Week 4

 

Students who returned summer work were treated to an ice cream party this week
(one friend opted out of the photo)

We have completed our fourth week of school!  We are starting to get into a regular routine within our day.  This week all students took the STAR Reading (Early literacy for grade 1) and STAR Math assessments.  As many of you know, these are administered on iPad.  They self adjust as students answer questions, therefore they may have questions that are beyond what they have learned. Likewise, if students are not answering questions successfully, the questions will get easier until the student has success.  This feature allows the test to determine the students ceiling and floor.  These tests are just one of the measures we use to determine what students need and to show growth over the year.  

On Thursday, we celebrated International Peace Day.  We read Todd Parr's book titled Peace and shared what peace means to us.  Students wrote about peace in their journals then they decorated a "Pinwheel for Peace" with words and images of peace.  Later in the day we sang songs about peace and planted our pinwheels in the school yard.  International Peace Day is celebrated around the world every year on September 21st as a way to show unity and peace around the world, and children all over the world created Pinwheels for Peace, too!

On Friday we had our first Chinese lesson!  Dan Peterson has graciously volunteered to come every other week to teach the children Chinese lessons to include language, traditions, and culture! This week students learned the characters used to write mountain (shan) and water (shui) and how to say these words in Chinese.

We also enjoyed homemade chicken and rice soup, focaccia bread, and grapes for our family Hot Lunch!  Thank you to Shawn Smejkal and Uma for our delicious Lunch!  Later we were treated to Birthday Cupcakes to celebrate Champ's Birthday. 

Please email your lunch orders for next week. 

We have nobody signed up for Family Hot Lunch next Friday, so we will offer sandwiches and salads.

Shout Out to Colin Reynolds who came last week to sand off the paint that was carelessly painted on the gaga ball pit and basketball hoop pole last spring.  Thank you Colin!!!  We appreciate your effort!

Thank you for your flexibility for rescheduling school photos this week.  Photos were taken first thing on Friday morning and should be back in a couple of weeks.

Thank you to those who donated extra clothes.  We are in pretty good shape now!  This will allow us to have extra clothes for students who may need them.  If your child borrows clothes, we just ask that you wash and return them to the school so we have them available in the future.

Announcements

• Please send a pair of indoor shoes or slippers students can keep at school
• Students need sneakers for PE on Wednesday.
• School Photos - Tuesday, September 19th @ 8:00 am - Please return all orders by Monday 
• No School- Monday September 25th (Yom Kippur)
• Open House - Thursday September 28th  @ 6:00 - 7:00 pm
• ECO begins on Thursday September 5th (we will be staying in the school yard this one time)
• No School - Monday, October 9th (Indigenous People's Day)

Below are some photos from the previous week that did not get posted....Enjoy!