Thursday, Sept. 29th 2022

In Spanish we have been working with adjective to describe physical characteristics and personality traits. We continue to work with the verb ser, which is one of the two verbs for "to be". It is used for more permanent traits, such as nationality, personality, what something is made of and time and date. We will be working towards describing ourselves and others. 

In social, we continue to talk about landforms. Today we talked about erosion and valleys.

In math, we are working on telling time and calculating the time until something happens. Students are encouraged to practice telling the time and calculating time at home. 

In English, we had a very intense and heartfelt conversation around residential schools in Canada. Many people felt some very big feelings. It would be important to continue these conversations and check in with how your student is feeling about this topic. We will continue this next week and throughout the course of our social studies classes as well. 

We had our school photos yesterday. The whole class photo was not taken, more info on when that will be in the future. If your student was absent there will be retakes, also more info to come. 

Tuesday, Sept. 27

We are focusing some English and social time to talk about Truth and Reconciliation this week. This topic is embedded into a lot of our social studies curriculum this year. We will be talking about residential school this week. Continuing these difficult conversations at home is an important process. Students have been tasked with bringing a rock from their community with them to school to help them manage any big feelings that they feel while we are talking about difficult topics. 

In math, we are working with telling the time.

In science we are working with the scientific method and will be starting our first experiment soon. 

In Spanish, we are working on reviewing descriptive adjectives about personality and physical traits. 

IT IS PICTURE DAY TOMORROW! Wednesday, Sept. 27th.

ORANGE SHIRT DAY! Thursday, Sept. 28th

NO SCHOOL Friday, Sept. 29th

REMINDERS

Dalhousie students and families will be participating in the annual Terry Fox run. The run will be held at the school on today, at 1:45 PM. Donations can be made online to the Terry Fox Foundation under Dalhousie School. Students are also encouraged to bring a Toonie for Terry on the day of the run. 

School photos will take place on September 27 for the Tuesday/Thursday Kindergarten group, Grades 1, 3 and 5. On September 28, the Monday/Wednesday Kindergarten group as well as Grades 2 and 4 will have their pictures taken. Please note that it will be the individual as well as the class photos.  Retakes will take place on October 17 & 18, 2022.

On Thursday, September 29, Dalhousie will recognize the National Day for Truth & Reconciliation by wearing orange shirts. Students will also be engaging in learning around Indigenous Ways of Knowing and Being.  

There is no school on Friday, September 30.

Grade 1, 2, and 3 students have the opportunity to go swimming at Churchill Pool on October 17, 18, 19, 20, 24, 25. Students will have the opportunity to participate in the “Swim to Survive” program. These forms have been sent home with your child. Please fill out the Acknowledgment of Risk form & the Swimming Ability form , returning them to your child’s classroom teacher by no later than September 29, 2022. Both of these forms are required in order for your child to participate in swimming program. Thank you to our Dalhousie Parent Society who generously funded a large portion of the bussing, thereby reducing the individual cost to families.  We will require 6 additional volunteers and 1 male volunteer for each time slot for this field trip to be a success. Please see the Sign Up Genius to sign up for a volunteer slot. Only approved CBE volunteers will be permitted to attend this trip.   As we currently have a shortage of cleared volunteers in the lower grades, parents who are cleared from Kindergarten, Grades 4 & 5 are welcome to sign up.

Dalhousie Parent Society News

Our Apple Fundraiser is underway! Place your orders with the forms sent home by September 28. Cheques or e-transfers are accepted! 

Our Fall Harvest Fundraiser allows you to get some fresh produce.  Please visit https://store.indeygo.com/fundraisers/dalhousie-school-fall-harvest-fundraiser/. Donations can also be made to the Foodbank! What a great opportunity to double up on helping out! 

The next fun lunches are Fat Burger and Mucho Burrito. Get your orders in by Friday, September 23 at midnight on healthyhunger.ca  All restaurants are up until the end of December so feel free to order for any of the weeks.

If your child is going to be absent and you have ordered them a lunch, please email dalhousieschoolparentsociety@gmail.com before 11am the morning of fun lunch and let us know if you would

1. like it sent home with a sibling
2. You would like to pick it up
3. Donate it to the amazing staff

Kinder Parents, please make sure you are only ordering for the day your child is attending. 

If you would like to volunteer for fun lunch, check out available spots.  If you aren’t sure if you have clearance for volunteering, please email us and we will be able to help you out dalhousieschoolparentsociety@gmail.com

EPIC and PRODIGY INFO

EPIC BOOKS - this site is available from 7am-3pm

Classroom Code: jzk2313

PRODIGY - Sutherland Aula 7. Class code: 6F5D1C1

Sign in with Google @educbe.ca email

If and when prompted for a password, it will be the last four digits of your students CBE Student ID number.

More info on RazKids hopefully coming soon. 

Friday, Sept 23rd

THANKS! To all parents and students that were able to join for our first Parent Teacher Conferences! It was great chatting with you and learning more about your students. :)

REMINDERS:

Terry Fox run on the 26th afternoon.

SCHOOL PHOTOS: Wednesday, Sept 28th 

Orange Shirt Day: Thursday, Sept. 29th

NO SCHOOL: Friday, Sept. 30th 

From the classroom:

In social studies, we have been talking about landforms and more specifically, the mountains.

In math, we continue to work on ordering 4 digit numbers and greater than, less than or equal to.

In Spanish, we have started learning how to tell the time. We will incorporate and time unit in math to build on this knowledge. 

In English, we continue to talk about summaries. Students were tasked with organizing 4 different summaries into different categories. Students are encouraged to orally summarize what they read or watch and include the most important details!

