Welcome everyone to a new year and a new adventure! We all survived the first week pretty well I might add. I hope you all had a fabulous long week end with your families and got to hear lots of stories from the first week of school.
We are still getting to know each other and working on class routine and rules. We have 24 students this year in my grade one class, 11 girls and 13 boys. This is my 4th year at Holy Name school and my 5th year teaching grade one. I taught two years in PEI before taking the plunge and moving to the big city of Calgary. I love teaching this age group! I hope that your child is adjusting well to the new routine. I know some of them must have seemed a little tired when they got home, seeing that they are not use to a full day of school. You will notice them adjusting a little better in the coming months. It is important that they get their rest, because it can be tiring learning a new language.
I use the blog to inform you all of what is going on at school but also what we will be covering in class for the week. I hope you read it every week as there is a lot of information, suggestions and games that you might want to try out at home to help your child progress through out the school year...it also takes me a long time to sit down and write! I am usually really good at keeping it up dated but then will have my moments, stay on me! At the beginning of every month I will post what your child will be covering, the theme, math concepts and so on. If you need anything feel free to contact me anytime via email or give the school a call.
This months theme is "A l'ecole avec mes amis" At school with my friends. This week in class we are reviewing the letter sounds for the letters t, n, o, l and e in French. I like to teach these sounds with hand actions from the Jolly Phonics program. Its a great tool for those who need a visual or movement to remember things. Feel free to ask them to show you. (lets hope they remember some from last week) As I teach the letter sounds I have the students also work on their printing skills. They are learning proper pencil grip, how to follow a line of print and the differences between upper and lower case letters. This year I will be using the sky, grass, dirt strategy to help the students write and form letters properly. You will learn more about this at the grade one reading night coming up at the end of the month. If you would like to practice printing at home some fun things to try are drawing the letters in sugar, flour or fill a ziplock with paint and have them practice on the bag. You can also get a white board at Dollarama and practice with that. Play-doh is also fun! These are also great ways to practice sight words.
In Science, the students are learning all about colors and how to mix certain colors together to make lighter, darker or another color all together. We will be doing some fun experiments in the next couple of weeks. I was hoping that some brave soul might want to come into class and make play-doh with us or if you have any other fun color mixing experiments? If your up to it please let me know.
In math, we are reviewing numbers 0-10 in French and learning how to recognize and write the French written number. We will be starting our math unit in the next couple of days, which is patterns. Students will be learning about different patterns they can make, what is repetition, prolonging of patterns and how to have several different attributes to one pattern. We have started our number printing book as well. I encourage you to count with your child at home as high as they can count in French and practice writing the numbers out in order.
We will be starting our social studies unit in the next couple of days. The students will be learning how important they are in their community and groups that they belong too.
That's about it for now. I hope to meet all of you at the BBQ on Thursday. It is from 3-5pm. Please be sure to hunt me down and introduce yourself. Scholastic orders are due on Friday. Please be sure to send them in on or before then.
Have a great week! Feel free to contact me anytime.
Laurie-Anne :)
Tuesday, September 8, 2015
Monday, January 12, 2015
Hello Sunshine!
Its great to see the sun lately, I feel it has been hiding away for way to long. Its funny how it can make you feel all the more motivated to get out and do things. Do you think the same way?
This week the students are starting a booklet that they can take home to read once they are finished. It is about the clothes we find in our closet. They are using their dictionaries to help them fill in the sentences.
They are learning how to pick out rhyming words this week. We are going to play some fun games with rhymes as well and the students will learn about to make rhyming patterns, sentences themselves.
Math the students are learning how to pick out important information or key words in story problems. Some of the words they are learning are: enleve (take away), ajoute (to add), en tout (in total), reste (left) plus, moins (less). We are also counting to 100 and starting to count by 2 up to 100. Feel free to practice this with your child at home. You can print off a 100 frame and have them color in the numbers counting by 2,5 and 10. We are also learning double additions and doubles plus one. They should be able to add doubles up to 10.
In health, this week we are going to do a project on what is healthy for our teeth and what is not. Students will take flyers and cut out that they think is good and bad for their teeth.
