Happy Fri-YAY!

Wow!  Great news....we made it through the first week of grade 4 still smiling!

This week was wonderful to meet everyone and to begin to mesh as a 'classroom community'.  We started to realize the connections we all have!

Please peek into your child's backpack, you should find:

-a GIFT from me (in a white bag, with a message on it).  I tucked one into every child's backpack on their way out this morning.  This gift is CONNECTED to the book Agate, I read to them.

-TWAS - please read it and respond.  There is an explanation on the front cover.  THESE ARE DUE MONDAY.

Homework:

-your child will need a yogurt container (clean and labelled) for Monday or Tuesday, if possible.  The size is 650 g or bigger.  We need them for art.  If you have more, can you send them in?

-newsprint

-return TWAS for the morning of Monday, September 9th

-return OPENING FORMS found on our website 

Here are some of the things we wrote about in TWAS ---

Our Making Ten card game (like go fish, but you need to have two addends to make 10).

We found a good book and read during D.E.A.R. - Drop Everything And Read! Can you spot the whisper phones?

Our cooperative game of team 'GOLF'! With this game, we are CONNECTED and we are learning communication skills, patience, that winning isn't everything (there is no prize), perseverance and so many other core social skills!

Have a WONDERFUL weekend!  I know it will be fun to have the weekend to relax a bit and sleep in.  Good luck to those students who have try out or evaluations, there are quite a few of you!

Happy first day of Grade 4!

Excited to start the year, around 8:25 am....

Wow!  It was fabulous to meet each other as a 'classroom family' and to start to make connections and build community together.  Thanks to all students who tried their best, and I know that looks different for everyone.  I bet we will all have stories to share and be ready for a good night sleep!

Guess what?  We were so lucky to meet our student teacher!  Ms. Treena Pretty Youngman will be with us today and tomorrow and then she will be back at MRU learning.  The remainder of her practicum will be November 1-December 6th.  We welcome her to our class and school with open arms!

Things to talk about:
Ask your child about the book we read - Beautiful Hands and what we did after reading it?
Ask your child about today's assembly in the afternoon.  Maybe he/she can sing our new part of the Copperfield Song?
We were going to learn a dance at the assembly, but didn't have time!  However, we learned some of the moves ahead of time in class....maybe your child can demo the 'cowboy boogie' or the 'butterfly'? 

Families, we are looking for the following items by the end of this week:

• clean and labelled yogurt containers (or similar) for each student - NEED 22!
• newspaper, flyers - not the glossy ones, newsprint cut into small strips (or send it in whole)
• volunteers to help several times during the week of Sept 9th - 13th for an art project (2 to three half days, or so)

Homework - 

1.  Bring back the completed/coloured Mini Me for Wednesday morning.  Let's see if they can ALL BE RETURNED, so I can attach a picture and laminate it.  This is used for attendance. 

2.  PLEASE go to the school website and print off, complete and return the opening forms!  If you already sent in these forms, THANKS! 

Thanks for a memorable first day together!  

I look forward to many more learning opportunities tomorrow! 

Our class just before we left at the end of day 1!  The day flew by!