Highlights from Our Week:

Art: This week we completed a mosaic art flower piece. They turned out beautifully!

Math: We have been working on fractions in math this week. We have been learning about how the more we share something, the smaller the pieces for everyone. We used pizza, apples and cookies to study how fractions work. A favourite activity was making our own bingo card and then playing the game.

Writing: We are beginning our Story Writing unit. Before we do any actual writing, we are learning about all the different elements in a story. This week our focus was how a story needs a beginning, middle and end. We used the familiar story of the Three Little Pigs to talk about the main idea and details in each part of the story.

Dates to Remember:

Tuesday April 14th – Grade 6 Bake Sale (details below)

Tuesday, April 21st – Art Gala (details below)

Monday, April 27th – Grandparents Day (details below)

Reminders and Other Information:

 🧁 Bake Sale Fundraiser – April 14th! 🧁

On Tuesday, April 14th we will host a delicious bake sale in support of our Grade 6 graduation event! Students can purchase treats for just $2 each, making it a great opportunity to enjoy something sweet while supporting a meaningful cause.

 

🎨 Join Us for Our K–6 Art Gala! 🎨

We are excited to invite you to our upcoming K–6 Art Gala on Tuesday, April 21st from 5:30–7:00 PM! The school lobby, church lobby, and hallways will be transformed into a vibrant gallery, showcasing the incredible creativity of our students.

Come enjoy an evening where the walls are filled with student artwork, and creativity is celebrated in every corner. We would love for parents, family members, and friends to join us in supporting and encouraging our young artists.

We look forward to sharing this special evening with you!

Grandparents Day: Invitations went home this week for students to give to their grandparents for our annual Grandparents Day!

• Friday Letters – respond and return
• Please make it a priority to be doing Home Reading with your child … this is important!
• Remember to bring library books on Fridays
• Grade 3’s – don’t forget to bring your gym strip back with you every week after being washed

Welcome back! Based on what I have heard this week, it sounds like you all had a wonderful break. I hope it was a time of refreshment and fun, and that now we are ready to settle into this final stretch of the year. Lots of information today, so please make sure you read it all.

Happy Easter! I hope it is a wonderful weekend celebrating our Risen Saviour! We have been talking about Jesus’ death and resurrection, and today we were looking at some archaeological evidence that Jesus is in fact alive, that he rose from the dead. This week, as we have been talking about Jesus’ death and resurrection, we have had some very deep and thoughtful conversations, and it is refreshing to listen to their curious minds as they process and we talk through all the events of Easter.

Dates to Remember:

Friday, April 3rd – Good Friday, no school

Monday, April 6th – Easter Monday, no school

Tuesday April 14th – Grade 6 Bake Sale (details below)

Tuesday, April 21st – Art Gala (details below)

Monday, April 27th – Grandparents Day (details below)

 

Reminders and Other Information:

 🧁 Bake Sale Fundraiser – April 14th! 🧁

On Tuesday, April 14th we will host a delicious bake sale in support of our Grade 6 graduation event! Students can purchase treats for just $2 each, making it a great opportunity to enjoy something sweet while supporting a meaningful cause.

 

🎨 Join Us for Our K–6 Art Gala! 🎨

We are excited to invite you to our upcoming K–6 Art Gala on Tuesday, April 21st from 5:30–7:00 PM! The school lobby, church lobby, and hallways will be transformed into a vibrant gallery, showcasing the incredible creativity of our students.

Come enjoy an evening where the walls are filled with student artwork, and creativity is celebrated in every corner. We would love for parents, family members, and friends to join us in supporting and encouraging our young artists.

We look forward to sharing this special evening with you!

Grandparents Day: Invitations went home this week for students to give to their grandparents for our annual Grandparents Day!

• Friday Letters – respond and return
• Please make it a priority to be doing Home Reading with your child … this is important!
• Remember to bring library books on Fridays
• Grade 3’s – don’t forget to bring your gym strip back with you every week after being washed

 

Highlights from our Week:

Math Mayhem was so much fun. Thanks so much to everyone that came out to enjoy all the math games and the work that the high school students put into this evening.

Poetry: This week in poetry we talked about how poetry can be found in nature. We looked at lots of pictures of  nature (as it was raining outside so didn’t venture out to look around) for inspiration. I have enjoyed watching their excitement as they write poetry and share it with their friends. It has been so impressive to see some of the creativity and thoughtfulness that they have put in to the poems they write.

 Science: Weathering and Erosion has been our focus in science. This week we did three different experiments to demonstrate the different types of weathering that can occur: freeze-thaw weathering (physical), chemical weathering, and abrasion by wind/water (also physical). Being able to see a demonstration that illustrates how each of these types of weathering occurs has been so helpful for them to understand the concept.

