September update

Chers parents,

Bonjour!  I would like to thank you all, parents and students for a great start to the school year.  I am happy to say that we have all our consent forms in and our kids are always ready and happy to start our day at school.  Thank you also for your understanding with my absence at Meet the Staff and enjoyed touching base with you on the phone and for the messages.  I look forward to working with you all.  I would like to give you some dates to help us with some upcoming events:

EVERY Tuesday we will be exchanging library books.  That is tomorrow.  Please send your child’s library book in the plastic book bag and we will get the books out that day.  I already had some books handed in this morning and that is great.

Thursday, September 29^th it will be Terry Fox Run day.  (It is also red day for our class—la couleur rouge. I will explain that below*)We will be learning a bit about who Terry Fox was and we will be raising funds for cancer research.  In the past few years we have had stickers that say: I am running for_____________.  If you have someone affected by cancer and wish to explain that a bit to your child you can do that prior to that day.  We will run in our field back and forth for a specific time. 

*Because we our learning colours in French will be starting to wear specific colour on colour days as well.  I thought that on that Thursday Sept 29^th we could all wear red to remind us of how Terry sought to run across Canada. We can show our pride in what he accomplished and the amazing fundraising that has continued because of what he did over 35 years ago.

Friday, September 30^th we will be wearing orange and walking to the Oskayak Pow Wow. This is a day of remembrance.  Phyllis Webstad, (also from B.C. like Terry Fox), is the reason for wearing orange.  Phyllis, a First Nations girl, was taken from her family at 6 years old to go to residential school.  She wore a special new shirt—orange for her first day.   That shirt was taken from her and she was given a uniform to wear.  Much more was stripped from First Nations children in our Canadian history and we will remember what they went through and honour their experiences on that day.

Here are some links:

http://www.terryfox.org/

http://www.ictinc.ca/blog/what-is-orange-shirt-day

Please add these dates to your September calendar!

We have been learning many expressions and songs.  We are learning all about me—“C’est moi!” and sharing special days.  We have been learning letters and numbers, directions and body parts in French. 

We are also learning about zones of regulation and being in the green zone and about filling buckets. Here are some links:

http://www.zonesofregulation.com/index.html

http://www.bucketfillers101.com/have-you-filled-a-bucket-today.php

 

Merci!  We look forward to more learning and fun together à la maternelle!

Mme Jennifer Wallace

First newsletter

September 2, 2016

Chers parents,

Bonjour et bienvenue à la maternelle! Welcome to kindergarten! This is an exciting time for kindergarten students and their families. I look forward to getting to know you and your children better. Let me introduce myself.

My name is Jennifer Wallace. I first came to École Victoria at the beginning of January 2009; I previously taught French Immersion Kindergarten, arts education, and grades 7/8 at École Rivers Heights School from 2000-2007. I am very pleased to be working in this community and I have two children who are also attending here.  We have wonderful staff and students at École Victoria and I am glad that I am a part of this school.   I am excited about starting this year.

I hope you will find the following information about classroom procedures helpful:

BELONGINGS: Please label all your child's belongings that come to school including sweaters, hats, mitts, jackets, knapsacks and especially runners and boots.  Please send shoes that have velcro rather than lace-ups.  This makes getting in and out for recess much easier.  Please send a set of extra clothes: shirt, pants, underwear and socks labeled in a bag to be left in your child’s locker. *A couple of items were omitted from our supply list in the welcome booklet: a box of 24 crayons and a box of tissues/Kleenex.  Please forgive the oversight.

 ARRIVAL AND DEPARTURE: If you are dropping off or picking up your child, please use the front entrance. If you arrive early for the start of class the expectation is for students to wait outside on the supervised playground until the bell has gone. I cannot supervise your child before school hours as I have to prepare for the day.

If your child takes the bus, please remember to contact your child's bus driver if he or she does not need transportation on a certain day. We will be sure that all bus students are safely on the bus at the end of the kindergarten day. Please let me know in a note as well if there are changes.

ABSENCES: If your child will not be attending school or if there is any change in the normal routine, please call the school to let us know.

