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The Primary Fun Day events are scheduled for Friday, June 22, with an alternate date of TBD if the weather doesn't look good. We will be participating in fun sporting events such as races and relays in multi-age groups K-3 outside for the course of the morning. Hats, sunscreen and a water bottle are necessary as we are hoping it will be hot and sunny. In the afternoon K-3 students will have some water fun out on the field. Please send a towel and hat and have your child's suit on under their clothes or in their bag to change into after lunch. A plastic bag to put wet things in might be handy. If your child would like to bring a water gun please have it clearly marked with their name and I will be collecting them in class to hold until the afternoon. There will be buckets of water and a pool to fill water guns in and a shady area to spread out our towels that will be off-limits for water gun usage. The whole day was a huge success and so much fun last year! Come have a blast with the primary students on Friday!
 Every year each new group of children has a proclivity towards a certain type of activity. One year the children couldn't get enough of the tiny cars and another it was insisted that colouring be put out every single day. This year Team Awesome loves to be creative. Whether it be at the art table or with one of the hands-on creation toys such as Legos or Brain Flakes, the children enjoy opportunities to create with their brains and hands. Collaboration and teamwork, creativity and imagination, critical thinking and problem solving are essential areas for development to enable Team Awesome to be 21st Century learners and their love for building and being innovative targets all of these skills. When it comes to 'thinking outside the box', Team Awesome is developing the ability to confront problems in ways other than the ways we normally confront problems and cultivating the ability to look at things differently from the way we typically look at things, which bodes well for their future.
Two years ago Mrs. Farber and I had this brilliant (we thought) idea to take our classes to Centennial Park in Westsyde by city bus for the day. We could cover some of our socials curriculum (transportation, bus driver, community) and give the children an experience many of them had not had previously. It was a great idea in theory. We filled out the paper work to obtain our free bus passes and dutifully lined our little Ks up at the bus stop on 8th St to eagerly await the bus. And wait. And wait. And once the bus did arrive we learned that the bus driver had no knowledge of us and the bus was already partly full, making it difficult to accommodate 40 small children and 2 anxious teachers. We found it necessary to triple up in the seats and our children were seated all over, making it hard to keep an eye on them. But they were thrilled! The return trip was much the same, with the added stressor of having to cross 8th St at the lights with tired, dragging children who were not up to walking at the quick march it takes to get across the road before the light changes. Thankfully drivers were patient.
This year calmer heads have prevailed and on Wednesday, June 20, we will be catching the school bus in front of the school at about 9:00 for our trip to Centennial Park in Westsyde. We will look at the animals across the street (unfortunately through the fence), maybe feed them some goodies we can buy from a vending machine (the goats are very greedy!), participate in an outdoor activity, play on the playground, have our lunch under the trees and splash in the water park for the rest of the afternoon before our return to school at the end of the day. If you would like your child to go through the park sprinklers please have their suit on under their clothes or in their pack and send a towel (last year a parent forgot and the little guy went in his undies). Hats and sunscreen and a plastic bag to put wet things into are a good idea. We will catch the return bus at about 2:00. Please join us at the park for a day of fun and adventure! |
