Today was our first Colour Day and it was a great one!  Seeing everyone in red and black was such a great symbol of our school’s strong unity and school spirit.  In the afternoon, our class cheered on the Highroad girls volleyball team during their game.  I must say our class had the strongest cheering section, even beating out the high school in volume and enthusiasm.  I attempted to take some pictures but everyone was moving around so much that it was pretty hard to get a clear one.  Here are the best ones from the game. Have a great weekend!

We are close to wrapping up our first Socials unit of the year about ‘Our Global Community’.  We all learned a lot about the importance of human rights, the United Nations, & various humanitarian organizations.  The students also worked on their presentation skills when they worked in small groups to explore the rights of children in Lebanon, Ethiopia, & South Africa, as well as the work of several humanitarian organizations.  The highlight for me was when the class chose ‘World Vision’ as their organization to support this year.  In the next 2 weeks, we will be putting together a small group of students to organize in-school fundraisers and, as a class, we will decide specifically which World Vision projects to support.  Please remember to stop by our classroom and see our students’ art work where they illustrated one or more of the universal human rights.

On November 17th, Highroad will be hosting its annual Spell to Write and Read information seminar for parents.  If you have not attended before or if you feel like you need a refresher course on all those spelling rules and phonograms, please plan to attend.  More details to follow.

See you all on Thursday & Friday this week!  Don’t forget to pick up your $10 HRA t-shirt on Thursday for Color Day on Friday.

Mrs. Derksen

Hi Everyone,

Just wondering if there are any current or ‘ex’-scrapbookers in our class community??  Do you have scrapbook paper taking up room in your craft box?  Mrs. Goosen and I are looking for paper donations to use during art class.  If you have any paper you would like to give us, please send it to school with your child or drop it off anytime.  Thanks again!  Mrs. Derksen

This Friday afternoon, our class will be joining Mr. Bird’s class in a fun afternoon of relay races – where athletic ability will not matter at all 🙂 – a large group game, and then everything topped off with ice cream sundaes.  We are participating in this activity to foster school spirit, develop leaderships roles in the grade 6 students, and to enjoy this beautiful weather we’ve been having!  Students will wear their gym strip for the afternoon.