June 23

Another busy week...

Melissa did her scientist project we got to see raisins dance!

The Poetry books came home today and they can stay home.  Please do not send on Monday as we are starting to clear out the classroom.  Thanks   Please check your home for any classroom books and return as soon as possible.  We will not be taking books home next week but please send planners M,T,W to keep the routine as much as possible.

All the students in Div. 7 are now on our Author's Tree, which they were very excited about. 

Each student published a story which goes in our class books plus they read them to the class, an adult today at Family Reading and many brought them home today.  Please return these as I want to include them in the memory books.

Our year end celebration will be on Wednesday, June 28th in the afternoon.  Thanks in advance to the following students for supplying the goodies and snacks.
Alanna - fruit plate
Sam - Cheese/crackers or small sandwiches
Eli - Sweet Treat
Angelina - Popcorn/Chips or Pretzels
Gavin - ??

June 16th

Wow it's hard to believe that June is half over.   We had more coding fun with our big buddies...

Bowling was a huge success as the children all reported back that it was awesome. Thanks again to all our parent drivers :) 

Fun Day - was also lots of fun!  Thanks to all parents who made this special day possible.

Upcoming activities and notices...

Next Wednesday some of the classes are having a special red and white day to celebrate Canada's 150th birthday!  If possible your children should wear anything red or white!

Next week we will be collecting all JRR books (I will be doing this Tuesday or Wednesday so I can return them all to the bookroom for inventory - please encourage your child to finish their books).  Also if everyone could please look at home for any classroom or library books.  I have already had several students bring in a piles of books.  Thanks!

Please help your children practice the body poem that is in their book bag and poetry and more duotang.  They will be presenting these as part of a group next week and some of the words are challenging!

Pizza lunch for Div. 7 is on Friday, June 23rd.  Please still send in snacks and other food for their lunch as they will only be getting a couple of pieces of pizza each.

Our year end celebration will be on Wednesday, June 28th in the afternoon.  Thanks in advance to the following students for supplying the goodies and snacks.
Alanna - fruit plate
Sam - Cheese/crackers or small sandwiches
Eli - Sweet Treat
Angelina - Popcorn/Chips or Pretzels
Gavin - ??

June 9th

We had a presentation from ARMS on Wednesday that taught us all to be WaterWise!  It was interesting, taught us the water cycle and made us all realize how limited water really is!  Only 3% is drinkable so we talked about different ways to conserve water.  This would be a great conversation to have at home.  

Jake, Rachel and Nathan were our Scientist this week.  We learned a great way to clean pennies, how to create bubbles and heat and a different way to make elephant toothpaste!

Next Thursday, June 15th we are bowling in the afternoon.  Please sign up and send in the $2 (with your child's shoe size) as soon as possible.  We have enough drivers so will probably drive some of Mrs. Robert's students as they are short a couple spots.  Thanks to the Fairview PAC for helping to pay for both of these special activities.

I sent out an email about chicken pox but I just wanted to remind you that the boy from Mrs. Robert's class had been vaccinated and was at school while he was contagious. Unfortunately you are contagious before you even know you have it and because we often combine classes I thought it was important for you to know and to keep a look out.  A fever is often a first sign.

3 classes (Mrs. Robert's and our grade 2/3 and Mrs. Hutchin's grade 3) have planned some cool math stations focusing on Geometry, Fractions and Measurement.  Over the next few weeks we will be rotating from class to class.  This week Div. 7 worked on fractions with me.  If you could discuss and review these at home that would be great e.g.) you are having pizza - how much of the pizza did you each eat?  2/8ths or 3/10ths?

We also started new explorations stations.  Ask your child about Lego Math?  Our Body Science - we have some pretty cool stuff at this station!

Volunteer Tea on Tuesday, June 13th in the afternoon, hopefully you can make it.  I want to thank all of you for your support and your help this year.  I have felt very lucky to have such a great group of parents!!

Next Friday is Fun Day hopefully we will have nice weather!

June 2nd

Buddies this week was pretty cool as we were coding and learning how to program the Dash and spheros.

Scientist this week were Sarah, Eli, Brooklyn, E.J. and Alanna.    We learned about raining colours, how colour can change milk,  how to blow up a balloon without our air, how to make gummy worms dance and how a volcano erupts! 

Our field trip to the SPCA was a big success.  Thanks to all our parent drivers who made this trip possible.  The children loved seeing Lyle the pot belly pig, the guinea pigs, cats, rats, sheep, the cow and llama plus the horses.  They reviewed the 5 rules we need to remember when we are around animals focusing on their well-being.   We gave them our donation of $527.55, they were very thankful.  Thanks again to all the parents who sent in goodies for our bake sale,  This whole project we used as our community goal helping the students realize they can make a difference. 

We had our last Falcon Fun and despite getting a bit wet it was once again enjoyed by all.

Reminder that Thursday, June 15th is our bowling field trip.  Please sign up if you haven't and send in the $2.00 asap.  Thanks

Spelling this next week is a review and will be our last spelling lesson of the year.  The students will be putting dots on every second word and writing those words in their planners.  These are the words I will test them on. Please note I forgot to hand out the quizzes from this week, I will do that on Monday,  Sorry.

Our year end celebration will be on Wednesday, June 28th. Alanna, Joe, Sam, Eli, Angelina and Gavin will be supplying the goodies. I will send out another reminder close to the date.