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Dear parents,

Brendan shared with our class that he won an MVP medal at his lacrosse game last night. We are very proud of him!

Best wishes,

Mrs. Gerri Karr and Miss Debbie Gardiner

Spelling words May 12-16

Dear parents,

Our Spelling words for next week are words that have the prefix "re". They are: rewrite, refill, reread, repaint, repay, rewind, revisit, reheat, reteach, rebuild, retell, return, retake, reprint, and replace. Our bonus words are fractured and composition.

Our Theme Reading for next week is about a twelve-mile race that takes place every Spring outside Riyadt, the capital of Saudi Arabia, called the King Camel's Race. Our words are competition, spectacle, camels, qualify, coaxing, entries, dismount, champion, outruns, and lunges. Please go over the meaning of these words with your child. 

We were treated to the Sutherland High School Band today. It was so nice of them to share their music with us. We have many students registered in band for next year. This is so nice to see!

This Saturday, the North Vancouver Museum and Archives building, on Institute Road in Lynn Valley, will be holding its annual Heritage Fair. One of our students, Maya, has a poster on display in the Family Treasures artifact section. It's a fun family event! Check it out if you can. 

Next week we have our Fun Day on Friday, May 16th. The theme is Space. Dismissal will be at 2:05. Please make alternate arrangements to pick your child up at this time. It is a Pizza Day. There will be extra pizza available for sale if you haven't ordered it through the Fun Lunch program. 

Best wishes,

Mrs. Gerri Karr and Miss Debbie Gardiner

Novel Study #2 complete

Dear parents,

Miss Gardiner completed the Novel Study titled "How to Eat Fried Worms" with the children today. They celebrated by watching the DVD and eating a "worm pie" that she lovingly prepared. 

Best wishes,

Mrs. Gerri Karr and Miss Debbie Gardiner

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