What's New? February 10 - 14, 2014

BUSY WEEK
We have a very busy week ahead of us!

All week is "I LOVE TO READ".  We have many activities planned, including guest readers, writing an "ADD-ON STORY" with the entire school, Ring-Read, voting for our top 5 books, special student readers on the intercom in the morning (including Heidi and Joel from our class) and much more.

Here are the events that need support from home -
Wednesday - It is the 100th day of school.  Please have your child count and bring 100 smallish things in a Ziplock bag.  We will be using them to count to 100 in different ways (and gluing) so do not send anything that you would like returned.  (examples - cotton balls, buttons, cereal, pasta, toothpicks, paper clips, stickers, ...)  These can be sent earlier than Wednesday if you have time.
- All of the classes will be presenting Bible story skits in Chapel.  Our class is doing "Noah's Ark".

Thursday - Wearing Words.  Please send your child to school wearing a t-shirt with words that they can read.

Friday - Dress as a favourite storybook character.  If possible please send the book where you find this character to school as well.  On Friday we will be having an assembly and sharing our costumes, reading our Add-on Story and sharing our top 5 books from each class.
- This is also our Valentine's Day Party - We will be delivering Valentine's Day cards and sharing a special snack.
Snack Parents - Kaiden, Karter, Landon, Liam and Drinks - Maya  Thank You!
Here is a list of the children in our class - Andy, Ben, Cole, Ella, Emma, Heidi, Henry, Jace, Jennie, Joel, Kaiden, Karter, Landon, Liam, Maya, Olivia, Ava, Nick, Noah (19 children)

OTHER NEWS
Mrs. Windsor (Emma's mom) is coming into our class this Monday and Tuesday to teach us how to make our own batik fabric.  Each class at school will be creating their own fabric pieces. These designs will then be turned into a beautiful school quilt.  Thank you Mrs. Windsor.

We have collected many of our We Care Kit items so far.  We are hoping to put together our class kits at the end of this month.  I do have a master list if anyone has lost their list items.

Our "We Love to Read" candy heart jar is filling up!  We will be adding hearts with names of books we read all month.  I sent home some more paper hearts on Friday and if your child needs more, I have a box of them at school or you can cut out your own hearts.

What's New? ~ February 3 - 7, 2014

RECYCLE POSTERS
Last week we made posters to encourage recycling.  The children worked in groups and were very excited to come up with a "slogan" and work together to design their posters.  All of the finished posters were displayed in the gymnasium during the Aaron Burnett Concert on Thursday.  Afterwards, Ms. McCrea came around to every classroom and awarded various prizes to each group.

 

 

Look who joined a group of students (one from each class) during the concert and helped Aaron Burnett with the singing and action songs!

 

 

 

VALENTINE'S DAY - I LOVE TO READ

Next week we have lots of activities planned.  It is I LOVE TO READ WEEK as well as Valentine's Day.  If your child would like to bring Valentine cards, they should bring a card for everyone in the class.  Our party will be on Friday, February 14. 

Here is a list of the students in our class -

Andy, Ben, Cole, Ella, Emma, Heidi, Henry, Jace, Jennie, Joel, Kaiden, Karter, Landon, Liam, Maya, Olivia, Ava, Nick, Noah (19 students) 

 

SNACK PARENTS for next week's party - Kaiden, Karter, Landon, Liam and DRINKS -Maya 



I sent home some paper hearts on Friday.  During the month of February, whenever a student reads a book they should print their name and the title of the book on a heart and bring it back to school.  We have a BIG empty candy jar on the wall outside of our classroom and I am hoping to fill it with book titles that we read this month.  If you need more hearts, I have some at school or you can cut out your own at home.

 

What's New? January 27 - 31, 2014

WE CARE KITS
Your child should have brought home a small white paper with the items they chose to bring for our We Care Kits listed.  We will be collecting these items throughout the month of February but they may bring them to school at anytime.  I do have a master list if anyone forgets or loses their paper.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY!
We have three January birthdays!     Cole ~ January 26, Heidi ~ January 27, Karter ~ January 30

PENGUINS
Our penguin unit is well underway. The children will soon be starting their own penguin research project.  Each student will be studying one type of penguin and sharing what they leaned with the rest of the class.  Did you know that there are 17 different types of penguins and that most of them do not live in Antarctica?

RECYCLING 
There is a poster contest going on at our school right now.  Our class will be making group posters at school encouraging people to recycling. All of the posters will be on display at the Aaron Burnett Concert on Thursday, January 30.