In social studies this week students are learning to identify the different flags for each Canadian province. We are also taking a look at what makes Canada unique compared to the rest of the world as well as the province of Alberta.
in science this week we are going to learn about braille and sign language. I will be showing the students a video clip about Helen Keller. They have a lot of questions about those who may be deaf and blind and how do they learn about the world around them. What better person to show them than Helen Keller.
English we are reviewing the weekly sight words and starting to write repetitive sentences. They also continue to work on their Explode the code book. I may send a few home seeing that some students are a little farther behind. So look for those.
I plan on starting guided reading in French this week as well. I am so happy to start with them and I think they are eager too.
We also have started a fun activity in class, not sure if they mentioned it to you but you can ask them about it now that you know. Every morning after announcements we start our day off with a quote from Mother Teresa. We discuss what they think it means and how they can apply it to their everyday life. Its great to hear some of their answers and to even see them put forth an effort to do what the quote suggests. So far here are a couple of quotes we talked about in class.
"Let us always meet each other with a smile, for the smile is the beginning of love"
"Spread love everywhere you go. Let no one ever come to you without leaving happier"
"I alone cannot change the world, but I can cast a stone across the waters to create many ripples"( they had the absolute best answers for this one!!)
"If you judge people, you have no time to love them"
"Do not wait for leaders, do it alone, person to person"This was todays quote. I encourage you to ask them about it. Some of them really understood what this meant to them!
Important things to remember this week:
Yound Rembrants has started, every Monday after school for those who signed up.
Tuesday- School council meeting at 6h30, Bricks for kids, choir at recess
Wednesday- Bricks for kids, library
Thursday-Choir at recess
Friday- Sandwich Day
That's all everyone. Have a great week!
Laurie -Anne :)
This week the students are starting a booklet that they can take home to read once they are finished. It is about the clothes we find in our closet. They are using their dictionaries to help them fill in the sentences.
They are learning how to pick out rhyming words this week. We are going to play some fun games with rhymes as well and the students will learn about to make rhyming patterns, sentences themselves.
Math the students are learning how to pick out important information or key words in story problems. Some of the words they are learning are: enleve (take away), ajoute (to add), en tout (in total), reste (left) plus, moins (less). We are also counting to 100 and starting to count by 2 up to 100. Feel free to practice this with your child at home. You can print off a 100 frame and have them color in the numbers counting by 2,5 and 10. We are also learning double additions and doubles plus one. They should be able to add doubles up to 10.
In health, this week we are going to do a project on what is healthy for our teeth and what is not. Students will take flyers and cut out that they think is good and bad for their teeth.
In social studies this week students are learning to identify the different flags for each Canadian province. We are also taking a look at what makes Canada unique compared to the rest of the world as well as the province of Alberta.
in science this week we are going to learn about braille and sign language. I will be showing the students a video clip about Helen Keller. They have a lot of questions about those who may be deaf and blind and how do they learn about the world around them. What better person to show them than Helen Keller.
English we are reviewing the weekly sight words and starting to write repetitive sentences. They also continue to work on their Explode the code book. I may send a few home seeing that some students are a little farther behind. So look for those.
I plan on starting guided reading in French this week as well. I am so happy to start with them and I think they are eager too.
We also have started a fun activity in class, not sure if they mentioned it to you but you can ask them about it now that you know. Every morning after announcements we start our day off with a quote from Mother Teresa. We discuss what they think it means and how they can apply it to their everyday life. Its great to hear some of their answers and to even see them put forth an effort to do what the quote suggests. So far here are a couple of quotes we talked about in class.
"Let us always meet each other with a smile, for the smile is the beginning of love"
"Spread love everywhere you go. Let no one ever come to you without leaving happier"
"I alone cannot change the world, but I can cast a stone across the waters to create many ripples"( they had the absolute best answers for this one!!)
"If you judge people, you have no time to love them"
"Do not wait for leaders, do it alone, person to person"This was todays quote. I encourage you to ask them about it. Some of them really understood what this meant to them!
Important things to remember this week:
Yound Rembrants has started, every Monday after school for those who signed up.
