Soles4Souls - The Power Of A Pair Of Shoes

The kindergarten classes are leading a special social justice project for our whole school community to participate in.  For the month of February ~ Kindness Month, the kindergarten students are asking that our school support Soles 4 Soles.  

We want your old shoes, sandals, boots etc (in any state and any size). A donation box will be located in the front foyer of the school. Collection will take place beginning February 1 - 28, 2017.  The Kindergarten students thank you in advance for your generosity and kindness in supporting their social justice project.  

Friendly Reminders

Tomorrow is a PD Day ( Monday, January 30th), so there will be no school for students.

On Feburary 2nd, we will be celebrating National Sweater Day. We will turn down the heat in our school to save energy and to discuss energy conservation.  Everyone is welcome to wear their best cozy and warm sweater!

FAMILY LITERACY WEEK

Still off to a great start this New Year!

Composing and comparing numbers up to 10. 

Searching for popcorn words, punctuation marks and thinking of rhyming words!

Monday Funday Gymday!!

We have Grade 3 reading buddies!!  We meet with them every second Thursday.  Sometimes we just share books, other times our buddies help us to identify characters or the problem of a story.  It's a lot of fun!

Take a look...

A new year brings new challenges and opportunities for learning. More books, more words, more writing, math talks and morning messages....

Mixing colours, journal writing, hallway hunters (searching for 'popcorn' words), 

During the season of Advent, Ms. Val and I used the Nativity Story to introduce parts of a story.  We identified the setting, the characters (or people), and what happened in the beginning, middle and end of the story.  The children really enjoyed learning about the Christmas Story and the events that took place - their understanding of the elements within a story were astounding!!! 

Try identifying parts of a story at home when you snuggle up and read with your little!

We used images from a special video about the Christmas Story to put events in proper sequence. 

A shepard

The "Christmas Star"

A donkey carrying Mary to Bethlehem

Happy New Year and Looking for...

Best wishes to your families in 2017!  Looking forward to seeing all of my munchkins on Monday morning!

Looking for: If you still have Christmas Cards at home, we are happy to recycle them in our classroom.  We will put them to great use next year!!! Please send them in :)

Christmas Performance- Wear Xmas Colours and Wear

For our Christmas Performance on December 16th, we would like our students to wear Christmas colours or a a Christmas t shirt. This will make our day very festive.

Many Thanks,
Mme. McCann,  Mrs. Bean, Ms. Val