Adventures in Room. 7

Happy New Year! I hope you all had a wonderful break. It was a short week for us and we started it off by making some new year's resolutions. Ask your child to tell you what they wrote about! Important dates for this month:  Swimming will be taking place on Jan 20 - 24th from 10:30-11:15am. For time saving purposes, please ask your child to were their bathing suit underneath their clothes in the morning. Please send a towel, and plastic bag with them to put their wet clothes into afterwards. For long hair, please send a hair tie to pull hair back during lessons. January 16th - Class picture day  January 31st - PD Day - No school for students.  Have a great weekend. Stay warm out there!

We have been up to many fun things in the last few weeks! We have been learning to code with Ozobots and students were given a design challenge to turn their first names into a code for the Ozobot to follow. They had a target rubric which they followed to ensure they were on the right track. This was so fun and we will send home the final designs so parents can take a look at them and talk about them with their child.  We decorated gingerbread houses on Wednesday. They were asked to make a plan for their gingerbread house before they went ahead to decorate. Students had so much fun with this activity.  In Science, we have started our unit on hot and cold temperatures. Students are learning that thermometers provide a helpful way to measure and describe the hotness and coldness of things. We will be experimenting with temperature in our surroundings.  In social studies we just wrapped up our unit on rights and responsibilities within our home, school a...

This week:  Sound Kreation Residency -This week we have Sound Kreations coming in to our school to teach our students some dance moves during our Phys. Ed time. Ask your child to share what they have learned with you. Parent- Teacher Conferences  -We have interviews coming up this week on Thursday 4:00pm - 7:15pm and Friday 8:00am - 12:00pm. Please ensure that you have signed up for a 15 minute time slot to come and meet with me about your child's progress. Kernels Fundraiser - Kernels fundraiser forms came home on Friday. Fun Lunch - If you ordered McDonalds Fun Lunch for your child it will be this Thursday. Please ensure you still send a snack to school with your child. Home Reading - Please ensure that you are reading with your child each day for at least 15 minutes. The home reading books students are bringing home are meant to be easy for them to read and spark a love for reading. After your child is done reading, you may ask them questions to check compreh...

We have started buddies with Ms. Gartner's 4/5 classroom! Our class was so excited to spend time with their big buddy and make some poppy's for our Remembrance Day wreath. Here are some pictures of our students hard at work. A reminder that our Remembrance Day assembly will be taking place this Friday November 8th at 10:20am. 

Halloween is coming up on October 31st! We will be doing some Halloween activities in the afternoon on October 31st. If your child wishes to dress up for this day please send their costume in their backpack and they can get changed at lunch. Please remember not to send any costumes with weapons or masks to school. In the afternoon, we will be watching a Halloween movie and having some treats. If you wish to send treats, please send enough for 23 students.  Some treat ideas: Vegetable/fruit platter, cheese and crackers, cookies etc.  Some important dates to remember this month:  Oct. 28 Photo Re-takes Oct. 31 Students may bring their costumes to wear in the afternoon only. Nov 1 No School – PD Day Nov 8 Remembrance Day Assembly 10:20 a.m.  Nov 11 No School – Remembrance Day Nov 15 McDonalds Fun Lunch Orders Due  https://healthyhunger.ca/   Nov 21 McDonalds Fun Lunch/Parent teacher interviews 4:00 p.m. – 7:30 p.m....

Our fall concert will be taking place on Thursday, October 3rd! Please arrive at the school by 5:45pm and drop your child off in our classroom. (Room. 7) You may then proceed to the gym to wait for our performances to begin. I have attached a copy of our invitation. 

Healthy Hunger order are due on Friday, October 4th. If you would like to order Little Ceasars for your child on October 10th, please fill out the online form and order by Friday. Here are the instructions: