October 21/21

 Hi Everyone,

I hope you are all well and are managing to get out and enjoy the outdoors despite all of the rain.  Wednesday was such a treat!

Updates/Reminders/Thank you's

*Tomorrow (Friday, October 22nd) is a Professional Development Day.  There will be no school for students.

*Monday is retake day!  I had one student away and have heard from two others so far (Alexa, Carson, Luca).  Please email me before Monday if you would like your child to get a retake.  Thank you!

*I have contacted Scholastic and my name had been left off of the school list.  Magazines have now arrived and will be coming home early next week. Thank you to Hailee's mom for prepping this for us. All orders are now done online using the class code which will be stapled to the front of the magazine(s).

*We will be adding a 'Hygiene' word search to the Poetry and More books next week.  These are not due by a certain time and are being included as an extra challenge for those who are interested.

*Please help your child practice his/her Reader's Workshop book (with the post-it in it). These should come back to the school each day.

*Many students have not brought in headphones.  If you are able, please send these in as we do use them during Reader's Workshop.  Thank you!

*We invited a Coast Salish artist, Andrea Fritz to visit us via Zoom this week.  The event was a big success!  Next week we will be joining in for a virtual yoga (for kids) class and pumpkin patch visit.  We are trying to bring the outside in being we are not able to participate in these events in person at this time.  Your children seem to be really enjoying these opportunities.

*I am including a copy of the email I sent home earlier in the week as a reminder of important dates around this:

Please return the art card, even if you do not wish to order as we will add these to our Memory Books.  Important:  If you do wish to place an order, please write it on the back of the art and include payment or if ordering online, please write your Order Reference Code in the pink box at the bottom of the art card.  If there is nothing written on the back of the art card, I will assume you are not placing and order and your child will cut/glue the art onto construction paper.  All art cards should be returned on/before Novemember 5th.  We will not be able to accept late orders as the school will be sending them in right away to ensure delivery in time for Christmas.

*Important Halloween Information:

We currently have 19 students in the class (FYI for people, below, who are sending in treats). Please send the snacks on/before Thursday, October 28th.  Students are welcome to wear costumes on the 29th but they should be easy to take on/off or washable as we will be going outside that day.  Your child should bring a snack/lunch as usual, we will be having the party later in the day.

1. Individual bags of chips

2. Individual drink boxes

3. Individual fruit snacks

4. Sweet treat (individually wrapped)

5. Other (your choice of other individually wrapped snack)

Halloween

Alexa-1

Luciano-2

Abinasee-3

Gianna-4

Sukhtej-5

Thank you, everyone.

Amanda Roberts