Tuesday- School council meeting at 6h30, Bricks for kids, choir at recess
Wednesday- Bricks for kids, library
Thursday-Choir at recess
Friday- Sandwich Day
That's all everyone. Have a great week!
Laurie -Anne :)
Thursday, January 8, 2015
Welcome back and Happy New Year!
Hi everyone,
I hope you all had a fabulous Christmas break with your families. The island air treated me well. There was no snow at all for Christmas time which I have never seen. I even went for a walk on the beach! I am glad to be back and start this new year! I also wanted to thank you all for the nice gifts that you and your family gave me. I loved everyone of them.
This week in class we are getting back into the routine of things. The class rules tend to be forgotten so we are reviewing those as we go. This months theme is Fun in winter. The students will be learning all about winter activities and sports. We are learning about the different names for articles of clothing. We have started weekly messages. This is a great tool to help teach the students new words or proper sentence structures. They love when I mix up the sentences and they have to put them back in the right order. This is something you can do at home. Take a sentence from one of their books copy it out, then cut out each individual word and mix it up. Have your child put the sentence together and say each word as they go along. This helps them train their ears for proper French sentence structure.
In Math, we are looking at subtraction and addition of numbers up to 12 as well as learning how to skip count by 2,5 and 10.
In Science, we are still working on our five senses and have been learning about the challenges blind and deaf people face. We have watched a couple of videos that I will post if you are interested in watching and sparking up a conversation with your child.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G1QaCeosUmw -Boy who sees without eyes
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AHfC6jqBhkk- Learning how to speak for the first time
In Social Studies, we continue to learn about the difference between a province and a country. The students are learning about the different provinces and territories that make up Canada. We will also learn how to read a map by using North, South, East and West.
A reminder that reading packages are to be returned every Monday. Our class along with Mme Janice's class will be doing this months liturgy, which will be January 26th I believe.
That's all for this week nothing much.
I forgot to let you all know that we got 74 Turkeys for the drop in center!!!! Thank you all for your support and helping us make this happen.
Here are some pictures from before Christmas.
I hope you all had a fabulous Christmas break with your families. The island air treated me well. There was no snow at all for Christmas time which I have never seen. I even went for a walk on the beach! I am glad to be back and start this new year! I also wanted to thank you all for the nice gifts that you and your family gave me. I loved everyone of them.
This week in class we are getting back into the routine of things. The class rules tend to be forgotten so we are reviewing those as we go. This months theme is Fun in winter. The students will be learning all about winter activities and sports. We are learning about the different names for articles of clothing. We have started weekly messages. This is a great tool to help teach the students new words or proper sentence structures. They love when I mix up the sentences and they have to put them back in the right order. This is something you can do at home. Take a sentence from one of their books copy it out, then cut out each individual word and mix it up. Have your child put the sentence together and say each word as they go along. This helps them train their ears for proper French sentence structure.
In Math, we are looking at subtraction and addition of numbers up to 12 as well as learning how to skip count by 2,5 and 10.
In Science, we are still working on our five senses and have been learning about the challenges blind and deaf people face. We have watched a couple of videos that I will post if you are interested in watching and sparking up a conversation with your child.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G1QaCeosUmw -Boy who sees without eyes
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AHfC6jqBhkk- Learning how to speak for the first time
In Social Studies, we continue to learn about the difference between a province and a country. The students are learning about the different provinces and territories that make up Canada. We will also learn how to read a map by using North, South, East and West.
A reminder that reading packages are to be returned every Monday. Our class along with Mme Janice's class will be doing this months liturgy, which will be January 26th I believe.
That's all for this week nothing much.
I forgot to let you all know that we got 74 Turkeys for the drop in center!!!! Thank you all for your support and helping us make this happen.
Here are some pictures from before Christmas.
Tuesday, December 16, 2014
Last week together before 2015!
Hi everyone!
Last week together for 2014! I cant wait to see what 2015 has in hold for all of us! If I do not get to see all of you before then I wish you all the very best Christmas. May it be filled with laughter and the love of your family and friends. Have a very Happy and safe new years and cheers to the new adventures that 2015 brings.
