Dear Parents and Students,
We have a lot of fun activities
occurring over the month of December!
1. The Grade 2/3 MULTICULTURAL
BREAKFAST will be on TUES.DEC. 16TH with ALL Gr. 2 & 3 classes
at 9 a.m. Please send your child to
school with a food sample of a dish (small portion), if possible, from your
cultural background. No nuts please.
EXAMPLES: 6 to 12 portions of
something: 6 yogurt cups, 6 cheese
strings, 6 spring rolls, 6 samosas, 6 tiropites (Greek cheese pies), small bag
of crackers or tortilla chips. Each
child will be asked to bring something and to present their items.
2. On Tuesday, December 16th your child is participating in
the Grant Road concert held at Campbell. The afternoon performance is at Campbell
Collegiate High School at 1:15 p.m. The
evening performance is at Campbell Collegiate High School (102 Massey Road) at
6:30 p.m. Please have your child at
Campbell by 6 to 6:10 p.m. You are responsible for transporting your child to
and from this venue. The Gr. 2 classes costuming is simple… They are elves, so
we ask that your child be dressed in RED & GREEN CLOTHES if possible.
3. You may send GINGERBREAD
HOUSE MATERIALS to school NEXT Wed. 10th or Thurs. 11th.
4. RAMIHA is our STAR OF THE WEEK on MON. DEC. 8TH.
It was wonderful to meet
with you last Thursday evening and Friday at the 3 Way Conferences to celebrate
your child’s academic successes and achievements! This week’s photos feature some our final
copies of our farm animal research. They
are all on display in the hallway.
Photos 5 and 6 are
samples of math problems using the following vocabulary: difference, subtract, how many more. Addition and subtraction of 1 and 2 was
another target area. The children played
the ONE LESS, TWO LESS GAME (photos 27 to 29).
Best wishes to Miss
Kezama and Miss Lechler, our 2 University of Regina student teachers, who
completed their semester with us on Tuesday.
Good luck with finals girls!
Please come back and visit us in the New Year! Thank you for the cookies!
Thank you George
Bothwell Librarian, Marilyn, for your visit on Monday afternoon. We always enjoy your reading sessions!
We began our new Core French unit; Christmas
vocabulary, this week. One of the videos we enjoyed was: Quand
le Père Noël.wmv - YouTube
Through Santa
puppetry and song, the children learned their prepositions in French: sur, sous, dans, devant, derrière, à côté de. See photos 30 to
33.
Merci beaucoup, Imogen,
for bringing the book, Counting to Christmas. We have been counting down the days using a
red piece of yarn and making knots.
Hunter and Corbin are
featured in their winter gear! PLEASE
make sure you LABEL your child’s ski pants, boots and other winter attire. We have many similar boots and ski pants this
year.
Photos 17 to 24 are
from a story the children read in pairs.
They read I Can See Christmas by David Booth in pairs. The
activity involved reading comprehension (cloze procedure, questioning at
different levels), which is one of our reading goals, as discussed at the
interviews. The children did a
comparison/contrast page of climates; winter/Christmas in Canada vs
Hawaii/Mexico/Philippines.
Lukas did a fabulous job as Star of the
Week! Lukas is a middle child, with an
older and younger sister. He loves spending family time with his mom,
dad and his sisters. He enjoys baseball,
water polo, water sliding and hockey. He exercises in the summer on his
trampoline. He has visited Lego land.
Earlier in the week, the
children learned about Kwanzaa. We made
Kwanzaa place mats with kinaras on them, which we will use during our Multicultural
breakfast on the 16th. We
discussed the 7 principles of Kwanzaa (see photo 16). Ask your child to tell you about some of the
principles and the significance of the colours of the candles on the kinara. We
also made paper dolls and coloured them.
Check out the following Kwanzaa videos:
The last few photos
“show of”’ some of our PRINTING BOOK samples. We wrote a poem about Peppermint
Candy and today’s printing was a joke.
This afternoon we
will begin to learn about Diwali. On
Friday afternoon, the Grade 2s will be making clay dijas, which they will paint
later on next week and place on a decorative coaster they will design. While Gr. 2s are making dijas, the Grade 3s
will be making their sugar cube houses with the other Gr. 3 classes.
Tumblebooks website has CHANGED!
THE OLD LINK NO LONGER WORKS.
To access Tumble books NOW go to
the RPL website; http://www.reginalibrary.ca/databases/db_ebooks.html
From
here, scroll down and choose Tumblebooks.
Have a great rest of
the week one and all! Stay warm!
Ms Selimos
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