Wednesday 26 February 2014

Report Cards and Student Led Conferences

What a great term this has been!  We've learned about international refugees camps, electricity, Ancient Egypt, geometry, and are enjoying some amazing Literature Circle novels.  We have been so impressed with the discussion during Literature Circles!  Everyone is so engaged and interested. Be sure to ask your daughter or son about their book and look out for the Setting Scrapbook Assignment that they will be working on between now and Spring Break.


Just a reminder that Report Cards go home March 7th.  Student-Led Conferences will be held on Wednesday, March 12th and Thursday, March 13th.  Those days are also early dismissal at 2:00 p.m.  A form will be sent home next week to sign up for a spot!  We look forward to seeing you.


Mrs. Soper & Ms. Harper   

Tuesday 11 February 2014

Hamber Field Trip

Just a reminder that Division 1, 2, & 3 are heading to Hamber tomorrow to see a student production.  We will be walking, so dress for the weather! 

Hello from Miss Kelly!

Good Morning Division 2,

How are you all doing? Believe it or not, as fun as it is being home with my crazy boys, I miss seeing you.  Grade sevens, I hope you are doing well and staying focused despite high school articulation and placements.  I'm going to have to talk to Mrs. Soper to find out who is going where next year.
Grade sixes, I feel like I was just getting to know you when I left. Sorry I was there for such a short time! I'm glad we got some time together so I at least know who you are when you are (hopefully) back in division 2 again next year. Just a heads up... I'm already excited to teach science next year! 

As for me, the boys and I are doing well. Joseph is, so far, a lovely and fairly mellow little guy (which is a definite bonus when I have crazy Henry here already!). He's generally happy to sit in his bouncy chair and watch things around him. He likes to sleep (and I love that!).  Joseph is currently about 16.5 pounds which may not seem like a lot but it's more than double what he weighed when he was born (now imagine if you had doubled your weight in the last 3 months!).  He's quite a gloriously chunky guy with particularly roly-poly legs.  He is starting to "chat", loves to smile, and is just figuring out how to laugh and how to grab things.  Tonight he was quite proud of himself for grabbing a blanket that was on him and being able to chew on it a bit.  He also seems to want to be a thumb/finger sucker but he can't quite get it together yet.  He's got a long way to go before he can grab purposefully and with any accuracy but he is trying hard.  He has also started to notice toys as you can see in the photo where he is staring at the yellow bug toy. He and I went for a walk and I put the toy on his stroller. I don't think he looked at anything else. Apparently the toy and the fresh air wore him out though.

My days are busy with Lego (why is it that little boys seem to feel they need to take all the people apart?? I spent a morning just locating body parts and attempting to reunite them with each other), gymnastics, walks, bike rides, and preschool. It's a lot of fun but so different from working with you all.  I miss our conversations and, to be honest, I miss math classes (how crazy does THAT sound?!).
I would love to come and visit but we've all had nasty colds which we are working on getting over and I'm hesitant to come there at the risk of picking up a different bug. My dad isn't well right now and I can't go spend time with him if the boys and I are sick. I hope you understand. I just wanted you to know I'm thinking about you and hope you are well.


Thanks,

Miss Kelly