This week we will be tidying up a few projects and assignments but mainly having some fun in class. We have started our Christmas centers, worked on our Christmas gifts to you, finished up the Christmas cards for seniors and counted and rolled all the change that was donated for our turkeys! We have right now about $1100.00!!!!!! I sure hope that we are able to get 100 turkeys with that! I am going to shop around to see what store will give me the best deal. If ya see any good deals keep your eyes open!
At the last minute we decided to dress up all this week as something fun. no worries if you cant make it happen, its just to get into the spirit a little here at school. Today we are all elves and those who didn't have a hat we made some thanks to Holly's great idea! Tomorrow we are thinking of being presents, soo stick a bow on their heads and some ribbon and voila! Thursday will be PJ day. The kids can also come with a pillow or a stuffie to snuggle with when we watch our movie in the afternoon. If you want please feel free to send in a snack for Thursday. We are going to use that day to celebrate and exchange gifts! ( I hope mine get here for the kids I ordered them but they haven't arrived yet!!) Thursday will also be the day we face paint. Don't forget to leave a note in the agenda to give permission. Friday is the half day of school, packed with a lot of assemblies. Then it is au revoir at noon until January 5th. I hope to get the Turkeys bought as well before Thursday so the kids can help pack them in the back of the truck for the delivery. I put some extra books in the reading package for the long break, that's if you get around to reading ;) That's about it for now. Have a merry Christmas everyone. I am heading to PEI to spend it with my dad. I will see you all in the New year.
Last week together for 2014! I cant wait to see what 2015 has in hold for all of us! If I do not get to see all of you before then I wish you all the very best Christmas. May it be filled with laughter and the love of your family and friends. Have a very Happy and safe new years and cheers to the new adventures that 2015 brings.
This week we will be tidying up a few projects and assignments but mainly having some fun in class. We have started our Christmas centers, worked on our Christmas gifts to you, finished up the Christmas cards for seniors and counted and rolled all the change that was donated for our turkeys! We have right now about $1100.00!!!!!! I sure hope that we are able to get 100 turkeys with that! I am going to shop around to see what store will give me the best deal. If ya see any good deals keep your eyes open!
At the last minute we decided to dress up all this week as something fun. no worries if you cant make it happen, its just to get into the spirit a little here at school. Today we are all elves and those who didn't have a hat we made some thanks to Holly's great idea! Tomorrow we are thinking of being presents, soo stick a bow on their heads and some ribbon and voila! Thursday will be PJ day. The kids can also come with a pillow or a stuffie to snuggle with when we watch our movie in the afternoon. If you want please feel free to send in a snack for Thursday. We are going to use that day to celebrate and exchange gifts! ( I hope mine get here for the kids I ordered them but they haven't arrived yet!!) Thursday will also be the day we face paint. Don't forget to leave a note in the agenda to give permission. Friday is the half day of school, packed with a lot of assemblies. Then it is au revoir at noon until January 5th. I hope to get the Turkeys bought as well before Thursday so the kids can help pack them in the back of the truck for the delivery. I put some extra books in the reading package for the long break, that's if you get around to reading ;) That's about it for now. Have a merry Christmas everyone. I am heading to PEI to spend it with my dad. I will see you all in the New year.
Sunday, December 7, 2014
Get ready to hum along to those Christmas favs!
HI Everyone the count down is on until the Christmas Holidays! I hope that you are all doing well and staying healthy. There's a gastro bug going around so remind your kiddies to wash, wash, wash their hands. No one needs to be sick for Christmas.
As this week comes to an end we will be getting ready for Tuesday's Christmas Concert. I picked up the candy canes last week so the students prepared them for the candy o grams Friday. They pretended they were Elves and some took their job very seriously. We will also be starting our Christmas cards for seniors and some of the cards are soo cute. The virtue of the month is "Love" which our class seems to have a ton of! Here is the scoop for next week.
