I love a good impromptu sing along. Don't you?
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• Please return library books by next Tuesday so we can choose new ones.​
• Sunday, Jan. 23 through to Friday, Jan. 28 is Literacy Week in Kamloops. Look for Unplug and Play community activities/ events online. BEST will participate in the Unplug And Play Challenge. The brochure came home this week. Please fill in and return for the chance to win a prize.
• ​BEST will celebrate Literacy Week with a number of activities Jan. 24-28. Please see previous post for a schedule.
• Our February Sharing Projects came home this week and are due back when they are finished or by Feb. 3. It is a collection of 100 items in celebration of 100th Day.
• Schools of choice K registration for 2022 is the week of January 24. Register any time during the week as it is NOT first come, first served but a lottery (if necessary).
• Hot lunch orders for February are due to the office by Wednesday, Jan. 26.
• PAC pizza orders are due back by Friday, Feb. 11 with pizza lunch on Friday, Feb. 18.
• Please remember to complete the daily health check before your child comes to school and send them with a mask as per provincial health and safety guidelines. As always, if your child is sick, please keep them home.
• At this time our skating fieldtrips scheduled for Feb. 28 and March 16 are on hold due to increased safety measures. We will notify you if that changes. 
• The January newsletter for BEST can be found here.
• Please have Team Awesome read any little paper books that come home (approximately 1 per week) multiple times for practice/ fluency. Thank you.
• Check out what Mrs. Phillips is doing with Team Awesome here.
• Scholastic flyers are available online monthly. January's is available here. Our class code is RC210022.
• The sight words we are learning right now: be, big, can, it, little, me, on, us, with, we. Please feel free to practice at home.​

Go forth and Unplug!​ 

In conjunction with Kamloops' Unplug & Play week, BEST celebrates Literacy Week with a number of themed days.  Our schedule for the week is below. As always, the children are welcome to participate, or not.

I hope that in this year to come, you make mistakes. Because if you are making mistakes, then you are making new things, trying new things, learning, living, pushing yourself, changing yourself, changing your world. You’re doing things you’ve never done before, and more importantly, you’re Doing Something. So that’s my wish for you, and all of us, and my wish for myself. Make New Mistakes. Make glorious, amazing mistakes. Make mistakes nobody’s ever made before. Don’t freeze, don’t stop, don’t worry that it isn’t good enough, or it isn’t perfect, whatever it is: art, or love, or work or family or life.
Whatever it is you’re scared of doing, Do it.
Make your mistakes, next year and forever.
-Neil Gaiman

• ​ Please welcome Mya M. and Aayan to Team Awesome! They will be joining us on Monday.
• Mrs. Farber will be absent Monday morning and Mrs. Gatey will be joining us until lunch.
  
• Please return library books by next Tuesday so we can choose new ones.
• January Sharing Projects went home before holidays and are due back when they are finished. Thank you!
• SD 73 will hold a virtual schools of choice information night on Wednesday, Jan. 12 at 6:30pm for interested parents of new K (Sept. 2022) students. Registration is not required. The Zoom link will be posted at 12pm on Jan. 12. 
• PAC Pizza day is Friday January 14. Orders should be in to the office.
• Friday, Jan. 21 is a possible Fresh Air Friday. We'll notify you closer to the date.
• Sunday, Jan. 23 through to Friday, Jan. 28 is Literacy Week in Kamloops. Look for community activities/ events online. BEST will participate in the Unplug And Play Challenge. More info forthcoming.
• Schools of choice K registration for 2022 is the week of January 24. Register any time during the week as it is NOT first come, first served but a lottery (if necessary).
• Please remember to complete the daily health check before your child comes to school and send them with a mask as per provincial health and safety guidelines. As always, if your child is sick, please keep them home.
• At this time our skating fieldtrips scheduled for Feb. 28 and March 16 are on hold due to increased safety measures. We will notify you if that changes. 
• The January newsletter for BEST can be found here.
• Please have Team Awesome read any little paper books that come home (approximately 1 per week) multiple times for practice/ fluency. Thank you.
• Check out what Mrs. Phillips is doing with Team Awesome here.
• Scholastic flyers are available online monthly. January's is available here. Our class code is RC210022.
• The sight words we are learning right now: but, friend, give, good, in, look, up, see, want. Please feel free to practice at home.​

Go forth and Make mistakes!​