20.6.16

June 20

Clean up! Clean up! Everybody everywhere! Clean up! Clean up! Everybody do their share!

This is the song that keeps popping up in my head all day as we start to wind down and clean our things. Instead of lugging home a giant bag of stuff next week, I am starting to send home school supplies that we no longer need. At this point, I have sent home all duo-tangs. Please let your child know if you want them to DONATE the school supplies in their pencil boxes (pencil crayons, markers, erasers, etc) as we usually collect them at the end of the year to send away. ALL PENCIL BOXES will be collected empty and sent to the Grade 4 classrooms (it is not part of their Grade 4 educ-pac, so they will be using the same one next year again). We have a box of clothes that has been hanging around the cloakroom and none of the students have claimed the clothes. Please feel free to come and browse to see if any of it belongs to your child!

Also I have asked that all backpacks and lunch kits are checked tonight. We have a very unpleasant odor coming from our cloakroom. We have emptied the shoe cubbies, sprayed and cleaned everything, but the smell still lingers! It's quite unpleasant.

Please make sure your child empties their backpack at home so that they can take more stuff home in the coming days.

We are finishing Charlotte's Web (the novel) this week, as well as the ABC books they have been working on for the past month. THE ABC BOOK IS DUE ON THURSDAY at the very latest as report cards are due to the office by Friday.  We will be watching the live action movie on Friday morning.

If you have any concerns about your child's learning at this point, it is really important that we discuss it ASAP as next week will be so busy and will fly by.

A notice about our wrap up party on Friday was sent home today.

7.6.16

June 7

Popcorn day tomorrow $1.00

Thursday is our Celebration of Learning starting at 11 am. Each child will present their projects. We hope to see you there. Below is the list of presenters in order:

1. Brody: What are eggs made of?
2. Leighla: What happens to the environment when trees get cut down?
3. Robyn: I wonder about how lions live.
4. Mary: How do your bake without yeast and it still rises?
5. Heidi: How do people keep animals in the zoo?
6. Olivia: I wonder about bald eagles way of life.
7. Daniel: How did Lego get started?
8. Natalie: How do you make a giant piece of art with multiple art forms?
               9. Mireya: Who invented make up and who were the first to use it?
10. Liam: Why are dog’s called a man’s best friend?
11: Matteo K: How do volcanoes erupt?
12. Desmond: How are video games made?
13: Ezinne: How much space junk is out there?
14. Aine: What helps you get into sports?
15: Mateo S: What was the first sport invented?
16: Alessandro: How are video games made?
17. Reese: What instruments in the orchestra and how are they made?
18. Lauren: How do paintings affect people?
19. Jack: How do penguins survive?
20. Sarah: How can we help the endangered spotted owls?
21: Jamey: How does the internet work?
22. Naysa: What are allergies?
23. Evan: How can we make driving safer?
24. Mara: Why were dogs made?
25. Anthony: How do things move in space?
26. Steven: How can cheetahs run fast?
27. Aveline: How can you do a backflip?
28: Tessa: What was the first famous form of art?
29. Anna: What are the parts of a dog’s body?
30: Bianca: Why are there homeless dogs?

31: Rachel: How can we help people with cancer?

1.6.16

June 1

A BIG THANK YOU to the parent drivers and volunteers who helped to make our field trip so successful! I don't know about the kids, but I was tired last night from all the walking and sunshine!

Today, we were missing quite a few kids who went to the CISVA track meet. Students had the opportunity to work on their Passion projects. Tomorrow, in our groups, students will have the opportunity to create their criteria for marking.

ALL PROJECTS are due to me on MONDAY, JUNE 6. If they opt to do a speech, I still to see the notes for the speech so I know they are prepared.

CELEBRATION OF LEARNING is on THURS, JUNE 9. Families are invited to come and here presentations starting at 11am in the Parish Center.

Homework:
1. Passion projects due
2. ABC book
- D for dump
- O for orchard
- Z for Zuckerman
- R for Roosters

19 MORE SCHOOL DAYS!!!!!!!!!!!!!