On Monday Dec 8th we will be having our first Advent Liturgy starting at 10h30 you are all welcome to attend. Choir is cancelled for after school on Monday. On Tuesday we will be having a practice run through of our concert at school in the afternoon. This is the first and only practice as a school so lets hope all goes well. The Christmas concert is at St. Michael's church. The doors are said to be open around 6:00 ish ( I'll be there getting ready for the candy cane sales) The choir is asked to be at the church for 6:20 and all other students should be there for 6:30. The concert will start at 7:00. The consensus of the class is that they want to dress up. Girls in nice dresses and boys in dress shirts and ties. The students are not allowed to leave without telling me before hand, so please make sure that if you are to take your child they are to let me know.
On Thursday December 11th students have Zumba 1:30-2:15, so please make sure they are dressed properly. Friday December 12 the holiday train is in town. I go every year. I find its the best way to get into the Christmas mood, a train covered in lights, Christmas music and hot chocolate. I hope to go but I thought Id mention it to you just in case you are looking for something to do with the kids this week end.
Santa has sent us a magical elf named Lulu, I am sure you have already heard all this. A box arrived Friday after library. They were so excited to open the package. Lulu has been sent to keep a watchful eye on the students this time of year. She also works the night shift in Santa's doll making workshop. I am sure you will hear lots of stories about her. Next week is our last week of school before the Christmas Holidays. I am looking for some parent volunteers to come in, preferably one parent each day to read their favorite Christmas stories with the class. You are more than welcome to read more than one and English is ok too! If you are interested please let me know. Next Thursday December 18 is spirit day. Students are allowed to wear the Pj's to school. We will take advantage of the comfy clothes and do some Christmas centers with the other 2 grade one class. (That's the plan anyway) Also Mme Jacqueline has offered to paint the students faces. She works for a company that does face painting so everything will be sanitary. If you are ok with having your child's face painted please leave me a note in the agenda. I will also try and remember to send a reminder note home next week. Next Friday we have half a day and it will fly by. I believe we have a liturgy in the first part of the am and then we will have a little Christmas party where we will exchange gifts. Students will be dismissed at 12 noon. Please send in a glass mason jar with your child by the end of this week. We need them in order to do a class project. A smaller jar is ideal but if you do not have that any size will do.
I have found some more French and English books to send home in the weekly reading package. This will give you more selection and some of the French books have easier words in them to build your child's confidence. Please take care of the English books, they belong to the Fontas and Pinel collection in the reading room. Also could you please take a look around the house for matching games. Some have come back missing pieces or not come back at all.
I think that's it for this week and hope I haven't missed anything. I went to post this once and lost everything soo this is all I could remember! ;)
If you have any questions please feel free to drop me a line.
I hope to see you all Tuesday, don't forget your .50!
Laurie Anne
As this week comes to an end we will be getting ready for Tuesday's Christmas Concert. I picked up the candy canes last week so the students prepared them for the candy o grams Friday. They pretended they were Elves and some took their job very seriously. We will also be starting our Christmas cards for seniors and some of the cards are soo cute. The virtue of the month is "Love" which our class seems to have a ton of! Here is the scoop for next week.
On Monday Dec 8th we will be having our first Advent Liturgy starting at 10h30 you are all welcome to attend. Choir is cancelled for after school on Monday. On Tuesday we will be having a practice run through of our concert at school in the afternoon. This is the first and only practice as a school so lets hope all goes well. The Christmas concert is at St. Michael's church. The doors are said to be open around 6:00 ish ( I'll be there getting ready for the candy cane sales) The choir is asked to be at the church for 6:20 and all other students should be there for 6:30. The concert will start at 7:00. The consensus of the class is that they want to dress up. Girls in nice dresses and boys in dress shirts and ties. The students are not allowed to leave without telling me before hand, so please make sure that if you are to take your child they are to let me know.
On Thursday December 11th students have Zumba 1:30-2:15, so please make sure they are dressed properly. Friday December 12 the holiday train is in town. I go every year. I find its the best way to get into the Christmas mood, a train covered in lights, Christmas music and hot chocolate. I hope to go but I thought Id mention it to you just in case you are looking for something to do with the kids this week end.
