School is Out for SUMMER!!

We had a very busy, but fun last week of school.  Our teddy bear picnic was cut short due to our long assembly but we continued it Thursday morning in the classroom!  Thanks again to Kayden, Lila, Sukhtej, Cai, Selena and Layla's families for bringing in our great snacks and treats!  Thank you to Iris' family for the delicious chocolate chip banana muffins (which is in your new cookbook!).  Hope you enjoy and try lots of these new recipes, I know I sure plan to!

I hope you take the time to go through your child's memory book, it was fun listening to them as they went through their binders remembering the year!  I want to thank you all for sharing your children with me these past ten months, I have thoroughly enjoyed getting to know each of them, laughing and learning with them and watching them grow and mature.  Div 11 had a great year, it was so nice to be able to go on field trips again and I wanted to thank all of you for making this possible by driving and volunteering!  Thank you also for all the generous and thoughtful gifts!

On Monday I sent home an information sheet about reading loss over the summer.  I would highly suggest everyone joins the FV Library Summer Reading Program, it adds extra incentive for children to read!  Remember it's important to keep it fun and enjoyable! 

Please note:  No need to buy SCHOOL SUPPLIES for next year.  Instead,  you just make a payment once you meet your new teacher.       

Hope you all have a fantastic summer filled with adventure, safe travels and lots of fun!

June 23/23

We have had a great week.  Our wrap, smoothie Magic School Bus activity with Div. 12 was enjoyed by all.  Thanks so much to Zack, Kaylee and Lila's moms for preparing all our food.   All your children have brought home their Food For Us booklets, please review these with your child as you'll be impressed all that they have learned and are learning, please keep these at home. Thanks to Zack and his mom for bringing us each of sample of his yummy chocolate cakes!  Cookbooks will be coming home this week.

 Fun Day was definitely a very FUN DAY for everyone!   Thank you so much to our amazing PAC for sponsoring and volunteering to have such an awesome day!   

Thanks again to all the parents that have helped wash some of our manipulatives.  I really appreciate all your work!

Next week will be our final week and we have lots planned. Thursday is a 1/2 day but it is really important that your child still attends as that is our final morning together and they will be getting their memory books. Please send a bag for your child to bring home all their school supplies tomorrow. 

Monday, June 26 - Finish up work plus Tye Dye (your child will be bringing home their t-shirts with instructions) and Buddy Fun with our sponge bombs. ***Students will be bringing home their extra set of clothes, planners and poetry all which can stay home.  

Tuesday, June 27 - Backyard Buddies - please wear sunscreen, bring a hat and water bottle. School supplies will be coming or at least start to come home. 

Wednesday, June 28 - School Wide Centres, Final Assembly and our Teddy Bear Picnic (students can bring their teddy bears) Thanks again to the following families that are providing our snacks:Kayden - fruit plate, Lila B. - sweet treats, Selena - popcorn/chips or pretzels, Layla - other, Cai - veggie plate.  Rest of school supplies home and also inside shoes (please keep all of this at home!).

Thursday, June 29 - 12 pm dismissal  Memory Book and Goodbyes 

Friday, June 30 - School is out for Summer!

Please note:  No need to buy SCHOOL SUPPLIES for next year.  Instead, just make a payment once you meet your new teacher. 

 

June 16/23

All Div. 11 Scientists have now been completed, everyone did such a great job!  Our last two weeks included some very interesting experiments Lilah tested iodine in salt, Sukhtej's paper towel stayed dry when submerged in water, Rhett made water rise in a jar with a candle, Layla did fireworks in water, Eva's was similar but also demonstrated what food colouring will do if just in oil, and Ethan picked up styrofoam balls wrapped in tin foil with static electrictiy. 

These are the posters that Div. 11 & 12 created to Protect Our Oceans.  This was the final activity to conclude our special environment project with Mrs. Holmes focusing on the negative effects plastic has on our oceans. 

Thanks to all the parents who drove for bowling.

The students all seemed to really enjoy this field trip.

We have been spoiled this week with some yummy treats.

Blakely's family made pizzelles and August's brought in Romaine pancakes.  Thanks so much they were enjoyed by everyone.

A huge thank you to Rhett and Kaylee's mom for helping the students make cookies.  They enjoyed doing this, an excellent learning opportunity.  Kaylee and her mom then made more cookies at home so we'd have more, some for Father's Day and for us to eat.  These 'Dad's Cookies' are for Father's Day but can be eaten earlier so they are fresher!  I will include the Dad's Cookie recipe in our class cookbook! 

