Good-Bye Miss Richardson!

Friday is Miss Richardson's last day with us. We will miss you! Our new Kindergarten Support Worker is Mrs. Harvey.

Fun at the sand table!

Fun reading and drawing about books!

Fun mixing colors in art class!

Look what I painted!

Homework:

*Kindergarten: Finish homework duotang and game by Friday; read a book and words every night.

*Grade one: Finish homework duotang and game by Friday; read a book and study spelling every night.

Drama:

*Practice on Wednesday from 3-4pm. Don't forget to bring your scripts.

Assembly: Friday at 10:45am. All our welcome!

Another Icy Week!

The playground is very icy and snow covered, so please dress your child warmly and make sure they have skipants.

Homework for this week:
*Kindergarten: Read a book each night and read words in word bag (please send these back each day); finish homework duotang and game by Friday.
*Grade one: Read a book each night and study spelling words; finish homework duotang and game by Friday.

Drama:
*There will be drama on Wednesday from 3-4, only for those children who received parts in our play "Peggy the Pint Sized Pirate". Any children in K-2 are welcome to stay after school with me, as long as they can work quietly on something in my classroom. Here is the cast of characters (many will also be pirates):

Peggy...... Zoe Ingalls
Scummy..... Jode Harvey
Bob the Brave .....Drew Linton
Sue the Scummy..... Lanaya Harvey
Captain Sludge .....Allan Cook
Captain Soggy .....Rena Harris
Grunt ....Evan Cook
Mermaid .....Jillian Jones
Willy the Whale ....Taylor Cook
Barney the Barnacle .....Lance Brown
Pearl the Oyster.... Kayla Linton
Voice ....Emily Ingersoll
Sea Monster ....Harley Cary
Mama Monster ....Zoey Middleton
Oysters ...Olivia Russell
..................Cassidy Simms
..................Grace Cruickshank
..................Cohen Fitzsimmons
..................Heilynn Clinch

Building Dinosaurs!

Thanks to our reading buddies for helping us build our dinosaur models. They were more difficult than we thought!

Art Attack!

The K-2's had a great time today mixing colors and painting "like real artists". The unit we are doing in art is all about colors, and we will be doing lots of painting and mixing colors on Mondays.

Reminders:
*Drama try-outs Wednesday at 3pm - bring your sheet with you that you have practiced. You don't need to memorize it, but please practice it so that you can perform with a partner on the stage.

Homework:
Kindergarten: Read a book each night and practice sounds and tricky words. Finish homework and game by Friday.
Gradne One: Read a book each night (or a chapter) and study spelling for test on Friday. Finish homework and game by Friday.

Welcome Back!

I hope everyone had a great Christmas break! It is great to have everyone back and raring to go! We will be learning all about dinosaurs this month, so be ready for a "roaring" good time!

Please remember to dress warmly or wear layers - it is often hot in the class, but cold and windy on the playground. Pack extra mitts and a pair of ski pants in your bookbag, even if there is no snow on the ground - you never know when you will need them!

Bring something interesting for Show and Tell on Friday of this week.

Elementary Drama will begin again this week on Wednesday from 3-4pm. We will have one more afternoon of drama games and activities, and then next week we will have try-outs for a longer play.

Homework for this week:
Kindergarten:
*Read a book every night. We are finished our sounds, but please keep practicing them. Students will start to bring home "word bags" to sound out and read to you each night. Return the bag the next day so that the next student can take it home (there will be 18 word bags all together).
*Finish homework duotang and game by Friday.

Grade one:
*Read a book every night. If you are reading a chapter book, it is okay to just read one or two chapters a night, but please bring your reading bag back each day anyway, in case there is something else that needs to be sent home (for instance, we will be finishing up "Busy Days" this month, so the students may have a story to read it in as well).
*Finish homework and game by Friday.
*Practice for spelling test which will be on Friday.

Christmas Concert Craze!

Well, we made it through another wonderful Christmas concert. The children did a great job, and looked very cute too!

There is no homework this week, except for reading. Please check at home for any duotangs (homework, reading club or sounds), books, reading bags or games that may have been left behind last week. I am still missing several things, and would like to get everyone caught up and organized to start the new year.

The kindergarten children have finished all the jolly phonics sounds, although we will continue to review them all year. On Friday I will send home their sounds duotangs, along with all their Christmas crafts, which you may keep at home. The little sounds books I will put in their reading bags so that we can continue to practice the sounds each night after Christmas.

Reminders:

*Monday night at 7pm Dance Recital at Central Wesleyan Church.

*Tuesday night at 7pm is the 6-12 Christmas Concert.

*Wednesday wear blue to support anti-bullying.

*Thursday wear a Santa Hat.

*Friday is a full day of school, and the last day before Christmas vacation.

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!

A couple of Christmas videos!

Remember the Christmas Concert is Monday, December 15th at 1pm in the Great Hall. Please have the children dress up in the morning, as we will be doing a dress rehearsal in the morning, and pictures will be taken then for the yearbook.

Christmas Poems by K/1J

Jolly Old St. Nicholas by K-2 Jones