Week of October 30-November 3

Dear families,

November already! What a busy week we had last week! On Monday we went to the Strawberry Creek Farm and had a wonderful visit! The children explored a corn maze, went on a wagon ride through a forest, picked their own pumpkin, fed a donkey, bunny, goat and sheep, played in the playground, and watched a pumpkin get shot through a pumpkin cannon! Thank you so much to the parents who volunteered their time and energy on this trip; the moms of Elea, Ella, Anilee, and Hope, and Vivienne's dad.

Tuesday was Halloween, one of the most exciting days of the year for the little ones. The day started with Jackson's mom as Mystery Reader, then the LKS Halloween Parade, was followed by the Dance-a-thon, then some Halloween class activities, then a little walk across the street to visit the "haunted" house, lots of treat sorting, slime making, and ending with the Halloween Craft Party! The children made spider lollipops with Ethan's mom, witchy paintings with Yara's mom, Frankenstein faces with Dante's mom, and mummies with Maya's mom!

On Wednesday the children helped make a graph of their favourite type of candy (chocolate!), helped with a word web about slime, tasted and made a word web about roasted pumpkin seeds, made a pumpkin word web, read words with witchy fingers, and watched the Oscar nominated movie "Room on the Broom."

The children also continued working on their "Halloween Colours" booklet with their Reading Buddies, read with the Grade 8 L.I.V.E. volunteers (we do this once a week), and made beautiful poppy field paintings (on display in the hall). On Friday morning LKS will have a Remembrance Day Ceremony in the gym. If your child is in Sparks or Beavers, please dress them in their uniform for Friday's assembly. Thank you.

We will make a class poppy wreath this week and will start our Kindness Quilt. For the quilt, each child will write and draw a picture of how they are a friend to others. Then we'll put them all together to make a "quilt." Remembrance Day and the quilt we're making tie in well to the November TDSB trait of Empathy, which we will acknowledge at the November Sharing Assembly. We'll do lots of learning about what it is to be a friend in this inquiry, as well as the importance of respecting our differences and uniqueness.

The "popcorn" words of the week were SAID and WHERE.

For the November 24 Sharing Assembly please have your child wear yellow if possible. The yellow LKS school shirt would be perfect!

The November words list and November Homework Bingo went home in Friday's mail bag. Please encourage your child to practice these words at home. Thank you!

The Scholastic order is due on November 24. This is the last one before Christmas. If you would like the books to be a surprise, just write "gift" on your order form. Thank you for supporting Scholastic!

That's the news for this week. See you tomorrow!