Another big thank you is to Cooper's mom who organized our cookbook and then to Lila's mom for doing lots of photocopying on Thursday.  We still need to bind the books so if anyone is available to do this next week please let me know. With so much already done it shouldn't take too long to put the books together and then to bind.  This probably is best done at school as you need the binding machine.    

Reminders for next week:  (Hopefully I haven't forgotten anything!)

Wednesday, June 21 - Div. 11 & 12 Snack/Lunch (this will take place between recess and lunch) Thanks to Karly (Kaylee's mom) an Kandice (Zack's mom) for volunteering to help prepare our food.

Thursday, June 22 - depending on the weather Sponge Bomb Relays/water fun with our big buddies

Friday, June 23 - Fun Day/Domino Hot Lunch (students will be put into colour groups which I'll send out next week)

Colours for Fun Day

Red- Zack, Cooper, Dominic, Lila, Nigel, Eva, Rhett

Green - Kaylee, Luciano, Cai, Sukhtej, Lilah, August, Layla

Blue - Kayden, Blakely, Iris, Selena, Viktor, Ethan 

June 26 - School Wide Tye Die ***Please bring in a fabric or plastic bag for your child to bring home their school supplies in.  

Final Assembly/Classroom Celebration June 28 Our plan is for Div. 11 &12 to do this as a Teddy Bear picnic in our forest.      Thanks in advance to the following families for providing all our snacks and treats.  Kayden - fruit plate, Lila B. - sweet treats, Selena - popcorn/chips or pretzels, Layla - other, Cai - veggie plate.  

June 29 -  Dismissal at 12:00. School is out for Summer!

Please note:  No need to buy SCHOOL SUPPLIES for next year.  Instead, just make a payment once you meet your new teacher. 

June 9/23

As we are all feeling the craziness of June, I thought the best way to do this is in date order!       Please continue to look in your homes for classroom books.  Every year I get a pile of books from students (sometimes it's even the next year!), it's amazing how they get stuck under beds, behind couches etc.  

Big thank you to those parents who have already washed some of our bins of manipulative and to help with our cooking.  I am so appreciative of your help with this!  I will email those helping with cooking directly with details.

Recipes still can be handed in on Monday, June 12.  Thanks to Kaylee, Cooper and Lila's moms for offering to help put these together.  

Bowling is on Wednesday, June 14, if the children wear white they really look cool in the disco lights!    Thanks so much to our drivers:  Selena's mom, August's dad, Lila's mom, Dominic's dad and Kaylee's mom.  Booster seats are needed.

This week Div. 11 and Div. 3 (our big buddies!) made sponge bombs!  Thursday, June 15, for buddies we have planned some relays, games and of course a water fight!  Expect your children to come home a little wet!  Feel free to send in towel that day if you want. 

Friday, June 16 - last day to bring in white shirts 

Friday, June 23 - Fun Day/Domino Hot Lunch (students will be put into colour groups which I'll send out next week)

June 26 - School Wide Tye Die ***Please bring in a fabric or plastic bag for your child to bring home their school supplies in.  

Classroom Celebration June 28 Our plan is for Div. 11 &12 to do this as a Teddy Bear picnic in our forest.      Thanks in advance to the following families for providing all our snacks and treats.  Kayden - fruit plate, Lila B. - sweet treats, Selena - popcorn/chips or pretzels, Layla - other, Cai - veggie plate.  

June 29 -  Dismissal at 12:00. School is out for Summer!

Please note:  No need to buy SCHOOL SUPPLIES for next year.  Instead, just make a payment once you meet your new teacher. 

June 2/23

It's June and it is going to be a busy one! 

Bocce Ball!

Div. 11 loves Free Choice Friday! Some love to be outside while others like to play inside. 

Our Scientists have continued to 'inspire' us all.  Luciano demonstrated how potatoes are a conductor of electricity, Cooper made pepper run away from soap, Cai showed us food colouring fireworks, Iris demonstrated what would happen if you put oranges into water (one was peeled, one was not), and Dominic made a 'Rainbow Jar'.  This week we learned a lot about density (thanks to Dominic's dad who came in to help explain this further!) 

