September 2, 2015

Hello families and friends,

Another great day in room 3/4!  We started out our day by getting to better know our small class groups and talk more about some of the routines and expectations.  Ask your child about some of the things we talked about.  Then we had our morning snack.  Each day we will have snack for about 5 to 10 minutes.  This is a time for students to have a small snack, go to the washroom, have a drink, etc.  On some days there will be an afternoon snack as well, but this will not be a regular thing.  Please provide your child with something small to snack on that does not take a long time to eat and makes little mess.  Some excellent options are fruits and vegetables, as there is minimal mess and set up time.  After our snack we went outside for an activity and social break.  Then we came back in and worked on representing numbers in different ways.

We had lunch at 11:15.  Each day all grade 1/2 students will eat lunch first for 25 mintues, and then they have 25 minutes outside for recess.  In the afternoon we started working on a self-portrait.  We talked about different face shapes and some of the proportions and placements of different parts of the face.  We also went outside for gym and played some different tag games.  After that we continued our work on our self-portraits.  Mr. Soulliere's class had our first day of music this afternoon, and Ms. Fournier and Ms. McEvoy's classes did some author's chair, sharing some of the All About Me sheets we worked on yesterday.  We finished the day working on some writing about what we did over the summer.  Ask your child what they wrote about.

A reminder that all students need to have indoor and outdoor shoes.  As the weather is supposed to be turning wet over the next few days, we want to minimize the amount of mud and dirt that is coming into the school.  Also, while the weather remains nice and warm, Mr. McDougall is planning on taking the students outside for gym each day.  Our gym time is from 12:40-1:10 on Monday, Tuesday, and Thursday, with dance at the same time on Wednesday.  Please make sure that your child is wearing outdoor shoes that are suitable for being active outside and are dressed to be outside during those times.

Please ensure that all of your child's belongings are labelled with their name (with last name or last initial as well!).  We have had a couple things go missing already.  Also, it would be a great help if you could check your child's backpack at the end of each day to see if there is anything that does not belong to them that has made its way there.

Some forms have gone home over the last couple days.  Please fill out as much of the information as you can and return those to your child's teacher as soon as possible.

Thanks, and have a wonderful Wednesday,
Harmony 1/2 Team