Wednesday, June 29, 2016

June 29

Dear families,

Wow - the last week of school! It was a fun and busy week as we finished our learning about summer and talked about what to expect next year in SK and Grade One!

Our Senior Kindergarten Graduation was on Tuesday. Thank you so much to our SK Parents who provided a beautiful cupcake-cake for the children, along with fruit, juice and cheese snacks, as well as cutlery and napkins. The children had a great day and are excited about next year!

This week the SKs wrote about what they would like to be when they grow up. On the other side of that page is "I would like to tell my Grade One teacher..." I think your child's Grade One teacher would love to see this in September!

The children also completed a colouring activity about boating safety and wearing life jackets. They finished their Canada Day Fireworks art and it looks awesome.

Thank you so much to Stella's mom who helped out this week in the computer lab.

Today, the last day, was Pizza-Lunch-on-the-Lawn. Thank you so much to the parent who volunteered their time with this too - Andrew's dad, Ellie's mom, Hannah's mom, and all the other parents who helped make it a success.

We met with our Reading Buddies today and for a special surprise watched "Finding Nemo" together.

I would like to say a huge Thank You to Theresa and Mary for all their help this year as fantastic Grade Parents. Being a Grade Parent takes an enormous amount of time, organization and energy, and one big reason this year ran so successfully with all our parent volunteers was thanks to Mary and Theresa's work. Thank you again to all the parents who volunteered their time in the classroom this year - the children loved seeing you in their environment!

Thank you as well to Miss. Nisker who also helped make this year terrific.

Finally, thank you so much for the wonderful teacher gifts... I love teaching and I feel enormously grateful for the lovely children and families I get to work with each day.

I hope you have a safe and fun summer, and I will see you in September!

Mrs. Tyndall

Sunday, June 26, 2016

Week of June 27-29

Dear families,

It's so hard to believe that this will be the last few days of school before the summer holidays! It looks like we're going to have lovely summer weather! It was so hot on Monday that we had Freezie Monday as well as Freezie Friday!

This week was our last Sharing Assembly, and Riley, Ruby and William received certificates for Perseverance. I am so proud of you!

The Seniors were very excited about being allowed to play in the "big kids'" playground this week, and about seeing the Grade One classes.

I'm happy to report that our class returned all of their overdue Library books! Way to go!

The Seniors are working on their big Phonics duotangs (great practice for Grade One) and the Juniors wrote about and drew their favourite Kindergarten Activity. The Seniors are also finishing up their Memory Book, and all the children are practising Summer Words. They also shared and wrote what they wanted to do this summer, and wrote that on a Beach ``Bucket List`` craft.

We made Thank You cards for our Reading Buddies. This week will be our last class together. Thank you Ms. Sunde`s Class!

Our sight words this week were EAT and EGG. Next week there will be four: GOOD, BYE, SCHOOL, KIDS. :) I sent home 5 sight words lists with the SKs to review at home.

Thank you to Andrew's mom who helped our in the Computer Lab and Iris' mom who was the Mystery Reader!

The children finished their Canada Day 3-D Fireworks Art and they look amazing.

We also recorded and graphed all the different activities the children will be doing this summer.

Tomorrow (Monday) your children will be receiving their report cards. I am so proud of all of them and all their progress! Wednesday is the year-end LKS assembly and Pizza Lunch on the Lawn.

That`s the news for this week! I am really looking forward to seeing all the SK Parents and family at their children`s graduation on Tuesday at 1:30. I have finished the slideshow and it turned out really nicely. I`m looking forward to sharing it with you!

See you tomorrow :)