If Your Family Celebrates Rosh Hashannah...

Belated wishes to our families that celebrate Rosh Hashannah.  We hope you all had a Happy Rosh Hashannah, and we hope you all had a good start to the New Year!

Upcoming P.A. Day

Just a friendly reminder...
This coming Monday, September 22nd is a P.A. Day, and there is no school for students.  The teachers and staff will be at school in case you need to contact anyone.

Birthday Invitations

On Friday, September 19th, birthday invitations were sent home to all the students in our class.  The invitations are from Ashley.  There was a mix-up on my part, and some children may have received someone else's invitation.  If you received someone else's invitation, please ignore the error.  All the students in our class are invited to the party.  If your child did not receive an invitation (one was left at school), please let me know, and I will send it home on Tuesday.

Happy Sunday!

Hello everyone, and I hope you are all having a good weekend!  

Just a few items of information for the coming week: 
1.  Tomorrow, Monday, Sept. 15, is Day 5  on our school schedule.  Our class has gym on Day 5 with Mr. Raha.  If you have not already sent running shoes to keep at school for your child, please make sure your child has running shoes to wear in the gym tomorrow;
2.  Lice Checks:  On Tuesday and Wednesday, students will be getting their hair checked for lice in our school; 
3.  Your child may already have told you that Mrs. Mateo has been absent for a few days this past week.  Unfortunately, Mrs. Mateo is attending to a family illness and will be away for the next while.  Our thoughts and wishes are with Mrs. Mateo and her family, and we look forward to her return; and
4.  Lastly, Monday, Sept. 22 is a PA Day, i.e., Professional Activity Day.  There is no school for students.  The school staff will be in the building if you need to contact us for any reason.

Our First Visit to Mill Race Park

On Friday afternoon, we walked over to the new park to play on the equipment.  We had lots of fun, and most of us liked going to the park according to our class survey.  Some children even asked if we can go to the park everyday.

Ms. Guerriero took many photos, too. We like to use photos in our classroom to spark writing ideas.  We often send copies of the photos home as a souvenir of Kindergarten, too.    We hope you enjoy the photos.  (We don't post any identifiable photos of students on this Blog.)

Lost & Found and Upcoming Gym Day

Lost but Not Found, Yet

We found a couple of items of clothing in our class last week.  Unfortunately, no one recognized them.

Does this sweater and/or hat belong to your child?

Pink 
Sweater

                                          'Dora'
                                           Cap



Please let us know if one or both of these items belong to your child.


Gym Day
Our school schedule is now on a Day 1 to Day 5 cycle.  (On days that the students do not attend school e.g., a PA Day, it is a Day 0.)  
We will have use of the gym on Day 5.  Tomorrow, Monday, September 8th, is Day 5, and the first time that we will have use of the gym.  If your child does not have running shoes at school, yet, please have your child wear running shoes to school tomorrow.  Mr. Raha is the prep teacher for our class, and he will be taking the class to the gym. 

The Start of a New School Year!

Hello to all our new students and their families, and 

welcome back to our returning students 

and their families!

Well, we did it!  We had a good first day of school despite all the rain we had today.  Hopefully, we will have better weather tomorrow, and we will be able to get outside for recess.

Your child brought home a 'communication bag' today filled with notes and forms from our class and school. We would appreciate it very much if you could complete the various forms and return them to school as soon as possible.

Thank you very much to the families who already sent extra clothes and running shoes to keep at school.  If you have not already done so, please send these items with your child as soon as possible.

Lastly, just a friendly reminder...
Please do not send snacks or lunches for your child that contain peanuts, nuts or nut products.  We have children in our class with allergies, and we would like everyone to be safe.  

If you have any questions or concerns, please contact us.  

As Pete the Cat says, "It's all good!"

Summer Reading

Here is some information about reading over the summer that was shared with us by our principal, Mrs. Thompson:

Dear Parents,

The purpose of a summer reading program is to encourage students to become lifelong readers.   Reading over the summer helps prevent the “summer slide” that many students experience. 

Students who read over the summer gain reading skills which prepare them for the next grade, while students who do not read during the summer, tend to lose some of the skills they had gained during the year. 

We encourage you to visit any of the Vaughan Public Libraries over the summer months.  As well, we have some digital resources that encourage literacy growth.

Tumble Books:

Web site:  www.tumblebooklibrary.com

username: nmcclung

Password: books

Book Flix:   

http://bit.ly/bookflixatnellie

Username: dsbyork  

Password:dsby7692

  

Raz Kids:

Please feel free to use your child’s current username and password. (If you  are not sure what your child's username and password are, please contact us via the comments section of this blog, and we will get back to you with the information.)

Happy Reading!