Friday Update

Lots to celebrate and enjoy this week! We started our week of with a movie afternoon to celebrate all of the learning we have been doing so far this year! And then we ended off the week with Red, White and Pink day … and enjoyed All Things Valentine’s! We had a lot of fun with that. We also enjoyed a special visit from Jaylynn – our High School Guatemala team member. She came and shared with us about her upcoming trip, and did a coloring page with us. It was great to meet her and for her to share her excitement about going to Guatemala.

Dates to Remember:

Monday, February 17th – Family Day, no school

Tuesday, February 18th – Math Mayhem – 6:30pm

Thursday, February 20th – Skating field trip

Friday, February 21st – Pro-D Day – no school

Spelling:

No spelling this week.

Bible Memory:

1 John 4:7-8

“Dear friends, let us love one another, for loves comes from God. Everyone who loves has been born of God and knows God. Whoever does not love does not know God, because God is love.”

Reminders and Other Information:

  • remember to bring in home reading and Friday letters
  • Skating permission slip – I still have a few skating permission slips needing to be returned – please get those in ASAP
  • Our High School has a team of students who are going to Guatemala on Spring Break. They will be helping to build a school and bringing the love of Jesus to the people they meet. We are sponsoring one of the students, Jaylynn. She will be visiting with us and sharing about her upcoming trip, and we will be praying for her and the team as a whole. They have asked us to collect scissors, small rulers and erasers. Donations will be collected in the classroom until March 1, 2020. Thanks so much for partnering with us in this 🙂
  • Math Mayhem – this is a fun night of math games hosted by our Grade 10-12 high school students – we encourage you to come out and play some fun games with your children for the evening – this will take place in the gym on Tuesday, February 18th at 6:30pm.

Friday Update

It has been a great week. We had our anti-bullying assembly on Tuesday. Always good to have conversations around being a good friend and what that looks like. We started playing soccer in PE, the students have really seemed to enjoy that so far. We also started a new unit for Social Studies, talking about the physical characteristics of communities. I hope you all have a great weekend 🙂

Dates to Remember:

Monday, February 10th – Celebration of Learning (we are going to celebrate how hard we have been working so far this year!)

Thursday, February 13th – Guatemala team member coming to share with us

Friday, February 14th

  • Love Guatemala Day
  • Red, pink and white day

Spelling:

List will be introduced on Monday, February 10th and tested on Friday, February 14th

  1. got
  2. away
  3. came
  4. west
  5. went
  6. lake
  7. bow
  8. letter
  9. soon
  10. very
  11. rich
  12. best

Bible Memory:

1 John 4:7-8

“Dear friends, let us love one another, for loves comes from God. Everyone who loves has been born of God and knows God. Whoever does not love does not know God, because God is love.”

Reminders and Other Information:

  • remember to bring in home reading and Friday letters
  • Our High School has a team of students who are going to Guatemala on Spring Break. They will be helping to build a school and bringing the love of Jesus to the people they meet. We are sponsoring one of the students, Jaylynn. She will be visiting with us and sharing about her upcoming trip, and we will be praying for her and the team as a whole. They have asked us to collect scissors, small rulers and erasers. Donations will be collected in the classroom until March 1, 2020. Thanks so much for partnering with us in this 🙂
  • Math Mayhem – this is a fun night of math games hosted by our Grade 10-12 high school students – we encourage you to come out and play some fun games with your children for the evening – this will take place in the gym on Tuesday, February 18th at 6:30pm.
  • skating permission slips need to be returned if you have not brought it in already
  • Reminder about Valentine’s – if you choose to do them (it is optional) please make sure you include the entire class

Valentine’s Day

As some of you are starting to work on Valentine’s, here is a class list.

Valentine’s cards are optional, however if you choose to do them, I ask that you include the whole class.

Thanks so much!

Cohen, Connor, Luke, Felisha, Owen, Spencer, Adele, Audrina, Gerrit, Alanna, Samuel, Anna, Carter, Bentley, Sophia, Ethan, Layla

Friday Update

We have had a great week in Grade 2. We really enjoyed PJ day on Tuesday, so nice to be able to just be cozy and comfy in our jammies 🙂 We also had a surprise Earthquake drill. The students all did a great job of stopping what they were doing and listening to instructions. Always good to see them practice a drill as though it is for real. In Math we learned subtraction with regrouping. This has been a challenging concept for some, but we are doing a great job persevering and really working hard at it.

February Dates:

Friday, February 14th

  • Love Guatemala Day
  • Red, White and Pink day
  • Valentine’s Day party

Monday, February 17th – Family Day, no school

Tuesday, February 18th – Math Mayhem

Thursday, February 20th – skating field trip

Friday, February 21st – Pro-D Day, no school

Friday, February 28th – Knight Day and hot lunch

Spelling:

List will be introduced on Monday, February 3rd and tested on Friday, February 7th.

