This week. June 22-26

June 22- 26.   We made it! Here's our last week

Please bring an extra cloth bag on Tuesday and Wednesday. I will be sending home notebooks, scrapbooks etc.

Monday   home reading

Tuesday     home reading   Library

Wednesday   Music   After recess (10:45 am) year end assembly with slide show. Kindergarten  parents please see *note below regarding the assembly.

Thursday   Last day of school. School ends at recess and report cards go home today.

Friday 

*Kindergarteners are welcome to "dress up" for the year end assembly on Wednesday. They will have a small role in the assembly to send off our grade seven graduates. 

June 15 - 19

This Week: June 15 - 19 

The final days of the school year are nearly here. What a tremendous year of learning and friendship! I thank you for your support in this journey. I am looking forward to the school slide show on the last day of school. It will be nice to look back in the photographs to see again what happened this year and how we all took part in the journey together. And this week, students are very excited about their upcoming Sports Day on Wednesday (p.s. its our first sports day!). Please join us if you are able.

Monday - Presently we do not have enough drivers for our field trip.  If we pull through Monday morning with another driver we will leave at 11:00 am. It's a library visit/lunch and water park trip. Please bring bathing suit for water park, towel and hat. Please apply sunscreen before school. Please bring carseat. 

Tuesday  - Home Reading  Library

Wednesday - Sports Day/ Wheels Parade. Come dressed in your team colour if possible. Hot dog lunch is provided.

Thursday -  Home Reading Last day!   Gym

Friday  - Gym

A Sports Day Information sheet went home on Friday. I will write the
Sports Day Colours again here just in case you need it:

Red:  Sophia, Sienna, Sage, James, Ava, Autumn

Yellow:  Iggy, J.J., Nicolas

Green:  Conover, Tahano, Erik, Michael, Bradley

Blue:  Benjamin, Hayden, Brendan

One final note:  The kindergarteners are involved in the grade seven graduation assembly in the final week of school. Kindergarteners will walk briefly with a grade seven student as a small part of the ceremony. If you have any cousin or friend connection with a student in grade seven you can let us know and we will try to match them up for the ceremony. Please let us know A.S.A.P.
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June 8th - 12th

This Week: June 8th - 12th 

We continued our social studies theme People and Places of our Community. This week students will be introduced to mapping skills. At home you can make a connection by talking about your floor plan and an exit route out of the house in case of fire. Feel free to send in any maps that you may have. We would be interested to see them. Please label with your name.


Monday - Home Reading, Kids Can Move

Tuesday - Home Reading, Library, Kids Can Move

Wednesday - Music

Thursday - Delta Museum Field Trip * bring your carseat
Re: Field Trip
If you volunteered to drive assume that you are needed. Drivers please meet in the classroom at 9:40 am. We will park our vehicles at Lion's Park, assemble together, then walk to Delta Museum Annex building located just further north down on Delta Street. We will finish up our field trip by returning back to where we parked to have lunch at Lion's Park.

Friday - gym

And as for next week...
Field Trip to Ladner Pioneer Library on Monday June 15.
Wednesday June 17th - Sport's Day theme is Superheroes. We are hoping some of our parents can come and join us on Sports Day. Kindergarten and grade one are invited to take part in the wheels parade. Sunscreen should be applied in the morning at home that day especially because we will be outside all day. Thanks!
There are new photos on the blog at http://pgdiv7.blogspot.com/
I will send an email out of a couple of short videos of students learning the hip hop dance.

Garden photos - read from bottom to top

And stay tuned for more info on composting with Farmer Mike and sunflower photos...

After a lot of weeding and watering, we all have enjoyed eating the radishes and now the lettuce.

Delicious! 

This is the garden now! 

The garden before ....

Hip hop and Grandparents Day

June 1st - 5th

This Week:  June 1st - June 5th   A BIG reminder that with the sunny and warm weather we are having students should be coming to school with sunscreen and a hat. You are welcome to keep a bottle of sunscreen in the class so that your child can re-apply sunscreen for after lunch playtime. Label the sunscreen and hat please. 

This week we start our Social Studies theme unit: People and Places in Our Community

Monday  Grandparent's Day Field Trip to Ladner Pioneer Library. Bring your carseat! We leave at 9:40! Drivers, please be ready in the classroom at that time. We will be taking our lunches to eat at Memorial Park after our library time. Drivers and Grandparents bring a lunch too! We expect to be returning back to school at 12:15pm. 

Tuesday    Home Reading Library

Wednesday       Gym Music  Last Grade one Spelling Test "team" family words and review. Kindergarten letters of the week are Ss Tt
1:00 pm Parent Appreciation Assembly featuring Div 7 Hip Hop Performance!!

