Nov 30 - Dec 3

It is hard to believe that we are down to the last week (and a day) of this eventful school year.

In literacy centres, students have been working on their memory book google slides project.  While we have only this week left to finish what they can, it will continue to be available to them in their google drive.  There is a page about families for them to work through at home if they want.  

We had a wonderful time at the coulee this week and a few of us even got to see a moose running near by, while it avoided some off leash dogs.  Students sketched nature up close, reviewed some measuring using nonstandard units and listened to story from Saa'kokoto about Okatoko and Napi.

We wrapped up our skipping unit this week in Phys. Ed. I am so impressed at how the students have progressed with their individual skipping skills. They have also gotten very proficient at jumping the big rope while others turn. Many of them can now run in, which is a tricky skill to master. Hopefully they will enjoy some skipping over the summer months. 

On Friday, we spent a bit of time cleaning up the school yard.  Students were surprised by how much garbage was found, even when it doesnt look all that messy or dirty. 

Of course, with Father's Day coming up today, we have done some writing and a special present for our dads.

As we come to the last week of school, we are getting ready to ensure that everything is collected and organized at school. We had our final library exchange last week and we are asking that all library books be returned as soon as possible so that we can begin our year end inventory. We did our last Home Reading exchange on Thursday and ask that all reading books come back to school on Monday, June 21 so that we can begin preparing the reading carts to be ready for our return to school in the fall.

The students have all really enjoyed their work with planting and growing things in our school yard these past two weeks. Mrs. Batchelor has been watering all of the planters twice a week to make sure that our plants take root. During the summer, she could use some volunteers to help with the watering. Ms. Batchelor has set up an on-line sign up so that people can volunteer to come to school to water over the summer months. It is set up for one week at a time. If you sign up, you are promising to come to the school every 2-4 days if there has been no rain and water the plants. If Mother Nature provides the water, you do not have to come to the school. There is a water access right near the playground, so you can bring your children to play and do some watering at the same time. In order to access the water and equipment, I will contact the first volunteer in July and show them where everything is and how to get to it. At the end of the week, they will text the next volunteer and arrange a time to meet and walk them through the process. Thank you to those families who have already signed up for July and the beginning of August. We are still looking for volunteers for the last 3 weeks of the summer. Please consider signing up if you think you might be around during that time. You can find the sign up here.

Upcoming:
Monday June 21 - Please return all Library books and Home Reading books
Monday June 28 - Last Day of Classes