BIRTHDAYS: If your child is having a birthday and you wish to send a snack for the class, please let me know in advance. Children with summer birthdays may wish to celebrate their "half birthday" (i.e. July 16th= January 16th). Please send a note in advance so that time can be set aside on that day. *It is very important to let me know if your child has allergies so that others parents and teachers can be made aware of this. Please do not send snacks or treats containing nuts or nut products.*

SNACKS: Your child should bring a small nutritious snack to school. Some suggestions include apple slices (half is usually plenty) or other fruit, a piece of cheese, crackers, carrot sticks, raisins, an oatmeal cookie, granola bar or a small muffin. For drinks, please send water bottles.  If you wish to send juice, please use a reusable Rubbermaid drink box or other similar spill-proof drink box.

 

 

 

COMMUNICATION: Your child’s two-pocket folder or “dossier” which will be used as the primary method of communication between home and school. A plastic pocket folder often works best for this as it lasts longer but a regular folder is fine. Please check your child's dossier each day and remove everything from the pocket. For example, a t-shirt letter will be sent home with this letter to indicate your child's upcoming special day. If you wish to return forms or send a note/letter for our attention, please place them in the pocket. Please return the dossier to your child's backpack each day. I can also be contacted by e-mail: wallacej@spsd.sk.ca  I also have a classroom blog: http://lamagiedelamaternelle2.blogspot.ca

At the beginning of each month your child will receive a class calendar and newsletter. If you have any questions or concerns, please call the school (306-683-7470). If I am not available at the time of your call, you can email me at the address above. Good communication from home and school is an essential part of any successful classroom!

PARENT VOLUNTEERS: I always welcome parent involvement. Volunteers are especially needed on out of school excursions.   Please complete a police record check; forms are available at the front office.  I will inform parents as soon as possible of outings.  If you have a project, cultural experience, a special talent or a story, please feel free to come and share that with our kindergarten class.  I am also looking for a parent to act as room parent for our Home and School Association. Please let me know if you are interested in this position.

LITERACY FOR LIFE: We have received extensive training for our Literacy for Life initiative. This includes a program called PWIM (Picture Word Inductive Model) or MIMI (Méthode Inductive de Mots Illustrés). MIMI and phonics strategies are integrated into our program in learning the alphabet and learning to read. In addition to MIMI, I encourage students to read at home, (or be read to) on a daily basis. In kindergarten, a child reads a book in his or her own way (by memory, inventive storytelling, along with pictures.) I encourage parents to try reading with your child for 20 minutes at home each day.

MEET THE TEACHER NIGHT:  Wednesday September 14^th *is our —Welcome Back—Meet the Staff Evening.  I am truly looking forward to greeting you on this evening.  Please have your son or daughter introduce you if they haven’t already done so! 

 

THIS MONTH the two themes we will focus on are: C’est moi! (All About Me) and Les couleurs (Colours).  On the calendar is your child’s special day—on which he or she can bring a baby photo.  For the colour days children can wear the designated colour on that day.  Thank you and I look forward to the days ahead! We are looking forward to seeing all our kindergarten students again on September the 9^th.  Bonne Rentrée!

Sincèrement,
Votre enseignante de la maternelle,    Mme Jennifer Wallace

May Newsletter

Please remember there is no school tomorrow!  I hope you have a great long weekend. 

Here are some news and notes:

Le 28 avril 2016

Chers parents,

We are looking forward to the month of May as we look back on some wonderful activities we did in April.  We had a great restaurant simulation this week with our care partners.  The kindergarten students did quite well ordering food in French and being customers as our care partner class served and welcomed us to the restaurant.   We also enjoyed an artist workshop that spanned two sessions with local artists and personal friends, Phil Rivard and Marlys Vango Rivard.   We painted still life bowls of fruit and learned about shadows and light, composition, realism, abstract, impressionism, (even a nod to Fauvism).  The finished products are on display in the glass cases in the LRC.  It was a great experience.  This past month we were able to take home some homemade cardboard pizzas and learned about toppings and fractions while doing so.  A big thanks to Little Ceasar’s in Stonebridge for the donation of boxes to make the craft complete!  We enjoyed learning and singing “Je suis une pizza” as part of that.   April 22^nd was Earth Day.  We watched the original video narration of The Lorax and on Earth Day we participated in cleaning up some of the school yard with Mme McCrea’s class.  It was so good to see our class eager to help out and contribute to making our school yard better.

