Super September!

Welcome back to school. I hope everyone had a great first week. Now the real work (and fun) begins!

Reminders:
*Please look in your child's agenda each night, and return any forms that need to be filled out.
*Please send in $7 to pay for the agendas.
*School pictures will be Sept. 18th and 19th.
*Book orders are due Sept. 10th for my homeroom.
*Homework duotangs are due back on Friday (or before if you finish early).
*Sounds duotangs for kindergarten should be returned daily.

Welcome Back to School!

I hope everyone has had a great summer, and you are all refreshed and ready to go again. I can't wait to see what we will learn this year!

Thanks to all the people who brought in their school supplies last week. We have all been unpacking bags, sorting supplies, and getting enough pencils, crayons, scribblers and duotangs ready to start the first week. If you haven't already brought in your school supplies, then bring them on the first day, as well as your indoor sneakers.

On the first day of school (Tuesday), there will be no cafeteria, so we will all be eating our lunch in the classroom.

The cost of the agendas is $7 again this year, and that can be sent in any time next week.

Enjoy your last weekend of summer!

K-2 School Supplies

Kindergarten:
- 2 pkgs of 24 Crayola crayons
- 2 pkgs of 8 washable Crayola markers
- 12 duotangs (2 each of red, orange, yellow, green, blue and purple)
- 1 pkg pencils (Papermate, Dixon, or Venus)
- 4 large glue sticks (Ross, Elmer's, Staples)
- 2 pkgs of 32 page Hilroy scribblers
- 3 white vinyl erasers
- 1 box large Ziploc freezer bags
- 1 box Kleenex
- 1 bottle pump hand soap
- 2 black whiteboard markers (dry erase)
- 1 pr indoor sneakers

Grade One:
- 1 pkg of 24 Crayola crayons
- 2 pkgs of 8 washable Crayola markers
- 12 duotangs (2 each of red, orange, yellow, green, blue, and purple)
- 1 pkg pencils (Papermate, Dixon or Venus)
- 1 large glue stick (Ross, Elmer's, Staples)
- 1 pkg 32 page Hilroy scribblers
- 4 white vinyl erasers
- 1 Campfire notebook
- 1 box large Ziplock freezer bags
- 1 box Kleenex
- 1 bottle pump hand soap
- 2 black whiteboard markers (dry erase)
- 1 pr indoor sneakers

Grade Two:
- 1 pkg 24 Crayola crayons
- 1 pkg 8 washable Crayola markers
- 12 duotangs (2 each of red, orange, yellow, green, blue and purple)
- 2 pkgs of pencils (Papermate, Dixon or Venus)
- 2 lge gluesticks (Ross, Elmer's, Staples)
- 2 pkgs 32 page Hilroy scribblers
- 4 white vinyl erasers
- 1 Campfire notebook
- 1 pr scissors
- 1 30 cm ruler
- 1 box large Ziplock freezer bags
- 1 box Kleenex
- 1 bottle pump hand soap
- 1 pkg looseleaf (200 sheets)
- 2 black whiteboard markers (dry erase)
- 1 pr indoor sneakers

Please purchase exactly what school supplies are listed, and do not write the student's name on them. We know that you can find items cheaper by buying different brands, but from past exprience, these are the brands work the best and last the longest. Please help us to ensure that every student has the proper equipment that works the best, and that is the same as his or her classmates. Thank you. Have a great summer!

Last Day!

Dismissal on Friday is 11am.

Please return all library books and pay any fines before you come to get your report card. (Notes are in agendas saying what books and amount of fines that are owing.)

Have a great summer!

Final Reminders

I hope lots of you registered at the library last night for the summer reading club. It will be a great way to keep reading all summer, and to have lots of fun. If you forgot, it is not too late - just drop in at the library or give them a call! You don't have to be on Grand Manan all summer to participate (if you are away and miss some weeks, that is okay, you just come the next week), so please participate if you can!

This is the schedule, as far as I know, for the last week of school:
Monday: please send back any and all library books, guided reading books, and browsing box books; kindergarten will have reading buddies today (because our buddies were away on Friday); Prom in the evening
Tuesday: Last day for cafeteria.
Wednesday: Dismissal at 11 am (one bus run for K-8); Graduation is at noon; Middle school prom in the evening
Thursday: Clean out cubbies and classroom, take home books, sneakers, and other accumulated "stuff" (We also plan to do something fun today with our kindergarten reading buddies!) (Remember, no cafeteria today!!!)
Friday: Last (half) day of school; take home report cards.

Have a great summer!!

The Warm Weather has finally arrived!

No homework duotangs this week, but please keep reading a book every night (and all summer long).

Monday, the Kindergarten students and their grade six buddies travelled to the Whale Research Center and found lots of treasures on Pettes Cove Beach.

On Tuesday, parents can come to the library to register their child for the summer tutoring program (Becoming Power Readers).

On Wednesday evening, parents can come to the library to register their children for the summer reading club, which has a science theme this year.

On Thursday, the K-2 students will travel to the Anchorage at 11 am to have a picnic lunch and play on the beach (no swimming). They will be dismissed at 2pm from the Anchorage. (Rain date on Friday).

Reminder that next week, both Wednesday (Graduation) and Friday (Last Day) will be half days of school.

Joyous June!

Kindergarten Homework:
*No homework duotang this month.
*Read a book every night and practice tricky words and sounds.
*Bring back permission slip if you haven't already.

Reminders:
*PreK Orientation tomorrow from 9:30-11:30.
*Friday night movie at 7pm "Horton Hears a Who"
*Kindergarten and Grade 6 visit whale research centre on June 9th.
*Bring back permission slip for Anchorage Park trip on June 12th.
*Registration next week for Library Summer Reading program (Wednesday) and Tutoring (Tuesday). Contact your teacher if you would like to be registered for summer tutoring in reading.
*Graduation is June 18th (half day)
*Report Cards go home on June 20th, which is the last day for students (half day)