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