First Week!

 First Week of School

Hi Families! 

We love to include some voice directly from your students, their brilliant and clever anecdotes for the week are a good way to get them talking about what we did and why! 

We will also include a teacher voice to make sure you are getting the full picture. 

Thank you so much for those of you who were able to complete the Digital Citizenship agreement and the Parent Questionnaire. We very much enjoyed reading them. They were very heartfelt and some were very funny (you know who you are 😎). 

If you have not yet completed them, please do! 

Important dates: 

September 11 - Terry Fox Fundraising begins

September 18 - Terry Fox Run 🏃

September 24 - Youthlink Presentation for Grade 5s

September 26 - Orange Shirt day 🧡

September 29 & 30 - No school

October 2 - Picture day 📷

Notes from the kiddos: 

We had a fun time on the first day of school - Kixton

We had Freedom frenzy in gym and it was fun because we had gaga ball - EB

In writing, we wrote a letter to future selves - EJ

In art, we did a mantra to help us think about ourselves in a positive way - M and A

In art, we also made a silhouette of ourselves with things that make us us! - Lilly

In math, we did basic facts and we are going to be doing each time we do math and then we played math games - A

We wrote all about ourselves - Clinton

We started designing our time capsule and we measured our hands and our height with yarn - Lizzie

This week we worked quite a bit on community building. Many students are coming together for the first time and it was important to build some connections, communication skills and teamwork skills! This is something we will continue to focus on during Health for September and circle back to throughout the year. 

We also spent some time discussing ourselves and who we are! Students created a silhouette of their heads filled with images that represented them. They also used watercolor paint to experiment and create a beautiful background for the mantra the chose that will help guide their mindset for the year. 

Routines are also an important part of the first week including going to Phys-ed. Mr. Newton is back in action and the kids are jazzed! We love getting to watch them work on so many different skills in PE! 

Thumbs up to a great week!