Sunday, March 4

Hello families,

Our skating parties this week (a.m. class) and last (p.m. class) were a lot of fun and we had good weather! The children had a great time and thank you so very much to all the parents who came out to tie skates.

On Thursday, Scientist in the Classroom Patricia taught the children All About Bugs, which was a good lead-in to Spring. Thanks to all the parent volunteers on this day as well.

If your SK child's Phonics duotang has been sent home please work on it and return it to school on Monday/Tuesday. We are now starting Set 4 of the series.

If your child has received the Alphabet and Numbers Photo Book please read it with your child and return it the next day so that another child can read it. Thank you. It will take approximately 43 days to go through the morning and afternoon classes.

The afternoon class will be interviewed this upcoming week by their Reading Buddies and they, Mrs. Zappi's students, will follow this up by writing a story about their reading Buddy. Morning Reading Buddies completed a booklet together about Mittens.

If you are going to a sunny destination over the March Break please bring back as many small seashells as you can for a special craft project. Shells that have holes in them (for putting string through) are preferable. Thank you!

Thanks as always to this week's Parent Volunteers:

Reading Club: Olivia's mom
Mystery Reader: Tatum's mom, Sienna's dad
White Bags: Declan's mom (a.m.)

Starting next week we will be welcoming parents who will be talking about their occupations as we learn about Community Helpers: thank you so much in advance to Emma and Jonas' father Arne who will talk to the a.m. children about being a Bone Doctor (Orthopaedic Surgeon); Luke's mom Michelle (a.m. class) who will talk to the children about her work in a Bank and all about saving/investing money (a great lead-in to our unit on Canadian coins and their values); Jacob's mom (p.m. class) who will talk about her work as a Pediatric Nurse. If you would like to volunteer to talk to the children about your work (only about 20 minutes is necessary) please just send me an email and we will arrange a time suitable to your schedule. I will also be arranging for Bob the Crossing Guard and a Toronto Firefighter to speak to the children about their jobs as Community Helpers. More information to follow.

I apologize for forgetting to email parents whose children received TDSB Character Trait certificates this month. I usually remember to send out emails but forgot this month. I am so sorry!

Wishing you a good weekend,

Mrs. Tyndall