Happy Summer!!

This week the students all finished publishing their stories Fortunately, Unfortunately.  As you can see in the photo below of our Author's Tree, your children are definitely authors and should be proud of themselves!  All year we have featured different popular authors!  Be sure to have your child read their story to you they are near the back of their memory books!  A huge thank you to Landon's mom who made all the apples for us on her Cricut!  

Your child has brought home all their books and school supplies.  I hope you all have an opportunity to look through your child's work as well as their memory book.  They were all very excited to make their photo collages yesterday so I'm sure they will be excited to show you.  In both their Reader's Workshop and Math duotangs there is work that can be completed over the summer.   They also have their writing books which they could continue to use to write in.  I hope all the students continue to use Raz Kids over the summer, I have increased their levels so they will have some new books to enjoy.  If you are wanting more math - go to the Online K-5 Math Worksheets on the side of this blog.

Music with Dr. Saul is always amazing!  These last few weeks we have been singing campfire songs, it can't get any better! 

                       Just another picture to show how much Div. 11 students love to build with lego!

 Thank you to all parents for contributing to our class celebrations this year by sending in goodies, they were really appreciated and enjoyed by Div. 11.

Thank you to everyone for your support this year,  I loved working with your children and getting to know all of you even though it was at a distance or over zoom!  This is a year none of us will forget!      I really appreciated your generous gifts, thanks so much.  

Hope you all have a wonderful summer!  

June 16th

 Thought I'd post this today just as a reminder that tomorrow Friday, June 17th is 'Gum Day' for Div. 11.   Students are allowed to bring gum from home but must follow the rules that we have set out together in the class.  Poetry Chants and More will come home tomorrow and they should stay at home as we will not be adding anything else this school year.    Hope your Father's Day is a good one, the students were excited about their gifts for you dads!!

Next week your child will be bringing home all their books, supplies plus their inside shoes either on Wednesday and/or Thursday. Their memory books, growthfolios and report cards will come home Friday.  If possible please bring a bag for your child to transport their supplies in as usually they don't fit in backpacks.  Thanks!

Monday, June 21 - National Indigenous People Day as well as our originally planned Hat Day 

June 22 - Jersey and TREAT day (Sports and Ice Cream or Yogurt seem like they should go together! - TCBY Frozen Yogurt provided by the PAC ***Thank YOU!!

June 23rd - Yard in the Card 7:30 - 3:30 (Photos can be taken by families in front of the school during this time.  Please maintain social distancing).  More details will be coming form Jenn Gallop via the Monday newsletter.  

June 24th -Hawaiian Day!! Dress up in summer or Hawaiian attire  Class Celebration for Year End                                                                                                  Thanks in advance to the following students for bringing in our pre-packaged snacks!!  Please send these snacks in by Tuesday, June 22 Chase (chips), Caleb (rice Krispy/bear paw treat), Ryder (Treats - chocolate or candy), Tatum (fruit snacks) and LJ (chocolate or candy treat)

June 25th - Last day of school for students Memory Books/Growthfolios/Report Cards will come home

June 10/21

PUBLIC LIBRARY CARDS went home on Tuesday.  Div. 11 students were very excited to see these! Hopefully you will all have the opportunity to go to the public library soon so that your child can borrow some books, a backpack or even a telescope!  

In the last couple of weeks in math we have been focusing more on early multiplication.  We were talking about the fact that multiplication just means 'groups of' and that skip counting is actually a great thing to practice to help you do mulitplication.  If you could please practice skip counting by 2's and 5's that would be very helpful.

*Please ensure that your child is dressed for some outdoor activities (shorts should be worn under dresses/skirts and shoes should be appropriate for activity-no flip flops, please)

*Just a reminder that we are a 'West coast Recess' district which means we are outside every recess/lunch (rain or shine).  Please ensure that your child has appropriate clothes for outside, as well as shoes that allow them to be active every day.  

