Orange Shirt Day.

Remember to wear orange shirts or orange items on

MONDAY  OCTOBER 1

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Thank you for your continued support. 
Have a great weekend
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Fri. Sept 28 Fire Drill.

Our first fire drill was today. The children were amazing. We practiced on our own so they knew what to do.

Well Done!!

Fri. Sept. 28. Farewell to Butterflies .

The last chrysalis has hatched YEAH!!!!.

Proud Abby showing her butterfly shirt.

  The stages of the butterfly.

 Mrs. Grillo showing the students the butterfly.

  It is a male.

  Like anything in nature not everything survives but we can learn from it.

A chrysalis that never hatched but still has the butterfly inside. 

It is hard and shiney.

  The last butterfly eating his strawberry from M.

Thank you M for sharing your strawberries.

Farewell to the butterflies.

Now they have to fly to Mexico to live for the winter.

Fascinating little creatures. 

Please plant milkweed in your gardens for them.

 They will  return again in the spring.

A lovely learning opportunity for the children.

Thurs . Sept 27 Terry Fox Run.

The whole school community did the Terry Fox Run together. It was fun to see siblings have the opportunity to walk together.

 Brothers walking together.

Jahntae and his big brother.

 Brothers Nikolai and Konstantine

Ben and Jacob.

  Adian and Avery

  Old friends meeting up to walk together.

Shayla, Hadleigh and Leah

  Scarlett and Jasmine

  Brock's name was picked and he got to choose a teacher to put a pie in the face.

Lucky for Brock but unlucky for Mrs. Wintemute.

Many teachers stood up for the challenge. 

Jackson and Hayden.

 Jacob and Keagan

The school community.

Thank you for your support for fighting cancer.

Wed. Sept 26 Meet the teacher night.

Ms. Carruthers , Miss Blake and I want to thank all the families who took time from their evening to visit  us for meet the teacher evening.  I believe we had time to speak to everyone. I hope so. This evening is just a glance to see the classroom and a brief meet and greet from us. The children will have Student Led conferences coming up. Remember to sign up for your visit.

I had some questions about what student led conferences will look like.
We have many students in the classroom .  We have to share the time for families.
A student led conference is just as it states.
We will have groups of 2-3 families visit the classroom for 15 minutes intervals.
The children will lead the conversation to showcase their learning for you. You will see some samples of their learning and may have a few brief minutes to  discuss the learning with the educators. When the 15 minutes are used up another group will have their turn. Ms. Carruthers has been sending out the schedule sheet via Seesaw . Please let us know if you have not chosen a time yet.

The children are the leaders and will have lots of coaching from us to show you their learning.I always tell the children don't fret we will help you.

Once again thank you for visiting on Wednesday evening.

STEAM

You may hear the children use the word STEAM or Steam activity. It is short for:

S Science
T Technology
E Engineer
A Arts
M Mathematics
 
We create steam activities all the time.
This the set up for meet the teacher night.

 We will add books to see real structures  to support the learning.

Awesome STEAM learning for the inventors of our future.

Well done everyone. 

Fri. Sept 21. Blocks and structures.

The children are beginning to build in the block area. I am seeing lots of team building and discussion about the process. 

The containers are drums.

  The lego is the engine.

 Great teamwork.

Have a wonderful weekend.

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Thurs.Sept. Park Visit

We went to the park and the children had the opportunity to explore, climb, run ,and stretch our muscles.

Zae'Nae and Brianna climbing the trees.

Cimbing up the small slide is great turn taking. 

 Jacob climbing under branches.

 Carter balancing on a long limb.

 Jacob's turn to balance.

 Terran and Ryan playing soccer in the field.

  Kara is waiting her turn to climb.she is very patient.

  Keagan just crawled out from the bushes.

 Here comes Alan following Keagan.

 Lots of climbing for everyone.

Meatz playing a drum.

 Avery playing her drum too.

 Meatz balancing on a branch.

 Terrence climbing the trees.

 Excellent day exploring nature and the park.