September 14, 2015

Hello families and friends,

Today the classes continued work on developing their reading stamina.  We also reviewed the different ways to read a book, finding a "good fit" book, and the student's job during Read to Self.  This is all in preparation for when we begin Daily 5 work later in the year.  We also continued work on representing numbers in different ways.  Ask your child some of the ways they came up with.

In gym, we continued working on our teamwork skills with a pass-the-hoop relay.  Ask your child about this.  We continued our introductory look at our community of Cranston as well in preparation for our community walk.  At the end of the day we looked at a new writing strategy for when you don't know how to spell a word; GUM.  Ask your child what this means.

As the weather is looking to clear up, and we don't know how long it will stay that way for, we are planning our community walk for this Friday, September 18th.  We will be leaving the school at approximately 10:15 a.m. and will be arriving back at the school by 11:45 a.m.  Thank you to those of you that have already informed us that you are willing to volunteer.  If you are available that day and would like to come along please email Mr. Soulliere at <gasoulliere@cbe.ab.ca> with the subject heading COMMUNITY WALK VOLUNTEER.  Include in the message your child's name.  We are still looking for about 6 to 8 more volunteers for the whole group.  Your assistance in this is greatly appreciated.

A reminder to send in Fun Lunch orders for September and October by tomorrow if you would like to order this for your child.  In addition to the payment, please include the remittance form of the order.

Milk Program orders have gone home to all students.  If your child would like milk with their lunch, please have orders in by Wednesday, September 23rd.

As the weather is changing, a reminder to please ensure that your child is dressed for the weather each day.  We had an indoor recess today, but that is not always a guarantee when the weather is not nice so help your child to make sure that they will be comfortable spending the 25 minutes of recess time outside.

Thanks and have a great evening,
Ms. Fournier, Ms. McEvoy, and Mr. Soulliere