*Our Scientist of the Day is now complete. This week we experienced 'Elephant Toothpaste', how heavy objects can float if in a boat, and how oil is lighter than water plus what happens if you add an Alka-Seltzer to this mixture! I was very impressed by how well prepared the students were for their day and the fact that I had never seen several of the experiments.  Everyone did a great job!

*Class photos were sent home Monday.  They are in the front pouch of your child's planner.

*Summer birthdays will be celebrated over the next couple of weeks (in case you are wondering why your child is wearing a birthday bracelet/sticker :))

Your children wanted me to add this to the blog - SPCA Home Workshops over the summer!! Here's is the flyer:  

Important Dates in June:

Friday, June 18th - Gum day (students are allowed to bring gum from home but must follow the rules that we have set out together in the class)

Monday, June 21 - Hat Day

June 22 - Jersey and TREAT day (Sports and Ice Cream or Yogurt seem like they should go together! - TCBY Frozen Yogurt provided by the PAC ***Thank YOU!!

June 23rd - Yard in the Card 7:30 - 3:30 (Photos can be taken by families in front of the school during this time.  Please maintain social distancing).  More details will be coming form Jenn Gallop via the Monday newsletter.  

June 24th -Hawaiin Day!! Dress up in summer or Hawaiin attire  Class Celebration for Year End                                                                                                  Thanks in advance to the following students for bringing in our pre-packaged snacks!!  Please send these snacks in by Tuesday, June 22 Chase (chips), Caleb (rice Krispy/bear paw treat), Ryder (Treats - chocolate or candy), Tatum (fruit snacks) and LJ (chocolate or candy treat)

June 25th - Last day of school for Students

 

June 4th

This week we had our 'Public Library Zoom field trip'!  The students were excited to hear all the things that are available to take out from the library as well as the idea of all the possible books they could read!  Every summer they have a special summer reading program which I hope all of Div. 11 will join.  It's fun and a great way to maintain and strengthen their reading skills that they have worked so hard on this year.  Please see attachment in the email.  

We have had another exciting week of scientists!!  Friction Fun, How clouds hold water, Milk, food colouring soap experiment, Float/Sink, and how to make slime!  Ask your child also about the experiment we did with celery to show how water gets to the top of trees.

Important June Dates:

June 2 was our Club RED celebration - we were proud of Natalie for winning the book mard contest for the primary!

June 22 - TREAT day - TCBY Frozen Yogurt provided by the PAC ***Thank YOU!!

June 23rd - Yard in the Card 7:30 - 3:30  

June 24th - Class Celebration - Year end celebration - Thanks in advance to the following students for bringing in our pre-packaged snacks!!  Please send these snacks in by Tuesday, June 22.                       Chase (chips), Caleb (rice Krispy/bear paw treat), Ryder (Treats - chocolate or candy), Tatum (fruit snacks) and LJ (chocolate or candy treat)

June 25th - Last day of school for Students

May 28th

We still have a couple students that need to return their public library card forms.   These must be returned by Tuesday as I need to get them to the library for processing.  Thank you!

Please ensure that your child dresses for the weather. They should have extra sweaters or sweatshirts, socks and rain boots if needed.  Even though I have heard the weather is suppose to get warmer next week the school has no heat (due to the broken boiler) and I always have the door open for ventilation.    

Our scientists this week were great.  We learned about salt water, what conducts electricity, what happens when diet coke mixes with mentos, how to make rainbow bubbles and how a hover craft works!  If your child is suddenly asking to try some experimenting this is why!  They are asking great 'What if' questions.

Thanks to everyone who has paid for the memory book.  

Look at Div. 11's Friday Art work!

Enjoy your weekend!  

May 21/21

Have a wonderful May long weekend, it looks like the weather actually might hold!  Enjoy!

Please return library card information asap as we need to get these back to the library before our zoom field trip.  We only have a few students left to pay for their memory book, please go to the parent portal to pay the $10.00.  Thanks!!

