Friday Oct 28

 A reminder that Friday, October 28 is a non-instruction day with no school for all students.

With Halloween coming up, students are invited to wear costumes to school on Monday, October 31.  The costumes must be worn the whole day and must be appropriate for school environment meaning no violent or inappropriate content or messaging. Accessories such as swords, guns, knives, weapons etc. should not be brought to school.  As costumes should not impede learning, we ask that no mask even if it’s a half face mask be worn to school.  Those wanting to wear COVID masks are welcome to. Due to dietary restrictions and preferences, no food should be brought to school for sharing purposes.  While well intended, other non-food treats should also be not brought to school (goodie/loot bags).

School photos retakes were originally scheduled to happen on October 17 & 18 have been rescheduled to November 2 & 3.  If you would like your child to have photo retakes, please email your child's teacher to let them know. Class Photos will also happen on the November 2 for all classes with the exception of the Tuesday/Thursday Kindergarten group whose class photo will be taken on November 3.

Dalhousie students will have the opportunity to participate in a 6-day dance residency at school. Sound Kreations will be coming to dance with the students on November 14, 15, 16, 17, 21, and 22. Our students will be participating in a program called CubaNYC where a Spanish speaking instructor will focus on teaching the students hip hop and Latin street dance moves. The cost of this residency will be $7.26 per student which can be paid through your MYCBE account.  This fee is in the process of being posted and you should see it in the next couple of weeks. We are excited to get our groove on, ask your child to see the moves they learned at school.

Thursday Oct 27

Reminders:

Monday is Halloween, you can wear your costume to school if you want to. School appropriate costumes please, no weapons, no masks that cover your face, nothing too scary/creepy. 

The school rule is no candy or toys. 

There is no school tomorrow! 

Sound Kreations Dance

Dalhousie students will have the opportunity to participate in a 6-day dance residency at school. Sound Kreations will be coming to dance with the students on November 14, 15, 16, 17, 21, and 22. Our students will be participating in a program called CubaNYC where a Spanish speaking instructor will focus on teaching the students hip hop and Latin street dance moves. The cost of this residency will be $7.26 per student which can be paid through your MYCBE account. We are excited to get our groove on, ask your child to see the moves they learned at school.

 

Tues Oct 25

Reminders:

Tomorrow is Library, remember to return your books. 

We are doing a food drive so bring some donations that people are in need of like:

* paper items (kleenex, toilet paper and paper towel)

* non-perishable food items (cans, cereal, granola bars, oatmeal, fruit roll ups, noodles, pasta) 

We DO NOT have swimming tomorrow, today was our LAST day. 

We DO NOT have school on Friday this week. 

Our Learning:

ELAL: Reading strategies in English, what are adjectives and adding description to our writing, editing our writing for COPS (capitals, organization, punctuation, spelling).

SLA: Naming shapes, reading strategies, reading syllables 

MATH: addition facts with answers up to 20 (mental math), reviewing the addition strategies from last year, such as +1, +0, count up, doubles facts, doubles plus one, tens partners. 

SCIENCE: beginning temperature, how to use a thermometer, freezing and boiling 

SOCIAL STUDIES: maps, using a compass 

Reminders!

We have swimming Monday and Tuesday this week at 9:05, remember your swimming stuff! 

Tuesday is our last day of swimming. 

School Update: 

During the pandemic, many pieces shifted online, including Parent Teacher Conferences.  Some families indicated that they preferred them online as it allowed flexibility in timing and attendance.  We have formal opportunities for connections with families throughout the year.  Thank you for providing feedback for the format and method delivery of our conferences.  Please note that due to logistical parameters that are not in our control, we may not be able to implement all feedback.  Thank you for providing your input.  The survey will close October 28, 2022 at 4pm.

Friday Oct 21- Class Update

Our Learning:

ELAL:

We are working on adjectives and adding details to our writing... we have been writing about our swimming this week and trying to stretch our sentences by adding adjectives and the 5 W's. 

Daily 5- we are working on the long O words, such as "home, coat, toe, goat, float, close, dome" and reading with a partner or by ourselves. We read and listen to books on Epic. This week we got our RazKids log in so we will use that at school and it can be used at home. 

SLA:

We are working on reading syllables (ta, te, ti, to tu, ma, me, mi, mo, mu) and reading books in Spanish. We have read books as a class and are practicing reading Spanish books to a partner. Students should be taking a Spanish book home from the library to read at home as well. They can also read and listen to Spanish books on RazKids, now that they have their log in cards. 

Math: 

We are reviewing addition strategies (+0, +1, +2, tens partners, doubles, doubles plus one) to add within 20. 

We are building numbers with base ten blocks (tens, ones) working our way up to three digit numbers and including the 100's place. 

We continue to practice skip counting by 2, 5, 10 to solidify our understanding. 

Science- we have finished our magnet projects. 

Social studies- we are understanding a compass (north, east, south and west) and using it to design and read maps.

