Hi Everyone,
February is a very busy month! Please check the 'Monthly Calendar' on this blog for specific dates and mark your personal calendars. Please note that we will be going skating the afternoon of February 19th and we will need parent drivers for this. The permission slip will be coming home on Monday.
Your child brought home an information sheet/calendar about a school wide program we are doing next month called 'Club Red'. Please read with your child each day and sign their calendar. If 90% of our class returns their completed sheets we will be in a draw for a pizza party. We will have a big celebration at the beginning of March.
February 14th is also Valentine's Day. It falls on a weekend this year so we will be having our class party on February 13th. Thanks in advance to the following students and their parents for bringing snacks: Priya (fruit plate), Faizan (veggies), Stephanie (cheese and crackers or mini sandwiches), Sarabeth (sweet treat) and Nicholas (popcorn or chips). We will be having our party in the afternoon so you will still need to send a lunch for your children.
Here is a list of the student's names so that everyone can be included when you are writing Valentines:
Kenyon, Novah, Stephanie, Jaxon, Jacob N., Camille, Jakob B., Shayla, Criss, Riley, Karman, Priya, Sarabeth, Jordyn, Faizan, Nicholas, Trinity, Kendra, Geena, Zackary, Dharma
Also, just a reminder that we are continuing to collect paper rolls for our marble maze. Thank you for sending those in.
Have great weekend, everyone!
Amanda Roberts
Wednesday 28 January 2015
Friday 23 January 2015
January 23, 2015
Hi Everyone,
Just a reminder that Monday is a district professional development day and Tuesday is a school growth planning day so there will be no school for students on these days. We will not have spelling due to the shortened week. We will continue with our spelling program the following week and I wanted to remind everyone that there is a link to 'Spelling City' on this blog where students can play games while they practice their words. I put the new lists on at the beginning of each week.
Also, we are hoping to create a giant marble maze during our next round of Explorations so if you have any paper rolls that you aren't using it would be great if you could send them in.
Have a great (long) weekend, everyone!
Amanda Roberts
Just a reminder that Monday is a district professional development day and Tuesday is a school growth planning day so there will be no school for students on these days. We will not have spelling due to the shortened week. We will continue with our spelling program the following week and I wanted to remind everyone that there is a link to 'Spelling City' on this blog where students can play games while they practice their words. I put the new lists on at the beginning of each week.
Also, we are hoping to create a giant marble maze during our next round of Explorations so if you have any paper rolls that you aren't using it would be great if you could send them in.
Have a great (long) weekend, everyone!
Amanda Roberts
Friday 16 January 2015
January 16, 2015
Hi Everyone,
Friday afternoon certainly looks beautiful, hopefully the great weather will continue over the weekend. I have a couple of requests to include this week:
*I am still looking for 1-2 volunteers to come in and help with hand/foot prints for an art project which we will put in our memory books. If you are available, please come and see me or jot a note in your child's planner. Thank you!
*If you have any paper rolls (toilet paper, paper towel, wrapping) please send them in. We will be using them in a couple of weeks to create our own marble mazes during the next round of Explorations
*When you are helping your children study for their spelling quiz this week, please remind them to use lower case letters when printing them out (and capitals only when needed). I have told the students that their answers will be marked as incorrect next week if they don't use lower case letters. There are too many capitals popping up in the middle of words! :) We have been working on eliminating this habit in class. Each child has an alphabet/number line on the back of their nametags to assist with this.
Have a great weekend, everyone!
Mrs. Roberts
Friday afternoon certainly looks beautiful, hopefully the great weather will continue over the weekend. I have a couple of requests to include this week:
*I am still looking for 1-2 volunteers to come in and help with hand/foot prints for an art project which we will put in our memory books. If you are available, please come and see me or jot a note in your child's planner. Thank you!
*If you have any paper rolls (toilet paper, paper towel, wrapping) please send them in. We will be using them in a couple of weeks to create our own marble mazes during the next round of Explorations
*When you are helping your children study for their spelling quiz this week, please remind them to use lower case letters when printing them out (and capitals only when needed). I have told the students that their answers will be marked as incorrect next week if they don't use lower case letters. There are too many capitals popping up in the middle of words! :) We have been working on eliminating this habit in class. Each child has an alphabet/number line on the back of their nametags to assist with this.
Have a great weekend, everyone!
Mrs. Roberts
Thursday 8 January 2015
January 8, 2015 Volunteers Wanted!
Happy New Year!
I hope everyone's year is off to a great start. The children (and their teacher :)) were all very tired that first day back but it didn't take long to get back into the swing of things. Everyone is now settled into a routine.
The students have written this in their planner but I am sending you a note to let you know that tomorrow is 'CRAZY HAIR DAY'. Please see the new January calendar (under the link that says 'Monthly Calendar') for more important dates in January.
Today we started a weekly sing-a-long/music lesson. Everyone had a great time singing the songs and learning about notes. Thank you, Mrs. Brekkaas for volunteering to do this with our class!
I am looking for 2 volunteers to come in next week to paint the children's hands and feet (yes, you read that correctly). We will be using these prints as part of a 'New Year's' activity for our memory books.
Finally, if anyone has any board games that are appropriate for this age (and contain all of the pieces) that you would like to donate, they would be greatly appreciated. We had a games class with our big buddies yesterday and it was a big success. They are also great to have for 'Choice' days when most students stay inside at recess or lunch.
Thanks so much,
Have a great weekend, everyone!
Mrs. Roberts
I hope everyone's year is off to a great start. The children (and their teacher :)) were all very tired that first day back but it didn't take long to get back into the swing of things. Everyone is now settled into a routine.
The students have written this in their planner but I am sending you a note to let you know that tomorrow is 'CRAZY HAIR DAY'. Please see the new January calendar (under the link that says 'Monthly Calendar') for more important dates in January.
Today we started a weekly sing-a-long/music lesson. Everyone had a great time singing the songs and learning about notes. Thank you, Mrs. Brekkaas for volunteering to do this with our class!
I am looking for 2 volunteers to come in next week to paint the children's hands and feet (yes, you read that correctly). We will be using these prints as part of a 'New Year's' activity for our memory books.
Finally, if anyone has any board games that are appropriate for this age (and contain all of the pieces) that you would like to donate, they would be greatly appreciated. We had a games class with our big buddies yesterday and it was a big success. They are also great to have for 'Choice' days when most students stay inside at recess or lunch.
Thanks so much,
Have a great weekend, everyone!
Mrs. Roberts
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