Ms. Guerriero and Mrs. Mateo's Kindergarten Class

Saturday, 17 February 2018

Happy Lunar New Year

To all the families who are celebrating the Lunar New Year, sending you wishes for a Happy and Healthy
New Year!

Saturday, 3 February 2018

Upcoming Events/Activities for Room 110

Thank you to the students and their families who have already sent in their '100th Day of School' collections. We are all getting excited about the approaching 100th Day of School!

You can read more information about the 100 collections in our previous posting.

Valentine's Day Card Exchange

A note was sent home on Thursday, Feb. 1st regarding exchanging cards for Valentine's day. If you did not find it in your child's backpack, please let us know, and we will send home another copy.

Harry the Diry Dog Play

The Kindergarten classes will be going to the Richmond Hill Centre for the Performing Arts on Wednesday, March 7, 2018 to see the play, 'Harry the Dirty Dog'. In addition, on another date prior to the play, instructors from the Performing Arts Centre will be coming into our classrooms to run workshops with the students. The play starts at 10:00 am, and we will be leaving the school by 9:30 am. We will travel by bus to the Performing Arts Centre, and we should be back at school by 11:45.

Please go to School Cash on-line in order to give consent for your child to go on the trip by Tuesday, February 20th, 2018. If payment poses a problem, please let either us or the principal, Mrs. McInnis, know so we can make alternate payment arrangements. In addition, our class will be able to take 3 volunteers. If you would like to volunteer, please indicate so when you make your payment and give consent. Please remember, all volunteers must have a police check on file at the school in order to participate.

Link to School Cash On-line

Friday, 19 January 2018

The 100th Day of School is Approaching!

We have been counting the days of school. Each day, the Helper colours one of the circles in our booklet, and we record the number. (We have noticed many patterns as we count and record the numbers, too.) As of Thursday, January 18th, we have been in school for 84 days! We will be celebrating the 100th Day of School on Tuesday, February, 13th!

We are looking forward to the 100th day of school, because we are planning to celebrate! As part of our class celebration, we are going to encourage the children to bring a '100 collection' to school. Here are some ideas of collections that other children have brought to school in previous years:

100 marshmallows/candies/cheerios
100 beads on a string
100 hair elastics
100 words/letters (you can cut out the words/letters from magazines or newspapers)
100 clocks (or pictures of clocks or pictures of other things you like)
100 stickers
100 pennies
100 cars/dinosaurs/Lego pieces/shells
100 piece puzzle

Please feel free to be as creative as you and your child like with your choice of a 100 Collection.

Please note, your child can bring the actual items to school or a photo of the collection. Please help your child organize the collection so that it is easy to count the 100 pieces. For example, you may want to help your child sort and/or group the collection into groups of 5, 10 or 20 items. Your child can place each group in a baggie in order to easily transport and display the collection of 100.

Your child may bring his/her 100 collection to school any time before the 100th Day of School. If you have any questions/concerns, please contact us.

Tuesday, 16 January 2018

Food Drive at Nellie McClung P.S.

As you may already know, for the next two weeks, our school will be holding a food drive. We are collecting non-perishable food items and donating all the groceries to a food bank in York Region. Please send food items to school with your child. We will be collecting food until January 26th.

Here are some suggestions of items that you may want to donate to our food drive: canned fish or meat, beans, pasta, cereal, canned vegetables or fruit, powdered milk, flour, oil, oatmeal, etc.

Thank you in advance for your contributions!