March Dates:

Tuesday, March 3rd – Math Mayhem – details below

Friday, March 13th

• 11:30am dismissal, last day before Spring Break

March 14th-29th – Spring Break

Reminders and Other Information:

• Friday Letters – respond and return
• Please make it a priority to be doing Home Reading with your child … this is important!
• Remember to bring library books on Fridays
• Grade 3’s – don’t forget to bring your gym strip back with you every week after being washed

 

Highlights from Our Week:

Math: We have started a new unit in math altogether. We are talking about patterns. This week we learned about repeating patterns and growing patterns. Students are learning to identify either the core of a pattern, or the pattern rule – depending on what kind of pattern it is. Patterning is fun, hands on unit. As we learn about patterns we start to recognize patterns all around us!

Bible: Using our Bibles is always lots of fun, but it is a slow process of figuring out how to do so properly – how to find a book in the Bible, how to find a specific verse … so this week we were working on a Bible scavenger hunt.

Gym: Capture the Flag has been a highlight in gym this week. We are definitely working on figuring out all the rules, but they always have so much fun!

March Dates:

Tuesday, March 3rd – Math Mayhem – details below

Friday, March 13th

• 11:30am dismissal, last day before Spring Break

March 14th-29th – Spring Break

Reminders and Other Information:

Math Mayhem:  Join us for an exciting Math Mayhem event on March 3rd from 6:30 to 8:00 PM, where families can enjoy a night filled with fun math games hosted by our amazing Grade 10-12 students! This is a fantastic opportunity to win awesome prizes while fostering a love for math in a lively atmosphere. We encourage families to participate together, as it’s guaranteed to be a blast for everyone! Please remember that an adult must accompany students and cannot be dropped off unattended at this event.

• Friday Letters – respond and return
• Please make it a priority to be doing Home Reading with your child … this is important!
• Remember to bring library books on Fridays
• Grade 3’s – don’t forget to bring your gym strip back with you every week after being washed

Information is coming your way today because I am going to be away tomorrow!

Highlights from Our Week:

Gym: This month our students have been exploring Olympic-inspired sports! It has been a fun way to incorporate the excitement of the Olympics! We’ve played some tag games, done relays and activities all based on different Olympic sports!

Poetry: Onomatopoeia was our focus in our poetry writing this week. Students enjoyed brainstorming sound effects and then using them in a poem about whatever they wanted!

Typing Club is one of the skills that we are working on when we use Chromebooks. This has been a really challenging skill to learn for some as they prefer to just finger peck. We are really working on having our fingers in the correct position and focusing on accuracy instead of speed.

Art: Cityscape Colour Wheel is the art project that we started this week. It is a one-point perspective drawing where students are learning about a ‘vanishing point’ showing them how to create depth and a 3D look.

Dates to Remember:

Wednesday, February 25th – Pink Shirt Day

Tuesday, March 3rd – Math Mayhem (details below)

Reminders and Other Information:

Math Mayhem:  Join us for an exciting Math Mayhem event on March 3rd from 6:30 to 8:00 PM, where families can enjoy a night filled with fun math games hosted by our amazing Grade 10-12 students! This is a fantastic opportunity to win awesome prizes while fostering a love for math in a lively atmosphere. We encourage families to participate together, as it’s guaranteed to be a blast for everyone! Please remember that an adult must accompany students and cannot be dropped off unattended at this event.

• Friday Letters – respond and return
• Please make it a priority to be doing Home Reading with your child … this is important!
• Remember to bring library books on Fridays
• Grade 3’s – don’t forget to bring your gym strip back with you every week after being washed

 

 

 

Highlights from Our Week:

Language Arts: We have been working on persuasive writing … this week they wrote me a letter trying to convince me that we should get a class pet. I explained to them that I would be a really hard sell, and that they would have to write a really good letter with some really convincing reasons … while they wrote some good letters, I’m not sold at this point!

100’s Day – In the morning we did a little parade type activity with the whole elementary to show off our costumes, which are adorable by the way! Mr. Hall then led us in several different exercises – whether it was 100 seconds of running on the spot, or 100 squats, the students were all tired at the end! A highlight of hundreds day was a slideshow that I had put together. I had taken a picture of each student and made them look 100. Throughout the week, I had been asking them different questions …. a would you rather, if I had $100 000 and to finish the sentence … When I am 100 … they thought this was hilarious and we really enjoyed reading them all. I will put pictures on SeeSaw for you to see your child’s slide.

Valentine’s Day – Lots of excitement for this as well. Handing out Valentine’s is always fun – they had made Robot Valentine’s bag. We also read the story: The Day it Rained Hearts – this allowed them to be creative and use their imagination as they finished the sentence … One day it started raining hearts and then the most amazing thing happened … ask your child how they finished the sentence!

Dates to Remember:

Friday, February 13th – Pro-d Day, no school

Monday. February 16th – Family Day, no school

Wednesday, February 25th – Pink Shirt Day

Tuesday, March 3rd – Math Mayhem

Reminders and Other Information:

• Friday Letters – respond and return
• Please make it a priority to be doing Home Reading with your child … this is important!
• Remember to bring library books on Fridays
• Grade 3’s – don’t forget to bring your gym strip back with you every week after being washed

Sorry, I write a day/date that didn’t match for 100’s day/Valentine’s day … it is on Thursday, February 12th! 