Our 'Scientists' have been a huge highlight of our week.  We learned about chemical reactions from both Ryan and Taturm (Ryan made a balloon fill up and Tatum made an egg turn bouncy!).  Evan made a very cool rainbow teaching us about the refraction of white light and Chase did a floating man experiment.  Your child may be asking to try some of these experiments at home as they have had many 'What If' questions!  We are all looking forward to seeing all the other students experiments.

May 12th

Div. 11 has been a very small class so far this week,  as you are aware Fairview unfortunately has cases of covid and exposures. You should have recieved a letter from Fraser Health that our class should be self-monitoring regularly.  This means checking temperature and doing the daily health check-list on our website.  It is crucial that we are all deligent in taking all safety precautions that we can.  Hopefully things will settle down very soon. 

If your child is at home and you'd like some activities and school work please check out the Fairview Library link which I have added to our Useful Links.  Also there you will see Raz Kids, Epic and K-5 Math worksheets.  Of course you should continue to read and write daily.   

Next week we will be starting our Scientist of the Day.  Please see in the email the attachments of instructions, date each child presents and also the papers for the experiment that your child should complete.  Obviously we will be flexible with dates with our recent situation.  

We also have a special Library  'Zoom fieldtrip'.  Each child has a paper that was sent home (or will be sent home) to enable every child to get a library card so they are ready and hopefully join the Fraser Valley Summer Reading Program.  Please return this form ASAP.  

Club RED has continued and the students are really enjoying reading outside as well as our Mystery Readers.  Last week our special reader was Natalie's mom, a lunch hour supervisor.  We are guessing who it will be tomorrow!  Hopefully everyone is reading each day and enjoying new adventures or learning new facts!  Don't forgot about the Fariview Book Mark contest, these could be completed at home I have the blank bookmarks here that they can pick up.

Memory Book $10, please pay on the parent portal as soon as possible.   

Don't forget to check out the link for our courage collection projects...

https://read.bookcreator.com/MhSRoqbvsRarh9nEfqYBBqqhnu53/CKxE-Xm0RKeQE3_7e1q-Dg

This is the thank you we made to Brook at Me & Eds for donating the pizza boxes for our courage projects.  The creators were... Avin, Natalie, Neena, Niki, Neena, and Tatum!  

They did an awesome job.

 

May 6th

 Happy May!!  

If you didn't see the notice, unfortunately Fairview has Covid cases and there are several students and teachers that are isolating.  Please as usual be diligent with hand washing, keeping your kids home if they are not feeling well,  getting them tested if they have symptoms and thanks again for reminding and encouraging your child to bring and wear a mask at school. Please also remind your child that they are not to be bringing toys or items from home (like stuffies, etc) With Covid it is important that these things stay at home.

We have now finished our spelling program for the year, your child has brought home their duotang today.  I am proud of how the students worked through these lessons and have started to use some of these phonetic rules in their writing.  

We will soon be starting our 'Scientist of the Day'.  On Monday your child will be bringing home a letter  (check the secret pouch in their planner) to explain this and it will also highlight the day your child will present their science experiment. 

Your child brought home their body organ and brain project.  Div. 11 did an awesome job of learning all the differnt organs and their functions.  Be sure to ask them everything they learned and I'm sure you will be impressed (the songs in their Poetry books will help them remember if they have forgotten).

CLUB R.E.D. (Read Every Day). Every year at Fairview we celebrate reading and literacy! This year we have some special activities, we are reading outside on Wednesdays (weather permitting), Mystery readers on Fridays, we are making a chain of connections that we make to literature and they are going up around the library, and there is also a Fairview Bookmark contest that is optional - but all entires should include Fairview,  2020-2021, and a picture/design with their name on the back.  

Hopefuly you also saw the excellent courage projects that they brought home on Thursday.  Mrs. Neufeld is making a video with all their creations.  Please check out this link to see our collection...

https://read.bookcreator.com/MhSRoqbvsRarh9nEfqYBBqqhnu53/CKxE-Xm0RKeQE3_7e1q-Dg

Memory Book $10!  Please pay on the parent portal as soon as possible. Thanks to those who have already paid.

Pro D - on Wednesday, May 12th so no school for students.  

