A Peek at the Week: May 29- June 2nd

It is hard to believe that we are heading in to June already! As I mentioned last week, this is a busy time of year and it will be important to be looking at updates during this last month of school. Whole school updates are found on the school website http://wps.blackgold.ca/and classroom updates are found on Class Dojo.

Ms. Tailor Pedersen will be starting on Monday as our guest teacher for the remainder of the school year. She is a recent graduate from the Concordia University Bachelor of Education program and has been completing an internship called the Bridges Program at Willow Park School for the month of May. She has been working in our classroom during the mornings this month. It is nice that our guest teacher is someone the students are familiar with, and that she is also familiar with them! I will be transferring the ClassDojo account to her on Friday. She will be in touch with you next week with her contact information and how to best communicate with her until the end of the year. Later on this week, I'll be sending home some of your child's work that has been completed this term.

This week:

• Field trip forms were due last Friday, May 26th. If your child's forms and payment have not been returned, they will not be attending the zoo field trip. 
• Tomorrow is 'Moving On Day', which means grade 1s will spend some time in the grade 2 class with the grade 2 teachers learning more about what grade 2 will be like. 
• We could still use 1-2 volunteers for Monday's field trip. If you are available please let me know by Thursday.
• Friday is our last pizza by the slice lunch of the year. $2/slice. Please send in your payment by first thing Friday morning. Also, please let your child know WHERE there money is. We've had a few cases of students finding payment for frozen treats or pizza after the money was collected because they didn't know they had it or where to find it. Home/School folders are the best place to put the money as I check them first thing in the morning during announcements (as long as your child remembers to hand their book in, which is their responsibility!)
• We are celebrating our class UNBIRTHDAY PARTY on Friday- rather than encourage individual snacks sent on individual birthdays, I like to set aside a day to celebrate everyone's birthday all together! That way students with birthdays that fall on the weekend or during holidays get a chance to join in on the fun, too! If you'd like to send a special snack please let me know so that I can inform you of student allergies and how many students are in the class. 

As always please let me know (by the end of the week!) if you have any further questions or require additional information. As I mentioned, Ms. Pedersen will be in touch with you early next week!

A Peek at the Week: May 22-26th

It is a very busy week and month ahead! Please be sure to check updates regularly, as things tend to run a little off schedule due to all of the special events that happen around this time of the year. As always, do not hesitate to ask if you have further questions or require additional information.

• School Pictures: Our 1H Class Photo is tomorrow morning before swimming lessons!
• Swimming Lessons tomorrow- send swim gear!
• Div. 1 Choir Pizza Party on Thursday at lunch in the Music Room
• Jump Rope for Heart pledges are due on Friday
• Zoo Field Trip permission forms and payment are due this Friday, May 26th. We are in need of about 1-2 more volunteers. Please let me know if you are available! 
• Spelling Tests are on Friday
• Frozen Treat Friday this Friday- please send your $1.00 in by Thursday
• Hot Dog forms are due next Wednesday

A note about LIFT:

Now that everyone participating in LIFT has received all of the LIFT packages, I'm going to stop sending them home. Thank you to everyone who participated in this program. If you have any bags or items from the bags at your home, please send them back. I am missing the Colours card game and the blue sea horse stuffy. We will continue nightly home reading! 

On Friday, June 2nd we will be having our class UNBIRTHDAY Party! It is a chance for us to celebrate EVERYONE in the class' birthday, as many have birthdays in the summer or on weekends. We will play some classic birthday party games and enjoy some birthday treats. If you would like to send some birthday treats such as cupcakes, cookies, fruit, veggies, or cheese and crackers on this day, please let me know! This will also be my last day before I head out on maternity leave so it will be nice to end the day with a party!