We will be enjoying a few upcoming special events.  Tuesday May 3^rd we will be going to The Roxy Theatre for a film entitled “Le Manoir Magique.”  We will be leaving at 9:00am and returning after 11:00am.  The following day we will be having our Mother’s Day Tea, Wednesday May 4^th at 9am-9:45 in the LRC.  The students have been working very hard on their gifts as well as practicing for the short performance we will be giving.  We will have more field trips and special events in June as well that I will let you know about. 

For your child’s special day this month we will share about an activity we love to do with mom, auntie or grandma.  Please remember that this is not a time to bring toys but rather a chance for our class to get to know each student better through some questions and answers. 

A newsletter went home today about an occurrence of lice; to help prevent the spread we will not be using the dress up clothes in the classroom for the time being.  Hopefully this will help.  I would like to remind parents and students while all the road work is being done to please use the crosswalks when picking up and dropping off students, rather than crossing in the middle of the street.  As I have been on bus supervision I have seen some close calls and it has been quite worrisome.  Hopefully as a kindergarten class, we as students and parents can set an example for the rest of the school.  Thank you for your help in this. 

Merci,

Mme Jennifer Wallace

Chers parents,

We have a wonderful month of activities ahead.  Please check your calendars that were sent home.  For your child's special day he or she can talk about a favourite springtime activity. We are continuing our unit on food and nutrition.  Today we explored the effects of vinegar (which contains acid) on an eggshell.  It was great to see the reactions of the children to what happened with the egg in the course of one day.  We recently worked on a placemat for our restaurant simulation.  We will be working on putting words on the foods the children want to order.  On the 23^rd we will have our restaurant experience.  The kindergarten class will be the customers and our care-partners will be the restaurant workers.  We will be eating a shared snacked of a party mix and have juice boxes for a drink.  Tomorrow we are looking forward to baking cookies.  We will have some as a snack as well. Thank you to our two parent volunteers, Robina Hanif and Dawn Martens-Koop for helping with this endeavour.  We will also be going to Extra Foods for a tour next week Wednesday.  Thank you to Dawn and Robina for volunteering for this as well.  There is room for more if you would like to join us.  Next week we have some guest artists who will help us as we have an artist workshop doing still life paintings of a bowl of fruit.

Every year I have done a Mother’s Day/Spring Tea in honour of Mother’s Day and a Dad’s Day/ Play Day in honour of Father’s Day.  The Mother’s Day tea will take place Friday May 6^th at 9am-10:30 in the LRC.  If you are unable to attend this event and can send another special adult in your stead (a dad, grandparent or that would be great).  It is a special time that we like to share with the children and the adults.  For the play day if you are unable to attend another adult is also welcome to join.  The Dad’s Day/Play Day takes place in the gym in June (also from 9am-10:30am) when the rest of the school is at a swimming pool.  I will let you the date as soon as that is known.

We will have more field trips in May and June as well that I will let you know about.  It is exciting to take part in these activities!

We have been having great sharing times that include experiences that students have had with Solange and Simon.  Thank you for taking this on.  The children have been really enjoying their time with the monkeys.

We are looking forward to more spring fun!

Merci,

Mme Jennifer Wallace

Les pyjamas et Crayons et Croissants~Whole School Pajama Day and Crayons and Croissants

Tomorrow is Pajama day for the entire school and Crayons and Croissants before the start of school at 8:15 in the LRC.  We look forward to some great participation! 

Thank you for the wonderful participation in PINK Day/ Anti-Bullying Day.  We also got to enjoy a great concert from the "Blues in School" program.  The kids were a great audience.

Also thank you for the work and participation that went into our 100 days of school celebration.  We had some wonderful projects that the students shared.  We also enjoyed a very fun snack and worked with our care-partners to make some fruit loop necklaces--that may or may not have made it home!    I greatly appreciated help from Dawn and Robina in this endeavour.

