November 25, 2016
Dear Parents:
“SEASON’S GREETINGS”
Here’s what is happening in our school for the month of December:
Monday, November 28 - Professional Development Day –
No School
Friday, December 9 - Students please have your Christmas
presents for the gift exchange at the school by this day.
Monday, December 19 - Dress Rehearsal
Tuesday, December 20 - The Annual D’Arcy School Christmas
Concert will have two performances at
1:30 p.m. and 7:00 p.m.
Classes as usual in the morning.
For the evening performance we would
like students to be at the school by
6:45 p.m.
- Students will travel to school on their
normal bus in the morning and
afternoon.
Wednesday, December 21 - Hot lunch, grilled cheese
Wednesday, December 21 - Spirit Day-Ugly sweater day
Wednesday, December 21 - Gift exchange & classroom parties
NOTE - There will be a social after the Christmas Concert with refreshments. Each family is asked to bring one dozen squares or cookies.
*****Please Note: Effective December 1st D’Arcy School will no longer be taking part in the milk program. The supplier is unable to deliver the milk to us weekly. Thanks and we apologize for any inconvenience. ***
REMEMBRANCE DAY - Poster & Poem Winners
The Room II students entered the annual Remembrance Poem and Poster Contest. Congratulations to the winners who will move on to the next level – Districts.
Poem Winners - 1st Elyssa Martens
2nd Sadie Gillis
3rd Jane Speir
Poster Winners 1st Elyssa Martens
2nd Kayce LaSalle
3rd Mackenzie Mutlow
Congratulations!
WEATHER
With the chill of late fall and approaching winter, the students are wearing more clothing. Ski pants, toques, heavier gloves and scarves. We appreciate you sending these to school with your child. If you could have your child’s name put on the clothing we would have less times that the wrong garment is taken home.
We want the students to have fun at recess, and we will continue to play outside unless it is colder than -30 degrees. If the wind chill is beyond
-30 degrees we will also keep them in. That being said, please continue to make sure your child is properly dressed for the cold weather.
Thank you’s
A HUGE THANK YOU to everyone for supporting our Scholastic
Book Fair. It was a great success and we were able to
pick $1000 worth of books for our library.
Thank you to Ian Cross for coming and speaking to us at Remembrance Day service.
LIBRARY DAYS:
Kindergarten & Grade 1 - Every Day 4
Dates are: Thursday, December 8
Friday, December 16
Grades 2 + 3 - Every Day 1
Dates are: Monday, December 5
Tuesday, December 13
Grades 4 - 6 - Every Day 2
Tuesday, December 6
Wednesday, December 14
STUDENT OF THE WEEK
November 27-Dec 2 - Kiersten de Coninck Smith
December 4-9 - Jane, Sonny & Will Speir
December 11-16 - Kyla Sacla
November knowledge from the Classroom:
Mrs. Cordes: K & Gr 1
Good day!
In Math, the students are still working on Numbers. The Kindergartens are working on Counting and Identifying Numbers to 20. Currently, the Grade 1 students are continuing to work on Addition and Subtraction to 20. In addition, the Grade 1 students have started skip counting by 10s.
In Language Arts, the Kindergartens have been working on letters f, b, j, z, w, v, y, and x. As well, the Kindergartens have been working on segmenting syllables, blending syllables, initial sounds and final sounds in Phonological Awareness. The Grade 1 are working hard at reading. During story time, they have begun to identify the similarities and differences in themed books and have been retelling events in the stories.
Thanks,
Mrs. Cordes
In grade 2-3, we have moved onto our next unit in math, which is patterns. We are also working on writing letters (to Santa) and organizing our paragraphs. In science, we are learning about Objects and Materials (grade 1-2), and Structures and Materials (grade 3). There will be some fun hands on experiments in these units. I appreciate the weekly comprehension pages coming in. Keep up with the daily reading. I see some stickers on the chart!
Thanks,
Mr. Chambers
With Christmas just around the corner we will begin practicing for the Christmas concert this week. In Math, students are working on problem solving, multiplication, division, and numbers up to 1,000,000. For Social Studies, the grade 6 students and I have co-created a research assignment where they will be learning the similarities and differences of a chosen country in comparison to Canada. The grade 3-5 Social Studies class continues to learn about treaties and the effects of people on our land. During Phys. Ed. we continue to work on cooperative games, sportsmanship, and personal fitness.
Thanks,
Miss Hill/Miss Moser
REMINDER TO KINDERGARTEN PARENTS
**There will be Kindergarten on Wednesday, December 21st **
January’s Events
Thursday, January 5 - Classes Resume for grades K – 6.
Wednesday, January 18 - SCC Meeting @ 7:00 p.m.
From all the Staff, we wish you a very Merry Christmas!
It is a pleasure to work with you and your children as we learn together at this wonderful little school.
Happy Holidays!!