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Our spelling words this week are: sleigh, affair, paragraph, island, ambition, temperature, opinion, difference, onion, pistol, recess, canvas, dictionary, community, vanity, grocery, yourself, mushroom, celery, gallows.
A few things for you to be aware of:
Food Drive: Begins MONDAY, NOVEMBER 26th until Wed., Dec. 19th.
Needed items include: canned meat, soup, pasta & sauce, rice, canned fruit/veggies, baked beans, peanut butter, tea, coffee, canned milk.
Please do not send Mr. Noodles, pop or bottled water.
If students want to also go door-to-door in their neighborhood, they must get a Salvation Army button. See Mrs. Lade in the high school admin office if you’d like one. $1 deposit for the buttons.
Ice Skating: Friday, December 14th and Tuesday, January 15th. Grade 6’s will be on the ice from 10:45-11:45 at Twin Rinks. HELMETS ARE MANDATORY. Parents welcome to join us but no room for siblings, sorry! Permission slips will go home tomorrow.
Ski Trip: January 31, 2013 for all students in grades 4-6 and their parents. Registration will take place in December. Watch for further information.
Don’t forget that next Friday is Crazy Hat Day and a noon dismissal.
We are well underway with our electrical inventions! Students will be working on Monday and Tuesday to finish up their inventions and then present them on Wednesday, November 21st. We will be presenting our inventions at 1:15 on Wednesday if parents would like to come by and see the students great work!
Our battery supply has gotten low and students may need to bring some extra batteries and supplies to help them complete their projects.
Looking forward to Wednesday!!
Here is our new spelling list: doubt, motion, snooze, crawl, wound, design, tie, mention, assist, nickel, confession, emotion, moment, concert, sympathy, final, system, majesty, bankrupt, million.
Last week we heard about the devastating fire that broke out at the Brodie’s home. Everyone is safe but so much of what they owned is now gone. As a class we decided that we wanted our first service project to be for David Brodie- who has lost so much! Mrs. Derksen and I talked on Friday and we have decided to collect money this week for David. We have two mom’s that will use the money to purchase some new things for David – a masculine ‘gift basket’, if you will!
There will be an envelope at our desk for you or your child to donate money. We want to purchase some gifts over the weekend so please have the money in by FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 16TH.
As a class we look forward to being able to bless David – so thank you so much for supporting us in our first class service project!
Mrs. Derkesen & Mrs. Goosen
Here are the words for this weeks spelling list. This list is also available on spelling city – a great way for your child to study for their spelling list!
Here are the words: century, centennial, centimeter, examine, examination, marry, marriage, condition, government, stopped, knowledge, theater, megaphone, belief, believe, ability, union, behave, behaviour, course.
Today was an emotionally challenging day for our class. As most of you have heard, the Brodie’s home had a large house fire yesterday. David joined us for the first hour of class today and as you can guess, it was very emotional for all of us. We had an incredible prayer time together with many tears and encouraging words. Our hearts break for the loss of all of David’s personal items and in the next week we will be putting together a plan on how the grade 6 students can further help him through this challenging time. For updates on how Highroad Academy is supporting the family and how you can help, check out the “Academy News” section of our school’s website. Our class, however, will solely focus on supporting David during this time. We will let you know next week what we have decided to do as a class. Thanks for your support and prayers for the Brodie family.
Here are some important dates in November…
Friday, Nov. 9 – Remembrance Day service, 11:00. Noon dismissal
Monday, Nov. 12 – School closed
Wednesday, Nov. 14 – Knight’s Day (read below)
Saturday, Nov. 17 – SWR
Friday, Nov. 30 – 1/2 day and crazy hat day
KNIGHT’S DAY
On November 14th, students K-6 have the opportunity to wear their new Highroad t shirts and casual pants in support of our Grade 7 boys basketball team. If you have not yet purchased your Highroad t shirts, they will be on sale for $10 before school, on Wed. November 14th. Participation in “Knight Day” is optional and students may feel free to wear their uniforms if they prefer. Come on out and support Highroad athletics!
Over the next couple of weeks we will wrap up our electricity unit. The students have begun their big electrical invention today – planning and designing their final project…their ideas are awesome! I do have some materials here (holiday lights, some batteries, brads, paper clips, tape, tinfoil, construction paper etc.) but students may need some additional materials. I ask that you help the students gather these materials and they can bring and store them at school. The students have today and next week to work on their project and our presentations will happen on Monday, November 19th or 20. I will keep you posted on when we will be presenting our projects and you are welcome to come and see the student’s ‘works of art’!
Mrs. Goosen
Just a reminder that our Remembrance Day service is this Friday at 11:00 and students will be dismissed at noon. Friday will be a full dress uniform day so they will not need to wear their full dress uniform on Wednesday.
Here is our new spelling list for this week: impartial, possible, total, particular, natural, temporary, pleasant, grateful, certain, serious, local, opposite, peculiar, brilliant, divine, fertile, original, handy, constant, anxious.
Today we celebrated United Nations Day in our class. The actual birthday of the UN was last week on Oct 24th; however, I wasn’t working with the class that day so today we acknowledged it. Our party started off with an exhilarating ‘Continent’ game outside in the parking lot where I shouted out the name of a country and the students had to race to 1 of 6 ‘continents’ that corresponded with that country. It was highly entertaining, (especially for me!) and will be a game that we play again I’m sure. We then returned to class and watched a music/visual performance from Humanitarian Day in August. It’s a moving video (see link below) and we had a brief discussion after about how all of humanity has a desire to be known and how, in our heart of hearts, we all want to make a difference in this world. Then the students started an art project called “Many Colored Hands” and it was topped off with a rousing rendition of ‘Happy United Nations Day to You’ and yummy cupcakes baked by yours truly. 🙂 A fun afternoon had by all!
Mrs. Derksen
I Was Here, UN Humanitarian Day Performance