Have a wonderful Mother's Day Weekend!!  

April 30/21

Smencil Sale TOMORROW...                                                                                                          

Leadership Students have chosen to host a Smencil sale to benefit the BCSPCA.   

When: April 30th at lunch.    

How: Leadership students will be coming around (coffee cart style) to sell Smencils door-to-door to each class during lunch.                                                                                   

How Much:  1 for $3, 2 for $5,  3 for $8, 4 for $10, 5 for $13, 6 for $15, 7 for $18, 9 for $20

Class Photos next week on May 4th.

Thank you for reminding and encouraging your child to bring and wear a mask at school.  I have noticed a decline in mask wearing these last couple of weeks and hope we can get back on track as the numbers continue to be high.   Our classroom door and window is still being kept open to help with the ventilation. 

Please remind your child that they are not to be bringing toys or items from home (like stuffies, etc) With Covid it is important that these things stay at home.

Memory Book $10!  Please pay on the parent portal as soon as possible. Thanks to those who have already paid on the parent portal.

We are just finishing both our body/nutrition unit and our courage.  Discuss with your child the highlights. They will soon be bringing home their 'Body' project and courage creations.  They did amazing work on both of these!  

April 23/21

 I have put the memory book of $10 fee up on the parent portal, please pay as soon as possible. Thanks!

EARTH DAY bulletin board...    I was very impressed with the students ideas of ways to protect our planet.  A perfect lead in to our new unit on the environment!   

                                         

Book Taste Testing Activity!  When they arrived on Thursday morning they said the classroom looked like they were at a wedding! All the students were very engaged and seemed to enjoy exploring different genres of books (fiction/non-fiction, fantasy, science fiction, graphic novels, autobiographies, biographies, mystery).  They definitley had their opinions of what genre of books that they liked best.  

Leadership Students have chosen to host a Smencil sale to benefit the BCSPCA. 

 

When: April 30th at lunch.

How: Leadership students will be coming around (coffee cart style) to sell Smencils door-to-door to each class during lunch. (If you would prefer Leadership Students did not come to your class, or you would like to schedule an alternate time, please let me know).

How Much:     1 for $3, 2 for $5,  3 for $8, 4 for $10, 5 for $13, 6 for $15, 7 for $18, 9 for $20

April 16th

Spring is finally here and it is so nice to be enjoying this fantastic weather.  On Wednesday for Forest Fun and Learning we read a great book called Swirl by Swirl.  We then went on a shape hunt of all the natural shapes we could find in the forest and afterwards made a variety of shapes using natural objects we found. See some of their cool 'shape' collections below...

Thursday we started our final courage projects using modeling clay (like Barbara Reid!!) to create a scene of us using our courage!  The students are so creative and enjoying this art!  We will show you pictures of our final projects!  

We are so lucky that Fairview has an amazing PAC and they are currently doing two main fundraisers. Plants and Flower sale  - check out this website:  https://fairviewelementarypac.growingsmilesfundraising.com/home                                                       and Neufeld Meats (plus cookies and pies!!) this order went home this week - visit www.neufeldfarms.ca/fundraising   and your order should be emailed to fairviewelemfundraising@gmail.com                                    Thank you for supporting our school!!

Reminders:

Monday, April 19th is green day!  If possible children should wear green to support Earth Day and our leadership students!

Smencils will be for sale on April 30th. 

April 9th/21

This week a new Scholastic order went home.  If you would like to order, please use our class code:       RC 250266

Our spelling words are more challenging this term,  so it is important that you review the words (the phonetic rule of the week e.g.) this week was ai/ay  for green and or for the blue group).  A reminder to please check with your child on Wednesday/Thursday nights to see if they have spelling homework.  Also check out the Spelling City link on this blog as extra practice.  

Your child has or will be bringing home their Body System Book/plus another My Body Book (they were put in the secret pouch of their planners) please have your child read these to you  or read together.  

I wanted to let you know that in the near future I will put on the parent portal an announcement for $10.00 per student for their  memory book.  Included in this price is the binder, photos, collages and colour photocopying.  Students and parents in the past have loved this keepsake!  

