Hi Everyone! I hope you enjoyed your weekend! It is hard to believe, but we are into the last week of October.Please make sure you are dressing for the weather. It would be a good idea to have mittens or gloves and a hat in your bookbag.  Phys. Ed Our Phys. Ed days this week are Monday, Tuesday, Thursday and Friday.      Library Our library day is on Friday. Make sure you bring your book back so you can get another one out.   Halloween Lunch Special If you would like to order the lunch special that will be on Friday October 30th, you need to pre-order by Tuesday October 27th. The cost of the meal is $6.00.    Spirit Week The School WE DAY Group will be hosting Spirit Week from October 27th - October 30th. Students can make a donation to participate in the different theme dress days each day. All money raised will go to the group to help support their travel to the We Day Event in Halifax.                            Tuesday - Plaid Day                            Wednesday - PJ Day                            Thursday - School Colours Day                             Friday - Twin Day  Homework/ Borrow-A-Book The homework for the week is listed in the blue folders. The spelling words for this week focus on the short /i/ vowel sound. We are working on counting with money, so our math pages focus on that. As it is almost Halloween, that will be our main idea for the writing this week. Make sure you use good details and begin and end your sentences the right way. Remember to read your book each night and record it on the log sheet.  Food Drive Our school is collecting food items for the Food Bank until Christmas. If you can help out and bring in some food items that would be great.   Class Project With Texas We had our first Skype session with our friends in Texas. The students got to meet their pen pals and say hello to each other.  We will be doing on weekly reports on Tuesday. We mailed our letters out on Thursday. Our friends told us that they have not planted their tulips yet becuase the ground is too hot. They have to keep them in the fridge to stay cold until they can plant them in December!  Math We are getting into our unit on Numbers to 100. This week we started counting with money and finding out the name of each coin and the value of each one. At home you can use some change to practice counting.    Happy Halloween! Have a great week everyone! Have fun trick or treating and be safe!   

 Hi Everyone! Welcome Back! I hope you had a wonderful Thanksgiving holiday with your family.      Phys. Ed Our Phys. Ed days this week are Tuesday, Thursday and Friday.    Math We are working on our unit on Numbers to 100. We are using number lines and 100 charts and this week we will start working on odd and even numbers. Odd numbers end in 1, 3, 5, 7, 9 and even numbers end in 0, 2, 4, 6, 8. Keep working on counting by 1s. 2s, 5s and 10s.   Homework/ Borrow-A-Book The homework for the week is listed in the blue folders. Our spelling words this week focus on the short /e/ vowel sound. Remember when you are writing about the main idea, your sentences should have details that tell about the topic and begin and end the right way. Please make sure that you are reading each night and record your book on the log sheet.  Class Project With Texas We will be starting our pen pal letters this week and planting our tulip garden. We have been comparing our weather each day and have noticed that they are a lot warmer than we are right now. This week we are hoping to start our weekly reports.   Library Our library day is on Friday. Remember to bring your book back so you can take out another one.   Video Announcements The school video announcements are up and running on the website. Primary Corner is on Wednesdays, so make sure you check it out to get all the news from the K-2 classes.    Picture Retakes Picture retakes are on Thursday October 15th for anyone who wanted to have the school pictures done again.    Have a super week!

 Hi Everyone, I hope you had a wonderful weekend and got outside to enjoy the beautiful weather.     Phys. Ed Our Phys. Ed days are Monday, Tuesday, Thursday and Friday.     Terry Fox Walk Our school walk is on Friday October 1st. The K-2 students will be walking the trail around the soccer field and softball field. Please join us if you can. The walk starts at 1:00 PM. We have been learning all about Terry Fox and what he did with his Marathon Of Hope. Look at the difference that one person can make!  Students are asked to bring in $2.00, or a donation of their choice, which will be given to the Terry Fox Foundation in support of cancer research. We are helping to keep Terry's dream alive. What a great Canadian Hero!   Library Our library day is on Friday. Please remember to bring in your book so you can take out another one.   Homework/ Borrow-A-Book The homework for the week is listed in the blue folder. Our spelling words this week focus on the short /i/ vowel sound. Please make sure you read your book each night and record the book on the log sheet.    Math In Math we are working on a unit on patterns. We have done a lot of work with repeating patterns and have just started learning about increasing patterns. We have found out that increasing patterns get bigger, they go up by the same amount each time. You can work on counting by 1s, 2s, 5s and 10s at home. Scholastic Book Clubs Order forms for the Scholastic Book Club will be going home on Monday. If you would like to order a book, please return the form and money by Thursday October 1st.   Class Project With Texas We have started our project with our partner class in Texas. The first thing we are working on is our class letter of introduction. This is the 10th year that our school has partnered with St. John's Episcopal School in Dallas, Texas. We are looking forward to another great year!      Have a fabulous week!      

