Good afternoon everyone, I hope you had a wonderful fall break. Thank you to all the parents who were able to make it to parent/teacher interviews.  It was a pleasure to talk with you.  Please take a look at what the students had to say about our week;

We are learning how science works - Lucas
We learned that when skittles are mixed with hot water the color melts off - Arjana
We are finishing our last quilt patch - showing how we feel to belong to a community - Mada
Cold water and hot water will do the same thing to the skittles - but cold water takes longer - Morgan
We are learning how to do science - Shivya (the scientific method - Ms. C)
We have been writing about our favorite color - Fawzie
We have been working on number concepts through active learning centers in math - Tegan


Please take note of the following;
- Scholastic orders went home today: orders due Monday Nov. 4th
- Please bring a pair of headphones for the listen to reading center during guided reading. These will only be used by the student that they belong to
- Friday November 1st is a Professional Development day for teachers: no school for students
- Monday November 11th is a Stat: no school for students


If you are looking for something for your child to do instead of technology, the following are some activities and independent learning projects to consider.  Independent learning projects are not part of the classroom curriculum and will not be marked, however students are welcome to share them with their teacher and peers.

1. Play outside with family and friends every single day - even in the rain and snow.
2. Play board games.
3. Make your own board game, complete with rules and all game pieces. Play it with family members to get comfortable talking about it, then bring it to school to share with teacher and peers. This will help with number concepts in math and cooperative play along with many other concepts.
4. Play dice games every day –search online for games or make up your own then teach others how to play – good for number concepts in math and taking turns.
5. Play games with cards every day – search online for games or make up your own, then teach others how to play - good for number concepts in math and taking turns.
6. Read every day – attend the public library for books of interest.
7. Create, write and illustrate a book on topic of choice. Practice reading and talking about it to family and friends at home before bringing it to school to share teacher and peers.
8. Bake together - following recipes is great for numeracy and literacy skills

Have a great week everyone.

Ms. C

We have been finishing our quilts, stay tuned for photo's - Tegan
We have been writing in our Turkey books - Arjana
We are writing about what we are thankful for in our Turkey books - Shadi
We have been learning new games in gym - Henry
We have fun in the gym with the parachute - Omer
I'm thankful for my bike - Lucas
I'm thankful for family - Thunderheart
I'm thankful for the monkey bars outside - Tegan

Our classroom is continuing to talk about bucket filling from the book "How Full is Your Bucket". We are working at understanding that our actions affect not only ourselves, but also the people around us.  We are learning about the importance of kind words and how they affect others.

We welcomed Ms. Wills into our classroom this month.  She is a year 2 education student from Mount Royal University. She will be in our classroom on Thursday mornings.  The students love when she does our read alouds.

We are enjoying Music with Ms. Woodward on M/T/W afternoons.  This is the first time that we have had an official music teacher in a while. She helped the students do a lovely job singing at the potluck last week.

- Our first Healthy Hunger school lunch deadline to order is Friday October 18th - The Spooky Hot Lunch is on October 18th at noon (see note that went home)
- No school on Friday Oct. 11th
- Parent/Teacher interviews are Thursday Oct. 10th from 4-7:30, and Friday Oct. 18th from 8am-1pm
- Dress for the weather - it's getting colder out
- Fall break; no school Monday Oct. 14 to Friday Oct. 18th - first day back is Monday Oct. 21st
- See notes home regarding home reading program starting Monday Oct. 21st

Have a great break everyone. Stay warm. If your looking for something to do, remember to read every day with the students and play dice games and board games.

Always,
Ms. Cheveldeoff

This is what the students have to say:

We will be choosing one song every day after lunch to have a dance party to - whole class
We have been learning how to read - Tegan
We learned about the book Shi-Shi-Etko in honor of Orange Shirt Day - Fawzie
We are working really hard on bringing our quilts together - Zaiden
Our quilts include a patch on our family, community, country, city, school and province - whole class
We only have two more quilt patches left to complete our quilt - Morgan

Some items to take note of:

- There is not school Friday October 11th due to interviews.  

- There is no school the following week from Monday October 14th to Friday October 18th due to Fall break.

- The book fair will remain open on Monday Oct. 7th. If students bring money on Monday we will find a time to visit the book fair for them to make their purchases.

Parent/Teacher conferences are next Thursday and Friday - see the following links

https://portal.cbe.ab.ca/staffinsite/system_tools/student_supports/SIRS/Documents/PowerSchool_Parent_Account_Creation_and_Navigation.pdf- To create an account 

https://sis.cbe.ab.ca/ - Parent Login Page

School Conferences Parent Guide – Parent Guide (How to book a conference)