Santa has sent us a magical elf named Lulu, I am sure you have already heard all this. A box arrived Friday after library. They were so excited to open the package. Lulu has been sent to keep a watchful eye on the students this time of year. She also works the night shift in Santa's doll making workshop. I am sure you will hear lots of stories about her. Next week is our last week of school before the Christmas Holidays. I am looking for some parent volunteers to come in, preferably one parent each day to read their favorite Christmas stories with the class. You are more than welcome to read more than one and English is ok too! If you are interested please let me know. Next Thursday December 18 is spirit day. Students are allowed to wear the Pj's to school. We will take advantage of the comfy clothes and do some Christmas centers with the other 2 grade one class. (That's the plan anyway) Also Mme Jacqueline has offered to paint the students faces. She works for a company that does face painting so everything will be sanitary. If you are ok with having your child's face painted please leave me a note in the agenda. I will also try and remember to send a reminder note home next week. Next Friday we have half a day and it will fly by. I believe we have a liturgy in the first part of the am and then we will have a little Christmas party where we will exchange gifts. Students will be dismissed at 12 noon. Please send in a glass mason jar with your child by the end of this week. We need them in order to do a class project. A smaller jar is ideal but if you do not have that any size will do.
I have found some more French and English books to send home in the weekly reading package. This will give you more selection and some of the French books have easier words in them to build your child's confidence. Please take care of the English books, they belong to the Fontas and Pinel collection in the reading room. Also could you please take a look around the house for matching games. Some have come back missing pieces or not come back at all.
I think that's it for this week and hope I haven't missed anything. I went to post this once and lost everything soo this is all I could remember! ;)
If you have any questions please feel free to drop me a line.
I hope to see you all Tuesday, don't forget your .50!
Laurie Anne
Monday, November 24, 2014
November is almost over!
I cant believe that this is our last week of November. This school year seems to be flying bye for me! Next week we will start our countdown for Christmas. With a new month comes another new theme: "C'est bientot Noel". Students will be learning new Christmas vocabulary and opposites (grand-petit). We will also learn how to identify the sounds of the different accents (symbols over letter to change the sound) they will learn how to correctly pronounce the sounds. We are starting to count by 5 and 10 to help us when it comes time to count all our change.
We have started to collect the change for the Turkey drive. The students are supper excited and love adding to the bucket of change. Keep it coming! The Christmas concert is in two week (Dec 9th) I am looking for volunteers to sell candy canes before and after the concert. Ideally I would like to have 6 and 6. I am going to divide the tables into division 1 (K-3) and division 2 (4-6). That there is less people surrounding the tables all at one time. Those who come to sell early to volunteer can go hold their seats. Please email me if you are interested.
We are singing "Douce nuit" and "We need a little Christmas". The students need a little extra practice, so if you have time please practice with them at home, especially the French song. Here is the links to We need a little Christmas: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X6OJYTv4ipM. We only sing the part and stop after the first chorus. I will add Douce nuit to the side bare under another voki, seeing that I cannot find the version we sing online.
Next Monday could you all send in the Pink book copy A back with the reading package. We are done of those stories and are now moving onto copy B. I also sent home today your child's portfolio, take a look at it, there is a page for you to fill out. They are due back on Monday Dec 1. If your child came home with it in a green clothe bag, please send that back. I am hoping to keep those until the end of the year to send all their school supplies home in.
Scholastics are Due Dec 5. I will be placing the order then so that the books arrive before Christmas. Thursday is Spirit day, so your child may wear a jersey to show their school spirit. We have parent teacher interviews Thursday evening and all day Friday. Do not forget to sign up for a time. You can find a link on the school website. Library is on Wednesday. Please do not forget to send back your child's report card envelop. We use them for all three reporting periods.
That's all I got this week, keeping it short!
Have a great week and hope to see all of you Thursday or Friday.
Laurie Anne
We have started to collect the change for the Turkey drive. The students are supper excited and love adding to the bucket of change. Keep it coming! The Christmas concert is in two week (Dec 9th) I am looking for volunteers to sell candy canes before and after the concert. Ideally I would like to have 6 and 6. I am going to divide the tables into division 1 (K-3) and division 2 (4-6). That there is less people surrounding the tables all at one time. Those who come to sell early to volunteer can go hold their seats. Please email me if you are interested.
