Rainbows and Leprechauns are part of the fun this week. We also continued learning about being authors and story tellers. Where do writers get their ideas? How do we write information that explains facts or instruction like "How to Be a Friend?" Keep reading to see our amazing week!
The Rainbow is a traditional Cree story that has been passed down orally. The story ties together the colours of the rainbow with gratitude for all creation. It was gifted to Jean Miso (in English) by Plains Cree Elder and second World War veteran James "Smokey" Tomkins. We created beautiful collages of rainbow colours.
Sarabella's Thinking Cap is about a girl who loves to daydream with creative imagination. She is encouraged by her teacher to draw her daydreams. She decides, "If you want to share it, you've just got to wear it." She creates a thinking cap to display her many colourful ideas for her classmates to see. We created our own thinking caps of things we love: family, dinosaurs, rocket ships, airplanes, rainbows, friends, ice cream and more. Later we will use some of these ideas in our writing.
On Wednesday we had a favorite guest teacher, Mrs. Azzopardi in to read a beautiful story of friendship. Hunwick is an Australian bilby who discovers a mysterious egg outside his burrow. The egg doesn't hatch right away but Hunwick takes care of it. He talks to the egg and the egg listens. Hunwick understands that the egg is his friend and he is the only one who knows it's secret. Our students used this story and a video about friendship to help them write their own ideas about "How-to be a Good Friend." We used some of the skills we learned from last week to write a story using pictures, letters, marks on the page - with and without words!
"I am a good friend when..."
I take turns.
I share.
I help my mom.
I play toys nicely.
A little Leprechaun fun and a science STEM challenge. Students used building materials in the class to make traps to catch a leprechaun. We also learned some Irish folk songs to sing and dance a jig like the Irish Washerwoman and Connaughtman's Rambles. Check out our leprechaun traps. You and your child might have fun creating your own trap this weekend.
Many of our families are celebrating Ramadan right now and our students have been sharing important family traditions with each other!
Thank you for sharing your kiddos and traditions with us!
Dear SVS Families,
Student Led Conferences are coming up next week, Thursday March 21 4:30pm-7:30pm and Friday March 22 8:00am-12:00pm. Booking will open for parents this Friday March 15 after 4:00pm using your My CBE account https://sis.cbe.ab.ca/public/. Meetings will take place every 30 minutes with 5 families able to book at the same time.
After your conference make sure to check out the Div 2 and EES Art Walk in the Buffalo Space. Come and see all of their creative, hard work!
Next you can make your way to the library for the Scholastic Book Fair. Students will be able to browse the book fair during class time next week to come up with a wish list and also have a chance to enter the guessing game and win fun prizes.
Hope to see you there,
SVS Staff
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SVS Fundraising Opportunity:
Mabel's Label's is having a SALE...some of the bundles of labels are 50% off!! We are always begging families to label student belongings and that trend will continue into
Grade One..
Please consider having a look if you are in the market for some labels! At the checkout you can choose to support Simons Valley School fundraising!
Upcoming Events!
After Spring break, Kindergarten has many exciting events happening...there will be many opportunities to volunteer so have those clearances ready and keep your eyes peeled!
1. We will be hosting an in school presentation from "Lady Buggy"...a wonderfully informative expert on all things bug related who will bring some of her live bugs to the classroom to enhance our exploration of the Science Curriculum!
There is a cost for this activity that has been added to your child's MyCBE Powerschool account. We will be sharing more information about this opportunity soon.
2. Kindergarten students will be working with talented artist, Jennifer Stables in May, as part of the art residency sponsored by Parent Council- stay tuned for more details...
3. We are going SWIMMING in May....Kindergarten will be participating in swimming lessons for 4 days...more information to come after Spring break!
4. We have another exciting surprise planned related to our Science Curriculum that we will unveil to students after the break sometimes...part of that study will include a community walk to a nearby park/ pond area... :)
School Scholastic Book Fair, Week of March 18th
Save the dates: March 21, 22 Student Led Conferences, more info to come.
(Times are listed in our school calendar)
March 25-April 1 is Spring Break, Classes Resume Tuesday, April 2.
LINK to our school calendar
Kindergarten Friday Class Calendar
Our Emails
Mrs. Oster: rdoster@cbe.ab.ca
Mrs. Sutherland: klsutherland@cbe.ab.ca
Mrs. Wiskar: mjwiskar@cbe.ab.ca
