Wednesday already!

Well, here it is the middle of the week - and it's been a beautiful one so far. Please send in $1 with your child to help support the Terry Fox Run, which we will be doing as a school on Friday, Sept 26th.
I hope, by now, that your child is settling in to the routine of the school year. Please remember to send the yellow "Sounds" duotang back to school each day, and the blue "Homework" duotang when the homework is finished, Thursday at the latest.
I find that all of my Kindergarten students seem to be doing well with the work we do. The sounds need to be reviewed each night - please make sure they do the action related to each sound as they say it. Thanks for your help in this. Have a good week - what's left of it.

Another week!

First of all, I apologize for the butterfly picture that isn't there - I keep trying , but haven't yet found the way to put it on - I'll find out and try to get it on this week. As I write this the third monarch is getting ready to eclose (come out of the pupa). I bet we'll be setting it free tomorrow!
This week Mrs. Jones and I are welcoming Kate Richardson as our Kindergarten Support Worker. She will be with us for 20 weeks, helping in a variety of ways to make your child's school year go better.
Please remember to practice the new sounds and return the yellow duotang with Sounds sheets inside each day. We do a new sound each day and practice is important for them to learn their sounds and the letters connected to them. Also, please note that the homework is a two-sided page this week. I appreciate the time you spend with your child in doing this to the best of his/her ability.

Butterfly!

This is a Monarch butterfly that came from it's pupa over the weekend. We have three pupae in my classroom, given to us by Ann Chudleigh, who has raised 7 Monarchs from eggs this season! We are grateful to her for sharing with us and creating such a wonderful learning experience.

Here is a monarch butterfly that was "hatched" in my classroom - compliments of Ann Chudleigh

in full swing

Well, here we go - the first full week of school. This week we start learning our letter sounds. Please practice the new sounds each night - we will do one letter each day, Mondays through Thursdays, and review them on Fridays.

Your child will bring home his/her homework duotang today. Please send it back on Friday morning, so I can have time to prepare it for next week. If you have any questions, please don't hesitate to contact me.

WELCOME BACK!!!!!

Welcome to school for a brand new year of learning! I am so glad to be back! I hope you are, too. This week we will be getting used to our new teachers and classes. There will probably be a fire drill at some time this week. Please remind your child/ren about how to stand at the bus stop safely, and encourage them to remember and follow the rules we followed last year. We encourage each student to attend school regularly - there is so much we do each day, every day missed is a gap in their learning.

There are many items coming home in the agenda bags this first week, especially the first day. Please look each item over at length - return the Highlights, Owl, etc. forms, as we can get items for our classrooms with the returned ones (whether they are YES or NO). Book orders for my homeroom are due back by next Monday, Sept. 8th.

Have a GREAT first week back!

K-2 supply lists

Cathy O'Neil just gave me a great idea - here are the lists for supplies for the fall:

Kindergarten:
- 2 pkgs of 24 Crayola crayons
- 2 pkgs of 8 washable Crayola markers
- 12 duotangs - (2 each of red, blue, green, yellow, orange, and purple
- 1 pkg pencils (Papermate, Dixon, or Venus)
- 4 large glue sticks (Ross, Elmer's, Staples)
- 2 pkgs of 32 page Hilroy scribblers
- 3 white vinyl erasers
- 1 box lge Ziploc freezer bags
- 1 box Kleenex
- 1 bottle pump hand soap
- 2 black whiteboard markers (dry erase)
- 1 pr indoor sneakers


Grade One:
- 1 pkg of 24 crayons
- 2 pkgs of 8 washable markers
- 12 duotangs (same colours as above)
- 1 pkg pencils
- 1 large glue stick
- 1 pkg scribblers
- 4 erasers
- 1 Campfire notebook
- 1 blx lge freezer bags
- 1 box Kleenex
- 1 bottle pump hand soap
- 2 black whiteboard markers (dry erase)
- 1 pr indoor sneakers

Grade Two:
- 1 pkg 24 crayons
- 1 pkg 8 washable markers
- 12 duotangs (same as above)
- 2 pkgs of pencils
- 2 lge gluesticks
- 2 pkgs 32 page scribblers
- 4 white erasers
- 1 Campfire notebook
- 1 pr scissors
- 1 30 cm ruler
- 1 box lge freezer bags
- 1 box Kleenex
- 1 pump bottle hand soap
- 1 pkg looseleaf (200 sheets)
- 2 black whiteboard markers (dry erase)
- 1 pr indoor sneakers

Please purchase exactly what school supplies are listed, and do not write the student's name on them. We know that you can find items cheaper by buying different brands, but from past experience, these are the brands that work the best and last the longest. Please help us to ensure that every student has the proper equipment that works the best, and that is the same as his or her classmates. Thank you. You will note that I didn't put the brand names down through each list, but they are the same for each grade. Have a great summer!