December 2, 2016

Hi Everyone,

It is hard to believe that we only have 2 more weeks of school before Christmas!  There is certainly a lot of excitement in the air!

Information/Reminders/Thank you's

*at this point everyone should have received information on how to get tickets for the Christmas Concert (via this blog, the notice went home FB or the parent portal email).  Tickets are free but you must have a ticket to come to the concert and these need to be arranged in advance.  If you are having any trouble with this, please come and see me or send me an email.  Also, please note that your child needs to attend every performance (even if you are not watching in the evening you will need to drop them off and pick them up)  Thank you!
*please see the calendar section of the blog for important upcoming dates, including the Christmas concerts
*we will be wearing pyjamas and hippo ears for the concert (a big thank you to Mason's mom, Miranda for doing this).  Please send in your loonie to pay for the materials we need to purchase to make these.  
*please send in the $10 for memory books if you have not already done so
*December 6th will be the last day that we are collecting money/toys for the hamper society if you are interested in donating.  Thank you for the donations we have received thus far!
*I spent the day in New Westminster yesterday to see if I would be selected for jury duty, thankfully I was not as I would have had to miss the last week of school before the holidays!
*I will be away next Thursday morning as I am part of a team of teachers from Fairview who put forth an application to be part a curriculum development inservice group (and were lucky to be chosen).  This is being led by 3 outstanding leaders in our district so we are very fortunate to have this opportunity as they will be guiding us on how to further enhance our teaching using the new curriculum guidelines.  Most of our meetings will be occurring outside of school time but we will have the occasional meeting during the day over the next few months.
*A big thank you to Makena's mom, Amanda for baking the cupcakes.  We had a lot of fun turning them into bats!
*I would like to ask you to send the bat hats back to school again, I originally came up with the idea to take the photos with the kids hanging upside down but the weather didn't cooperate.  We did take a photo inside with our giant bat but some of the students really want to do the upside down photo and it would be a great addition to their memory books.  If your child still has his/her hat, please send it back to school (Myra, Kayleigh and Wyatt need to bring theirs as they were absent).  If you have already thrown out the bat hat, don't worry as we can share.  Sorry to ask you to do this once again but the children are pretty excited and asked if we could still do it.
*Our class Christmas party will be in the afternoon on the last day of school.  Thank you an advance to these students/parents for bringing in snacks that day Lily (fruit plate), Chase (veggie plate), Myra (cheese/crackers), Rachel (sweet treat), Alexis (popcorn, chips or pretzels and Jesse (other).  Please remember that you still need to send a snack and lunch on that day.

Have a great weekend!

Thank you,

Amanda Roberts