February 27-March 9

Hello everyone and welcome to another week!

DIRECTOR'S CUT DVDs

Lights! Camera! Action! Wow--what a great experience for all the students! Brad, from Director's Cut, worked patiently and professionally with all the kids on the 16th to bring our rendition of "The Mitten" to fruition. I hope you have had a chance to watch the DVD that your child brought home on Friday. We had a class 'viewing' on the big screen in Mme. Mortimer's room on Friday and the kids really enjoyed seeing themselves on TV! We learned about props, costumes, sets, voice overs, backgound music, credits and editing.

A BIG THANK YOU to Cameron's Mom, Allison, for volunteering on the day of our 'shoot'! It was certainly a busy day!

THIS WEEK...

For the next 2 weeks, the SKs will be 'on the loose with Dr. Seuss'! We will be immersed in the world of Dr. Seuss and reading many of his great books (Cat in the Hat, Wacky Wednesday, Fox in Socks, The Lorax, Green Eggs and Ham, The Foot Book, etc.) and using them as starting points for a variety of math, literacy, science, and art activities. We will be focusing on hearing, finding and making rhymes. We will also have a variety of 'fun days' (Wacky Wednesday, Crazy socks day, Dr. Seuss' birthday, etc.), so watch for the schedule to come home shortly!

NICKELBY TRAVELLING JOURNAL

The kids have been asking about Nickelby our 'dog', so we will restart our travelling journal this week. During this round, we should expect to see more detailed and colourful drawings, attempts at writing (beginning/ending sounds), random letters, and for some, complete words and sentences. The children are becoming very confident writers and are very proud of the work they produce. Please encourage them to do as much of the journal as they can on their own! Watch for the orange bag.

DR. SEUSS' BIRTHDAY/VOLUNTEER BAKER NEEDED...!

This Friday is Dr. Seuss' birthday and although I won't be here (I'll be out coaching the intermediate girls' basketball team at Confederation for the day) I would like to celebrate the big day! If you enjoy baking, perhaps you would consider baking a cake or cupcakes (possibly with a Dr. Seuss theme) for our class to enjoy? Please let me know if you'd like to help out!
Thanks!

PAGE 3 of REPORT CARDS

Thanks so much to those of you who have signed and returned page 3 of the report card. I appreciate your comments very much. If you have indicated that you would like to discuss the report card, I will check in with you soon to arrange a time.

GUEST TEACHER

The children will have a guest teacher on Wednesday (I will be using day 2 of 3 for the data entry for the SK EDI (Early Development Instrument) and on Friday (I will be out coaching our intermediate girls).

Thanks for checking in and please check in again soon, as I will post the schedule of upcoming 'seuss events'!

Warmly,
Ms. Cox