Needed:  Kleenex! If anyone has a box they could donate to the class, that would be appreciated as the school is right out!

Upcoming Events:

• Walk/Bike to school - April 13th
• Green Day - April 19th
  

April 1st/21

It was great to see everyone after our spring break.  The students were very engaged in our Collaborative Writing Project.  They worked with a partner, with a set of words to create a story.  They seemed to love this activity and wrote very interesting stories.  

Div. 11 made these cool Easter Baskets pictures. I love how they all turned out so unique!!

     The students had lots of fun this afternoon with our 'Moon Shoes'!!

As most of you have probably heard and seen, there is now a mask mandate for Gr. 4 -12 and for K-3 they are strongly recommending children also wear mask.  With the constantly rising number of cases I do recommend and appreciate when the students wear masks and they have shared that they too feel safer when more of us are wearing them.  Especially when we have at exposures at Fairview.  Thank you so much for your support and encouragement with this!

Leadership news...

Leadership Students have chosen to host a Smencil sale to benefit the BCSPCA. 

 

When: April 30th at lunch.

How: Leadership students will be coming around (coffee cart style) to sell Smencils door-to-door to each class during lunch. (If you would prefer Leadership Students did not come to your class, or you would like to schedule an alternate time, please let me know).

How Much:     1 for $3

   2 for $5

3 for $8

4 for $10

5 for $13

6 for $15

7 for $18

9 for $20

Hope you all have a wonderful, safe long Easter weekend! Remember there is no school Friday or Monday.  Hope the Easter Bunny finds all of you!!

March 12/21

Thanks to everyone for taking the time to meet for conferences and to celebrate your child's learning and successes!  I am proud of all their progress.  You should have received your child's report cards on Tuesday or Wednesday (they were in the front pouch of the planners).  I have adjusted the levels in Raz Kids so everyone has more books available to them. Hopefully everyone has an opportunity to do some reading over spring break.

For theme this week we have been learned about the lungs and liver.  Ask your children what they know about each organ and have them sing the songs we added to their Poetry book. Remember that all the math games in the Poetry book would be fun to play over the next couple of weeks too.  

Hope everyone has a fun, relaxing spring break!  

March 3/21

 It is hard to believe it is already March! 

Conferences as mentioned are tomorrow and Friday.  You should have received the link for the zoom and important information about the conferences last night. Their report cards came home this afternoon and are in their secret pouch of their planners.       I have told the students they do not need to bring their planners to school tomorrow due to the early dismissal and our busy schedule in the morning.  In their poetry book is a 100 Snakes and Ladders game that they should show you - get them to  skip count by 2's, 5's, 10's, 20's, 25's and 50's.  As you can see they have made a key to explain the colours and symbols.  Then enjoy playing the game.  If they use two dice they could add or subtract to find out how many they get to move.  Enjoy! 

This afternoon we had a special presentation on zoom by the BC Lions and Fortis BC about how we can help to save energy.  Please ask your child to share all the different ways (there are 10!).

Unfortunately you can't see these in person but this is how your children think they will look when they are 100 years old!  They loved this art project and all did an amazing job! 

February 19th, 2021

A short but busy week. We finally finished the chapter book A Place For Owls By: Kay McKeever.  The children just loved this non-fiction book and were sad that we were at the end.  We have put Kay up on our Author's Tree but they were hoping to write her a letter sharing how much they learned and liked this book, unfortunately though she passed away in 2019.  

Courage!  Mrs. Neufeld worked with us on Thursday and we talked about how our feeling change as we use our courage (from before, in the middle and after).  

Look at these cool symbols and paintings we did showing how our emotions changed.  

Conferences March 4 & 5th - *Please sign up for one conference time/child on the parent portal.  This is the same format as in November.  Every student needs to be part of the Zoom conference, a rough draft of their report card and some of their work will be sent home prior to the conference.  I am looking forward to celebrating your child's learning with you.  Please let me know if you are unable to make any of the times that are listed and we can arrange another time. 

