Halloween

We dressed up today (and looked amazing). We had gym and did lots of Halloween activities. We made halloween puppets, and had many different halloween-themed centres including pumpkin investigations (does it sink/ float?), ghost sketching with chalk, making haunted houses, and other activities with bugs, skeletons, and pumpkins! We also counted the seeds in one of our pumkins and discovered that there were 588 all together.

- AM Kindergarten attends school this Friday, Nov.2 / No School for PM Kindergarten

- Scholastic book orders due November 1st. 

- For the month of November, we are focussing on our community. We are looking for one 5x7 photo of your child standing in front of the entire outside of your house. Please make sure the entire house is visible in the photo. We will be using these photos for an art project in the near future. Please print and have your child bring in this photo by November 5th (hopefully before the snow hits)!

Pumpkins!

Today was a very busy day! We started with arrival centres and then transitioned to reading a book about pumpkins. We practiced our "5 Little Pumpkins" song and even learned a new one called "The Witch's Brew." We did some math where we figured out a word problem and we also did some new pumpkin related centres. We ended our day by drawing some beautiful pumpkins.

- Ask your child to draw a pumpkin at home.
- Ask your child to show you 2 ways to show 5 green and red leaves.


Updates:
- Book orders are due November 1st. Please order under your child's responsibility teacher online.
- For the month of November, we are focussing on our community. We are looking for one 5x7 photo of your child standing in front of the entire outside of your house. Please make sure the entire house is visible in the photo. We will be using these photos for an art project in the near future. Please print and have your child bring in this photo by November 5th (hopefully before the snow hits)!

Writing Journals

We wrote in our writing journals about what we will dress up as on Halloween. We read many books on Halloween and also had centres. We had gym as well.

Updates and Reminders: 

- Scholastic book orders due November 1st. 

- Students are welcome to wear their Halloween costumes to school tomorrow. Costumes have to be on before coming to school. Please remember to leave your scary masks and toy weapons at home as Eric Harvie School is a peaceful community.

- For the month of November, we are focussing on our community. We are looking for one 5x7 photo of your child standing in front of the entire outside of your house. Please make sure the entire house is visible in the photo. We will be using these photos for an art project in the near future. Please print and have your child bring in this photo by November 5th (hopefully before the snow hits)!

Glenbow Ranch Reflection

Today we had gym and centres. We also had some time to reflect about our Glenbow Ranch field trip and come up with ideas together on what we saw. Students then used their visual journals to draw and color their favorite things at the Glenbow Ranch.

- Ask me what I drew about the Glenbow Ranch.

No school tomorrow for both AM and PM students. It is a Professional Development day for teachers. 

- Tickets for Spooktacular were sent home today. Please email ehsspecialevents@gmail.com to reserve tickets if you have not yet purchased them. Pickup at the door. 

- Scholastics book orders were sent home today. Please book orders online under your child's responsibility teacher by November 1st, 2018. 

- For the month of November, we are focussing on our community. We are looking for one 5x7 photo of your child standing in front of the entire outside of your house. Please make sure the entire house is visible in the photo. We will be using these photos for an art project in the near future. Please print and have your child bring in this photo by November 5th (hopefully before the snow hits)!

Thanks and enjoy your weekend!
                                    Example of photo we are looking for (beside the drawing) : 

Glenbow Ranch (AM)

It was another adventurous day for the AM kindergarten students at the Glenbow Ranch.

There is regular school tomorrow for both AM and PM students.

Thanks!


The Grade 4 Peace Ambassadors are running the annual Jacket Racket Project this year. They will run the collection of clothing items from Thursday, October 25 to Friday, November 2.

We are looking for 1-2 parent volunteers to come in fist thing in the morning for during that time to assist the students with sorting and bagging the collected items. One group of students will collect the items from classrooms and the other group will help sort the items with the parent volunteer. There will be sorting bins, bags and labels set up in the hub and parent volunteers can expect to be there from about 8:30 to 9:00AM. 

If you can help us out, please sign up at https://www.signupgenius.com/go/5080d44afab28abf94-jacket

Volunteers must have completed their police security checks and have their security clearance.

Thank you for volunteering your time!

Jacket Racket Project 2018

The Grade 4 Peace Ambassadors are running the annual Jacket Racket Project this year. They will run the collection of clothing items from Thursday, October 25 to Friday, November 2.

We are looking for 1-2 parent volunteers to come in fist thing in the morning for during that time to assist the students with sorting and bagging the collected items. One group of students will collect the items from classrooms and the other group will help sort the items with the parent volunteer. There will be sorting bins, bags and labels set up in the hub and parent volunteers can expect to be there from about 8:30 to 9:00AM.  If you can help us out, please sign up at https://www.signupgenius.com/go/5080d44afab28abf94-jacket1

Volunteers must have completed their police security checks and have their security clearance.

Thank you for volunteering your time!

Glenbow Ranch (PM group)

PM students visited the Glenbow Ranch today. It was a great day filled with lots of walking, journaling, and fun! Thank you to our parent volunteers. Your help is always appreciated! 

AM students have their field trip tomorrow and PM students do not have school. 

Wednesday October 24 AM Kindergarten will go to Glenbow Ranch 8:25am-3:05pm

No School for PM Kindergarten. 

Please note: we will be outside all day on the field trip.  Please dress your child in layers and with
comfortable walking shoes. All students need a lunch, snacks and a full water bottle.

Drop off and pick up will be at the regular Kindergarten doors.

Gift card forms were also sent home. Please return the folders. 

Thanks! 

Journals

AM students had their first fire drill today. They did a fantastic job and stayed calm the whole time. They also read the book A Tree is Nice by Janice Udry and worked in their writing journals to draw and write about why they think a tree is nice. We had many ideas such as, "a tree is nice because it gives shade" and "a tree is nice because it gives us fruit." PM students reflected on their bird sanctuary field trip and drew 4 things that they liked about the field trip. The yellow school bus and the deer was a popular choice! PM students also had Mrs. Parker visit them to introduce us to our Glenbow Ranch field trip tomorrow. 

Tuesday October 23 PM Kindergarten will go to Glenbow Ranch 8:25am-3:05pm

No School for AM Kindergarten

Wednesday October 24 AM Kindergarten will go to Glenbow Ranch 8:25am-3:05pm

No School for PM Kindergarten

Please note: we will be outside all day on the field trip.  Please dress your child in layers and with comfortable walking shoes.  All students need a lunch, snacks and a full water bottle.

Drop off and pick up will be at the regular Kindergarten doors.

Gift card forms were also sent today. Please return the folders. 

Thanks! 

Inglewood Bird Sanctuary (PM)

The PM students visited the Inglewood Bird Sanctuary today. The weather was beautiful and we were very fortunate to see many birds today and even a deer! Thank you to our wonderful parent volunteers who made our experience amazing.

We hope you all have a great weekend.

PM Kindergarten will be going to the Glenbow Ranch on Tuesday, October 23rd and AM Kindergarten will be there on Wednesday, October 24th. We need to have all signed field trip forms back by Monday.

- There is a lost and found in front of the office. We will be putting all Kindergarten lost items there starting today. If your child has lost items, please visit the office (through the front doors) after students have been dismissed to find any items your child may have lost. Thank you. 

- Please make sure that all of your child's belongings are labeled with first and last names as our lost and found bin continues to grow. This includes mittens, hats, gloves, jackets, snow pants, and boots.

- Please send back the colored folders and any forms.