Reminders:
Tomorrow we have library, return your books. We get to see the book fair preview- we are not buying anything tomorrow!
The book fair is open for purchases NEXT WEEK, we get to go and buy things on Wednesday next week, and you can go during the Celebration of Learning after school on Thursday or Friday.
Our Celebration of Learning is next week, you can come either Thursday or Friday to see your child's work.
Notes from the Music Room
I cannot believe that in approximately 3 weeks we will have our concerts! I hope that you have all checked your emails to see when your child is performing. Many students are asking me about costumes etc. Dalhousie elementary is very fortunate to have beautiful traditional Latin American custom-made costumes. Some of our classes will be wearing these and others will find their costumes from home.
Kindergarten Costumes:
Girls - We have skirts and shirts for the little girls, however, we ask that they come to school wearing white or as close to solid white t-shirts or tank top and tights (any colour).
Boys - Come to school wearing dark dress pants and a white or as close to white solid t-shirt or dress shirt.
All students can wear regular school shoes
Grade 1:
Sra Fuentes: We will provide the children with the costumes. Come to school wearing:
Girls - white or as close to solid white t-shirts or tank top and tights (any colour).
Boys - dark dress pants and a white or as close to white t-shirt or dress shirt.
Regular school shoes
Srta Houde:
We will provide the children with the costumes. Come to school wearing:
Girls - white or as close to solid white t-shirts or tank top and tights (any colour).
Boys - dark dress pants and a white or as close to white t-shirt or dress shirt.
Regular school shoes
Srta. Carcamo:
Please see the separate email that will be sent home.
Srta. Alvarado:
Please see the separate email that will be sent home.
Grade 2:
The children are at a beach going fishing. “Ideally” the costumes would be khaki shorts, capri pants or pants that are rolled up with a white or close to white T-shirt. Nothing bright or neon if possible. Please note, ideally does not mean that any money should be spent on this outfit… it’s just a guide.
Grade 3:
We will provide the children with the costumes. Come to school wearing:
Girls - white or as close to solid white t-shirts or tank top and tights (any colour).
Boys - dark dress pants and a white or as close to solid white t-shirt.
Regular school shoes
Grade 4:
We will provide the children with the costumes. Come to school wearing:
Girls - white or as close to solid white t-shirts or tank top and tights (any colour).
Boys - dark dress pants and a white or as close to solid white t-shirt.
Regular school shoes
Grade 5s:
Please wear your fanciest clothes! You are the hosts of the evening!
Boys - dress pants with a solid dress shirt or a solid (not neon) shirt. Ties and bow ties are welcome. Please avoid t-shirts with logos or writing on them.
Dalhousie School Updates
Please see the separate email sent regarding our Celebration of Learning & Book Fair on March 9 & 10 and how to book for it.
We are continuing our Food Drive for Kindness Month. All donations are gratefully accepted and can be dropped off at the donation boxes at either the front or the back door.
Volunteer opportunities are available for each class. You must have a valid CBE volunteer clearance at the time you sign up and we ask that you sign up for two opportunities per class to allow for as many people as possible to participate. If you would like to volunteer more, please check with the teacher. More details can be found in the separate email that was sent out.
Our Spring Concert will be held on March 22 & 23 at 6:30pm. You can see which classes perform when in the separate email sent out. Srta. Primak is also looking for helping with prop creation. You can sign up here if you can help out.
Dalhousie Parent Society Updates
www.dalhousieparentsociety.com – check out our website for all this info and more!
dalhousieschoolparentsociety@gmail.com – email us if you have questions about anything!
Check out our Facebook and Instagram pages as well! Search for Dalhousie Parent Society – tell your friends and fellow parents to give us a follow!
