Feb. 17th

Our Valentine's celebration was fun, all the students were so excited to both give and receive and read their valentines.  Thanks to those who brought in the food snacks and goodies!
We focused on friendship this week and looked closely at two great books.  Owen and Mzee - The True Story of a Remarkable Friendship.  I have included the Owen and Mzee website on our useful links as your child would probably love to explore this!  We also listened and watched the book Enemy Pie - have your child tell you about this focusing on the problem and the solution of the story. 

The SPCA presentation on Monday is called the Kindness Counts program to teach children empathy towards animals, people and their environment by discovering their similarities and differences and how our actions can have positive and negative consequences.  This fits perfectly with our courage unit. A special feature of this program will include the inclusion of a classroom visit by a well socialized dog (the dog will be under adult control).  The students are really looking forward to this.  Please send in $2.00 for this presentation.  Thanks to those who have already paid.

If you haven't already signed up for conferences please do so as they are only a couple weeks away.

Club Red is well under way.  Remember that you need to sign each heart after your child reads and then he/she can colour it.

Please see the calendar on this blog for other special days happening this month, next week is another crazy week as we have 3 special celebrations in a row!

Also please bring in 100 day representations by Thursday the 23rd.  Thank you!