Well we made it! Spring Break, and some time for rest, is here. I think we are all in need of this time. I pray you all have a safe, restful, and enjoyable break from routine.

A couple of notes as you head into the break:

• Grow a Garden, a program put on by Chilliwack Schools Garden Program, is starting up. Applications if you would like to participate are due by April 2nd, 2020. You can find information and application forms at:

chilliwackschoolsgardenprogram.com

• keep reading over the break 🙂
• Easter Joy poem – we will be performing at our Easter Assembly, so please have your child practice this over the break

Easter Joy

Jesus came to earth, to show us how to live, how to put others first, how to love and how to give.

Then he set about his work, that God sent him to do; he took our punishment on himself; he made us clean and new.

He could have saved himself, calling angels from above, but he chose to pay our price for sin; he paid it out of love.

Our Lord died on Good Friday, but the cross did not destroy. His resurrection on Easter morn, that fills our hearts with joy.

Now we know our earthly death, like his, is just a rest. We’ll be forever with him, in heaven, where life is best.

So we live our lives for Jesus, think of him in all we do. Thank you Savior; Thank you Lord. Help us love like you!

 

 

 

Today we had a Pep Rally for the Senior Boys team going to the semi-finals. They played a tough game, and came out on top! They beat Fernie 79-68 and will play in the final tomorrow at 1:30pm, in the arena court. They will be playing Unity. Keep cheering them on!

 

Well, we are almost there! Just one more week until Spring Break. This week has been a good one. We had an assembly on Safe and Unsafe Substances, started learning about 2D and 3D shapes, and started an author study for Laura Numeroff. This week we really enjoyed reading ‘If You Give a Pig a Party’ and doing different language arts activities to go with it. We also enjoyed the last minute Knight Day and Red Day thrown in at the end of the week. It’s fun to be able to support our High School Senior Boys’ team in this way. Today, as a school, all the students from K-12 gathered together in the gym for a Pep Rally – we surrounded the team, prayed for them and cheered for them as loud as we could. Needless to say, it was very loud in the gym, but they hype was so fun! On Tuesday, we also had a surprise earthquake drill. I always appreciate how quickly and quietly the students stop what they are doing and turn to me for instructions. They did a great job 🙂

Dates to Remember:

Friday, March 13th

• Green Day
• Last day before Spring Break

Monday, March 30th – School Resumes

Spelling:

No spelling list this week.

Bible Memory:

Hebrews 11:6

And without faith, it is impossible to please God, because anyone who comes to him must believe that he exists and that he rewards those who earnestly seek him.

Reminders and Other Information:

• remember to bring in Home Reading and Friday Letters
• Little Hoopsters and Little Diggers information has gone home with your child – if they are interested make sure you get them signed up at the office 🙂

Our sr. boys basketball team is going into a big week to fight for #1 position in the province.

We want to make sure to celebrate this the best we can!

On THURSDAY this week, we will have a K-12 Knight Day.

On FRIDAY this week, we will have a RED day where students are encouraged to wear the limited edition RED provincial Knights t-shirt (available to purchase at the school store on Wednesday – limited numbers) – or their own red shirt or items.

There has been a lot going on this week. We enjoyed having Jenna Wheaton join us all week for her Work Experience week with the High School. Wednesday was Pink Shirt day, and we talked about bullying – what that looks like and how to deal with it, and how to be a good friend. The Book Fair was also going on from Tuesday to Thursday. Lots of great books were being found 🙂 And then we ended the week off with Knight Day and hot lunch. We started working on column addition in math, and some students finished off the novel study that they have been working on. We also enjoyed special visitors from the Grade 4 class. Jessa and Gemma did our art lesson for us this afternoon, which was lots of fun. Lots of hard work happening in Grade 2 this week! Have a great weekend 🙂

March Dates:

Tuesday, March 3rd – Safe and Unsafe Substances Assembly

Friday, March 13th

• Wear green day
• Last day before Spring Break

Monday, March 30th – School Resumes

Spelling:

We are going to bump up our list to 15 this week. List will be introduced on Monday, March 2nd and tested on Friday, March 6th.

1. why
2. every
3. proud
4. happy
5. with
6. same
7. fine
8. forget
9. read
10. daddy
11. girl
12. never
13. think
14. life
15. under

Bible Memory:

Theme (for March and April): Heroes of Faith

Hebrews 11:6

And without faith, it is impossible to please God, because anyone who comes to him must believe that he exists and that he rewards those who earnestly seek him.

Reminders and Other Information:

• remember to bring in Home Reading and Friday Letters

It has been a short, but great week, with lots going on! We kicked off the week on Tuesday with Chapel where Pastor Jeff came to share about what love looks like – referencing the passage in 1 Corinthians for us. We also had a great evening at Math Mayhem on Tuesday evening. It was awesome to see so many come out with their children to play some fun math games. Thanks for joining us 🙂 On Wednesday we had a surprise fire drill. We happened to be in the gym, but all the students were amazing. They stopped what they were doing and immediately looked to me for direction. There were a few worried students, but they were quickly put at ease knowing it was just a drill. And then on Thursday we had a lot of fun at our skating field trip. Lots of parents joined us as well, which is always so helpful (especially for tying up all those skates 😉 lol). Have a great weekend!

Dates to Remember:

Tuesday, February 25th to Thursday, February 27th – Scholastic Book Fair

Wednesday, February 26th – Pink Shirt Day

Friday, February 28th – Hot lunch and Knight Day

Spelling:

List will be introduced on Monday, February 24th and tested on Friday, February 28th.

1. zip
2. brave
3. face
4. far
5. sold
6. told
7. nine
8. new
9. spent
10. block
11. down
12. end

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
• Book Fair is on from Tuesday to Thursday in the lobby this week – come check it out and find some good books to read 🙂
• On Wednesday, February 26th, we will be celebrating Pink Shirt Day. Students may wear casual clothes and pink shirts. We will spend time during the day talking, reading and doing activities that remind us the importance of being kind and treating all students with respect.
• 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 🙂

Just a reminder that Math Mayhem is tonight. Starts at 6:30 in the gym. Come with your children to enjoy playing some fun math games hosted by our High School students. Looking forward to seeing you all there 🙂

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.

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

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