***EVENT***
The Dalhousie Parent Society presents PAUL DAVIS – Online and Social Networking Safety Officer. Join us March 15th for this information session. RSVP here
***FUNDRAISERS***
BREAKING NEWS OUR CURRENT PLAYGROUND WILL BE REMOVED SUMMER 2024! - The CBE will be ripping the current playground out. If we do not come together and fundraise to build the new playground, the kids will be left with nothing. Check out the sign up if you are interested in becoming part of the playground committee! Volunteer here! Did you know? You will be supported by the Parent Society in your volunteer role. We have a Playground Lead who will have your back through the whole process!
PURDY’S CHOCOLATES
Want to know the most DELICIOUS way to support us? Order Purdy’s chocolates from our fundraiser!
From now until March 3, 2023, you can order Purdy’s treats from our fundraiser by joining our campaign and browsing the tastiest selection of Easter chocolates online. Shop gifts for family, friends, neighbours AND yourself in one convenient place. After all orders are submitted, we’ll sort, distribute, and let you know when you can collect your goodies.
What you’ll need to order:
1. Our campaign number: 61732
2. Go to our fundraising website: https://fundraising.purdys.com/1384984-104699
3. Click “Join Campaign”
4. Shop, shop, shop away!
Thank you EVERYONE for your support. Even if you can’t buy chocolates from us, it would mean the world if you could share this fundraiser link to everyone you know!
Happy chocolating!
MOTHER’S DAY FLOWERS
Visit the website here to see what’s being offered! Deadline is March 30th
Beary Berry Honey Order forms were sent home last week. Please fill out forms and return by March 13th!
***FUN LUNCH***
Volunteers need to have police clearance to volunteer for fun lunch, please email dalhousieschoolparentsociety@gmail.com if you would like us to confirm. WE NEED VOLUNTEERS! March 1st & 21st need a spot filled! View the sign up here. Don’t forget to send students with reusable straws if they have ordered Booster Juice! If they show a fun lunch volunteer they will be entered to win a free Subway fun lunch on March 21.If your child will be absent and you‘ve already ordered fun lunch please email dalhousieschoolparentsociety@gmail.com before 11:00am and let us know if you’d like to:-Pick up the order from the office after 12:30pm-Donate it to the amazing Dalhousie staff-Have it sent home with a siblingUpcoming dates:
March 1 – Tim Horton’s
March 7 – Fat Burger
March 15 – Boston Pizza
March 21 – Subway & Booster Juice
Learning:
ELA:
We are doing opinion writing and working on brainstorming and identifying the opinion, reason, examples that would support their opinion.
SLA:
We are working on writing about our houses that we built, we are following this rubric:
Math:
We have started with double digit subtraction without borrowing, please check out this video for our FIRST strategy on how to subtract double digit numbers, using base ten blocks. Only the first half of the video is what we have covered so far.
Social Studies:
We are learning about Iqaluit and working on taking notes about the land, animals, food, and the Inuit people that live there (their traditions, clothing, language, etc). This is a band from Nunavut, listen closely for the traditional Inuit throat singing.
Reminders:
The 100th Day is upon us! Dalhousie is very excited to dedicate our upcoming Spirit Day to the 100th Day of School in the 2022-2023 School Year! To share in this celebration, students are encouraged to imagine what they might look like as 100 year old’s and come to school dressed as such on Friday, February 24th. Classroom ventures throughout the day may include math-related activities focusing on the number 100, poetry, writing activities, and art representing and recreating the number 100 in variety of ways. Please encourage your child to dress up for the occasion and brain-storm other ways to think of and represent 100. We are very excited to reach this milestone and want to spread the spirit throughout our school.
There will be no school due to Teachers’ Convention on February 16 & 17 as well as February 20 due to Family Day
Pink Shirt Day will be on February 22. Everyone is encouraged to wear pink as a symbol of kindness.
We have our ongoing Food Drive as part of Kindness month. Donations are gratefully accepted in the donation boxes found at either the front or the back doors of the school.
Please see the separate email sent out regarding our Celebration of Learning. Booking details will follow. At the same time as our Celebration of Learning, we will be hosting a Scholastic Book Fair. We hope to see you there for both events!