RazKids is up and running. The grade 2 students have access to their RazKids account. Their log in cards were sent home this week with password and username. Please keep it handy so you can log in at home!

Friday Oct 21- School Updates

 A reminder that Friday, October 28 is a non-instruction day with no school for all students.

Dalhousie Parent Society News

We are having a playground party on Friday, Oct 21^st from 1:30-3:30 pm to explore our current playground and check out some ideas for the new playground we are hoping to build! Join us with your kiddos and ask any questions that you might have! Bring your loonies and toonies to buy a snack while you hang out!

We have launched our holiday fundraisers so you can get a jump on shopping for some goodies!

Check out our Growing Smiles Link to order gorgeous holiday floral arrangements.  Order deadline is Nov 15 and pick up is Nov 29.  Click for holiday magic!

Purdy’s Chocolates!! Need we say more? Grab some delicious treats for that special someone! Order deadline is Nov 26th and pickup is Dec 13th.  Click for yummy chocolate!  Enter customer number 61732 when you shop. 

We’ve started a 50/50 draw for the playground! All cash, winner takes half. Please consider buying some tickets to support our new playground build!! We really need your help!

Fun Lunch Contest Time

CONTEST TIME!!

Win a free fun lunch!!! Nov 15 and Dec 13, bring a reusable straw and show your fun lunch delivery person when you get your Booster Juice to be entered into the draw for a free Subway lunch on Dec 21! Good luck! CONGRATULATIONS to Pari in Room 8 who won the reusable straw contest on October 18! Thank you to everyone who participated!

 

Oct 26 – Fat Burger (deadline Oct 21)

Nov 1 – The Saucy Bread Company (deadline Oct 27)

Nov 9 – Boston Pizza (deadline Nov 4)

Nov 15 – Subway & Booster Juice (deadline Nov 10)

Nov 23 – Coco Brooks (deadline Nov 18)

If your child is going to be absent and you have ordered them a lunch, please email dalhousieschoolparentsociety@gmail.com before 11am the morning of fun lunch and let us know if you would

1.              like it sent home with a sibling

2.              You would like to pick it up

3.              Donate it to the amazing staff

Thursday Oct 20

 Reminder: 

We do not have swimming tomorrow, Friday Oct 21. 

We DO have swimming Monday and Tuesday next week at 9:05 again though!

Tuesday Oct 18

We are swimming tomorrow and Thursday this week. Next week we swim again on Monday and Tuesday. Each day at 9:05! Remember to wear your swimsuit and bring your swimming stuff!

We have library tomorrow! Remember to bring back your books. 

Friday Oct 14

Lots of Important Updates be sure to scroll through ALL of them!

Our first day of Swimming is Monday Oct 17. Remember that our bus leaves the school at 9:05, so do not be late. Try to come to school with your swimsuit under your clothes and I suggest bringing a separate bag for swimming things so you can put you wet towel in it after swimming, and not in your backpack. Remember to bring a towel, clothing and extra snacks, as students will be extra hungry most likely. For long hair, please braid or tie back as we will not have time to brush it out after swimming. 

School photos retakes were originally scheduled to happen on October 17 & 18 have been rescheduled to November 2 & 3.  If you would like your child to have photo retakes, please email your child's teacher to let them know. Class Photos will also happen on the same days.

RazKids is up and running. The grade 2 students will have access to their RazKids account once the lo in cards are sent home next week. The grade 2’s will be using RazKids as a reading tool to support reading and fluency practice at home, in English and Spanish. Students have access to both English and Spanish books on RazKids and can read, listen to reading and even record themselves reading at home on RazKids. More info to come next week. 

Starting on Monday, October 17, 2022 we will be collecting food/non-perishable items for the Veteran’s Food Drive. There will be boxes set up at the front and back door for food drop off. At Dalhousie School, we want to support Calgarians who are less fortunate than us, and one way we are doing this is through the Veteran’s Food Drive. This drive will run until after Remembrance Day. Items that the food bank is urgent need of are the following:

• Kleenex – tissue boxes
• Napkins
• Paper towel
• 1 litre juice cartons
• Juice boxes for lunches
• Cereal
• Coffee and coffee pods
• Pancake mix
• Laundry soap
• Granola bars
• Ziploc bags (medium and large)
• Fabric softener
• Rice packages
• Cookies
• Canned chili / stew
• Mayonnaise
• $25.00 grocery gift cards

Thank you for your support of this worthy cause.

Halloween

With Halloween coming up, students are invited to wear costumes to school on Monday, October 31.  The costumes must be worn the whole day and must be appropriate for school environment meaning no violent or inappropriate content or messaging. Accessories such as swords, guns, knives, weapons etc. should not be brought to school.  As costumes should not impede learning, we ask that no mask even if it’s a half face mask be worn to school.  Those wanting to wear COVID masks are welcome to. Due to dietary restrictions and preferences, no food should be brought to school for sharing purposes.  While well intended, other non-food treats should also be not brought to school (goodie/loot bags).