Highlights from Our Week:

Math: Students working on subtraction did an ‘escape room’ this week where they had been taken back in time to the Old West. They had to complete six different math challenges in order to return to the present time. Learning to work with a group and to persevere to understand a challenge when it isn’t just directly given to them has been so great to see them work on.

Bible: We began a new unit in Bible and are talking about the ‘Miraculous Catch’ from Luke 5:1-11. Our memory verse that we are working on this week is:

“For I am not ashamed of the gospel, for it is the power of God for salvation to everyone who believes” (Romans 1:16a)

Poetry: Up until now we have been reading poetry and learning about different elements and parts of poetry. This week we switched gears and we are now writing our own poetry. It is so fun to see them be creative and learn to write in a different way. This week our poetry was about the idea that Poetry can be about Anything! We talked about things that are important to us and close to our heart, and those are the ideas we used to spark ideas in our first poems.

Dates to Remember:

Monday, February 9th – Pay to Wear Casual ($5) & Hot Lunch (if pre-ordered) fundraiser for Missions

Tuesday, February 12th – 100’s Day & Valentine’s Day Celebration! (information below for both)

Friday, February 13th – Pro-d Day, no school

Monday. February 16th – Family Day, no school

Wednesday, February 25th – Pink Shirt Day

Tuesday, March 3rd – Math Mayhem

Reminders and Other Information:

Valentine’s Day 

Valentine’s day this year is on the weekend, so we will be doing our festivities on the 12th … which also happens to be the 100th day of school. This will be a busy day with lots of fun happening!

Writing Valentine’s cards is optional, however, if you choose to do them, I ask that you include the whole class. Thanks so much! Here is a class list: Stevie, Kenna, Sage, Nixon, Alex, Sophya, Cherise, Kyle, Milo, Indie, Dana, Josiah, Caiden, Nora D., Otto, Axel, Solomon, Nora G., Kaeden, Joey, Valentina, and Jade.

Celebrating 100 Days of School!

Mark your calendars for a very special day! On February 12th, we will celebrate our 100th day of school!  Students are invited to come to school dressed up as their vision of themselves at 100 years old.  We encourage creativity and imagination! Whether it’s gray hair, glasses, a cane, or a cardigan, there are so many fun ways to bring this idea to life. Need some inspiration? Check out Pinterest for adorable costume ideas or visit a local thrift store to find great items at an affordable price.

To make the day even more festive, we will be gathering as an elementary department to show our costumes to everyone and to participate in some group exercises. This will be a wonderful opportunity for everyone to admire the creative efforts of their classmates!

If your child prefers not to dress up, no problem! They can come to school in their uniform as usual.

We can’t wait to see everyone’s amazing costumes and celebrate this milestone together. Let’s make it a day to remember!

• Friday Letters – respond and return
• Please make it a priority to be doing Home Reading with your child … this is important!
• Remember to bring library books on Fridays
• Grade 3’s – don’t forget to bring your gym strip back with you every week after being washed

 

Highlights from Our Week:

Skating – a great time skating again this week. Thanks to all the parents that joined us!

Math: For some we have continued to work on subtraction, and others we are working on division. Those working on division read a story called ‘The Doorbell Rang’ and it was about someone who baked cookies and then had to share the cookies equally with the friends who showed up at the door. We were using little teddy grahams to figure out how many cookies each person got while going through the story. We learned that the more times we share something, the less everyone gets (the bigger the share, the smaller the parts).

Chapel: This week in chapel we had a time of worship and prayer with all the students. CHurch staff joined us and any student who wanted prayer for something could stand up and an adult would come alongside them to pray with them. Such a powerful time of being together and walking together with students things that are sometimes difficult.

February Dates:

Monday, February 9th – Hot Lunch and Pay to Wear Casual ($5) Missions Fundraiser

Thursday, February 12th – 100’s Day (details below)

Friday, February 13th – Pro-d Day, no school

Monday, February 16th – Family Day, no school

Wednesday, February 25th – Pink Shirt Day

Tuesday, March 3rd – Math Mayhem

Reminders and Other Information:

Celebrating 100 Days of School!

Mark your calendars for a very special day! On February 12th, we will celebrate our 100th day of school!  Students are invited to come to school dressed up as their vision of themselves at 100 years old.  We encourage creativity and imagination! Whether it’s gray hair, glasses, a cane, or a cardigan, there are so many fun ways to bring this idea to life. Need some inspiration? Check out Pinterest for adorable costume ideas or visit a local thrift store to find great items at an affordable price.

To make the day even more festive, we will be gathering as an elementary department to show our costumes to everyone and to participate in some group exercises. This will be a wonderful opportunity for everyone to admire the creative efforts of their classmates!

If your child prefers not to dress up, no problem! They can come to school in their uniform as usual.

We can’t wait to see everyone’s amazing costumes and celebrate this milestone together. Let’s make it a day to remember!

• Friday Letters – respond and return
• Please make it a priority to be doing Home Reading with your child … this is important!
• Remember to bring library books on Fridays
• Grade 3’s – don’t forget to bring your gym strip back with you every week after being washed