Week #4

Another wonderful week of learning and exploration has come to an end. It’s hard to believe that we have been in school for almost 1 month! This past week, we had a few exciting things happening at Broadview.

 

On Thursday, we all went out in the school yard to run for our Terry Fox Cancer Awareness campaign. Madame Byrd was very impressed by how many laps we were able to run around the school yard! I was even more impressed to see that the students ran laps again the next morning for Kilometre Club!!

 

This Friday, we welcomed our new LUNCH MONITORS to Room 7. Three lovely Grade 8 students will now be helping supervise during lunch time in our classroom. While we will still have teacher supervision during this period, we are very happy to have these lovely, mature ladies to help with thermos opening, rule enforcement and much more J.

 

Many of you parents may have noticed that there is a new initiative for morning drop off. As many teachers and administrators were finding it very difficult to supervise and manage students in the fenced in area of the primary yard, Broadview has decided to ask parents to drop off students, say their goodbyes and then vacate the yard to allow for better sight lines and consequently better supervision. I know these changes may take some time to get used to but please know that it is in the best interest for all of our students. Students are still asked to line up their back packs at our “Meeting Spot” and I will meet them there each morning.

 

This week we also started our Show and Tell presentations and they were a huge hit. It was so nice to learn more about our fellow students. I realize that the link to the Show and Tell schedule is not working and I am working on fixing it. In the meantime, if you are unsure of your child’s show and tell date, please send me a note in their note tote.

 

Lastly, we continued our “Les structures” program this Friday and made structures that also included patterns (our focus in math this week). Below are a few pictures of the phenomenal structures we built.

A horse barn.

 

 

A wonderful plan of the horse barn.

 

 

A fantastic treehouse.

 

 

 

 

XoMme Byrd