Thursday      Home Reading

Friday   Composting Talk by Mike Sneiders  and Hot Lunch

May 25 - 29 Hip Hop Week!

We will be working with Ryan on our Hip Hop routine this week. Save the Date! The performance is on June 3rd. We will need proper running shoes for Hip Hop dance sessions.

Monday   Home Reading, Hip Hop, Gym

Tuesday    Home Reading, Hip Hop

Wednesday       Hip Hop  Grade One Spelling Test "goat and spray" family words  Kindergarten Letters of the Week Qq and Rr

Thursday     Home Reading    Hip Hop

Friday       Hip Hop

Kindergarten Families:  Home Practise: Make up flashcards and practise the following sight words...
up play run where here see not
help the come green jump blue go

Field Trip Monday June 1st!
On Monday June 1st we join our grandparents at Ladner Pioneer Library to spend quality time together on Intergenerational Day. Since not all students have a special guest there will be some buddying up. A reminder to bring your carseat on Monday morning. Also we will bring our lunches to eat at the park (weather permitting). Parents, can you please let our guests know to bring a lunch with them. Thanks!  If you have any questions please let me know after school or by email
skbennnett@deltasd.bc.ca

May 19 - 22nd

In Math we will be introducing coins this week. Could each student bring a baggie with an assortment of 10 coins? Please print your child's name on the baggie. We will do our best to send the baggie home in a couple of weeks. We will learn the names of the coins, count the coins and practise skip counting with the coins.
*For added challenge, grade ones will be introduced to the value of the coins. They can try counting up a total using different coins (for example a dime, a penny and a nickel). I will send home a parent sheet in case that you are interested in doing some coin math at home. The parent sheet will be geared for grade one parents.

Tuesday  Home Reading, Library, bring bag of coins labelled with your name

Wednesday      Music, Gym  Grade one spelling test "more" family words/ K letters of the week are MN    *NOTICE - going home today for Ladner Village Field Trip on June 11th

Thursday   Home Reading, Gym

Friday  - 

***Regarding Field Trips:
You may have read in the newsletter that we are going to Ladner Village on May 21st. That date is incorrect. The correct date is June 11th and permission forms for this trip will be going home on Wednesday.

Our next field trip is this Monday June 1st. Presently we do not have enough drivers for this trip. In some cases drivers are only taking one student. In order to make this trip possible I am wondering if drivers could allow for a second student to join them in the car ride. Please let me know A.S.A.P. skbennett@deltasd.bc.ca

May 4 - 8

May 4 - 8

We continue with Care Kit and its our last week of soccer with Asena.

Monday   Home Reading    Gym


Tuesday  Home Reading     Library  *K/ ABC sheets due


Wednesday  Gym**soccer  Music   Grade One Spelling Test on 'jeep' family words-            It is Kite Day at Port Guichon. Parents are welcome to join us from 1:00 - 1:45. We will be flying kites. Students can bring your own kite or join in with a friend who has a kite. Students that are bringing a kite will require parent help. 

Thursday Home Reading  Field Trip to Richmond Nature Park *all volunteer drivers are needed please come to class at 9:00 we will leave shortly after attendance. 

Friday   Gym**soccer   Grade One we will be testing on both the "dice" family words and the "more" family words next Wednesday

Kindergarten Families: should you want to reinforce our sight words at home, we are working on the following words (from the Dolsch pre-primer list) in the coming weeks:
up play run where here see not
help the come green jump blue go 

April 20 - 24

April 20 - 24 

We will start the Care Kit this week. We will also begin gardening this week. Thanks to Mary (Erik's Mom) for getting the courtyard garden patch ready.

And regarding Gym this week. We start Soccer. We are very lucky to have Asena, Tahano's mother and soccer coach, joining us. She will give us some drills to practise and give us some tips during games. We will be outside for these practises. Please make sure your son or daughter has appropriate running shoes. 

Monday   Home Reading    Gym


Tuesday  Home Reading     Library  *K/ ABC sheets


Wednesday  Gym **Soccer  Music   Grade One Spelling Test - 'cap' and 'tug' family words


Thursday   Home Reading  


Friday   Gym**soccer

April 27 - May 1st

April 27 - May 1st

We will continue with the care kit this week. 

Monday   Home Reading    Gym 


Tuesday  Home Reading     Library/ *K ABC sheets due *Notices going home today for two upcoming Field trips  (May 7  and June 1st)

Wednesday  Soccer with Asena    Music   Grade One Spelling test (game family words and review  of April words)


Thursday Home Reading


Friday   Soccer with Asena**Please return permission slip for May 7th Field trip to Richmond Nature Park. 