Mille Mercis!

Mme Wallace

Bravo!

Félicitations!  Bravo!  I am so proud of our kindergarten students and their performance today.  They did very well.  Thank you to all those who were able to attend and show support.  It is clear that our students have learned a lot; their voices carried very well and they knew their words well. 

Today we distributed Valentine’s cards in our community with our care-partners.  It was a great day.

Tomorrow is our last day before the Winter Break. We will be doing a Valentine craft with our care-partners and we will exchange Valentine’s cards with classmates.   Please refer to the list I sent in a previous email for names.

Thank you for all your support for this class and the learning we are doing!  I hope you all have a great  holiday!

Joyeuse Saint Valentin et Jour de famille!

 

MERCI!

Mme Jennifer Wallace

Happy Chinese New Year!

Chers parents,

Happy Chinese New Year!  We had a great visit from our class monkey Simon le singe this morning to celebrate the year of the monkey.  He was our special friend.  He shared about his friend the snowy owl and the kids asked some good questions.

I want to send a couple of reminders before the break:

February 11th we are having our Kindergarten Winter Assembly at 9:00am in the gym.  It is also pajama day!  The kids are welcome to wear their pajamas to the assembly to be in the spirit of the day.

February 12th the children can exchange Valentine's Day cards and we will be having a visit with our cali-partnenaires.

Feb. 15-19th Winter Break

Feb. 22 Welcome Back
Feb. 23rd We will be celebrating 100 days of school.  Please remember to send along the 100 days project and a 100 days snack in a baggie.  Ideas for a project can be found on-line if you are needing help with brainstorming.  It can be simple and fun: buttons, ribbons, bottle caps, beads...

MERCI!

Mme Jennifer Wallace

Alphabet song book

Chers parents,

An alphabet song book is going home today.  Your child can read and sing the words, sounds and letters on the pages up to the letter “P.”  The letters /songs are not in order so that the children can learn their letters individually.  We have begun working on sounds the letters make with other letters as well.  A couple of songs have different words in the songbooks than what we have practiced.  Either version is acceptable.  For example, your child might sing: “Benoît le beau bébé (2) se baigne dans sa baignoire avec son ballon bleu”—instead of “…avec son bleu bateau.”  Doing this overview is optional but it is good when your child can share what he or she is doing in class with you.  Please return the songbook on Monday in your child’s dossier as we will continue to do work on the songs in class.

 

Please remember—next week we have our assembly Thursday February 11^th at 9:00am in the gym.  All our kindergarten students will be performing our winter songs for this.

After the break Tuesday February 23^rd—we will celebrate 100 days of school.  Please bring a baggie with 100 small snack items to add to a bowl.  Your child can also bring a 100 days project that he or she has worked on—to share with the class. 

 

Merci!

 

Mme Jennifer Wallace

Beach day, experiments and more...

Salut!  Tomorrow is beach day.  Students can dress (under their winter gear) in clothes for the beach--no swimsuits however please.  Sun hats, shorts, sundresses, t-shirts, sunglasses...  We will bring some sun to our school on a cold day.  Please ensure that your child still has appropriate clothing for recess.

 

In class we have been exploring and predicting doing experiments with water.  Our science experiments take place on Tuesdays.  We have completed our alphabet testing in French this past week and a lot of progress has been made--Bravo!  We are also learning new alphabet songs for each letter and the sounds each one makes. In math we have been learning about bigger than, smaller than and equal to (<, >, =).  We finished a booklet entitled Où sont mes mitaines? We will share them with our cali-partenaires during reading time today and the students will bring them home. We have been sharing about our favourite winter activities and have been learning some songs for our assembly.  I will get the date finalized and have that for you soon.  In February, on the Tuesday after the break, we will be celebrating 100 days of school.  If your child would like to do an 100 days project at home and bring it to present in February that would be great.  I will explain the project in the days to come.

