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.