March 13/18

Hi Everyone,

Just a reminder that tomorrow students will be dismissed at 11:00 am so that teachers can conference for the afternoon and all day Friday.  Please double check your conference time via the portal.  The time you signed up for is the time you will arrive here to meet with your child in the hallway for 15 minutes and celebrate their learning.  This will be followed by a 15 minute meeting in the classroom for all of us to review the past term and set goals for the third term. 

The students have all received their new JRR books yesterday.  They will also bring home their Poetry and More duotangs tomorrow and I have updated the levels on RAZ kids where necessary.  This will give your child  plenty of reading options for over the break.  Please also remember that we have a subscription with IXL which can be used to practice/develop math skills.

The updated Memory Book fee is now on the portal (sorry for the confusion).  Please feel free to pay online or send/bring in cash or a cheque for $10:00.  You will also be receiving a portal announcement regarding our field trip to Save-On Foods on April 9th on April 9th. 

Congratulations to Cam, Saskia and Hallie for being the lucky 'Club Red' winners from Division 9.  They will be treated to a pizza lunch on April 10th.

I hope you all have a wonderful spring break!

Take Care,

Sheralyn Rowledge-Toscani

March 8/19

Our field trip to the ACT on Wednesday was great.  A huge thanks to Kamryn, Hallie and Libby's moms for driving as well as OSS for providing a van!  Ideas Bobert was very good!  Ask your child for details such as... what was your favourite part, funniest part, how did she make her bird move,  what is the difference between clowning and acting?  What made Bobert and the bird happy?  What was the message Ideas Bobert was portraying?  At Buddies on Thursday we discussed what made their hearts smile plus made symbols out of plasticine.  We had music notes, birds, footballs, dance shoes, video game, book, etc.

Club RED celebration was today.  It was exciting that Mrs. Neufeld was our guest reader and it was fun to read with Mrs. Williamson's class especially while eating twirlers!

Conferences are next Thursday afternoon and Friday.  Please sign up on the portal asap!  Remember the conference is a total of 30 minutes - arrive for the time you signed up, the first 15 minutes is in the hall going through and celebrating your child's learning and then the next 15 we will meet in the classroom to go over the report card and set goals for our last term.  If possible, Mrs. Mungaroo would like the opportunity to sit in on some of the conferences, if you are uncomfortable with this please just email me before the conference (no problem either way). ***Please note it is an 11:00 dismissal on Thursday and no school on Friday due to these conferences. 

Upcoming field trips after spring break are...
Save On Foods - April 9th (this is a walking field trip and if possible we will need a few parents to join us).  We also have one to Me n Eds Pizza (drivers needed) on April 24th.

Tuesday, March 12 students are welcome to wear green in celebration of St. Patrick's Day which occurs over spring break.

I have updated the reading levels on RAZ kids, please do not be concerned if the letter did not change as some represent up to 4-5 levels.

Have a wonderful weekend!

March 1/19

Grandparent/100 Day was lots of fun!  It was great to see so many grandparents and thanks for adopting an extra grandchild for our activities.  Thanks again to Kamryn and Stephen's moms for supplying the cupcakes!

100 Day projects were great! A good variety and those that were edible were enjoyed by all! We did a lot of math around 100 including multiplication and division!

Thanks to Kamryn, Liberty, Cameron,  Rhys, Alicia/Lexi's parents for helping out with our skating field trip today.  Your support is really appreciated and needed!  It's exciting to see how much the student's skating skills have improved over the year!  Great Skating Div. 9!

Thanks to everyone that has already signed up for our field trip on Wednesday, March 6th to the ACT.  We currently have very few drivers so if you could possibly help out, please sign up asap we can not cancel without loosing money.  Also please either pay online or in cash asap.

Club RED is now over.  Please ensure that your child has coloured each day that he/she has read and that you have initialled each square.  Please send in all calendars by the end of the week.  On March 8th, we will be having a 'Club Red' celebration.  Students can wear red or dress up as their favourite book character on that day.

Mrs. Mungaroo (Kaila) our student teacher is now with Div. 9 for the next 4 weeks. Please come in and introduce yourselves.  She is very excited to work with your children!  

As I mentioned last week Spelling is a review lesson so we are working on it over two weeks  - it is review all the short vowel words.  I will quiz them on 15 words next Friday. 

Conference schedule is now up for March 14th and March 15th.  Please remember that you arrive at the time you have signed up for, that is when your conference starts in the hallway with your child.  The first 15 minutes you will go through your child's work to celebrate all the things that they have been doing and then the next 15 minutes is with me in the classroom.  The total length of your conference is 30 minutes so please allow this time!

*Special Days sponsored by our PAC:   ***I will also add these to the blog calendar like I did the leadership special events. 

March 13-Hot dog and chips
April 12-Hot Lunch
April 17 TCBY  (frozen yogurt)and chips
May 10-Hot dog and chips
May 31-Hot lunch
June 6/7 TCBY and chips