In science, we are nearly done talking about the scientific method. Students will soon be putting the steps to practice with a paper airplane experiment.

Happy Weekend!

Tuesday, Sept. 20th

We continue to foster class our classroom expectations and ability to follow three step instructions. We have been working on the components of a good summary in English. In Spanish, we have been reviewing the verb ser and will work on telling the time starting tomorrow. Students have music on Monday and Tuesday where they have been practicing the recorder. A few students still have to bring them in so please feel free to double check that it is not at home. 

In math, we have started working on comparing numbers up to four digits. EXTRA MATH PRACTICE is available in Google Classroom, under Math Practice. Reviewing place value, ordering numbers and comparing would be beneficial. You student should be logging in to their school Gmail to accept the invitation for them to join our Google Classroom shell. Lastly, if your student has not reviewed the Digital Citizenship form with you please have them do so ASAP, sign and return.

THANKS!

Important info:

No school Friday, Sept. 23 for interviews.

Thursday interviews in person.

Friday interviews online.

AS OF TONIGHT the old booking system is working. Sorry for all of the inconvenience caused this week. 

TERRY FOX RUN - Monday, Sept. 26th

CLASS PHOTOS - Wednesday, Sept. 28th.

ORANGE SHIRT DAY - Thursday, Sept. 29th

NO SCHOOL - Friday Sept. 30th

Friday, September 16th

 **Please see the previous post for important school information.**

In English we continued our work on summarizing and students should be able to tell the difference between sharing opinions and retelling important details of a story or event. We will continue to be working on this topic for a lot of the year. 

In social we have been working on cardinal directions and have started talking about landforms. 

In art we started painting a colour wheel and working with primary and secondary colours. 

We will continue to prepare for the Terry Fox run in gym. 

PLEASE help your child accept the invite and log into our google classroom shell, which has been created. If there are any problems with the password I can help them next week. 

IMPORTANT INFO!!

On Monday, September 19, Dalhousie School will observe a moment of silence in to mark the passing of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II. All CBE School and workplaces will remain open as scheduled.

Please see the separate email that was sent regarding Parent Teacher Interviews, which will be held on Thursday, September 22 and Friday, September 23.   The conference booking application is currently experience technical issues and you may not be able to book at the initially indicated time.  We thank you for your patience.

Due to Parent Teacher Interviews, there is no school for all students on Friday, September 23.  It is a full day of school for all students, including Tuesday/Thursday Kindergarten students on Thursday, September 22.

Dalhousie students and families will be participating in the annual Terry Fox run. The run will be held at the school on September 26 at 1:45 PM. Donations can be made online to the Terry Fox foundation under Dalhousie School. Students are also encouraged to bring a Toonie for Terry on the day of the run. 

School photos will take place on September 27 for the Tuesday/Thursday Kindergarten group, Grades 1, 3 and 5. On September 28, the Monday/Wednesday Kindergarten group as well as Grades 2 and 4 will have their pictures taken. Please note that it will be the individual as well as the class photos. A retake date will be confirmed.

 

Dalhousie Parent Society News

Our Apple Fundraiser is underway! Place your orders with the forms sent home by September 28. Cheques or e-transfers are accepted! 

Our Fall Harvest Fundraiser allows you to get some fresh produce.  Donations can also be made to the Foodbank! What a great opportunity to double up on helping out! 

The next Healthy Hunger fun lunches are Fat Burger and Mucho Burrito. Get your orders in by Friday, September 23 at midnight on healthyhunger.ca  All restaurants are up until the end of December so feel free to order for any of the weeks.

Tuesday, Sept. 13th

Hello from room 7, 

So far this week we have been working on our page organization, how to use a binder and working on a writing assignment for English. In Spanish we have been working on reviewing class room materials and the alphabet. Students were tasked with spelling their whole names. In math, we are reviewing place value and remembering how to pronounce numbers in Spanish. In gym we continue to train for the Terry Fox run. We are starting social and science this week. 

Friday, September 9th

We had a great wrap up to our week and celebration of the beginning of school today. This morning we had a whole school Welcome Back Assembly! It was a great opportunity for us to all gather in the gym. We had a special guest performance by a musical group, Las Mayonasas! Ask your student for more details. ;)

We have started completing assessment exercises for math, English and Spanish. 

We will be starting to use binders this year. Students will begin using them next week. We will also be reviewing how to use a piece of paper and other fun organizational classroom tasks!

School Info!

Terry Fox Donation sheets went home today. Please donate online, there is a QR code on the donation sheet. We did an excellent job raising fund for this worthy cause last year and we want to continue to support Terry Fox organization. Thank you for your support!

 

Tuesday, September 6th

Here is our update:

Today we started a more typical school day schedule. The students had their first music class! We worked on our team work while completing the solo cup challenge. Students are working on a puzzle piece about themselves and they had to write three sentences in Spanish that they will be sharing with the class tomorrow. We have officially started our training for the Terry Fox run, which will take place on the afternoon of the 26th, Sept. 

I will check in again on Friday.

Friday, September 1st

Welcome to our first official blog post! We have had a busy couple of days in the classroom. We have been able to start working together as one big group. We have talked about building community and the role that we all have in our communities. Today, students helped to come up with a great list of classroom rules and they have also labeled and created their bins. We worked together outside on collaborative games and they have learned a little bit about each of their teachers. 

Please remind your child that if they have not received confirmation from the teacher that the self dismiss form has come through, they are not allowed to leave the teachers side without the teachers permission at dismissal. 

We hope that you have a great long weekend and we will look forward to welcoming you back on Tuesday, September 6th.