 

Mme Jennifer Wallace 

le lundi 4 janvier

Chers parents,

Welcome back!  I hope that everyone had a good and restful holiday!  We are looking forward to all the fun and learning we will do in 2016. We have been having some great outdoor weather this winter and I hope that we can all benefit from it with our class.  We are hoping, as one of our celebrations for bucket filling this month, to do some outdoor activities with our care-partners.  I will let you know when that will be.  We are also welcoming a new student to our class.  I know that our class will do well in welcoming her.  We will be learning about winter and the fun activities we can do in winter.  For your child’s special day please send something (can be a photo, drawing or memento) of a winter activity.  We will be learning vocabulary about winter as well.  We will also be doing a winter assembly in the beginning of February with Mme McCrea’s class.  I will let you know the date as soon as that is finalized.  I would like to officially welcome Mrs. Robina Hanif as a parent volunteer in our classroom.  She is also an educator and has been generous in giving her time and helping in our class.  Merci!

 

Thank you again for the lovely gifts and thoughtful words.  My family and I enjoyed a wonderful break.

Please remember Mondays are book exchange days.

Wednesdays are our care-partner days.

January 21^st is beach day/ la plage when kids can dress up for the beach (no bathing suits please) and can bring a towel.  Please remember winter gear for recess.

 

Mme Jennifer Wallace

Joyeux Noel et Bonne Annee!

Chers parents,
I wanted to say Merci! to you all for the lovely gifts and cards.  It was very kind, thoughtful and heartwarming.  One thing I love about teaching kindergarten is all the hugs I get--so grateful for that especially today!  May you all enjoy a peaceful and fun break with family and friends.  I look forward to seeing you in 2016!
Meilleurs voeux pour les vacances!

Mme Jennifer Wallace

Newsletter December 14th

Chers parents,

We will be celebrating the holidays and another full bucket with our cali-partenaires Wednesday December 16^th 2015.  Children are welcome to bring favourite board or card games to school.  Please ensure that the games are well-labeled.  We have much to celebrate!  The students performed a song on Friday for Mme Wettlaufer and she was quite moved.  We have been filling our class bucket ~notre seau~ with kind acts and speaking French.  We had two great field trips recently to the Saskatchewan Craft Council and to the Western Development Museum.  We had great experiences on both trips.  Thank you to Dawn and Robina for volunteering!

There will be a Winter Festival at the school Wednesday evening if you are able to attend.  Our class will not be performing anything before Christmas Holidays but near the end of January or beginning of February we will be doing a winter assembly.  Stay tuned for the date of that performance!

 

Thank you for all the support and I wish you all a good and restful break in the days to come and much peace and joy in the new year!

 

Mme Jennifer Wallace

Activity Conferences

Le jeudi 26 novembre 2015

Chers parents,

Just a reminder that today we are having activity conferences.  Come ready to see what your child can teach you!  There is no school for students tomorrow.  We will have a new calendar ready for Monday.  We also have a parent volunteer helping us on Tuesdays and Thursdays ~ thank you Robina!

December 11^th is our last day with Mme Wettlaufer!  We are so grateful that Mme Wettlaufer was able to do her teaching internship with us.  We have truly benefited from learning with her.  We will try to have the students write her a card before saying goodbye.

Next week Thursday, December 3^rd we will be walking to the Saskatchewan Arts Council on Broadway at 9:00am to see the art and do an activity.  On Thursday December 10^th we will be going to the Western Development Museum.  Please let me know if you are able to join us and volunteer for either excursion. 

Merci!

Mme Wallace

Remembering...On se souvient...

Chers parents,

This week is a short week.  Today we walked to McQuarrie's Tea and Coffee.  We learned a lot from Ms. Darcy about the display and the veterans who fought.  Tomorrow morning we will be having a Remembrance Day service in the gym around 10:30 am.  We would like to remind parents and students that there will be no clapping as we pay our respects and honour those who died in wars. Wednesday is Remembrance Day there is no school.  Thursday and Friday there is no school for students as there is planning and learning for staff. 

The Royal Canadian Legion also  hosts the city wide Remembrance Day Service beginning at 10:30 am on November 11^th at Sasktel Center.

