GRADE FIVE CLASS TEACHER: MRS.

ZYLSTRA

Parents and guardians,

Palmerston Elementary
October 22, 2013.
The glass bottom boat to Flowerpot Island

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Class Visits

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Principals Posts This year is going to be a great

FOR THE MONTH OF OCTOBER

Book Orders Class Trip Bake Sale

of flavours. Mr. Mike Farquhar has generously allowed our classes to visit his year. It has had a great beginning!
Our student enrollment is up 10% thanks to new families moving into our community. Dont forget to welcome them when see the students willyou observe them at the school or in town. Congratulations goes out to our school soccer team as they won their first Island tournament. We are hoping for continued success as they will be competing regularly until the final games. Remember that our school has an all year fundraiser that you will hear about periodically throughout the year. All funds raised will go towards the purchase of wells for a small community in Tanzania Africa. Feel free to contact me by phone or email anytime throughout the year if you have any concerns or comments about our school. Phone: 905-668-2914 E-mail: laurie.zylstra@palmerston.ca

Halloween Party Class Trip to

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Farquhars Dairy

INSIDE THIS ISSUE:

Tips for parents

Bring a pumpkin for our Art class on Tuesday October 29th. We will be carving them during our class and display them along the fence at the front of the school to be judged by the students, parents, friends and family of our school community.

CLASS UPDATES

Bake Sale every Wednesday in December Book Orders due Oct 31 Class visits are the 1st Thursday of October Class Trip May 8th & 9th Halloween Party Oct. 31 Trip to Farquhars Dairy Oct. 15

Class Notes

Class Highlights

Class Learning

Annual Grade Five Class Trip

Parents, dont forget about our grade 5 class trip planned for the month of May! We will be fundraising all year for this trip. The trip is an overnight trip with a permission slip is returned ride on the Chi Cheemto the school by the end of aun ferry, a visit to this month. FlowerPot Island and a ride on the Glass Bottom Boat. Please make sure your childs

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Our students have had an excellent beginning

Parents Corner
Palmerston Elementary School 400 Palmerston Ave. Whitby Ontario L1E 2A7

to the first month of school this year. We have noticed some budding athletes as our grade October 22, 2013. five class has ten students on our soccer and track teams. Many of you as parents have inyour children are involved in. We are encour-

Parents and guardians,

formed the school of other local29th sports that There will be a grade 4 and 5 combined class trip on October to the facility aged by the activities in our school and around

Phone: 905-668-2914

of Farquhars Fax: 905-668-2915

Dairy where this smallour creamery community produces as Palmerston Ice Cream Elementary in a variety is in
the fitness program for children that has been advertised in the community. You will notice

E-mail: laurie.zylstra@palmerston.ca

of flavours. Mr. Mike Farquhar has generously allowed classes to visit that our permission slipour has our new logo that his
was created by our own grade five student BethAnn MacDonald. Congratulations to

dairy where the students will observe the production ofdesign one of the flavours of BethAnn for winning the contest!
Teaching together at home and school

Our Class Accomplishments

The class has been working on some projects this month. In Science the students have been building a bridge out of spaghetti. The finished product will be displayed in the display case in the entry of the school by the middle of October so check them out! For our Language Arts class we have begun reading the book Underground to Canada by Barbara Smucker. It would be helpful if you could talk about the book at home as this story is talking about Black people being smuggled into Canada. Your children may have some questions about the story that need to be addressed. In our Physical Education class some of our students still need to bring their gym strip for class. Any short sleeved T-shirt will be suitable as long as it does not have any offensive pictures or words on it. Shorts need to have at least 4 to 6 inch leg length and made of fabric that is stretchy enough for your child to move freely. Please note that biking shorts are not suitable. This year we have a class mascot, a pet hedgehog named Pete. Students will take turns bringing him home during extended holidays like Christmas and Spring Break. They can sign up on the board in class and pick up instructions for his care so that they will know how much responsibility it is to take care of Pete. Our first art project is displayed in our classroom so peek in to see the creations that our students have come up with. A new program we have begun this year is our monthly class visits. Parents are able to visit during class time to observe the activities of the day. Our first class visit will be on the first Thursday of October. If you have a special skill that you would like to share with the class please make arrangements with me to demonstrate your skill to the class. Some of the ideas that have been discussed at the parent teacher introduction night were drawing or painting, helping with sewing projects, planting plants for our plant sale, and any baking activities are appreciated. Thank you to all the parents who helped with beginning of the year events. Your help was greatly appreciated by all of our school community. Laurie Zylstra grade 5