Tuesday, May 3rd

REMINDERS

Tomorrow is the last day for magazine orders. Thank you to everyone who has brought their orders in already!

Fun Lunch forms due Friday.

Scholastic Book orders due Monday the 9th.

In Science today students compared similarities and differences between their buildings with a friend. We have a variety of buildings in our community, including houses, hotels, restaurants, museums, schools, hospitals, offices and even a dentist!

Tomorrow is our SCIENCE DAY! We will be welcoming 8 scientists into our classrooms and will participate in a variety of experiments, including growing our own germs! Thank you to Jasmine and Julie who will be coming in to help out in the morning. We are very excited to be scientists for the day!

BITS & PIECES

Thank you to all the parents who sent in food for our teacher appreciation lunch today - everything was amazing! The teachers were all very grateful for the wonderful meal that was prepared for us. It was delicious!

Jeremy Fokkens has been our Hip Hop dance instructor for the past two years and he is also a photographer. You may be interested in checking out his photo blog. He is spending a year travelling to Nepal, Bangladesh, India and Sri Lanka photographing the different ways that people live as well as volunteering in schools. One of his focuses is on children in these countries. 

"I knew I wanted to photograph culture, humanity, and the societies people live in by thoughtfully capturing photographs that tell an un-biased and honest story where the treatment of life is not taken for granted." - Jeremy Fokkens

http://jeremyfokkens.com/blog/

May 2, 2011

Our Day:

Like all building projects, we are slightly behind projected completion dates and continue to work hard to finish making our community!  Hopefully we will be able to place our buildings tomorrow...it's going to be a very full floor!

Our Science Day is coming up very soon and hope to have two more volunteers to help run the stations that we have organized!  Thanks to those who have signed up to help!

Reminders:

Please look for several handouts in your child's pack tonight.  There should be a green calendar, blue/yellow field trip forms.

Unfortunately, we will not be able to join in for the May 19th Fun Lunch as we will be on our trip to the Inglewood Bird Sanctuary. If you have already sent in your forms, they will be sent home tomorrow to adjust for the June Fun Lunch only. 

Our CCRP magazine fundraiser is almost complete and the children are super excited with our prizes, 2 bikes and an X BOX 360!  Remember, additional order forms are available in the office. To date we have 113 orders, we still need 387 orders to draw for the X BOX so we have extended the deadline to WEDNESDAY MAY 4!!!! Any orders made after this date will not be eligible for the prize draw but the proceeds will go to the school.  Remember subscription donations to the library will be eligible for the draw as well as any on-line subscriptions.  Parents of the winning students will be notified and an announcement will be made for the students confirming the winners on May 5th.  Thank you again for your participation with our final fundraiser of the year, your past support has been outstanding, lets keep it going!

Thanks
Hala

Friday, April 29th

Please check your child's backpack for the May/June Calendar as well as Fun Lunch forms for May/June.

Due to the strong interest in the Grade 1 Dance Club, 5 students will be randomly chosen from each class to participate. Those students will be notified on Monday.

We continued our buildings today and they are in the final stages! Next week we look forward to putting them together and creating our community.

I would like to say a big THANK YOU to all the students in my class for demonstrating good teamwork and helpfulness by working together to clean up our classrooms at the end of the day today. I appreciate your hard work and the respect you showed in caring for our space. You all make me very proud!

I am looking forward to an exciting week of growing germs and building bird houses next week!
Have a great weekend everyone!

Thursday, April 28th

We are currently under construction! This morning our classrooms became a building zone with our students' creative minds at work. Yesterday we sorted all of the recycled materials into groups of boxes, paper rolls, egg cartons, etc. Most of our day today was spent building houses, hospitals, hotels, towers, farms, and even a McDonald's. We will continue this exciting work tomorrow. Next week our plan is to put our buildings together and create our very own community.

REMINDERS:

We still need volunteers for our Germ Day, Wednesday May 4th and Building Bird houses on Friday, May 7th. Both activities are in the morning. Please e-mail me if you're interested in helping out!

UPCOMING EVENTS:

May 4th - Germ Day (AM)
May 6th - Building Bird Houses (AM)
May 11th - Spell-a-Thon
May 19th - Field Trip - Inglewood Bird Sanctuary (Mrs. Kroeker & Mr. Simmons' classes)
                  Math Night
May 31st - Grand Opening of the Playground

Wednesday, April 27th

WE NEED YOUR HELP!  

We have had TWO amazing opportunities made available to Grade 1 next week but we need volunteers to make them happen:

May 4 - Science (Germ) Day - A team of scientists wants to come in help us work through several science stations, including one that involves swabbing and growing GERMS!  Each class needs 4 volunteers for this.

May 6 - Birdhouses - Andrew Stiles is coming to build birdhouses with ALL the Grade 1, as a warm up for our coming trip to the Inglewood Bird Sanctuary.  We are hoping to have Grade 4 help us build but hope there are a few parents available to support us!

I know these dates are soon but we need to work on their schedules; we tried for different dates but they just weren't available!

Please contact us ASAP if you can join us for these two in-school field trips!

Thanks in advance for your support!!!!

Monday, April 25th

Spring Fling DVD orders are due Tuesday, April 26 - $10 cash only

Today was a big day of continuing work we had begun last week. We finished our Earth Day posters,  worked on our final plans for our buildings and wrote about our long weekend in our journals. 

Many of our Flat Stanley letters went out in the mail last week, and the last few will be going out tomorrow. If you still have not sent in your addressed, stamped envelope please send it tomorrow.

Ideas for Activities at home:

* measure various objects at home using non-standard units. (ie. measure the stove with spoons, the table with plates, the living room with shoes, etc.) 

* have your child write 3 or 4 consecutive sentences about a variety of topics. In class we are working with students on writing multiple sentences that follow one another and make sense. We are also focusing on writing with attention to capitalization and punctuation.

Tuesday, April 19th

We have finished our community maps! If you have the chance, please stop in and check out the amazing job that the students did on their community maps. They are on display outside of our classroom. We are now in the process of creating plans for our buildings that we will be including in our community. Next week we will begin building with all of our beautiful stuff!

In math today, Mr. Roberts' Grade 2 class came in to teach us about what they have been learning in measurement. They were our math teachers for the morning and we had a great time measuring with a variety of non-standard units.

Most of the students have also finished their Flat Stanley letters and many of them were mailed off today! We can't wait to get them back from our family and friends. Tomorrow we will do a Flat Stanley walk, where we will share the photos of all the things we have done with our Flat Stanleys so far.

Reminders:

No Spelling this week

Celebrating Earth Day tomorrow in class

No School Thursday or Friday

Look for notices home tomorrow about our Spell-A-Thon and The Spring Fling DVD