Happy June! It is difficult to believe that this is the last month of school. This Spring has gone by so quickly! As always, June is a busy month. It begins today with Springfest from 10:00-2:00 at school. It is a great fundraiser for all the wonderful things we do at LKS. Thank you to everyone who contributed to our Springfest basket and everyone who has volunteered their time to make Springfest a success. Your support and generosity is greatly appreciated! Our baskets are in the gym all ready for the Silent Auction. If you preordered wristbands for Springfest, they are in your child's mailbag. It has been a very hot week in Toronto. The air conditioning is our classroom continues to work inconsistently and we often still have very warm temperatures in our classroom. Thank you to everyone who takes their child home for lunch for a cool break. It is greatly appreciated. Our lunch hour is from 11:20 to 12:30. Thank you to everyone who sends sunscreen and a hat for your child to protect them from the sun. We continue to help with sunscreen and search for as many hats as we can find in backpacks. Sunglasses are also a great idea!
A reminder to unpack your child's mailbag on Tuesdays and Fridays. Please continue to read the Snuggle Up books with your child and discuss the work they have done that week at school. They have wonderful learning to share with you. Mailbags will continue until Friday, June 15. Please keep looking for library books, Ms. McGee will be sending home reminders for last books soon. We are always excited to hear our name on the announcements when we clear our classroom account.
We have introduced the quarter and the loonie this week. The children are also enjoying using real coins in our classroom store. The children completed their June calendar on Friday. They are completing a multi-stage art project for the top of the calendar. We started colouring with oil pastels and then we painted black over our colourful abstract art. The next step will begin on Monday. All will be revealed on Friday! Hint-it involves chopsticks! On Wednesday, we created rekenreks with our Reading Buddies. Rekenreks have 2 rows of 10 beads and are used to support numbers sense. They help to build awareness of numbers 0-20 and number combinations of 5 and 10. We will use these in upcoming math activities. As always it is a pleasure for Mr. Bracht, Ms, Santiago and I to watch the Grade 8 students work with our Kindergarten students. Both classes are always so excited when we get together.
The Senior Kindergarten students received their Graduation invitations in their mailbags Friday. Please fill out the bottom portion and return it to school. Also baby pictures are due by the end of the week. Please feel email your baby pictures to ellenburn@bell.net Thanks in advance.
Ms. Santiago taught the children a new game in the gym called Guardians of the Farmhouse. In the computer lab, the students played Sight Work Bingo on the Abcya website.
Have a wonderful weekend! A reminder there is no school on Friday. Please return your child's Sight Word book and Sound Review book on Wednesday, so we have time to add the new work.
This Week:
Monday-Music
Tuesday-Library (A), Computers (B)
Snuggle Up books exchanged
Wednesday-Terry Fox cookie sales $2.00 each
Return Sight word books and Sound Review books
Thursday-Library (B), Computers (A)
Snuggle Up books exchanged
Friday-PA Day-No School!
