Winston

Hello Families,

As you all know, I will not be back at school in September as I will be off on maternity leave. That being said, our little buddy Winston is looking for his forever home (Starting in June).
He is free and comes with cage, bedding and food. He is very easy to care for and doesn't require too much time or energy. He eats once a day (am) and requires his cage to be cleaned once a week.
He is very affectionate with the kids and gets along well with other animals.

If you are interested please let me know in the next few weeks so we can secure a happy home for him.
-Mrs. Vechsler

Earth Hour, Chocolate and HOMEWORK

Earth Hour
Earth Hour is on Saturday, March 28th at 8:30pm. To join in, we did reading buddies today in the dark. Students used flashlights to read with their grade 7/8 reading buddies.
Here are a few pictures:

Chocolate Bar

Three classes in the school won a 5 lbs chocolate bar for having the highest chocolate bar sales in our fundraiser. Well.. wouldn't you know it, we were one of those winning classes!

Each student will be sent home today with a piece of chocolate in their communication bags. (You're welcome!).

Homework

Each day next week, different students will be sent home with some homework. (Check beside their name on the sheet to see what day they are sharing).

Your task is to help your child choose an item that is small enough to fit in the plastic egg. Students will write 3 hints as to what is in the egg and have a chance to share.

*Please check their communication bag for their sheet and egg.

Hippity Hoppity

 We've had some fun egg and bunny activities going on this week. We've added lots of new sight word and letter matching games to our morning centre options. We are so happy to see our friends as they progress in reading.

Here are Emmah, Logan, Noah, Jacob and Alison counting and stacking bunnies:

 Doing some crafting and writing at the craft table:

 The boys building castles at the blocks:

 After reading the Three Little Pigs, our students have had an opportunity to retell the story through puppets.

 Here are Alison, Brenden and Emmah doing some spring paintings:

Spencer and Shaan doing some symmetrical building:

Here is Liam matching upper case and lower case letters:

Jaxon is doing some graphing with mini-eggs:

Making eggs and chickens at the playdough:

 Aly and Abby doing some beautiful writing:

"I like to watch Cinderella"

"I am in Kindergarten"

 Playing snakes and ladders with Mrs. Stoneman.

 Here is Landon using the magnets to write his name:

Here are some friends spelling out their sight words:

 Spencer and Shaan making identical structures.

Just doing some writing...

 Here is our friend Emmah using the 100's chart to count.

Language and Math games on the tablets.

Happy St. Patty's Day and Happy March Break

Hope everyone has a great March Break! See you back on March 23rd.

Here is a fun song we sang today to practice counting.

Keep practicing those letters, sounds and counting over the break. LOADS of good songs on youtube to help. 

Sea of Green! Love it.

Here we are reading with our reading buddies:

(Here's Mat Man in the back ground)

 Successful St. Patty's Day!

Shaan recreated Mat Man! Way to go Shaan.