Back on Track for November

Hello Firstie Parents!!

It’s the beginning of November now and it’s time for me to get back on track with our classroom blog. My apologies for the blog hiatus. My husband and I have just moved and completed major renovations of our new home and my personal (and school) life has been very busy as of late.
 Enough about me... Let’s get on with the exciting things that we have been doing for the last month in Room 7. October was a fun filled month. We learned a lot about fall and the change of seasons, learned new reading strategies, explored math concepts like basic shapes, patterning, sorting various objects and even measurement using non-standard measuring items. On October 15^th, we had a very exciting trip to the Canadian Agricultural Museum (more commonly referred to as the Experimental Farm) and we learned a lot about corn, apples, pumpkins and saw lots of cute animals. Thank you to all our amazing volunteers and thank you to those parents who took pictures so we will be able to share those memories with parents who were not able to attend.

Other exciting things that happened in October were::
-picture day!! (Look for your child’s class picture in their note tote today)
-True Sport Assembly (medals handed out to runners)
-Halloween!! (All of the Grade 1 classes participated in a fun afternoon of Halloween activities and the classes were divided into groups and rotated through various Halloween craft, story and activity centres in the Grade 1 classrooms. We finished our day by watching a short film of Charlie Brown’s Halloween.)

Upcoming events:

-         November 12: Primary Choir trip to Hillel Lodge (to sing for Senior Citizens)

-         November 15: Interviews in the evening (Please see small slip of paper in your child’s note tote with your scheduled interview time. Please note that due to a large number of requests for specific times and due to challenges coordinating sibling interviews, it is possible that your interview time does not suit. Please contact me by email if this is the case and I will try to make other arrangements.)

-         November 16: PD DAY!!! No school for students and interviews scheduled for morning for some parents

-         November 23 : Broadview Dance-a-thon!! (Please see the pledge envelope that went home in your child’s note tote. The money raised will be used to fund many exciting projects here at Broadview)

  

**Please note that LIBRARY DAY always falls on a DAY 5 of our schedule. It is not scheduled by day of the week, therefore, due to this week’s PD DAY, library books will now be due back on Fridays as this will now be a Day 5.

Things to Look out For:

I will hopefully be adding a few new items to the blog (and getting back to weekly posts about what we are doing at school) in the coming weeks. Check back soon for these items:

-links to great French websites for your child
-November and December calendars/volunteer schedules
-information about “Math Bags” a new ‘homework’ system coming soon

xo Mme Byrd