Finally, each year students enter the Legion essay and poster contests.  Information about these contests can be found on the following websites. Any entries for these contests can be dropped off at the Legion address below by November 13th.

 http://www.legion.ca/honour-remember/

http://www.legion.ca/youth/

 

Another note:  If you have not signed up for an activity conference Thursday Nov. 26th please call or send the note to see what times are still available.  Thank you!

Mme Wallace and Mme Wettlaufer

 

Oops! PLEASE READ!

Chers  parents,

We are having a change.  Please note tomorrow Friday October 16^th is

Sports Day and the whole school is asking students and staff to wear sports

gear, shirts, jerseys or a uniform.  Please do not buy anything new.  We will change our PINK day to Wednesday October 21^st. And our rainbow day will follow on the Thursday

October 22nd.

Merci!  Thank you!  We had a wonderful celebration with our care-partners playing games today in our class.

 

le lundi 19 octobre: brun (brown)

 

le mardi 20 octobre: noir et blanc (black and/or white)

le mercredi 21 octobre: rose (pink or peach)

 

le jeudi 22 octobre: l'arc-en-ciel (rainbow)

 

Sorry for  the confusion!

 

 

A Bucket Full! Bravo! Le Seau est rempli!

Chers parents,

 Welcome back from the Thanksgiving long weekend. We trust that everyone had a wonderful break. The month of October is flying by! Thank you to the parents who joined us at Pooh Corner last week. We had a beautiful day for a walk and a great time with the staff from the Frances Morrison Library. Thanks to everyone for participating in our colour days as well. Today we were truly bleu because we forgot to take a class photo and we had such great participation. We managed to get some individual photos as the children were dismissed.  Please note the colour days below.  The students have been so good at doing nice things for each other that our bucket is full of pompoms already. We had a great day today as well as we worked on circle booklets with Mme Wettlaufer and favourite books for sharing times.  To celebrate our bucket full we are having a games period on Thursday October 15^th. The students can bring their favourite board games or card games to class that day if they want.  Please ensure the games are well labeled.  After Thursday, we will be encouraging the students to practice more speaking in French and adding pom poms to the bucket for that as well. Some of the students have already started, but it will be a regular focus in the next few months.

We will also visit with our care partners--les cali-partenaires on Thursday.  

Mme Wettlaufer is also full-time teaching in our classroom as well.  You are always welcome to contact either one of us with any questions or concerns.

We have much to be grateful--reconnaissant (es) for. 

Thank you for all your support!
Merci pour votre soutien,

Mme Wallace et Mme Wettlaufer

le mercredi 14 octobre: violet ou gris (purple or grey)

le vendredi 16 octobre: rose (pink or peach)   SPORTS DAY

le lundi 19 octobre: brun (brown)

le mardi 20 octobre: noir et blanc (black and/or white)

**le mercredi 21 octobre: rose (pink or peach)

**le jeudi 22 octobre: l'arc-en-ciel (rainbow)

Reminder Pooh Corner and Green Day

Rappel/Reminder:

We will be walking to Pooh Corner at the Frances Morrison Branch Library tomorrow Wednesday October 7^th and it is green day.  Please ensure your child is dressed for the weather as we will be crossing a bridge and having our snack outside.  Please send your child’s library card with him or her.

Mme Wettlaufer et Mme Wallace

Newsletter for October

Le mercredi 29 septembre, 2015

 

Newsletter update and what is ahead for October

Chers parents,

Thank you to our parent volunteers for your help with our visit to the PowWow at Oskayak High School. We had fantastic weather for a walk outside! We truly enjoyed the bright colourful outfits—regalia--of the dancers as well as the songs from the drummers. We all got to participate in the intertribal dances as well when all are invited to join the dancing! We also went inside the Tipi at the PowWow as a group and got to learn from one of the young dancers some learnings about the Tipi.

We have a new student in our class and the class has been helpful in showing him the classroom and school routines. We also met our care partners this week from Mme Lloyd’s Grade 2/3 class and did a craft with them with fall leaves.

