Wednesday

Hello families,

This morning students were introduced to a writing task that they will be working on between now and Dec. 19. I did this 2 years ago and the students loved it so I thought we'd do it again! This task is based on the song "The 12 Days of Christmas." We watched this video in case someone was not familiar with the song and we also read "Pete the Cat's 12 Groovy Days of Christmas." Students will be adding a page to their own book every day following a similar pattern - "On the ___ day of Christmas by teacher gave to me..." This means there are only 12 days of school left until Winter Break! We talked about how many syllables to use if we want our writing to sound similar to the original tune, but students did not have to use the correct number of syllables. For the first one, I helped them turn their ideas into something with more syllables. During snack, we listened to a read aloud of "The 12 Worst Days of Christmas" and "A Pirate's 12 Days of Christmas." Students then went to music and gym and during work period we worked on our 12 days of Christmas books and practiced our Weekly Words from the "-ug" family.










Looks like my cat love is spreading... oops! 🤷

In the afternoon, we had Daily 5 literacy time and we were going to start working on a math task, however students needed a little more work time so we will save it for tomorrow! When students were coming in from afternoon recess, we also had a fire drill. We reviewed what to do when there is a fire drill and we are not all in our classrooms.

I am still looking for some more volunteers to help us out on Tuesday, December 10th in the morning to bake cat treats for our AARCS fundraiser! 🐈🐶

 Important info about the Winter Concert! 🎄⛄
Please note that each family will be given 2 tickets to the Winter Concert. If you are wanting more tickets, you may add your name to the wait list by contacting the office. Due to the size of our gym, our seating is limited and we need to be careful to stay under the maximum capacity. This is also why we have two separate shows! If you have additional family members that would like to come to the concert, attending the day time dress rehearsal show is a great option. The day time shows are at 9:30am (6pm show) and 12:45pm (7:30pm show). Please remember that babies are people too and count towards our capacity, therefore, they will also need a ticket!


Hello parents!

Our Winter Concert is just over a week away!

Students performing in the 6:00 show (rooms 3,5,6,10,11,12 and 16) need to arrive at school at 5:40 pm on Thursday Dec. 12. 

Students performing in the 7:30 show (rooms 2,4,7,8,9,13 and 17) need to arrive at school at 7:10 pm on Thursday Dec. 12.

Students in Grades 1-4 can wear what they like to the concert.  No hats/novelty headbands please so we can see everyone’s smiling faces when they are on the stage! 

Thank you for your support, the students are excited.

Julie Kawchuk

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