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!​ 

There are a lot of "I want"s and "I asked for"s this time of year, from children and adults both. Mrs. Farber and I wanted to help the children move from thinking of themselves, and what they might find under the Christmas tree, to thinking of others. Enter the Kindness Ninjas! Mrs. Farber wrote up a letter from Sensei Tansa (a mix up of the letters in Santa) that explained the concept of doing for others without expecting anything in return and included the first mission and some ninja headbands. We then recruited Mr. Law to deliver the package. Team Awesome was so enthusiastic about the idea that they were jumping up and down and fist pumping their arms in the air, yelling things like, "Let's do this!". And so we completed our first mission. But why stop just because December is over? Isn't kindness an all-year virtue? So expect to see the Kindness Ninjas throughout the rest of the year, sneaking around and doing good deeds for others.