Asena plays soccer with Div 7 again this week. Please make sure your son or daughter has running shoes for outside use. The weather is very changeable so please make sure to have a jacket at school and extra socks and pants. 

skbennett@deltsd.bc.ca

This Week! April 13 - 16

This Week  April 13 - 16

Monday   Home Reading    Gym

Tuesday  Home Reading     Library  / *K ABC Sheets due

Wednesday  Gym    Music  Grade One Spelling test (dog family words)

Thursday  Home Reading  Delta Gymnastics - we leave at 9:20am  * water bottle, shorts and carseats need

Friday   Pro D Day

I have the following notices going home this week:  May 1st Field Trip Information Form (Permission Form coming later), Curriculum Previews for Kindergarten and Grade One, a letter to inform you of our upcoming Care Kit Program (starting on April 20th)

Regarding lunches:  Please send fruits and vegetables for a healthy recess snack. We have a student that has an allergy to peanuts. Please remember to choose nut free granola bars and refrain from sending peanut butter sandwiches. Thanks!

skbennett@deltasd.bc.ca

blog at http://pgdiv7.blogspot.com/

This week! April 7-10

April 7 - 10 

Tuesday  Home Reading     Library  /   *Kindergarten ABC sheets due


Wednesday   Music         Bunny hop - Please make sure your child has runners
Grade One Spelling test - snip and bell family words


Thursday Home Reading   Delta Gymnastics - we leave at 9:20 am. Please bring a pair of shorts (girls can bring shorts or a gym suit) and no jewelry


Friday   Gym   Hot Lunch

Please get field trip forms in on Monday at the latest. If you volunteered to drive to our field trip we will need you. We leave at 9:20 Thursday morning. Feel free to come in at the bell and join in with the home reading program. 

There are new photos posted on the blog.  http://pgdiv7.blogspot.com/

skbennett@deltasd.ca

April 2nd *just photos

Here are some shots taken at activity time. You can see students are engaged in their play and interacting with classmates. Here we have Lego, puzzles and drawing center.

Next I'd like to show you the stages of our egg dying. 

After we put elastics around the eggs we place the eggs in the dyed water so that the colour from the onion skin would set.

This took about 20 minutes.

We still had to dry the eggs and then take off the elastic bands. Voila! 

And a big thanks to Julie for her help and her sharing in the excitement!

Feb 16 - 19

We are starting Measurement in Math. It is Chinese New Year on Thursday and we will learn a song and learn how to draw a dragon.

Monday   Home Reading    Gym



Tuesday  Home Reading     Library



Wednesday  Gym    Music



Thursday Home Reading

Rumba Calzada Performance at 1:30
Pizza Lunch

Friday   Pro D day!

Next week is Kindness Week. We will join in the Kindness Assembly on Monday, sing our kindness songs, and make pink tickets to share how people have been kind to us. Wednesday of that week is Pink Shirt day. Try to remember to wear a pink shirt. And if you don't have a pink shirt, red shirts are great too!
http://youtu.be/AYRS4FQXZrk

February 2nd - Feb 6th

We will continue to explore this topic: The Moon/How craters are made/Why they have been there so long/ 
I will send home a moon observation sheet. Look in the night sky and record the shape of the moon. Binoculars will help you see the craters. In the classroom, will be looking for the moon in the sky during the day. *This activity works better when the sky is clear therefore if it is a cloudy week, save it for when it clears. We are also observing outside the signs of spring. We have seen buds on the bushes and also seen the shrub called Heather in bloom.

Monday   Home Reading    Gym    

Tuesday  Home Reading     Library      *PInk notice going home today re: Valentine's Party and it will have all of our classmate's names on it for card writing

2:00 Early Dismissal Student Led Conferences


Wednesday  Gym    Music


Thursday Home Reading

2:00 Early Dismissal Student Led Conferences


Friday   Gym

Also next week no school on Monday - Family Day!

F.Y.I  in April we have 2 field trips booked to Delta Gymnastics

March 30 - April 3

March 30 - April 2

Please bring a hardboiled egg by Thursday, this week. If possible wrap eggs in paper towel and in a box or a baggie that has your child's name on it. We will decorate eggs using a natural plant dye (from onion skins).

