Hello everyone and welcome back! I hope you and your children have had a restful holiday. I have posted my archived emails to classroom parents dating from September to December on my blog for your reference. I also have photos from many of our classroom activities and will post them on my blog shortly.
Just a reminder that this Wednesday, January 6 is our Scientist in the Classroom day - thank you to our four parent volunteers! The children will be learning about Magnets and the 2-hour session will start right after announcements.
A reminder from the Library that parent volunteers are no longer needed. If you have signed up to be a volunteer for January and would still like to help in the classroom the originally scheduled day (but not during Library time) please let me know -- you could be a special mystery reader or help the children with their phonics booklets, for example!
An important note regarding snacks: due to the increase in food allergies the kindergarten team would ask that any baked goods or special treats (i.e. birthday treats) be commercially purchased and that they *must* be nut safe/free (i.e. baked/made in a nut-free facility).
I would also like to say a very sincere thank you to all of you for your wonderful and generous Christmas gifts and for the lovely rosemary tree with the children's ornaments on them; I will treasure them and I also truly appreciate the gifts from Ma Maison, Starbucks and Gourmet Kitchen! I have written thank you cards to you individually and they will go home in tomorrow's white TDSB bags along with some of the Holiday crafts your children made that hadn't dried by the end of our party. Thank you again.
Please remember that the children need indoor shoes/slippers that they wear in the morning and that stay in their cubbies overnight. Most of the children can now do their own zippers and dress themselves which is excellent! On cold days such as today we won't be going outside but the children still always need to be warmly dressed for the walk home i.e. hats and mitts. I have a "lost and found" corner in the cloakroom and a few pairs of gloves and two sweaters are there now.
This month we are continuing with phonics and numbers and the green phonics booklets will be going home this Thursday. If your child has missed some of the sheets due to absence please encourage him/her to complete the sheets at home over the weekend.
As always, Reading Club is on Mondays and Fridays from 10:30-11:00 a.m.
I will be starting a new series of books for our Snuggle Books that go home on Tuesdays and Thursdays. Please remember to return the white TDSB bag before the next suggle book day (i.e. by Monday or Wednesday respectively).
Please feel free to send me an email at any time if you have specific questions that I haven't addressed in my blog, or as always you can talk to me before or after classes.
Thank you,
Beverley
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