Valentines Day homework (from last week) and kindness bingo are in the Poetry Book.  Please ensure that your child completes these before Monday.  The Kindness bingo they did at lunch today but we thought it was important to continue these acts of kindness so we are challenging the students to try to get a blackout on the weekend (colouring in each square once they have completed that act of kindness. 

Just a reminder that our library's online Scholastic book fair is on and on Wednesday evenings there is free shipping.  Thanks for supporting Fairview's Library.  

Thank you to the PAC for the fantastic outside equipment.  The children love all the different choices and are learning some new skills like badminton, frisbee and football.  

Next week:                                                                                                                                              Feb. 24 PINK Shirt and we will be participating in a Kindness Parade. 

Feb. 26 Hundred Day  - Bring in a collections!  I am asking that all students make some kind of 100 Day collections.  If you need paper please let me know.  These collections should come to school and will go home that day too.  Use your imaginations!

February 11/21

 Our Valentine's Celebration will be tomorrow.  Please have your child bring in their paper valentines tomorrow morning.  Thanks so much to Neena, Brody, Natalie and Sukhraj for providing the treats for our celebration.  

Please continue to talk to your child about when they are using or have used their courage.  We are making a Courage Collection of examples of when they need to use their courage! Each week as part of our literacy program, we discuss why we feel courage is so important and explore courage in a great collection of books.  We call it the "safe-risk zone"  SAFE + RISK = LEARNING (e.g.) trying something new, taking risks, standing up for yourself or someone else)  

Several classes including Div. 11 have made special paper hugs for a seniors home (Brody's Nona's lives there).  A special thank you to Brody's mom for delivering these for us!  The students were excited making these and we hope the hugs will bring some joy during this difficult time when everyone is missing hugging their loved ones. 

Our outdoor journallying was chilly but also a great learning experience.  Ms Penner asked the children to be 'Nature Scientists' and to choose one object in the forest to study closely, write and draw about it. 

We won't do spelling next week being it is only a 3 day week for students.  We'll continue with lesson 5 the following week.

Special dates for February:

Friday, Feb. 12 - Our Valentine Celebration

Monday, Feb. 15th - Family Day - holiday

Tuesday, Feb. 16th  - Non-Instrucional Day 

Wednesday, Feb. 24 - Pink Shirt/Kindness Day  

Friday, Feb. 26th 100 Day - *Bring in a collection.   

I am asking that all students make some kind of 100 Day collections.  If you need paper please let me know.  These collections should come to school and will go home that day too.  Use your imaginations! 

February 5, 2021

 February is kindness month! Our leadership students and team have planned several activities for the month. The students all did kindness hands on Monday that will be displayed in the gym.  

Valentine card exchange is permitted as long as the cards are basic paper cards (cards with pens, stickers or candies are NOT permitted at this time). When you are making Valentines please ensure if you are doing this that you make one for everyone in the class so no one feels left out.  Thanks!  Div. 11 students are listed below!

Avin           Seth          Alexa          Evan             Niki             Tyson          Ryan         Landon       LJ

Neena         Brody         Natalie             Sukhraj             Chase        Caleb           Ryder        Tatum

Thanks to the following people for bringing snacks for our celebration could you please send these in by Wednesday, Feb. 10th.  ***Please remember these must be individually pre-packaged.

Neena -  Chips                     Brody - Fruit Snacks/Rice Krispy/Bear Paw 

Natalie - Treats (chocolate or candy)    Sukhraj - Juice Boxes (already sent in - Thanks!)

We have started our new theme of the Human Body and Nutrition.  We brainstormed what we knew and what we wondered.  I was very impressed by your children's great questions!  A big thank you to Andrea (Chase's Mom) for preparing two special projects that we will be doing.  

Div. 11 has continued our Courage unit with Mrs. Neufeld.  We have started a ''Courage Collection' and have shared things they felt they used their courage to accomplish or do.  We have discussed why we feel courage is so important.  We call it the "safe-risk zone"  SAFE + RISK = LEARNING.

