finally, we have a wonderful water safety opportunity at Kits Pool for this Friday June 9th. We need drivers to get us there and bring us back. At this time we are short about 9 spots for children. I do not need people to stay as I have myself and Ms. Fuster to look after the children, just drivers. So if you think you can do that....let me know. Also the permission slips need to be sent back by Monday so I can figure things out. 

With that enjoy alll the pictures of our wonderful week!
teri

Our new favourite reading spot...love the carpet!

the water cycle

the start of our graphing unit

Ms. Fuster teaches us about Appenzel, Switzerland and how to draw cows.

Printmaking suns...it's June!

If you read the kits, you can see that we did a lot this year!

Onomatopoeia...its a big word and part of our poetry unit!

The little buckets at the bottom...thats our bucket list!

Joyce teaches us how to make bannock.

before the baking of it

Yum, its ready to be sampled.

The food at Ms. Jung's potlatch

The children are on the carpet, enjoying their feast.