Friday events

Dear parents,

On Friday we will be treated to a musical performance by the Sutherland High School Band at 9:00 am. Parents are welcome to come and have a listen. 

We have Fun Lunch "Wok Box" on Friday as well. Yummy! 

In a few weeks Miss Gardiner will be beginning to study "Canadian Animals". Students will be asked to create a diorama showing the animal and the environment that the animal lives. Students can make the animal out of modeling clay or your child can purchase a plastic animal. Have a discussion with your child about what animal they would like to research. Examples might be beaver, Canada goose, salmon, killer whales, seals, otters, foxes, moose, cougars, raccoons, squirrels, eagles, and buffalo. Also, please save a shoebox or small box that your child can use for this project.

Best wishes,

Mrs. Gerri Karr and Miss Debbie Gardiner

Spelling words May 5-9

Dear parents,

Our Spelling words for this week are words that contain "un". They are: untrue, unfair, unkind, unwire, unsafe, untie, unlock, uncover, unwrap, unplug, unpack, unbutton, unwilling, uneven, and unopen. Our bonus words are epidermis and abrasion.

Our Theme Reading is about how we renew our skin cells. Our words are lifetime, healthy, invisible, insulate, glands, mature, function, scrape, nerves, and normal. Please go over the meaning of these words with your child.

Please remember to have your child bring in food for the Harvest Project, their favourite receipe, and a donation of gardening things for our Spring Fair theme basket.

Tomorrow, we will be doing a review test of punctuation, capitalization, and quotation mark usage. If your child does not pass this review test, he/she will be bringing home a blank review test to complete.

If you can assist with this, that would be great. We will have the "real" test on Wednesday. 

Our beans and corn are sprouting! Yeah!!

Best wishes,

Mrs. Gerri Karr and Miss Debbie Gardiner

Sorry!

Dear parents, 

I forgot to blog the Spelling and Theme reading words while at school today.  Darn! I'll have to send them out on Monday and you'll receive them on Tuesday. 

Hope you're enjoying the weekend.

Best wishes,

Mrs. Gerri Karr

Upcoming events

Dear parents,

We were treated to a "Travel Smart" assembly today that was prepared and performed by our Grade 6 class. They reminded us that we can all do more to help out our

health and our environment by driving cars less and walking, biking, and taking transit more. Our students brought home a questionnaire from BC Transit today. Please fill these out and have your children bring it on Monday. If we have the most returned forms, our class will win free transit day passes. This will really come in handy later in May when Miss Gardiner has a field trip planned that involves taking transit!! 

Please have your child bring in a favourite family recipe on Monday. If you can type it up on regular letter size paper that would be super. 

The children will be making bird houses out of 2 L milk containers. Please bring as many of those washed containers as you can on Monday or Tuesday of next week. 

We will be having a Math test on Wednesday on Division and Multiplication. 

Have a great weekend! We'll post next week's Spelling and Theme Reading tomorrow. 

Mrs. Gerri Karr and Miss Debbie Gardiner

Another great Fitness Class

Dear parents,

Our students worked very hard during fitness today. Nodin said his heart felt like a volcano and Miles had no need for hair gel! 

Best wishes,

Mrs. Gerri Karr and Miss Debbie Gardiner

Track season has begun

Dear parents, 

Track and Field has begun at Queensbury for another year. Even though this is only available to intermediate students (Grades 4-7), most primary teachers assist with coaching the various events. Our days start at 7:45 in the Long Jump pit on Tuesdays and Thursday mornings. We don't finish until 8:40. It would be great if the children could play outside on these mornings until they hear the first bell. If they muddle about in the hallway outside our locked classroom door, chances are they'll get loud and impatient. They can drop their bags by the door, then go out to play. Thanks for discussing this with your child. 

Miss Gardiner is teaching 100% now, and doing a fantastic job. She will be with us until June 8th. I love watching her work with the children. 

Please have your child bring in a family favourite receipe. Miss Gardiner is working on a project with the class and needs this from every student.

Next week our division is in charge of cleaning up the school grounds and donating non-perishable food items for the Harvest Project. Please plan ahead and choose some items when grocery shopping this weekend so your child can place an item or two in the basket in the front foyer. 

Best wishes,

Mrs. Gerri Karr and Miss Gardiner

Spring Fair news

Dear parents, 

Mrs. Warner came into our class this morning to drop off our collection bucket for this year's Spring Fair. Our theme is "Gardening and Plants". Donations to do with this theme like tools, bulbs, and seeds will be appreciated by May 15th. Use your imaginations! 

There is a sign up sheet in the teaching area where you can record your family's contribution. These "themed" buckets will be auctioned off during the raffle draw at our school's Spring Fair on May 24th. 

Best wishes,

Mrs. Gerri Karr and Miss Debbie Gardiner