Monday   Home Reading    Gym 


Tuesday  Home Reading     Library   **notice going home for Delta Gymnastics field trips April 9th and 16th (Drivers Needed) please return forms by Friday at the latest

Wednesday  Gym    Music  *Grade One Spelling Notebook/ coming home with an explanation of Spelling Program this term 

Thursday Home Reading  / *Kindergarteners will bring home ABC Printing Sheets for home practise (letters A and B) due on following Tuesday

Friday   Gym

March 2 - 6

We are including sight words practice with our Calendar Routine this week. Kindergarten will have words taken from the Dolch word list. Grade ones will be practising word families (words that rhyme and have similar spellings). Let me know if you would like a photo of our words (just in case you want to do home practise).  skbennett@deltasd.bc.ca       blog is found at:   http://pgdiv7.blogspot.com/

Monday   Home Reading    Gym


Tuesday  Home Reading     Library


Wednesday  Gym    Music


Thursday    Home Reading


Friday   Gym

This is a vowel song

http://ca.search.yahoo.com/search?p=short+vowel+song&fr=ipad

Rhyming is so Easy!

http://youtu.be/UfrXW2q1M38

Rhyme Time

http://youtu.be/aP3UHE0duCU

This is a Vowel Teams Song  (Grade One)

http://youtu.be/o84ndBQU6vQ

Feb 23 - 27 Kindness Week

This Week!

The grade ones drew dragons last week as part of our Chinese New Year study. They will be painting them this week. Kindergarteners will be making a class book on the theme of Measurement this week.  On the Kindness Theme:  We will be encouraging students to let me know if someone has been kind to them. We will record our actions on the school bulletin board. At home, perhaps ask : What did you do to day that was kind? Do you know what other kids are doing to be kind?

Monday   Home Reading    Gym

Kindness Assembly in the morning before lunch

Tuesday  Home Reading     Library

Wednesday  Gym    Music

Students are invited to wear Pink or Red Shirt today

Thursday Home Reading

Friday   Gym

Feb 10 - 13

Because its the week leading up to Valentine's Day we will be discussing: How to be a Good Friend.

Monday   Home Reading    Gym


Tuesday  Home Reading     Library


Wednesday  Gym    Music    Friendship Frolic (Run) 11:40 

*Please bring running shoes if you don't already keep running shoes at school


Thursday Home Reading


Friday   Gym   Valentine's Card Exchange and Party  Attention: Sweet Treat is already organized! Please bring a piece of fruit to contribute to our Friendship Fruit Salad. Let me know if you are available at 9:00am to cut up fruit for the class to share. skbennett@deltasd.bc.ca

Also we are waiting for the cloudy weather to change so that we can make some observations of the moon this month. Let me know if you do not have the moon observation chart and I will send you another one. 

This Week - Jan 26 - 30

We have vision and dental screening for kindergarteners on Tuesday and Wednesday.
This week we are preparing for Student Led Conferences. I still have a few parents that need to sign up for a conference time. 
Monday  Jan 26    Home Reading    Gym 



Tuesday  Jan 27      Home Reading     Library  Vision Screening



Wednesday  Jan 28    Gym    Music    Dental Screening



Thursday Jan 29    Home Reading



Friday   Jan 30   Gym   Hot Lunch

This Week - Jan 12 - 16

We will explore a new topic this week: The Moon
Make a home connection:  Look for any books about the moon. Google search images of the moon. Before bedtime observe the night sky. Can you see the moon?

Monday  Jan 12     Home Reading    Gym    ***Hot lunch orders sent home today


Tuesday  Jan 13      Home Reading     Library


Wednesday  Jan 14    Gym    Music      ***Today is Hat Day. Also curriculum previews will be sent home today. 


Thursday Jan 15    Home Reading


Friday   Jan 16   Gym     ***Hot Lunch orders are due

This Week - Jan 19 - 23

This Week - Jan 19 - Jan 22

Our topic this week is the Moon. Last week we learned that astronauts feel like they are floating when they are on the moon. They have to be strapped in to their beds and even their food can float away from them. We also found out astronauts also do some of their training underwater to get the feeling of being weightless. We will do an experiment in class to help us understand gravity. We will learn about what it means to make a HYPOTHESIS. 

Monday  Jan 19    Home Reading    Gym 

Coming up in February, it will be Student Led Conferences. Please come in on Tuesday and sign up for a conference time. For parents that do not regularly drop off, today I will be sending home a form for you to choose a time. Please sign up and return the form right away on Tuesday.

Tuesday  Jan 20  Home Reading     Library

Please come in and sign up for Student Led Conferences (Feb 3 and 5). The list will be posted in the hall outside the classroom. 


Wednesday  Jan 21     Gym    Music


Thursday Jan 22  Home Reading


Friday   Jan 22    Gym