Ground Hog Day Math game is in their Poetry Book duo tang.  The students really enjoyed these games and asked for both to be sent home.  Please take some time to play this game as it reinforces their addition skills and also the rule of +/- 10 rule.  

On Wednesday we have a district Literacy teacher coming to work with our class on Outdoor Journalling.  Please ensure that your child is dressed for the weather as we will be outside for a couple of hours.  Thanks

Our 100 Day of School is on Friday, Feb.  26th.  I am asking that all students make some kind of 100 Day collections.  If you need paper please let me know.  These collections should be sent to school on Feb. 26th and go home that day too.  Use your imaginations!

Please continue to check to make sure your child has Extra Clothes as our rainy weather continues 😟 and we have Forest Fun on Monday and Wednesdays plus Div. 11 will go outside for recess and lunch everyday (our class will not have a choice of staying in as we have discussed how important outside time is)

Also several students still need to bring in Headphones.  

For extra fun spelling practice students can go to the Spelling City link on this blog (they are organized into lessons and are a great way to practice these phonetic patterns and even little spelling tests). 

Important February Dates:

Wednesday,  Feb. 10 - Outdoor Journalling

Friday, Feb. 12 - Our Valentine Celebration

Monday, Feb. 15th - Family Day - holiday

Tuesday, Feb. 16th  - Non-Instrucional Day 

Wednesday, Feb. 24 - Pink Shirt/Kindness Day  

Friday, Feb. 26th 100 Day - *Bring in a collection

January 29th, 2021

 Wow - January is now a wrap!  This week has been busy finishing our owl unit!  Reader's Workshop presentations of owl books are going well.  The highlight was dissecting owl pellets today - as you can see below the students were very engaged as they were 'scientists' and/or 'ornithologists'!

                                                         Look at all these bones!

                                                              Even skulls!

                                                We also did this cool art project!  

In math we have been focusing on place value (thousands/hundreds/tens and ones) as well as reviewing basic addition and subtraction facts.  As you can see in the poetry book we have done a Rounding Roller Coaster to help the students to round numbers. If you could review this and practice rounding some numbers that would be great.  

Dr. Saul is looking for gumboots.  If anyone has any larger sized rubber boots hanging about they you'd like to donate, please send them into the school. Students do not need to wear boots in their size, it's actually good to wear a size or two too large for this special  'Body Rhythm' work.  

Please check your child's planners daily on Monday they write their spelling words, on Wednesday and Thursday night they bring home their spelling duo-tang and the lesson should be completed each week.  Please return this daily, even if it isn't finished!  

Just a reminder that this year's Valentines is different!   

We received this from our the district Health and Safety Department:  Please ensure that you follow these guidelines this year due to Covid 19!  If you have already purchased valentines that have stickers, pens or candies please save them for next year or give them to family.  Sorry for the inconvenience.

Valentine card exchange is permitted as long as the cards are basic paper cards (cards with pens, stickers or candies are NOT permitted at this time).

When you are making Valentines please ensure if you are doing this that you make one for everyone in the class so no one feels left out.  Thanks!  Div. 11 students are listed below!

Avin           Seth          Alexa          Evan             Niki             Tyson          Ryan         Landon       LJ

Neena         Brody         Natalie             Sukhraj             Chase        Caleb           Ryder        Tatum

Thanks to the following people for bringing snacks for our celebration on Friday, Feb. 12.

Neena -  Chips                     Brody - Fruit Snacks/Rice Krispy/Bear Paw 

Natalie - Treats (chocolate or candy)    Sukhraj - Juice Boxes

Important February Dates:

Friday, Feb. 12 - Our Valentine Celebration

Family Day - Feb. 15th - holiday

Non-Instrucional Day - Feb. 16th 

January 21/21

IMPORTANT INFORMATION ABOUT VALENTINES:

We received this from our the district Health and Safety Department:  Please ensure that you follow these guidelines this year due to Covid 19!  If you have already purchased valentines that have stickers, pens or candies please save them for next year or give them to family.  Sorry for the inconvenience.

