February 24-28

I hope everyone had a wonderful, relaxing family week!  I am looking forward to hearing about all of the student's adventures over their holiday. It was great to spend time with my family as well as take in some valuable professional learning at teacher's convention.  I am feeling recharged and ready for a busy few weeks.

Our Grade One students will be leading a special assembly on Wednesday, February 26.  We will be reading a poem and singing a song about love and kindness. This is also PINK shirt day.  If possible, we would love all of the students to wear pink shirts today to show our support against bullying.  We have been focussing on acts of kindness throughout the month of February and we believe that this is such an important concept to teach our students at a young age.  For more information about Pink Shirt Day, visit the webpage below.
Pink Shirt Day

We are also excited to begin our building unit in Science!  This engaging unit allows students to explore their creativity through project-based learning.  We need as much recyclable stuff as possible to complete these projects.  Students can bring building supplies all throughout the week.  Your junk is our treasure! Here is the building letter that I sent home before the break.
Building Unit

Our gymnastic equipment arrives this week and we will begin our gymnastics unit in Phys. Ed as soon as it's set up and ready to go.  In order to ensure student safety while using the eqipment, we ask that students come to school dressed in comfortable, active clothing. 


What's happening this week? 

Monday

-New sight words this week.
-Jr. Choir @ 10:30.
-Gymnastics unit begins in Phys. Ed.

Tuesday

Wednesday
-Pink shirt day!  Grade 1 assembly at 8:45.  Families are invited to attend.

Thursday

-Mrs. Foster will be away today so we will change library to another day this week.  Please watch for a message in your child's agenda.

Friday

-Exploratory round 4 begins!
-March calendar will come home today.

Coming up:

Every Monday:  Jr. Choir

Every Thursday:  Library

March 3-6- Dr. Seuss week in Grade One. If your chid has a favourite Dr. Seuss book, they can bring it to school this week.
March 4- McDonald's hot lunch.
March 13- Popcorn Friday- available for purchase through School Cash online.
March 16- Scholastic book fair begins in the library.
March 16- K-2 Celebration of Learning from 5:30-7:00.
March 16- Leprechaun Trap project due back at school. (Information will be coming home this week!)
March 17- Happy St. Patrick's Day!  Students can wear green today!
March 19- No School in the afternoon.  Students will be dismissed at 11:47.
March 20- No School.
March 25- Probe Graphic t-shirt spirit day.  
March 26- Grade 4 BINGO night!  All families welcome to attend.

February 10-14

Our 100th day celebration was a huge success.  The students were so well behaved and had a blast!  Their costumes were absolutely adorable as well. Thank you for helping them dress up, it made the day even more fun.  A huge thank you to the parents who help out with this special day.  We could not have done this without your help, so...THANK YOU!  Make sure you check out the pictures under the pictures tab!

We are off to a great start with our Great Canadian Maple Leaf  challenge!  As a class, we have read over 30 Canadian books since Wednesday. Remember, if your child reads a Canadian book at home, please write it in their home reading and draw a simple maple leaf beside the title of the book.  We will track our books at school.  Thanks for your help with this!

After the February break, we will be starting our next Science unit on Building Things.  This is a very hands-on, engaging unit that allows the students to use their creativity and imagination.  We are looking for a wide variety of materials to build our projects with such as cardboard boxes, toilet paper tubes, fabric, straws, paper plates and cups, etc.  Tomorrow your child will be bringing a note home with more details.  We would love as many supplies as possible to be brought to school the week of February 24.  Your junk is our treasure!  Let the building begin!

On Friday, we will be celebrating Valentine's day with some Valentine centers, snacks and card exchange. We will be making out Valentine bags on Wednesday to hold all of the cards we get on Friday.  Simple, hand made cards are just fine.  
Thank you to the families who have signed up to bring snacks for Friday.

Fruit Plate- Colin’s family
Vegetables and Dip- Alice’s family
Juice Boxes and Napkins- Karter’s family
Cookies- Finn’s family
Muffins- Owen’s family
Cheese and Crackers- Olivia H.’s family
Meat and Pickles- Meika’s family

Here is a link to the note as well as our February calendar.
February Calendar
Valentine List

What's happening this week? 

Monday

-New sight words this week.
-Jr. Choir @ 10:30.

Tuesday

Wednesday
-Hot lunch.
-Div 1 teachers vs. Grade 5 basketball team @2:10.

Thursday

-Library Day.  Please check for any library books that your child may have at home.

Friday

-Valentine party and card exchange.  

Have a Happy Family day and reading week.  School resumes on February 24!

Coming up:

Every Monday:  Jr. Choir

Every Thursday:  Library

February 17-21- NO SCHOOL
February 24- Our gymnastics unit begins in Phys. Ed.
February 26- Pink shirt day and Grade One Kindness assembly@ 8:40.