Dalhousie Parent Society News

www.dalhousieparentsociety.com – check out our website for all this info and more!

Playground Party 

We are having a playground party on Friday, Oct 21 from 1:30pm-3:3 pm to explore our current playground and check out some ideas for the new playground we are hoping to build! Join us with your kiddos and ask any questions that you might have!

Did you know?? Our playground has already had portions removed due to safety issues. We hope to have all of those taken care of with a new playground!!

If you ordered any produce from the Indeygo Harvest Fundraiser, pickup is next week October 18 from 3-5pm

We have launched our holiday fundraisers so you can get a jump on shopping for some goodies!

Check out our Growing Smiles Link to order gorgeous holiday floral arrangements.  Order deadline is Nov 15 and pick up is Nov 29.  Click for holiday magic!

Purdy’s Chocolates!! Need we say more? Grab some delicious treats for that special someone! Order deadline is Nov 26^th and pickup is Dec 13^th.  Click for yummy chocolate!

Fun Lunch Contest Time

Win a free fun lunch!!! On Oct 18, Nov 15, and Dec 13, bring a reusable straw and show your fun lunch delivery person when you get your Booster Juice to be entered into the draw for a free Subway lunch on Dec 21! Good luck!

 

Thursday Oct 13

Starting on Monday, October 17, 2022 we will be collecting food/non-perishable items for the Veteran’s Food Drive. There will be boxes set up at the front and back door for food drop off. At Dalhousie school we want to support Calgarians who are less fortunate than us, and one way we are doing this is through the Veteran’s Food Drive. This drive will run until after Remembrance Day. Items that the food bank is urgent need of are the following:

·       Kleenex – tissue boxes

·       Napkins

·       Paper towel

·       1 litre juice cartons

·       Juice boxes for lunches

·       Cereal

·       Coffee and coffee pods

·       Pancake mix

·       Laundry soap

·       Granola bars

·       Ziploc bags (medium and large)

·       Fabric softener

·       Rice packages

·       Cookies

·       Canned chili / stew

·       Mayonnaise

·       $25.00 grocery gift cards

Tuesday Oct 11

 Reminders:

1. Library tomorrow! Please return your books, a few people have over due books. 

2. We go swimming next week on Monday!

3. Scholastic Order forms went home today, our class code is RC140337

Our Learning This Week:

ELA: This week we are working on the long O vowel sound, such as: toe, coat, show, home, close, mow, know, hose, boat, float, no 

We are working on stretching a sentence, using the five 5W's and adjectives. 

SLA: We are working on describing in Spanish and the fall words, colors and clothing vocabulary. We are working on reading syllables (ca-be-za). 

Math: Skip counting by 2, 5, 10 and representing numbers up to 200 in different ways, increasing and repeating patterns

Science: Finishing our Magnetic Game projects 

Social Studies: Mapping 

Thurs Oct 6

Reminder:

Bring supplies for building our magnetic games for the grade ones. 

Remember there is no school this Friday or Monday, because of the Thanksgiving long weekend. 

Our first day of swimming is on October 17. 

Please remember to bring indoor shoes if you do not have any yet, as the weather changes this will be very important.

Our Learning:

ELAL: We stretched our sentences by adding 5 w's. Such as the sentence we created "A girl named Ruby, is playing soccer with her friends after school in her backyard because it is fun."

We are working on Daily 4- ask your child what the four options are. 

SLA: Describing animals in Spanish telling the body parts, colors and size. "La panda es de color negro y tiene dos ojos" (the panda is black and has two eyes)

Math: We have been working on skip counting by 2, 5, 10 on a number line and a hundred chart up to 100. Today we started increasing patterns. 

Art: We did some fall art with leaf rubbings and watercolor.

School Updates (Oct 6)

 Playground Party 

We are having a playground party on Friday, Oct 21^st from 1:30-3:30 pm to explore our current playground and check out some ideas for the new playground we are hoping to build! Join us with your kiddos and ask any questions that you might have!

Did you know?? Our current playground is over 22 years old!!

Check out our Growing Smiles Link to order gorgeous holiday floral arrangements. 

We still need one volunteer to help with Apple delivery. Almost 300 boxes of apples were purchased by our school so the help will be greatly appreciated.  

Fun Lunch Contest Time

Win a free fun lunch!!! On Oct 18, Nov 15, and Dec 13, bring a reusable straw and show your fun lunch delivery person when you get your Booster Juice to be entered into the draw for a free Subway lunch on Dec 21! Good luck!

 Oct 12 – Subway (orders due Oct 7^th)

Oct 18 – Opa & Booster Juice (deadline Oct 13^th)

Oct 26 – Fat Burger (deadline Oct 21^st)

Nov 1 – The Saucy Bread Company (deadline Oct 27^th)

Nov 9 – Boston Pizza (deadline Nov 4^th)