Here is our spelling list for next week:  feature, neighbour, beige, sleeve, poverty, visitor, toward, pickle, advice, tobacco, article, drown,  liquid, decade, disaster, vessel, avenue, janitor, against, method.

Also wanted to send out a reminder that tomorrow is a half day as we have parent-teacher interviews in the afternoon -class is dismissed at noon.

On Wednesday, October 1st the K-6 will be having a fall colour day.  The students can wear their new t-shirts or anything else that is fall-ish in colour.  No costumes, please!

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

T-shirt Artwork

The students presented their very fabulous ‘switch’ projects this week.  We had a doorbell for the deaf, a morris code flashlight, several awesome nightlights and some very fashionable jewelry and headbands.   The students worked hard creating their switch inventions and also did a great job presenting their inventions to the other students in the class…well done!  Now we are on to part two of our electricity unit, learning about parallel and series circuits and then concluding with an electric invention festival!

Enjoy the pictures of the students great inventions!

Mrs. Goosen

Here is the spelling list for October 22nd – 26th:

choose, entertain, weigh, improve, promise, prefer, chose, illustrate, prepare, soldier, machine, treason, objection, area, service, treasure, create, creation, quiz, effect

IS SOMEONE IN YOUR FAMILY A MEMBER OF THE ARMED SERVICES?  DID SOMEONE IN YOUR FAMILY SERVE IN AN ARMED CONFLICT IN THE PAST?  IF SO, WILL YOU SHARE WITH US?

One of our history classes is putting together a visual presentation of Highroad family members who are serving or who have served as a soldier in past wars.  Will you send us the following:

1. email a photo of your “family soldier” (more than one is okay)

2. email a current family photo (we want to include this in the presentation)

3. what if you don’t have a photo of your “family soldier”? take a photo of your family holding a LARGE placard with his or her name, rank and which conflict he or she served in – you can include memorabilia, such as medals, clothing, etc.

4. supply us with these details – family name, soldier name, rank, conflict served in (e.g. WW1, WW2, Korea, etc)

5. email electronic photos to kkristjanson@highroadacademy.com

6. we will only accept electronic photos

7. sooner is better than later – it takes time to put a presentation together!

Thank you for being willing to share your personal family history with us.  We are hoping that this project will give your family an opportunity to have some quality time discussing your “family soldiers” and will also allow us to make a presentation at our Remembrance Day Service that will engage our students in the process of Remembering!

Here is our spelling list:  modern, adopt, purpose, control, search, consider, interest, popular, revealed, different,  publication, together, injure, education, complete, distribute, satisfy, virtue, patience, injury

The spelling list will be tested on Thursday as we have a Pro D day on Friday.

We just wanted to let you know  that on Friday, November 9th we will have our Remembrance Day ceremony.  This will take place at 11:00 am and students will be dismissed at noon.

Here are a few dates in October to mark on your calendar:

October 18th – Interim Report Cards go home

October 19th – Pro D Day – no school

October 29th – Half day.  Parent/teacher interviews from 1 – 6pm

October 31st – Fall Colour Dress up day