Extra board games?

Dear parents,

If you have extra board games (Scrabble, Monopoly, checkers, chess etc.) at home that you could donate to our classroom, that would be super. I have promised the children that we will have a dedicated time for games between recess and lunch on Tuesdays. The focus will be on cooperative behaviour and using encouraging words when playing strategy games with others. 

Thanks,

Mrs. Gerri Karr

Professional Day Monday October 1

Dear parents,

Just a reminder that Monday, October 1st is a Professional Day. Teachers will be in attendance learning about technology in the classroom, but students will NOT be. 

Thanks,

Mrs. Gerri Karr

Spelling list week of October 1-4

Dear parents,

Happy Friday! Our spelling words for next week are: beds, legs, steps, flags, clocks, foxes, boxes, inches, lunches, dishes, wishes, brushes, buses, glasses, and classes. They are plural words (more than one thing) that end in s or es. Our bonus words are Wednesday and beautiful. 

Our reading theme next week is about the rainforest. Our words are: thick, increase, compare, distance, meter, thousand, supply, numerous, height, and levels. Please go over the meaning of these words with your child. 

Your children have all written personal introductions about themselves that I have put up on display in the classroom. Come on in to check them out. 

Best wishes,

Mrs. Gerri Karr

Hot lunch reminder.

Dear parents,

Just a reminder that on Friday, September 27, we have Wok Box hot lunch. We will be doing our theme reading quiz tomorrow, testing the meaning of this week's words about the Amazon. If you have time, it might be fun to google Amazon with your child and look at images or videos. We will be doing a writing sample on Friday that begins with this sentence. "Imagine you are in a canoe paddling down the Amazon. When you round a corner you suddenly see....."  I plan to show the IMAX DVD titled "Amazon" before we do our writing activity, but the more familiar they are with the environment, the more they will be able to describe it vividly. 

We learned that articles a, an, and the usually precede and signal that a noun is coming up next in grammar. Ask your child for an example in a sentence. 

We learned about Kelowna today and started our mind-map about this BC city. I am very proud of the work the children are doing in Social Studies. 

We had another great day in Gym with our fitness program. 

Library tomorrow

Dear parents,

Please remind your students to return their library books tomorrow, Wednesday, September 25th. Mrs. Evans normally takes the children at 2:30, but she has kindly offered to do a book exchange from 9:50-10:20. Remember that we dismiss early at 2:00 o'clock for staff conferencing. Please make arrangements to have your child picked up at this earlier time. 

Best wishes, 

Mrs. Gerri Karr

Dinosaurs on display!

Dear parents,

Our dinosaurs and our week 1 writing samples are up on display in the front office. If you have time, pop in and look at these! They are SO cute! 

Best wishes, 

Mrs. Gerri Karr

Reminder about Wednesday

Dear parents,

Just a reminder that on Wednesday, September 25th,

there will be an early dismissal at 2:00 PM. Staff will be conferencing in teams between 2-3. 

We learned about nouns in Grammar today. They are naming words that name a person (or animal), place, thing or idea. In Social Studies, we learned about Fort Nelson. We began our study about the Amazon in Theme Reading. New spelling words were introduced. This week's bonus words are mathematics and dictionary. 

Best wishes,

Mrs. Gerri Karr

Successful Terry Fox Run

Dear parents,

We had a very successful run today. We will be collecting donations all next week for this worthy cause. 

Busy day!

Dear parents,

Today was a very busy day! The children did very well with all their assessments. Our spelling words for the week of September 23-27 are: out, about, count, found, ground, round, around, sound, loud, cloud, mouth, south, hour, house, mouse. 

Our theme for next week is the Amazon. Our words are: continent, discoveries, rubber, pilot, materials, alligators, minerals, lumber, explorers and mosquitoes. 

Have a wonderful weekend!

Mrs. Gerri Karr

Pizza Day

Dear parents,

Tomorrow is Pizza Day! Yahoo! No lunch making necessary. They will need a substantial healthy snack for recess, however. 

Thanks,

Mrs. Gerri Karr

Terry Fox Run tomorrow.

Dear parents,

Just a reminder that we are doing the Terry Fox Run at our school tomorrow at 2:15. Please have your child bring a donation (whatever you can) to support this worthy cause to conquer cancer. Make sure they are wearing running shoes for this.

We had a great game of mayhem outside in the glorious sunshine this afternoon. 

Best wishes,

Mrs. Gerri Karr

Initial Assessment of Reading

Dear parents,

Tomorrow we will have a big day. The students will have their Spelling test on Lesson 2 words in the morning before recess. Please scroll back to previous blog posts to find these words. We will also be having an initial assessment of reading between recess and lunch. In the afternoon we will be doing our second writing assessment for the year. I was very pleased with last week's writing samples. 

Please make sure they get a good night's sleep! Stress the importance of doing their best work on these three assessments.

Best wishes,

Mrs. Gerri Karr

Drawing fun

Dear parents,

Your children are excellent artists. They live to draw. Today, we learned about the difference between exclamation and imperative sentences. It is an exclamation sentence when we are just excited or passionate about something as in, "I love the Canucks!"  It is an imperative sentence when we are issuing a command as in, "Close that door!" Maybe review this tonight at home. 

We did another map of BC today in Social Studies, highlighting the locations for four cities: Fort Nelson, Kelowna, Ahousat, and Vancouver. We will studying each of these cities in greater detail in the weeks to come.

