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It’s hard to believe that another year has come to an end. We feel so honored to have worked with such a wonderful group of students this year. We wish you all the best! Have a wonderful summer and don’t forget to pop in now and then next year to say hello. We’ll miss you! Love Mrs. Derksen & Mrs. Goosen
I just wanted to send a few last reminders for this week:
Wednesday – noon dismissal
Thursday – CLASS PARTY!! Mrs. Derksen will supply the plates, napkins, pop and cups. If students could bring a snack to share (cookies, chips, popcorn etc.) that would be great.
Friday – year end assembly in the morning with students dismissed afterwards.
Enjoy the few days before summer break!
Mrs. Goosen
Just a reminder of our waterslides fieldtrip tomorrow. We will be leaving the school at 9:00 and returning at 3:30. Students going on the bus can meet in the front foyer of the school. If you are planning on meeting us there, please wait at the main gate for us. Parents and siblings 4 and under who wish to come along may pay $10 at the park. In order to respect our grade specific fieldtrips, please do not pull other school age children from class to go to the waterslides. In bathing suit selection, please refer to our non-uniform standard (p3). Please err on the side of modesty to help make staff, parents and students feel comfortable. In the event that a child’s bathing suit does not meet these standards, they may be asked to wear a t – shirt. You should also bring the following:
Looking forward to a fun day.
Yesterday was a project building day…and it was exciting to see the students projects take shape! The groups were all very engaged yesterday afternoon and it was great to see the progress that was made. Some groups quickly realized that what they had planned was not going to work, so modifications had to be made! There are a few groups who are completely done and ready to go, while some others will need to meet before Tuesday and modify their machines. A reminder that both the actual structure and the written work/blueprint are due on Tuesday afternoon. We will have about 90 minutes on Tuesday to finalize our projects and work out the small kinks or finish up our written work.
Mr. Hancock and myself will be judging these machines on Tuesday afternoon at 1:30. You are welcome to come and join us and see some fantastic, balloon- popping Rube Goldberg Machines!
Mrs. Goosen
Here are a few reminders for this week:
Wednesday is our sports day! Dismissal is at noon and students should dress in their team colours! Teams are below:
Red – Jacob, Matthew, Della, Halle, Elijah, Austyn,
Green- Alison, Lydia, Roan, Carys, Kaetlyn, Annie
Grey – Brock, Brooke, Jenna
Black – Shaelyn, Ivan
Yellow – Felicity
Blue – Lukas, Annika
Also a reminder that the field trips for both Britannia Mine Museum and Cultas Lake Waterslides need to come in this week!
Friday, June 12th we leave bright and early for the Brittania Mine Museum
Monday, June 15th – Cultas Lake waterslides
Enjoy the sunshine this week!
Our class garden box is blooming and growing. There are all types of delicious foods popping up and we are hoping to enjoy some of these before the end of the year. As we approach summer, Mrs. Johnsrude is wondering if there are one or two parents who would be willing to come and collect produce from the garden boxes. There will still be veggies throughout the month of July and it would be great to see that go to good use. There will be several high school students who will continue to look after watering and weeding, but they need parents to come get the vegetables and distribute them to anyone who is interested. If our class decides to just leave the boxes at the end of the school year, the high school students will use or donate the remaining vegetables that are harvested.
If you are interested in collecting the vegetables, please let Mrs. Derksen know before the end of school, otherwise our harvested food will be donated back to the community of Chilliwack. Thanks!
Ideally, I would get a list of parents and their phone numbers and then we will set up a schedule for pick up. My students would call the parents and they would come get the produce.
Good afternoon! Below are a few items that have come up this week:
Sandals & Dress Code: We wanted to send out a reminder that brown and black coloured sandals are the only ones that are permitted. Sandals must have a back strap, so no flip-flops please.
Grade Six Parent Meeting: Mrs. Lade & Mrs. Johnsrude will be holding a grade six parent meeting on June 15 at 4pm to talk about the grade seven program and answer any questions you might have about the high school. Please plan to attend.
Year End Assembly: we have decided to do a “Poetry Slam” for the year end assembly. Students chose two poems for us to recite and then further broke themselves up into two groups – each group performing one poem. Students have been given their poems and the sections that they will be reciting. These parts need to be MEMORIZED! We will work on them at school but it would also be helpful if students could work on them at home.
Rube Goldberg Projects: students have eagerly begun planning their final Science project – a Rube Goldberg machine! This is a culminating project for our Force and Simple Machines unit. Students will finish outlining their machine this week and will need to bring in any materials on MONDAY, JUNE 8th. We will be having Monday and Tuesday to build these machines, so please don’t forget to bring materials in on Monday. If it’s easier, the students can bring them in this week and we will store it in the classroom.
Here is a video for you to enjoy…a HUGE Rube Goldberg machine!
We have officially made it to June! This is a pretty ‘normal’ week so there aren’t any big reminders to make! Please send in the Britannia Mine Museum field trip forms ASAP.
Spelling Lists are below:
S6: therefore, wisdom, peace, abundance, too, quarrel, handkerchief, ceiling, rein, neither, further, teeth, piece, steak, often, morsel, oxygen, carriage, sauce, witness
X1: finance, thorough, seize, counterfeit, mathematics, vague, perceive, immense, digest, accommodate, orchestra, committee, possessed, intelligent, accuracy, approximate, immediate, atrocious, opaque, decision
Enjoy the week!