 

On Thursday of this week, the school will be participating a run to honour Terry Fox and raise money for cancer research, so we will be talking about Terry’s journey with the students in class on Wednesday. In October we will be doing colour days: les jours de couleurs.  On colour days I ask that students dress in the chosen colour.  They can also bring something that is the chosen colour to share and make into a collage. (Please do not buy new things or clothing for these colour days).  On your child’s special day this month, we ask that your child bring their favourite book so we can share it with the class. We will be walking to Pooh Corner at Frances Morrison Library next Wednesday, October 7^th.  If your child does not have a library card please fill out the form we are sending home. Please send your child’s library card in his or her dossier on the 7^th.  If you can join us as a parent volunteer, please let us know.

 

Please keep the calendar where you can easily refer to these dates.

Colour days and days to note:

le jeudi 1 octobre: rouge (red)

le vendredi 2 octobre: orange (orange)

le mardi 6 octobre: jaune (yellow)

le mercredi 7 octobre: vert (green) POOH CORNER

le jeudi 8 octobre: LES PHOTOS (picture day)

le vendredi 9 octobre: pas d'école (no school PD day)

le lundi 12 octobre: L'action de grâce (Thanksgiving no school)

le mardi 13 octobre: bleu (blue)

le mercredi 14 octobre: violet ou gris (purple or grey)

le vendredi 16 octobre: rose (pink or peach)

le lundi 19 octobre: brun (brown)

le mardi 20 octobre: noir et blanc (black and/or white)

le vendredi 21octobre: l'arc-en-ciel (rainbow)

 

Mme Wettlaufer et Mme Wallace

Newsletter summing up the week and what is ahead

 

 

Chers parents,

On Thursday of this week, we learned about families and how we are all different but special and unique. We talked about various family members as part of our “All About Me” unit. The students are doing so well with our classroom routines and learning projects. In preparation for our trip to the Oskayak PowWow next week and as part of our unit, we explained the importance of the circle to our First Nations families and held a “Circle Talk” with the students. For this activity, everyone sits in a circle and an artifact is passed around (in this case it was a “talking stick”). When the artifact is passed to you, you may share with the group, but the only one allowed to speak at all during the circle time is the person who has the stick. We asked the students to share something that they enjoyed doing with their families. All of students followed the rules perfectly and no one spoke out of turn. Mme Wallace and I were so pleased! We are so proud of our students!  We are looking forward to experiencing the wonderful traditions at the PowWow on our field trip on September 25^th!

 

Thank you to our parents volunteers for the walk.  We will be leaving the school around 9:30 am to be ready for the grand entrance at 10am.  We will have snack before we go.

 

Please remember that Monday is our library book exchange day.  Please return your child’s school library book in the plastic bag in his or her backpack.  We will be walking to Frances Morrison Oct.7^th to attend a program in Pooh Corner.  If you are able to attend as a volunteer please let me know.  Next week we will have two presentations on Pow Wows as well.  A traditional knowledge keeper will be coming on Wednesday September 23^rd to do activities around Pow Wows in the gym.  We will have a guest teacher that day as Mme Wettlaufer and Mme Wallace will be at an inservice.

 

We are so impressed with this class and all the learning we are doing together.  Bravo!

 

Mme Wettlaufer et Mme Wallace

I forgot to send out a little advertisement about Word on the Street this Sunday, September 20th downtown.  It is a wonderful event that promotes literacy and fun.  Check it out.

Bucket Filling with Pompoms and Crazy Hat Day

Chers parents,

We are filling our class bucket and we are using pompoms to fill it.  Unfortunately I did not have enough pompoms in our craft cupboard and some are too small and it will take much too long to fill.  I started making pompoms and made some with some students during center time as well.  If you have some time, some yarn and want to contribute to our class...we would love more pompoms.  You can teach your kids but it will take time and patience.

You will need:

Yarn (enough to wrap a fork about 25 times or just under 4 meters)
A fork
Sharp scissors

Here is a video on how to make pompoms:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ALuexo_mUKc

 MERCI pour nous aider à remplir notre seau!

THANK YOU for helping us fill our bucket!

Please note: Friday September 18^th is Crazy Hat Day.  Kids and staff will sporting fun hats as part of our first spirit day.