Div. 11 and Fairview have lots of events and activities planned please mark your calendars so you will be ready for everything.  Thanks for your continued support!

Important Reminders:

Recipes are due: please send in recipes asap.  If you have misplaced the papers, please let me know and I can send you new ones.  If any parents are available to help copy and bind the cookbook please let me know.    

White T-shirts: please send in this week as we need to organize and prepare them prior to Tie Dying Day. 

Memory Book: please either pay on the parent portal or send in $10 cash. 

Bowling: permission and payment can be done on the parent portal, or cash can be sent in, in a labelled ziplock.  Please indicate if you are able to drive for this field trip, please remember you have to fill out the district driver and volunteer forms.  Please also let me know if you are planning to drive your child.

Parent Volunteers:  I will be emailing all parents that said that they may be available to help out with our Food For Us food prep. Mrs. Sirovyk and I have planned a special lunch and movie on Wednesday, June 21 between recess and lunch as well as a couple other days when we plan to bake something.                Also if anyone is able to take home a bin or two of manipulative to wash that would be very appreciated.  Please email me.  Thanks so much, I always try to wash every bin of building and math objects at the end of the year and this is a huge job.  

Monday, June 5 - Volunteer Tea 1:30 and Kona Ice after school.  This is fundraiser is for our Grade 7's.  

Thursday, June 8 - we will be walking over to Maple Ridge Christian School for Phys Ed stations between recess and lunch.  Please ensure that your child has runners and clothing they can be active in.

Please look around your home and return any classroom books.  

In Math we have been learning about fractions, next time you have pizza please discuss fractions and how much each family member eats and how many fractions of each kind!

May 26/23

Scientist Update:

This week we have had 3 different experiments all demonstrating chemical reactions!

Viktor showed us how to inflate a balloon using vinegar and baking soda, Lila made 'Elephant Toothpaste', and Nigel had 'Dancing Popcorn'.  Kaylee showed us how a battery and a nail became a magnet that could pick up paperclips. 

Important Dates and Reminders:

Anyone that didn't purchase a white t-shirt for our tie dye shirt day could you please send in a shirt in a large ziplock bag labelled with your child's name.  You can send these in anytime and I'll store them.  Thanks. Our school wide tie dying event is on June 26th.  

Memory Book $10.00  please pay online or send in cash as soon as possible. 

Class Cookbook, please send in recipes (and pictures if you'd like) on or before June 8th.

May 30th - Kona Ice - after school 

May 31st - rescheduled Primary Cross-Country - you should have received a portal announcement.  Please email asap if your child plans to attend sheralyn_rowledge@sd42.ca

Parents that have completed permission forms for the first date do not need complete a new one. For students that were unable to attend the original date but now can, you will need to sign a permission form.  Please let me know if you need one sent home.  

 

June 2nd - High Five Chicken Hot Lunch and Global Library Return

June 5th - Volunteer Tea ***Any of you that have volunteered for Div. 11 hopefully you can attend, your support is so appreciated!

June 8th 10:50-11:40 - Walking field trip to Maple Ridge Christian School to attend some cool gym activities put on by their Grade 9's. Families have already given permission on the parent portal to participate in walking off school property, so there are no further forms to sign for this field trip.    

June 14th - Bowling in the afternoon.  Parent drivers are needed we currently don't have enough, please sign up on the parent portal.  

May 22/23

Skating was a big success - the weather was perfect for skating, just a bit strange to remember to pack a coat and pants on such a hot day.  Thanks so much to all the parents that drove, helped out with skates and skating!

Div. 11 Scientists have gone very well this week!  Kayden’s Dancing Raisins, Selena’s CD Balloon hover, Zack’s was testing which liquids would expand the most when frozen, and August’s cool experiment where he divided hydrogen and oxygen.  Please have your children tell you about these experiments and what they observed and learned. Looking forward to the scientists next week!

Important Reminders:

Spelling - your child will be writing the last half of their review list in their planners on Tuesday. Please be practising these words and the phonetic patterns they've been learning. If the lesson isn’t completed they will bring it home on Wednesday.  We will be done spelling on Friday.

Memory Book $10.00  please pay online or send in cash as soon as possible. 

Hopefully everyone received the information and recipes for our Class Cookbook and can send these in before June 8th.

 

We have a bowling field trip on Wednesday, June 14th in the afternoon.  Parent drivers are needed, please sign up on the parent portal.