Happy Dress Fest Day!

Even though by the time you read this, Dress Fest will have come and gone, I just have to say Happy Dress Fest Day! :) It looks like this will be an exciting week!

• Aside from Dress Fest, we also have grade 3 chapel day on Friday, November 4. Parents of course are welcome, so please come if you wish! Our chapel will focus on what it means to be a follower of Jesus. We will be doing a montage of skits/interview/reciting verses/etc., and everyone will play a part!

• We are also beginning our science unit on Space, and last week I announced that our first field trip will be to the HR McMillan Space Center! We will need parent volunteer drivers, so please look out for a parent consent / volunteer sign up for coming home this week.

• I will be keeping the Home Reading duotangs over night to count up the minutes and mark book reports, and on Tuesday your child will come home with new book reports and more reading logs (if you need) to keep you going throughout the next month!

All God's Best this week,

Mrs. Thiessen

Updates and Reminders

• Early dismissal Thursday at 1:15 (or a few minutes before!) Parent teacher interviews to follow. Please arrive on time for your appointment, as you only get 15 minutes before the next appointment begins.

• Just a reminder that the church/pastor update forms are due asap so that WRCA can know where are students attend regularly and can invite pastors to an appreciation luncheon.

• Dress Fest is this Monday! I am definitely looking forward to this event! I will be dressed up as a book character! Please, no violent or scary costumes. Also, please do not send too much candy in the days after Halloween, maybe only 1 or 2 treats for at lunch. The days after Halloween are known among teachers as notoriously crazy, so let's try to keep sugar highs during school hours to a minimum so that we can still have a productive week at school!!! :)

• Home reading logs and book reports (2) will be due October 31st. Students will put a note in their planners Friday night to send duotangs to school on Monday. If you can, it would be very helpful for me to add up minutes for the month of October. If anyone is still confused "book reports" are just the sheets in the students' duotangs. They will be different every month. So whatever 2 new sheets you find in there are the 2 "book reports" that are due for that month (I know they aren't formal book reports but they assess reading comprehension in some form).

Have a great week and I will be seeing many of you tomorrow! :)

Mrs. Thiessen

Happy Weekend!

Hello everyone,

Wow, with so many recent long weekends, next week is going to feel extra long spending 5 days at school! Fortunately, Thursday, October 27th will be an early dismissal(1:15pm) due to parent teacher interviews. If you wish to meet with me, I will put a sign up list outside of the portable door on Monday morning (October 24th). I have 15 minute appointments available from 1:30 until 4:45 and from 5:30 until 7:00pm. If this day does not work for you, please remember I am always available after school to discuss any questions or concerns.

If any of you have been wondering, I have been working on a parent volunteer schedule will be contacting you shortly. I have had a great response from many who are willing to help out, now I just need to figure out when and what I need help with! :) For those of you who are willing to paste items into scrapbooks and have mentioned you have small children, I will provide the option of bringing work home. Thank you so much for your patience thus far!

I hope you all enjoy your long weekend, and I will see you on Monday!

Mrs. Thiessen :)

Week of October 11 - 14

Hello everyone,

Did you enjoy your extra long weekend? I enjoyed my time at the teacher's conference and got some great new ideas to try out in the classroom this year! :)

This week is a short, but exciting week! We have Michael Mitchell coming for a concert here this Friday, October 14. It is also Fire Prevention Week, so we will be doing some fire safety activities as well as sending some information home.

Here are some friendly reminders for this short week:

Due October 14:

• Mad Science forms
• Michael Mitchel cd order forms
• Scholastic Orders

These forms are NOT mandatory, but are due Friday if you are interested. :)

Hello everyone,

I hope you all have had a great weekend! I just wanted to comment on the new book reports I sent home today. The first one is based on what we have learned in school about making connections to what we have read. Parents, please read the first side as you will be reading, connecting, and writing this book report with your child. I have been telling my students that we make connections to EVERY book we read, whether it is remembering our own past experiences or the experiences of others around us, we usually can find some element in a book to identify with. However, obviously some books will lend themselves better to this activity than others, so try to choose a book that will evoke some connections for you and your child. If your child is reading a chapter book, perhaps you could base this activity on one or two chapters in that book and read them together. If you have any questions, please ask!

I have told the class that they don't have to do the book reports in any particular order, as long as both are done before the end of the month (and preferably not the night before!).

Some reminders:

• No school this Thursday or Friday, WRCA staff will be at a convention those days
• Please send in permission forms for Rip Stick and Skateboard PE Day by Wednesday
• We will be writing our memory verse for this week (Matt 4:4) on Wednesday (I will send home duotangs tomorrow).

Thank you and enjoy this short week! :)

Mrs. Thiessen