• Don't forget to send library books back for exchange by Tuesday. Just take them out of the special library book bag and drop them (with the bag) into the labelled container inside our classroom door.
• Lunch orders for October were due to the office Sept 25. PAC pizza lunch orders were due today with lunch served Friday, Oct. 4.
• Scholastic book orders are due Friday, Oct. 4. You can order a FREE Book (worth $7 or less) when you place an online order of $30 or more. Use the code CLIFFORD.
• Our first Fresh Air Friday is Friday, Oct. 4. We are not sure if there will actually be a beach with all the rain so we might just practice how to walk safely beside the road. Please dress your child warmly/ for the weather as it is often chillier down at the river. Expect us to come back tired and dirty but with big smiles.
• Monday, Oct. 7 we will have our first lock down drill and WITS session with Cst. Weidenman.
• I will be absent Wednesday, Oct. 9 through to Friday, Oct. 11. There will be a substitute teacher which means things will run a bit differently and the children might be anxious or discombobulated but I expect they will rise to the occasion.
• Friday, Oct. 11 is Rivers Day and all of BEST will be attending presentations down at the river (hopefully). Further info is forthcoming.
• We read our first two little books together- "Chester Loves School" last week and "My book of P" this week. The children should know them by heart. Their homework is to read them 3 more times at home for fluency (and to show off their budding reading skills). Please have them read any little paper books that come home (approximately 1 per week) multiple times for practice. Thank you.
• The first set of sight words were introduced this week. They are: I, a, like, the, you, no. Please feel free to practice them at home. We will practice them regularly in class.

• Please send Family Projects back as they are finished. Look for October's next week.
• The BEST PAC first fundraiser- coupon books- was due in to the office. Thank you for your support.
• School supplies fees can be paid at the office. 
• Please do not send toys from home to school. They often get lost or broken and then copious amounts of crying ensues. And more crying, followed by yet more crying.
• BEST PAC would like to host a Christmas Craft Fair on Sunday, Nov. 12 and is looking for parents who would like to rent a table. They will be giving vendors/crafters who attended the last year first spots then opening up Tuesday October 15 to the public. Register at bestpac@ymail.com or call Amanda at 778-220-0113 for more information.
• It is chilly when we go out for recess so please remember to send sweaters/ coats.
• Lost sweaters/ coats can be found in the Lost & Found bin by the parking lot doors.

Go forth and Be Awesome!

​Tuesdays will be our library day and the children were very excited for our first visit last week. They met Ms. Kipp, our librarian, and her assistant Mrs. Turley, and had a look around the library. Ms Kipp showed us how to use our Spot Cards to mark our place when we remove a book from the shelf, she read us Mr. Wiggle's Book, which reminded us how to take care of books and then we chose a book and signed it out on the computer with Mrs. Turley. We will be bringing a new book home every week as long as we have returned the book we borrowed the previous week. If the book becomes lost or damaged, it will have to be paid for before another book can be signed out. We put our books in the special library book bags to keep them neat and clean for the trip back and forth between school and home. Returned library books can be taken out of their bags and put, with the bag, in the Library bin beside our door. We loved going to the library!

​Thank you so much for making the time to stop in for a bit last Tuesday morning for our school Meet & Greet. Team Awesome loved having you in our classroom and showing you around. 

I am so thankful that it is a short week next week due to the Non-Instructional day on Monday as the days are taking their toll on Team Awesome, as I am sure you have noticed. The children are beginning to tire but managing to mostly keep it together. A three day weekend will give them a chance to recuperate as the next two weeks are our first real full weeks, with plenty of activities, and I expect our little peeps to be tuckered by Thanksgiving weekend. Enjoy your extra day with Team Awesome!

• Monday, Sept. 23, is an NI Day so there is no school for the children.
• Don't forget to send library books back for exchange by Tuesday. Just take them out of the special library book bag and drop them (with the bag) into the labelled container inside our classroom door.
• Lunch orders for October came home and are due to the office by Sept. 25. A PAC Pizza lunch form also came home and is due back Sept 27 with pizza served Oct. 4.
• Our second fire drill is Friday, Sept. 27.
• Orange Shirt Day is Monday, Sept. 30.
• School photos are Tuesday, Oct. 1. We are usually first so we can keep neat and tidy for our pictures (but no guarantees).
• Order forms for BEST clothing came home this week but there was no due date on it. They are due Friday, Oct. 18. There will only be one order this year and no late orders can be accepted.
• We have begun sharing our Family Projects. Please feel free to send them back as they are finished.
• The BEST PAC has sent home our first fundraiser- coupon books. If you would like to buy one, just keep the one that was sent home with your child and return $10 in the envelope. If you would like more than one, there is an order form inside the envelope. If you do not want any of the coupon books, please return it to the office in the envelope it was sent home in. Thanking you in advance for your support.
• School supplies fees can be paid at the office. 
• Buddy Bags do not usually go home over long weekends (but sometimes I forget and schedule them).
• Please do not send toys from home to school. They often get lost or broken and then copious amounts of crying ensues. And more crying, followed by yet more crying.
• I often copy things on papers that were already copied on and discarded so if there is something on the back of your child's paper that seems odd that will be why.
• If your child seems to have misplaced a notice, I pin extras to our hallway bulletin board- help yourself or ask me for another copy.
• It is chilly when we go out for recess so please remember to send sweaters/ coats.
• Lost sweaters/ coats can be found in the Lost & Found bin by the parking lot doors.
• Thank you for donating to the Terry Fox Run. 

Go forth and Be Awesome!

​By now I am sure you have heard plenty of garbled stories about the book The Kissing Hand by Audrey Penn, which we read last Friday morning. To our surprise there was a note at the end of the book from Chester Raccoon inviting us to find him somewhere in the school. So off we went, following the clues, meeting new people and seeing new places in the school. We were sad not to catch Chester as we were so certain that we would, but he did leave us each a heart for our hand and some apples before returning to the book. Boy, do I wish I could have bottled the energy, excitement and joy generated by this activity (to be imbibed by me at a later date, probably around Xmas). We have since read the book twice more (hoping we would find another note but alas), and we will act it out with paper Chester puppets we will make soon. We have also learned to sign 'I love you' so if your child has been making punk rocker 'devil' finger signs at you they are actually trying to show you how much you are loved. We love Chester Raccoon!