Tuesday September 26

Thank you to everyone who came to meet with me on Thursday and Friday last week. It's always so nice to meet the hard workers behind the scense who are busy raising the awesome students in my class. As mentioned at the meetings we are hoping everyone is getting the emails from the office so if you didn't receive an Email on Friday afternoon (Sept. 22) from the office then that means you haven't subscribed. Please follow the link below to get that set up.

http://calgary.schoolmessenger.com/cbe_subscribe

Scholastic book orders came home today. I apologize for 2 different dates on them. I meant to send them home on Thursday but I was missing a flyer. If you are interested in ordering anything from these please return the flyer and payment by next Friday October 6th. There is an option to pay online that you will see on the flyer or you can send cash or cheque to the school with the order. 

This Friday, September 29th is our annual Terry Fox run. Students will be doing the run outside around 11:15. The run will go until about 11:45 so this will not leave much time for lunch in the classroom before they are dismissed for the day. It might be a good idea to send what I'll call a "Super Snack" for Friday and they'll have a chance to eat it before we go to our assembly. We will also be collecting 'Twoonies for Terry' that will be donated to Cancer Research so students can bring them in all week. 

Also on Friday it is Orange Shirt day. We are honouring that "Every Child Matters".  Students will be learning about this concept all week and how Orange shirt day came to be. If people don't have orange shirts that is ok, anything orange will work. I'm not sure I have much orange myself! 

In Social Studies, students have started to learn a bit about Canada. We started today by looking at maps of Canada and heard from a few students who have moved to Alberta from other provinces. Please have a discussion at home with your child about any trips you have taken or experiences from other areas of Canada that they may be able to share with us at school. It is really difficult for students at this age to grasp the differences between cities, provinces, and countries so we will be working hard to help them explore these concepts. I'm excited already about how many of us have family in other regions of Canada or have adventured to other parts of this beautiful country. No worries if you haven't left Alberta because there are also so many unique communities that we can talk about in this province as well.