I hope everyone got outside to play a little bit before the wet, soggy clouds have begun to roll in. I did and actually got a few sun rays...was sooo warm and beautiful.
First off I want to thank everyone for coming in to talk about your children and their education over the last week. It was wonderful meeting all the new parents and also great for me to say hi and reconnect with all my former parents. You have great children and it is always a bonus to be able to share their strengths and make some new goals for them. In the last two months, I can say they have already fallen into a great routine, are eager and excited and are very socially responsible. Yay to you!! And Yay to them!
On Friday I was learning a new way of communicating to parents called Fresh Grade. I sent everyone a link to it as well as an invite for you to sign up. Mrs Appleby has walked me through the process of Fresh Grade and I hope that I can make her proud by sending you pictures of your child and their learning over the next year. I am learning so hopefully I dont make too many mistakes..forgive me if I do. Im excited about sending you little video clips and samples as we go along. Let me know how I am doing and if you are getting them!
Have a great day and I will see you all on Monday.
teri
A few reminders:
1) Our Food Bank box is right outside the classroom. Thank you to everyone who so quickly sent in food for the food bank.We will be collecting food till the end of October. Our goal is to collect about three boxes per classroom. I hope we can reach our goal...and even superceed our goal! Thank you to our class rep..Jo (Theo's mom) for sending out the request early last week.
2) Off to a running start will go on through out the year unless it is raining torentially. Come upstairs on Tuesdays and Thursdays and check..as well as if you are in the school, listen to the announcements..often times they will say if it is cancelled.
3) On Halloween...after recess the children will all be gathering in the gym to carve their pumpkins. They will be divided into their colour/family groups. They will each need to bring in a pumpkin that has been cleaned out from the bottom..slice the bottom off, clean it and then send it in a bag for your child to carve. Please send a carving knife for your child to use. We anticipate this to be a lot of fun! In the morning of that day, the children will be attending an assembly and will be able to do the costume walk around the gym and show off their costumes. In the afternoon of that day, the children will stay in the classroom and do Halloween activities and perhaps a little Halloween video...nothing toooooo scarey. I usually keep it pretty calm as the evening is always a little exciting anyway!!
Finally:
I've received confirmation that there is a case of lice in the Division 11 classroom (that is Ms. Jung's classroom).I know that many of the children from both classes play together, and as of late, have many birthday parties together. Please check your child's hair on a daily basis for the next little while so that we can catch these little critters before they really start to spread.
If you find lice, please let me know so that I can further alert families, and if necessary, contact the school nurse. Perhaps girls at this time need to tie their hair back and everyone to be reminded not to share combs at school or hats.
Good luck!
Pictures:
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| These pictures are very late in coming. A few weeks ago Gareth, Bella's step dad came in to clean up our gardens with all the children. They cleaned, they planted and they learned. Thank you sooo much Gareth. The children loved the experience. This is the only group that got photographed because I forgot to send out the camera. My apologies! |
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| The brussel sprouts that we planted last year. |
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| Our first family grouping run by Fuzuki and Henry. |
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| What we collected from our garden. |
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| Learning about apples. |
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| Our Thanksgiving art!! |
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| Working on our walking line, apple art! |
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| This is Deana, our first nations worker reading a story called "The Two Sisters" It is a story about how the mountains (that we call the lions) got it's First Salish name. |
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| This is the book that she read. What a wonderful book!! |
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| Learning about Diwali. |
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