  1. sing
  2. sang
  3. song
  4. sung
  5. zoo
  6. miss
  7. add
  8. lace
  9. mister
  10. finds
  11. nice
  12. plant

Bible Memory:

Our theme for the month of February is Love.

1 John 4:7-8

“Dear friends, let us love one another, for loves comes from God. Everyone who loves has been born of God and knows God. Whoever does not love does not know God, because God is love.”

Reminders and Other Information:

  • remember to return home reading and friday letters
  • report cards went home with students today
  • Math Mayhem – this is a fun night of math games hosted by our Grade 10-12 high school students – we encourage you to come out and play some fun games with your children for the evening – this will take place in the gym on Tuesday, February 18th at 6:30pm.
  • Our High School has a team of students who are going to Guatemala on Spring Break. They will be helping to build a school and bringing the love of Jesus to the people they meet. We are sponsoring one of the students, Jaylynn. She will be visiting with us and sharing about her upcoming trip, and we will be praying for her and the team as a whole. They have asked us to collect scissors, small rulers and erasers. Donations will be collected in the classroom until March 1, 2020. Thanks so much for partnering with us in this 🙂

 

 

 

 

Friday Update

Well, it’s been a full week … trying to catch up on some of the things we missed from the snowy week we had before.

Dates to Remember:

Tuesday, January 28th – PJ Day

Friday, January 31st – Report cards go home

Spelling:

We are increasing our list to 12 words this week. List will be introduced on Monday, January 27th and tested on Friday, January 31st.

  1. season
  2. storm
  3. corn
  4. tree
  5. blow
  6. alike
  7. put
  8. river
  9. each
  10. dinner
  11. doll
  12. feet

Bible Memory:

Psalm 139:13-14

For you created my inmost being; you knit me together in my mother’s womb. I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made; your works are wonderful, I know that full well.

Reminders and Other Information:

  • home reading – make sure you are getting back into the routine of reading with your child each evening, this is crucial as we keep moving forward
  • Friday letters went home – please respond and return them on Monday – those students who had letters to read from someone were so excited to open it up and read it! Please take the time to do it, it doesn’t have to be long, but it means so much to them!

Updates

Hey everyone! I hope you are all staying warm, cozy and safe inside! Just a couple of updates due to all the snow days …

  1. Monday’s half day has been cancelled – we will dismiss at 2:55pm as usual
  2. the bake sale that was scheduled for Thursday, January 16th has been reschedule for Tuesday, January 21st

Any questions, let me know 🙂

Friday Update

Good afternoon! Well, we have made it to the end of our first week back … and it’s been a good week. I’m pleased with how easily everyone settled back into the routines of the class. We have needed a few reminders about playing hands off and not getting too aggressive, especially when we are outside on the playground, but now that we have had that reminder, i’m hoping we don’t see any more of it. We enjoyed the end of the week where we were able to wear play clothes and knight clothes. This morning we had a lockdown drill. The students all followed directions really well, and did what they know to do. And the snow was a huge hit today!

Dates to Remember:

Week of January 13th-17th – we will have a fire drill sometime this week

Thursday, January 16th – Bake Sale

Friday, January 17th – last day of Term 1

Spelling:

List will be introduced on Monday, January 13th and tested on Friday, January 17th.

  1. what
  2. spring
  3. summer
  4. winter
  5. fall
  6. or
  7. yet
  8. moon
  9. than
  10. take

Bible Memory:

Our theme for the month of January is Creation.

Psalm 139:13-14

For you created my inmost being; you knit me together in my mother’s womb. I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made; your works are wonderful, I know that full well.

Reminders and Other Information:

  • home reading – make sure you are getting back into the routine of reading with your child each evening, this is crucial as we keep moving forward
  • On Thursday, January 16th Mrs. Goosen & Mrs. Riley’s Grade 5 class will be hosting a bake sale in the school lobby.  The money raised will be used to purchase composting bins for the intermediate classrooms and support the Guatemala missions team. All items will be $1.  Thank you for your support!
  • please make sure you are sending your children to school dressed appropriately for the weather – we will go outside if it is not pouring rain – the days ahead are supposed to get quite cold!

Friday Letters

I am starting something new with the students this week. Every Friday, your child is going to write you or someone in your household a letter. I am hoping that you will read this letter, and then write them a letter in response on the back. This will be a great way for you to learn a little bit about what we have been doing this week, what your child has found enjoyable or maybe a little bit challenging. It will also show you where your child is at as far as writing on their own. I will not be editing these letters, or helping to write them. Please make this a priority to do, I don’t want anyone to feel left out. They need to be returned on Monday’s.