Our Spring Concert will be held on March 22 & 23 at 6:30pm. You can see which classes perform when in the separate email sent out. Srta. Primak is also looking for helping with prop creation. You can sign up here if you can help out.
Notes from the Music Room
The March concert is fast approaching. An email was sent to families with the dates and information pertaining to the concert, which will be held here at the school. Two nights of beautiful renditions of Latin American songs and Spanish songs performed by the talents and voices of our Dalhousie students. I for one can’t wait to show you what they have accomplished. Do send me a note letting me know if your child will not be present at the concert. For some songs the children are assigned instruments and partners. For children to find themselves without their partner on the night of the concert is terribly distressing and confusing, which leads to a not so pleasant concert experience.
Please go over past blogs to find the videos and lyrics to the songs the children are working on. Children who have taken the opportunity to work on the songs at home have taken great enjoyment and pride in singing them.
Reminders:
We are doing a Food Drive, please bring non-perishable food items for the bins!
We will continue building our casas next week- if you want to bring things for building you can.
You can bring gift cards to donate to a family at Dalhousie school who lost their dad.
Our Learning:
Today was pattern day!
Spanish: We are building casas (houses) in Spanish and learning the vocabulary to describe a house.
ELA: We have been learning about different letter sounds and combinations, like digraphs and vowel teams (aw, au, oi, oy, oo, ow, ou)
Math: we have reviewed the different subtraction strategies and are working on subtracting within 20
Social Studies: Nunavut and Iqaluit (food, culture, people, language, animals)
Reminder: Library tomorrow, and pink shirt day Feb 22
Food Drive: You can bring food donations for people in need in our City of Calgary during the month of February.
Dress in a Pattern Day is on Friday Feb 10.
3 Acts of Kindness a Day for February: Students will be asked to do three acts of kindness a day for Feb. and we will be doing a bulletin board to keep tracking.
We are going to be making Valentines Day cards in class! Please DO NOT bring in cards or gifts (they will be returned home).
For more information please check this detailed post below:
During the month of February, Dalhousie will celebrate Kindness Month. Kindness is a value that should be emulated on a daily basis and a goal of having this focus during February is that it instills the value on a daily basis throughout the year. It is also grounded and can be seen as a throughline in the Indigenous Seven Sacred Teachings of Love, Respect, Courage, Honesty, Wisdom, Humility and Truth. Kindness can be found in both giving and receiving and permeates through a community in a positive way. Specifically, Dalhousie will be engaging in various activities to highlight kindness:
· Three Acts of Kindness Every Day: Students and staff will be asked to do three acts of kindness every day. This can be holding the door open for someone, recognizing someone for a specific act or saying thank you.
· Food Drive: As an act of kindness and caring, we will be hosting a food drive for the Calgary Food Bank. We want to recognize that we care for other people in a way that they need it.
· Valentine’s Day: This day has a tradition around showing love and care. Dalhousie students will show this by making cards for others outside of learning community and giving them to seniors, front line workers, hospital patients and others. Students will also be making cards for each other. We ask that no cards, food, toys or other items be sent from home for this occasion. Anything sent from home will be sent back. We ask that instead you direct resources that you may have used for this to our Food Drive.
· Pink Shirt Day will be celebrated on February 22. Students are encouraged to wear pink to school as a symbol of kindness towards each other.
Notes from the Music Room
Dear families,
We continue working towards a successful Spring Concert for you. I ask that those of you that look at the blogs, please help your child listen to the song El Barquito de Cascara de Nuez. I included that in the blog two weeks ago or so. I am also very excited to announce that we will have Señor Waters as our accompanist for the Spring concert! I have to say that the children are terribly excited about performing for you. I hope you can all make it to the concert.
