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.