We are singing "Douce nuit" and "We need a little Christmas". The students need a little extra practice, so if you have time please practice with them at home, especially the French song. Here is the links to We need a little Christmas: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X6OJYTv4ipM. We only sing the part and stop after the first chorus. I will add Douce nuit to the side bare under another voki, seeing that I cannot find the version we sing online.
Next Monday could you all send in the Pink book copy A back with the reading package. We are done of those stories and are now moving onto copy B. I also sent home today your child's portfolio, take a look at it, there is a page for you to fill out. They are due back on Monday Dec 1. If your child came home with it in a green clothe bag, please send that back. I am hoping to keep those until the end of the year to send all their school supplies home in.
Scholastics are Due Dec 5. I will be placing the order then so that the books arrive before Christmas. Thursday is Spirit day, so your child may wear a jersey to show their school spirit. We have parent teacher interviews Thursday evening and all day Friday. Do not forget to sign up for a time. You can find a link on the school website. Library is on Wednesday. Please do not forget to send back your child's report card envelop. We use them for all three reporting periods.
That's all I got this week, keeping it short!
Have a great week and hope to see all of you Thursday or Friday.
Laurie Anne
Tuesday, November 11, 2014
Short week
Hi everyone,
I hope you all had a great extended week end with your family and that the weather did not stop some of you from getting out.
Seeing that this is a short week I do not have all that much to share. We have picked our song for the Christmas concert. We will be singing two, one in French (Douce Nuit) ,one in English (We need a little Christmas). I will send home the lyrics and you can start practicing. I wil try to post the songs somewhere on here. The Christmas concert is on December 9 at St. Mikes church, I am not sure of the time, once I find out more I shall pass it along.
Wednesday there is a School council meeting at 6h30 if any of you are interested in attending. Picture retakes will be on Friday morning for those who are wanting their children to have them. We are in charge of morning prayer this week. So we have some brave students who have practiced all last week to get ready. All students will be given the chance to say a prayer throughout the year, if they want that is. Report cards will be sent home November 21 and parent teachers will be held on November 28th. I will be sending home sometime soon, your child's portfolio's. It is a collection of some of their work or quizzes they have done so far this year. Monday November the 17th our class has Rocks and rings in the gym, so that will be exciting.
I hope they students are sharing what they have had the chance to eat in class everyday with you. Again I thank you for helping make this happen.
I am starting to think about my Christmas projects that I do with the class. Every year my class raises money to purchase Turkeys for those who might not otherwise get one. I have been doing this for about 5 years now and every year we seem to surpass the last with more turkeys. Last year we sold candy canes and collected coins to help purchase around 74 turkeys. My class donated them to the Calgary Food Bank. This year I am hoping to donate them to the Calgary Drop in Center. At the beginning of the school year we went as a staff to serve breakfast. Upon chatting to one of the ladies I learned that the drop in has not had a real Christmas dinner for the thousand who use it in a long time. The reason for that is that turkeys are way to expansive. Soo I got to thinking, my class can do that for them, why not! So I am hoping to start our coin collection a little early this year. In the past we usually just collect pennies, but that's no longer so we have started collecting nickels and dimes. this is great because I use it as a math activity seeing that we need to learn how to count by 5's and 10's. I will talk to the students this week about our mission and will plan on starting our coin collection next week. I usually send out a facebook message to all my friends recruiting them to help us out. They are great to respond and we usually have special deliveries of random change dropped off at school! I will be needing some volunteers to help sell the candy canes at the concert, so if you are interested in doing this please let me know. There is usually two shifts before and after the concert. The more people the better and easier it is to cover it all because it can get hectic. So that's one project I have planned for our class. I have one other in the mix but need to figure out some details before I make that big announcement.
The next is a favorite of mine. The students make Christmas cards for seniors. I love this because I have in the past have hand delivered the cards and to see their faces light up is better than any gift. I usually go to a seniors home back in PEI because I know the activities coordinator but I would like to go here this year and if any of you are wanting to come along Id be more than happy to have some company. I need some volunteers though to help cut cardstock in cards, fold them and get them ready for the students to draw on them. I am hoping to start this very soon so if you can start right away that would be great.
