September 23-27

I'm so very proud of my students this week!  Their positive attitudes, stamina, and endurance during our Terry Fox Walk was impressive!  Thank you to the parents/grandparents who joined us for the walk.  It sure makes it more manageable with all of the help!  Also, thank you to the families that sent in "toonies for Terry".  We will find out our school's grand total this week.  All of the money raised will go to the Terry Fox Foundation for cancer research.


Information Items
RUN FOR THE PUMPKIN
If your child is interested in the 2km (or 4km) Run for the Pumpkin race, please make sure you register soon.  Here is the link for more information.
Run for the Pumpkin

EXPLORATORY
We are very excited to start our "exploratory hour" on Friday.  During this hour, every student in the school will have an opportunity to express their passion and creativity in an activity that they have chosen from one of the 5 options offered.  The grade one activities this round are:
1. Musical Theatre.
2. STEM (Science, technology, engineering, math).
3. Zumba dancing.
4. Fine motor games and crafts.
5. Yoga for kids. 
-Each student ranked their preferred choices and we have done our very best to make sure that they will get their 1st or 2nd choice option.
-Students will stick with this activity for 4 weeks and then we will begin a new round with new options.  We will complete 5 exploratory rounds by the end of the year! The staff and students are really excited about it. 

HOT LUNCH
We will still be having hot lunch this year.  I know that there were lots of questions about this with our new nutrition break schedule.  I believe that the hot lunch will be delivered at the first nutrition break at 10:30.  Our first hot lunch is Boston Pizza on October 2.  Orders are due on Monday, September 23.  All orders need to be placed on School Cash Online. 
School Cash Online 

APPLE DAY
Every year in Grade One we have a special apple day where we make apple crumble, graph different types of apples, and do apple centers.  There will be a note coming home this week explaining the day, but we will be looking for 4 parent volunteers to help out with our centers from 8:30-12:00.  Please let me know if you are able to volunteer.
1. Deanna Gunderson
2. Joanne Hayes
3. Andrea Cheung
4. Colleen Giesbrecht

I am also looking for parents to donate the following supplies for our apple crumble.

Plastic knives (30)- Camden
Plastic spoons (30)-Camden
Plastic or foam bowls (30)-Meika
2 cups of oats- Colin B.
2 cups of brown sugar- Reid
1 cup of white sugar- Clark
3 cups of flour- Alice
1 1/2 cups of butter- Tyler
6 tsps of cinnamon-Clark

*Please email me or write a note in your child's agenda if you would like to contribute!  Thanks!


Upcoming events
Sept. 23- Mrs. Packard is away at a meeting at the board office.
Sept. 24- Practice Lockdown procedures.
Sept. 24- Running club after school.
Sept. 25- Probe Positive Assembly @ 8:40.
Sept. 26- Last running club after school.  
Sept. 27- Exploratory hour begins.
Sept. 27- October grade one show and share calendar comes home.
Sept. 28- Run for the Pumpkin 2k at Nicholas Sheran Lake @ 11:00.
Sept. 30- Orange Shirt day.
Oct. 2- Boston Pizza Hot Lunch.
Oct. 3- Apple Day in Grade One.
Oct. 4- Show and share begins.
Oct. 7- Home Reading begins.

Please let me know if you have questions about any of these events.  

Have a great week!