Week of June 18-22

Dear families,

Here is this week's news from Room 166!

The children read and drew accompanying pictures to 24 summer words. I think their drawing has really improved! The children are learned three new end-of-year songs: ABC You Later, Zippadeedoodah, and This Fabulous Year. Great singing! The Juniors read and coloured in a pattern book called "Summer, Summer, What Do You See?" and the Seniors are working on a Memory Book. The children also helped make a tally chart of all the activities they are going to do (or think they are going to do!) this summer! They also spelled out CAMP words.

Canada Day is approaching and the kids watched trwo CBC "Canadooday" video songs about The Maple Leaf and The RCMP. They also coloured a picture of a beaver and Canadian Flag, traced the words, "Happy Canada Day" and made a picture of fireworks with black paint, glue and glitter. They circled all the words of "Oh Canada" that they know and practised singing "O Canada" in French. They learned why July 1st is Canada's birthday and we reviewed our Canadian coins and their values.

The children made Thank You cards for their Reading Buddies, and coloured in a map of Canada together. We had a great year with our Readingt Buddies and look forward to working with them again next year!

The Seniors have also been rehearsing for their Graduation Ceremony which takes place on Wednesday, June 27 at 1:45 p.m. Families of the SKs are invited to attend. The kids are excited about going to Grade One! They've enjoyed playing in the "Big Kid Playground" this week to get ready for September.

Thank you so much to Mila's mom and Anjali's dad who were Mystery Readers this week!

We've been washing the toys and getting them ready for next year. The kids have enjoyed "giving them a bubble bath."

The homework for this week is to do the mini TO and FROM books.

On Friday the children watched the awesome Grades 1-3 perform in a Talent Show. A lot of their siblings and friends were performers! On Friday morning the children sang "ABC You Later" at the last Sharing Assembly of the year. We congratulated Dante and Lily for earning certificates for Perseverance!

That's the news for this week. Next week is the last week of school! Where did the time go? Thursday is the last day of school and the children's mailbags will be going home on Wednesday. If your child will be absent please let us and the office know. Thank you!

I hope you have a wonderful weekend!