I am also looking for a volunteer to come help me get the scholastic orders ready to send home. I have slacked on that department seeing that I was working on report cards. I am thinking of sending home both November and Decembers orders so that you have more selection and if you are wanting to order Christmas gifts you can. That way I can place the order early and guarantee that you will get it all in time. If you are ordering gifts just let me know via email or a little note and I will hold onto them for you!
ok so short week and a lot of info being put out there for you. I am excited to get things rolling. I know the kids will be pumped too. If you have any other ideas or suggestions on what we could do for a community project I would love to hear them. Enjoy the week everyone!
Chat soon,
Laurie Anne
I hope you all had a great extended week end with your family and that the weather did not stop some of you from getting out.
Seeing that this is a short week I do not have all that much to share. We have picked our song for the Christmas concert. We will be singing two, one in French (Douce Nuit) ,one in English (We need a little Christmas). I will send home the lyrics and you can start practicing. I wil try to post the songs somewhere on here. The Christmas concert is on December 9 at St. Mikes church, I am not sure of the time, once I find out more I shall pass it along.
Wednesday there is a School council meeting at 6h30 if any of you are interested in attending. Picture retakes will be on Friday morning for those who are wanting their children to have them. We are in charge of morning prayer this week. So we have some brave students who have practiced all last week to get ready. All students will be given the chance to say a prayer throughout the year, if they want that is. Report cards will be sent home November 21 and parent teachers will be held on November 28th. I will be sending home sometime soon, your child's portfolio's. It is a collection of some of their work or quizzes they have done so far this year. Monday November the 17th our class has Rocks and rings in the gym, so that will be exciting.
I hope they students are sharing what they have had the chance to eat in class everyday with you. Again I thank you for helping make this happen.
I am starting to think about my Christmas projects that I do with the class. Every year my class raises money to purchase Turkeys for those who might not otherwise get one. I have been doing this for about 5 years now and every year we seem to surpass the last with more turkeys. Last year we sold candy canes and collected coins to help purchase around 74 turkeys. My class donated them to the Calgary Food Bank. This year I am hoping to donate them to the Calgary Drop in Center. At the beginning of the school year we went as a staff to serve breakfast. Upon chatting to one of the ladies I learned that the drop in has not had a real Christmas dinner for the thousand who use it in a long time. The reason for that is that turkeys are way to expansive. Soo I got to thinking, my class can do that for them, why not! So I am hoping to start our coin collection a little early this year. In the past we usually just collect pennies, but that's no longer so we have started collecting nickels and dimes. this is great because I use it as a math activity seeing that we need to learn how to count by 5's and 10's. I will talk to the students this week about our mission and will plan on starting our coin collection next week. I usually send out a facebook message to all my friends recruiting them to help us out. They are great to respond and we usually have special deliveries of random change dropped off at school! I will be needing some volunteers to help sell the candy canes at the concert, so if you are interested in doing this please let me know. There is usually two shifts before and after the concert. The more people the better and easier it is to cover it all because it can get hectic. So that's one project I have planned for our class. I have one other in the mix but need to figure out some details before I make that big announcement.
The next is a favorite of mine. The students make Christmas cards for seniors. I love this because I have in the past have hand delivered the cards and to see their faces light up is better than any gift. I usually go to a seniors home back in PEI because I know the activities coordinator but I would like to go here this year and if any of you are wanting to come along Id be more than happy to have some company. I need some volunteers though to help cut cardstock in cards, fold them and get them ready for the students to draw on them. I am hoping to start this very soon so if you can start right away that would be great.
I am also looking for a volunteer to come help me get the scholastic orders ready to send home. I have slacked on that department seeing that I was working on report cards. I am thinking of sending home both November and Decembers orders so that you have more selection and if you are wanting to order Christmas gifts you can. That way I can place the order early and guarantee that you will get it all in time. If you are ordering gifts just let me know via email or a little note and I will hold onto them for you!
ok so short week and a lot of info being put out there for you. I am excited to get things rolling. I know the kids will be pumped too. If you have any other ideas or suggestions on what we could do for a community project I would love to hear them. Enjoy the week everyone!
Chat soon,
Laurie Anne
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