Dalhousie School News

 Dalhousie School News

Dalhousie students and families participated in the annual Terry Fox run this week. Donations can be made online to the Terry Fox Foundation under Dalhousie School until Monday, October 3. Cash will also be accepted until then. Thank you for your generosity in making this initiative such a success! 

School photos retakes will take place on take place on October 17 & 18, 2022.

There is no school on Friday, October 7 due to a non-instruction day and Monday, October 10 due to Thanksgiving.

Dalhousie Parent Society Updates

Thank you to everyone who purchased for our Apple Fundraiser! Apples will be delivered October 11 from 3pm-5pm at the school. We will need a few volunteers to help with the deliveries. 

Fun Lunch

Oct 4 – Boston Pizza (orders due Sept 29)

Oct 12 – Subway (orders due Oct 7)

Oct 18 – Opa & Booster Juice (deadline Oct 13)

Oct 26 – Fat Burger (deadline Oct 21)

Nov 1 – The Saucy Bread Company (deadline Oct 27)

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

 Please look on our website www.dalhousieparentsociety.com for all info and more! 

 

 

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