 Hi Everyone! We had a great first week of school and are settling into our class and school routines!   Phys. Ed Our Phys. Ed days are Monday, Tuesday, Thursday and Friday.     Homework/Borrow-A-Book Our Homework and Borrow-A-Book programs begin this week. Students will have a book they bring home to read each night and this week they will be working on sight words. A memo will be going home on Monday to explain both programs.   Grandparents Tea The K-2 Classes will be hosting a Grandparents Tea on Friday September 18th at 9:00 am in the gym. All grandparents are invited to attend. If a grandparent is not able to make it, please try to have someone else attend for your child. We look forward to seeing everyone on Friday.   School Supply and Student/Agenda Fee Just a reminder of the $20.00 school supply fee and the $10.00 student/agenda fee, for each student. Please send it in when you can, if you have not already done so.    Have an awesome second week !!

 Hi Everyone, I hope you had a fun weekend and were able to enjoy the nice weather. It is hard to believe, but we are into the last week of school!  Phys. Ed. Our Phys. Ed days this week are Monday and Thursday.     Sports Day The K-2 classes will be having their annual Sports Day on Tuesday June 16, 2015. We will be ordering pizza for lunch on this day, so if you do not like pizza you will have to bring your lunch. Sneakers are must as students will be doing a lot of running in the different activities. No sandals or flip flops please.   Field Trip The Grade 2 and Kindergarten Classes will be going to Beaubears Island on Wednesday June 17th. Students will need to wear their sneakers and bring a lunch on that day.   Homework/Borrow-A-Book Please make sure that you read each night and record your book on the log sheet.  Last Day Of SchoolOur last day of school is June 19th. Please note that it is a half day for students. Dismissal will be @ 11:30am.     Happy Father's Day Sunday June 21st is Father's Day. Wishing all fathers, grandfathers and special people a wonderful day. Thanks for everything you do.    It is hard to believe that our year has come to an end. We had a great year together and learned lots of new things. The tulips, our Texas pen pals and projects, spending time with each other and the butterfllies were some activities we really enjoyed! Have a wonderful summer Alyssa, Madyson, Carson, Dustin, Colby, Austin M., Autumn, Avery, Jamie-Lynn, Luke, Austin S., Alexa, Lily, Cecilia, Nevaeh, Ally, Rileigh, Zoe and Rachel!     

 Hi Everyone, I hope you had a fun weekend and were able to get outside and enjoy the weather. It is hard to believe that we have started the month of June!     Phys. Ed. Our Phys. Ed days this week are Monday, Tuesday, Thursday and Friday.     Library Our library day is Wednesday. This will be our last library day and all books are due back at this time.   Math We are learning about 2D and 3D shapes and collecting data. So far we have made concrete graphs and pictographs. Students should keep working on their facts and strategies.   Homework/Borrow-A-Book The homework for the week is listed in the yellow folders. Our spelling words this week focus on /ow/ words and school words. Please make sure you are reading each night and record your book on the log sheet.  Timeline Project The Memo and poster for the timeline projects went home on Thursday, May 28th. The projects are due back on Friday June 5th. If you have them done before please bring them in. We have been learning about how people, plants and animals grow. The timeline will show the students how they have changed and grown over time.  Class Project With Texas We had our final meeting with our friends in Ms. Sands class on Friday and it was their last day of school. We got their letters and the book they made us, If You Give A Horse A Hotdog. We loved the book! It was a wonderful project and the students learned lots of new things and had fun doing different activities. We were a little sad to say good-bye, but hopefully the students will be able to keep in touch with their pen pal by writing to each other over the summer. CaterpillarsThe students are enjoying watching and observing the caterpillars and learning about the life cycle of a butterfly. We have 23 caterpillars in their chrysalis stage and there are still 2 that are caterpillars. One is still very small. We are hoping to see some butterflies this week! Have a great week!