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R.M.i. Lunches Wednesday, Jan. 11th During the month of December, our focus was & Jan. 25th
Character Education:
Skating News:
on the BALANCE key. We talked about balanced Character Ed. diets and lifestyles. This Assembly month, we have selected th Jacob as our student-ofFriday, Jan. 13 the-month winner! During the month of February, we PD Day No School will focus on the Friday, Jan. 20th Commitment key. With the start of a new year we Trip to Millen Woods will have opportunities to set some new goals, Wednesday, Jan 18th develop action plans, and stick with it when it becomes difficult to Winter Carnival accomplish goals. Well School Spirit Day learn that its important to Friday, Jan. 27th be reliable, stick to our word, and finish what Little Chefs Cooking weve started.
In February we will have two opportunities to go skating. Look for more information coming home soon regarding these days. Students will need their own skates in order to participate. Let us know in advance (ASAP) and we can try to assist in finding a pair to borrow. Students without skates can stay at school and participate in alternative activities or share the photographer job at the arena.
Holiday Projects:
We hope you enjoyed the reindeer ornament gift your child made for you. We sent these ornaments to our 1st quadblogging partners in the UK and Florida as well! We also hope you liked your Christmas postcard your child created for you. We made postcards for 30 other classrooms around North America as part of the Holiday Card Exchange Project. We enjoyed receiving our cards in the mail also!
Lesson Monday, Jan. 30th PD Day No School Wednesday, Feb. 3rd Winterhawks Game Saturday, Feb. 11th Report Cards Come Home Monday, Feb. 13th
Homework:
We will return to our regular homework routine this month. With the exception of the week of January 16th when homework is due on Thursday, Friday will remain our regular due date. Please continue to read the weekly checklist page for special homework instructions and contact us for homework help when needed.
We finished our first round of quadblogging with our friends in the United Kingdom and Florida. We are beginning a new round of quadblogging, with new partners all located in the United Kingdom, starting the week of January 16th. Well follow a similar four-week rotation, visiting each others blogs to leave comments and learn from each other. This partnership will last until the end of March. You can see the comments they leave us on our blog as well! There are links to each of our new quadblog friends sites on both the classroom blog http://blogs.wrdsb.ca/gillk and class website as well.
Traveling Mascot
In addition to blogging on the Teddy Bears site, Gill the Goldfish (and his fish family G2, Lil Gill, and Lil G) travels to places around the world and share his (their) learning with us on our special wiki website: http://gillthegoldfishgoesglobal. wikispaces.com All four of our fish friends are currently away on special adventures. One fish is in the United Kingdom, one is in Florida, another is in British Columbia, and the fourth fish is on a crossCanada trip! Over the next few weeks we will reintroduce ourselves to our traveling fish and learn about their most recent adventures.