SCHOOL CANCELLED

School is cancelled today, Monday, December 2, 2013. Take the day to read wonderful books with your kiddies and drink hot chocolate!

We  have also decided to cancel our field trip tomorrow to the Galt Museum. If you are volunteering for the field trip we will reschedule for a day that hopefully works for you!

December

Just a few quick announcements before I get on to our fun gingerbread pictures:

We will be going on our field trip to the Galt Museum on Tuesday. We will leave at 9:45 so if you volunteered, please be at the school at 9:35.

On Wednesday, we will be going skating from 1:00 to 2:00. We should arrive at the skating rink around 12:45 to start tying skates, so if you can come for any part of it we really appreciate it! There are some school helmets that parents can use if you don't have a CSA approved helmet. Students need to bring:

Skates

Gloves

Coat

CSA approved helmet (if they have one)

For the Christmas Concert on December 18, students will be responsible for their entire costume, including the antennae's. If someone was dying to make antennae's for the whole class, sorry!  Your child needs:

yellow shirt

black pants

headband

mini flashlight

sunglasses

antennae's (headband with pipe cleaners and black styrofoam balls)

I decided to change the book order due date from Dec. 9 to Thursday, December 5. I just want to make sure that the orders get here before Christmas! Remember, if you would like to order something as a gift, just write a note in your child's agenda and I will call you when it gets in.

This week our fish, Lenny, died. I think I was more sad than the kids were and they were more excited to get a new fish that they got to name! The new fish arrived and we had a big vote on what his name should be. After much deliberation, they came up with David. Yes, you read that right. David the fish. If you or someone in your family's name is David, I think there is a fish at Raymond Elementary named after you. What an honor. 

We had so much fun this week wrapping up our Gingerbread theme! Thank you especially to Andrea Leavitt for making cookies for us to be able to do a lesson on "How to Eat a Gingerbread Cookie". Very scientific. We ate cookies, baked cookies, decorated cookies, and read about gingerbread cookies this week. Mixed in are some pictures of our sorting lesson in math where we sorted different buttons!

Have a great weekend!

-Carly

Student-Led Conferences and Skating Info.

I was so happy to see most of the parents come in this week for Student-led Conferences! It was such a fantastic night and it was great to (re-)meet all of you. The kiddos were beside themselves during the day on Wednesday because they were so excited to have their parents come! It felt so good to see how much these little guys are supported and loved. Melt my heart.

We are steadily approaching perhaps the busiest and happiest (in my opinion) month of the year! There will be lots going on with a lot of opportunities for parents to volunteer so please take advantage. This week, there isn't anything major going on other than forms and money for the field trip next week are due on Friday.

Next week, however, is a different story!

On Tuesday, December 3, we will be going on a field trip to the Galt Museum in Lethbridge. We will be leaving at 9:45 and be back around 12:30. If you volunteered, please arrive at the school around 9:35. Thank you to all the parents who can volunteer! Your children were so excited to tell me you could come! Students need to bring a lunch on the field trip day that we will be eating when we get back to the school. Just a reminder, school fees must be paid or arrangements made with the office in order for your child to participate.

On Wednesday, December 4, 11, and 18, we will be skating at the Ice Rink. Each child needs to have skates, gloves, and a CSA approved helmet in order to participate. Bike helmets, ski helmets, and snowboarding helmets generally don't work. Just check to make sure there is a CSA label on the inside. If you cannot find or borrow a CSA helmet, the school does have some that students can use. On each of the three skating days, we need AS MANY VOLUNTEERS AS WE CAN GET! We need help tying skates, putting skaters together, consoling unsuccessful skaters, and skating with the kids. If you can come for any part it would be greatly appreciated. Adults who wish to skate with the kids must have a CSA approved  helmet as well along with skates. We will be skating from about 12:50 to 2:00 on every Wednesday in December. 


On December 18, we will be having a Christmas Concert! My class will be dressing up as the yellow jackets. Each child will need:

yellow shirt

black pants

headband

mini flashlight

sunglasses

If anyone would like to volunteer to put together the antennae's, let me know (pipe cleaners with styrofoam balls on the end-I will provide the materials). 

In Math, we are learning how to skip count by 2's to 20, count by 10's to 100, and count by 1's to 100. If you could practice these skills at home that would be great!

For our Reading Skills, we will be learning about h blends (ch, sh, th,wh, ph). I teach this using the H Superheroes! I will post some adorable pictures next week of our adventures with the superheroes.

If you made it this far in the blog, give yourself a high five! To finish off, here are some pictures from Student-led Conference night. Don't worry, you all look beautiful.