The Kindergarten children are going to start dancing La Raspa. We have already worked on the most important part of the footwork. I am attaching a video that guides the steps but please don’t think that this is how we are going to do the dance exactly. For one I don’t call it the Mexican Hat Dance! Also, in the video they keep on saying Olé… The kids love saying olé but if there is any way that you can refrain from encouraging that, I would be most grateful. If you explore more of the videos from this channel you might find some gross motor skills for the kids that are fun and helpful to do as a family.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p31lF-hY9u0&t=71s
The Grade 1 students are now learning the following Venezuelan folk song:
Con real y medio
Con real y medio
Con real y. medio
Compré una pava
La pava tuvo un pavito
Tengo la pava, tengo el pavito
Siempre me queda mi real y medio.
Translation: with a dollar and a half I bought a turkey, the turkey had a baby turkey. I have a turkey and a baby turkey and I am always left with my dollar and a half.
With this song we start adding animals. The video below is quite fast, but the music is representative of Venezuelan instrumentation and the order of the animals is the one that we will be singing. Please don’t expect the children to sing it that fast… well, not yet anyway. We won’t perform it that fast either because otherwise the whole concert would be over in 15 min.
A reminder that February 3 (tomorrow!) is a non-instruction day with no classes for all students.
Registration for the 2023-24 school year is ongoing. If you are looking to register a younger sibling, please submit an application through the CBE website by February 14 at noon to be included in the lottery.
The next Dalhousie School Council/Parent Society meeting will be held through Teams on February 8 at 6pm. All are welcome to attend.
Friday, February 10 is Dress in a Pattern Day. Everyone is encouraged to wear their best pattern to school!
There will be no school due to Teachers’ Convention on February 16 & 17 as well as February 20 due to Family Day.
www.dalhousieparentsociety.com – check out our website for all this info and more!
dalhousieschoolparentsociety@gmail.com – email us if you have questions about anything!
Check out our Facebook and Instagram pages as well! Search for Dalhousie Parent Society – tell your friends and fellow parents to give us a follow!
Dalhousie Parent Society News
***FUNDRAISERS***
BREAKING NEWS OUR CURRENT PLAYGROUND WILL BE REMOVED SUMMER 2024! - The CBE will be ripping the current playground out. If we do not come together and fundraise to build the new playground, the kids will be left with nothing. Check out the sign up if you are interested in becoming part of the playground committee! Did you know? You will be supported by the Parent Society in your volunteer role. We have a Playground Lead who will have your back through the whole process!
PURDY’S CHOCOLATESWant to know the most DELICIOUS way to support us? Order Purdy’s chocolates from our fundraiser! From now until March 3, 2023, you can order Purdy’s treats from our fundraiser by joining our campaign and browsing the tastiest selection of Easter chocolates online. Shop gifts for family, friends, neighbours AND yourself in one convenient place. After all orders are submitted, we’ll sort, distribute, and let you know when you can collect your goodies.
What you’ll need to order:1. Our campaign number: 617322. Go to our fundraising website3. Click “Join Campaign”4. Shop, shop, shop away!
Thank you EVERYONE for your support. Even if you can’t buy chocolates from us, it would mean the world if you could share this fundraiser link to everyone you know! Happy chocolating!
MOTHER’S DAY FLOWERSVisit the website here to see what’s being offered!
***FUN LUNCH***Volunteers need to have police clearance to volunteer for fun lunch, please email dalhousieschoolparentsociety@gmail.com if you would like us to confirm. WE NEED VOLUNTEERS! Feb 7, 15 and 21st need some spots filled! View the sign up here.
Don’t forget to send students with reusable straws if they have ordered Booster Juice! If they show a fun lunch volunteer they will be entered to win a free Subway fun lunch on March 21.If your child will be absent and you‘ve already ordered fun lunch please email dalhousieschoolparentsociety@gmail.com before 11:00am and let us know if you’d like to:-Pick up the order from the office after 12:30pm-Donate it to the amazing Dalhousie staff-Have it sent home with a siblingUpcoming dates:February 8 - Boston PizzaFeb 15 – Fat Burger & Booster JuiceFeb 21 – The Saucy Bread CompanyFeb 28 – Tim Horton’s