Valentine card exchange is permitted as long as the cards are basic paper cards (cards with pens, stickers or candies are NOT permitted at this time).

When you are making Valentines please ensure if you are doing this that you make one for everyone in the class so no one feels left out.  Thanks!  Div. 11 students are listed below!

Avin           Seth          Alexa          Evan             Niki             Tyson          Ryan         Landon       LJ

Neena         Brody         Natalie             Sukhraj             Chase        Caleb           Ryder        Tatum

Thanks to the following people for bringing snacks for our celebration on Friday, Feb. 12.

Neena -  Chips                     Brody - Fruit Snacks/Rice Krispy/Bear Paw 

Natalie - Treats (chocolate or candy)    Sukhraj - Juice Boxes

Just a reminder that there is no school on Monday, Jan. 25 as it is an non-instuctional day.  The spelling quiz went well today and your child should have it in their planner to show you.

Spelling will start on Tuesday instead this week.  As mentioned in my email Spelling Duotangs will come home on Wednesday and Thursday evenings to be completed if your child is not quite finished.  Please return to the school each day though even if not completed.  

We are finishing up our Owl unit these last two weeks in January including dissecting owl pellets!  Your children now know so many owl facts!  They will share their cool lap books with you at conferences.

Have a great weekend!

January 15th, 2021

We started a COURAGE unit with Mrs. Neufeld on Thursday.  Each week she will be coming in to help us explore and learn the important skill of taking risks and how we can be more courageous.  We are asking that each week they should be think of an example of when they are showing courage.  For example getting a shot, learning to ride without training wheels, afraid of the dark or heights, etc.

In the Poetry books this week we have some owls poems.  The students have learned so much about owls ask them to tell you some of the things they have learned.  You will be impressed!

Thanks for sending in extra clothes, socks etc., if you haven't already done so or if they have already  them come back wet and dirty please replace them.  Puddles just seem to be like magnets for children!

Thanks for encouraging mask wearing, many more students are wearing them more and appropriately.

We will be starting our spelling next week.  You will receive a letter on Monday explaining the program.  

Headphones or earbuds - please send in if you haven't already done so. As we are using them in both reader's workshop and math. 

Scholastic - hopefully you got my email saying that the classcode is RC250266

Important Upcoming Dates:

Monday, Jan. 25th - NID - no school for students
Feb. 1 - 12 - Scholastic Book Fair (online)
Feb. 12th - Valentine's Day Party (I will post Div. 11 names soon)
Feb. 15th - Family Day (no school)                                                                                                        Feb. 16th -  NID - no school for students                                                                                                    Feb. 26th - Kindness/Pink Shirt Day

January 8th, 2021

Happy New Year!! 

Scholastic was sent home on Thursday.  The kids were excited with some of the books. If you are interested in purchasing any please use the class code on the front of the order.  Your order will be shipped directly to your home but the class does benefit from your orders.  

A mask was sent home with any students that requested them. Please wash these and mark with your child's name or initials as they are all the same.  It looks like many of the children got new masks for Christmas, thank you for encouraging your child to wear a mask.  It helps to protect everyone as we learned in our Mystery Doug on Monday.  

On Wednesday we had a special OWL presentation.  Zak from Orphanded Wildlife Association taught us so much about owls.   Ask your child some of the intersting facts that they learned!  This was our second 'virtual' field trip this year! We would like to send a big thank you to the PAC as this was money was from last year for field trips!  

The students have worked hard on their  2021 goals!  They also had to decide on three ways they can work to reach those goals.  This is also our bulletin board of our snow globes we made before Christmas and our Winter trees!

Today they are bringing home a new years odd/even ADDITION game.  If you could please try to play this over the weekend.  We played this on Monday and discovered that many of us had forgotten what numbers were odd and what were even, so extra practice would be great!

Our winter weather has been extremely wet and rainy, our field is full of lakes so it very important that your child has an extra set of clothing plus socks so if they do get extremely wet they can change.