Hydrangea water colour paintings

Dear parents,

The students' water colour paintings will be on display outside our classroom during Term 1. Please pop in, when you are able,

to see your child's art work. They are lovely! 

Best wishes,

Mrs. Gerri Karr

Dinosaurs!!

Dear parents,

The children created some fierce looking dinosaurs using modeling clay this afternoon. They also completed their first writing assignment describing a Tyrannosaurus Rex. 

Next week's spelling words will be:

boat, coat, goat, float, road, load, toad, toast, oak, soak, soap, coach, throat, coast, and oats. The two bonus words are literature and friends. Test will be next Friday, September 20th.

Our theme for next week will be based on an African folk tale titled "Rhinos for Lunch and Elephants for Dinner". Our words will be trembled, leopard, snarled, pleasant, cautiously, terrifying, hare, bounded, approached and thrashing. Our quiz on the meaning of these words will be next Thursday, September 19th.

Best wishes for a great weekend! 

Mrs. Gerri Karr

Happy Friday!

Dear parents,

We had our first fire drill today. The children did quite well. It's very important to NOT talk at all when we evacuate and reenter the school. 

We worked hard on our Social Studies mind-maps about North Vancouver. They are starting on maps about British Columbia. 

Freerice.com

Dear parents,

The children worked incredibly hard on their chosen subject in the Free Rice website this afternoon, earning thousands of grains of free rice for children around the world who don't have enough food to eat. Wow! They had fun, the learned things, and they fed people at the same time. 

Best wishes,

Mrs. Gerri Karr

Office forms

Dear parents,

If you haven't already done so, please fill out the forms that your child brought home on the first day of school. Also, please provide a small comfort kit for your child in case of emergency. Please return these ASAP, so parent volunteers can organize these.

Best wishes,

Mrs. Gerri Karr

Freezie sale

Dear parents,

Our Grade 7's will be doing a fundraiser today when the book sale is happening after school. They will be selling freezies for $1.  The book sale location has been changed to outside the front entrance to the school as opposed to the gym. Books will be only fifty cents each. 

Best wishes,

Mrs. Gerri Karr

 

Missing Cat

Dear parents,

One of our Queensbury family has lost a cat. He was last seen around 17th and Grand Blvd. He has double paws on his left front. He has a white belly and tabby markings. He answers to Doobie or Boo Boo. If you find him please call 778-628-8582 or 604-780-1712. Thank you for keeping your eyes open.

We had fun in Fitness Gym class today. 

Terry Fox Run

Dear parents,

On Friday, September 20th, we will be doing our Terry Fox Run to Conquer Cancer. We will be getting together in the gym at 2:15 PM to watch a short video about Terry Fox. Perhaps have a discussion with your child about Terry and let them know about his journey. We will be collecting donations (give what you are able) beginning next week until the end of September. 

Best wishes,

Mrs. Gerri Karr

Hot lunch orders

Dear parents,

Hot lunch orders are now done online. Check this out the home page on the Queensbury website. The deadline for this order is September 13th. These are really great tasting and they are one of the primary fundraisers of our PAC. 

Best wishes,

Mrs. Gerri Karr

After school art program

Dear parents, 

Registrations are open for this session of the district's after school art program. Please phone 604-903-3798 or check out www.artists4kids.com

Also, our parents will be having an after school book sale on September 12th, in the gym. All books will be 50 cents.

Best wishes, 

Mrs. Gerri Karr

Social Responsibility website

Dear parents,

On Thursday, we will be using our class laptops to work on an educational website that earns free rice for starving people around the world. It is called Free Rice and you can find it at www.freerice.com

Check it out at home with your child.

Best wishes,

Mrs. Gerri Karr

Meet the Teacher night

Dear parents,

Just a reminder that tonight is Meet the Teacher night. I will be available to meet with parents from 6:30-7:00 PM in Room 8. 

If you can't make it, don't worry, as I try to meet all parents prior to the first report card time. Please check the Queensbury school website for all scheduled school events. 

Best wishes,

Mrs. Gerri Karr

Special Days

Dear parents,

Our gym days will be every day except Tuesdays. Please make sure your child has running shoes for this. 

Our Fine Arts days are Tuesday and Thursday. Our Library day is Wednesday. 

Best wishes,

Mrs. Gerri Karr

Welcome to my new parents!

Dear parents,

Welcome to our class blog. I will be posting information here as often as I can. If you wish to have email notification about new posts, simply subscribe on the blog. 

Our first spelling test will be next Friday, September 13th. These will be the words:

mile, lake, race, place, hose, cage, size, prize, stone, paste, since, once, more, none, gone. Bonus words are attention and reflection.

Our theme reading for next week is about dinosaurs! The words are moist, skull, fossils, dinosaurs, preserved, information, lizard, jungle, extinct and climate. We will have a test on the meaning of these words on Thursday, September 12th. 

Once the schedule is set for Fine Arts, Library, Gym and Art, I will let you know. 

We're off to a good start! 

Best wishes,

Mrs. Gerri Karr

PS: We had a great cooperative game of "Mayhem" in gym!

Great first day!

Dear parents,

It was so fun to see your children after the long summer break. I think most of them grew about 6 inches!! Wow!! 

Please send school supplies with them tomorrow, as it is a full day. 

Although I will be sad to say goodbye as their classroom teacher, I am confident that they are more than ready to move on. I wish you and them the very best for their future years at school. 

PS: a unicorn was spotted at Queensbury today after the rain at recess . I'm told his name is Emanoeil! ☺

Best wishes,

Mrs. Gerri Karr