- Library books are due back on Tuesday so we can choose new ones.
- Sunday, May 8 is Mother's Day. Kiss your Mom!
- We have a fire drill the afternoon of Thursday, May 12.
- The May Sharing Project date is Wednesday May 18. We will be sharing all projects on that day so if your child would like to participate they must be returned by then. We have sent home a note with details.
- Friday May 20 is an NI Day so Team Awesome will be home.
- Monday May 23 is a holiday for Victoria Day.
- BEST will hold a school-wide Bike/Wheels Rodeo on Thursday, May 26. More info posted closer to the date.
- Friday May 27 is a possible Fresh Air Friday.
- Order forms for BEST yearbooks went home last week. Get your orders to the office soon.
- There will be no Sharing Projects for June as we won't have time to share them all.
- Team Awesome will be putting on a special Primary Play on Thursday June 2 at 11:15am and families are invited to come watch. Save the date!
- We have booked a number of fieldtrips for June and are very excited! We will post info and send forms closer to the dates. You can check them out using the calendar link at the top of this page.
- The May 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. May's is available here. Our class code is RC210022.
- May sight words are: are, her, him, how, has, out, this, when, your. If a word comes up repeatedly in our studies we will sometimes add it to our words for the month. Please feel free to practice them at home.
There's been a wave of something-or-other having its way with Team Awesome the past two weeks. Thank you so much for keeping our team members who aren't well home. Here's a list of popular movies for children from 2021 to keep everyone occupied while recuperating.
​When setting out expectations for a project with the children, Mrs. Farber and I seldom show them an example as they all want to make exactly what was shared with them and not create something of their own. With the catapult project we showed them pictures of a simple working catapult as many of them were unfamiliar with the term but did not show them how to make their own. The children had fun and did a great job figuring out how to use the materials given to complete a machine that would launch an object. We revisited the catapult idea again later but the second time provided a 'how-to' video and an expanded selection of materials to choose from and reminded them to revise their original ideas and improve upon them as needed. As so often happens when shown how to do something, most of them chose to try and make the exact same catapult from the video rather than playing and exploring with the materials and coming up with or building on their own ideas from the first session. Some of them had a difficult time expanding their thinking beyond their first try and others rose to the occasion and eagerly modified their catapults to make them bigger and better. We will continue to work on encouraging the children to change and rethink and tweek their ideas to improve on them as the year goes on.
Hello families,
I am pleased to announce that your child in Ms. Farber and Ms. Bowden's Kindergarten classes will be putting on a special Primary Play on Thursday June 2 at 11:15am and families are invited to come watch. The performance will take place in the Gym with families and a couple classes as audience. We are busy working on our play during Fine Arts class and can't wait to show you what we have created! Our costumes for this play will be Dinosaurs! We have a few students acting as "children", but the majority will be dinosaurs. So any assistance in helping them create a dinosaur looking costume, or simply colours of dinosaurs would be great:) If you have any questions, please let me know, Loren Phillips Bert Edwards Fine Arts teacher [email protected] |
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