Wednesday

Hi Everyone!

Today we skipped over Daily literacy to allow for some more work period time. We were finishing up our writing, responsibility charts (responsibilities at home, at school, to the environment, and to ourselves), and we talked about some new shapes. The Grade 1s were looking for rhombus shaped items and the Grade 2s were looking for pyramids! We enjoyed gym time outside and had an assembly before lunch where some of our Grade 3/4 classes were sharing their learning. We are excited to have our sharing assembly on Thursday, June 14th at 1pm! 

In the afternoon we had guest reader and continued building our boats. Tomorrow students will have their Explore and Play time to finish up their boats and we will be testing them out in the morning. After recess, we talked about some of our expectations for swimming tomorrow afternoon as part of our discussion about responsibility. We discussed being appropriate and not silly in the change rooms as well as ways to be safe. We talked about consequences of poor behaviour during swimming (ie. not allowed to go anymore if a serious issue occurs) and we reviewed the things we need to bring.
Everything your child brings swimming should be labelled! 

  • Towel 
  • Bathing suit (bring or wear to school)
  • Dry clothes to put on afterwards (ie. underwear if they are wearing their suits to school)
  • Goggles if you would like
  • Bag to put their wet bathing suits in
We are so excited for our first day of swimming tomorrow! We talked about how much fun swimming can be as long as we are safe and responsible! If you have any concerns about swimming tomorrow please feel free to send me an email. Thank you so much to our volunteers that are helping out this week! 

Lastly, please note that our Fish Creek Field Trip will be on Tuesday, June 19th. Please let me know if you'd like to volunteer. 

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