Friday, November 28, 2025

Hello families,

Although it is still technically the fall season on the calendar, it has been quite the snowy weather this week! 

SNOWPANTS:

Please remember to send snow pants with your child each day that it is snowy outside or cold. Students play outside two times a day and love to play in the snow. Without snow pants, your child cannot play with their friends in the snow. Snow pants are worn over top of normal pants when children play outside. When they come inside, they take the snow pants off. Snow pants cannot be worn in the classroom. They are often wet and can be too warm.

Important Reminders:

November 28 – NO SCHOOL (Parent / Teacher Conferences)

December 3 – SPIRIT DAY: Wednesday Festive Winter Wear Day (see Mrs. Brinson's Northern Lights News for details)

December 10 - SPIRIT DAY: Wednesday Festive Winter Wear Day

December 17 - SPIRIT DAY: Wednesday Festive Winter Wear Day

December 18 – Papa Johns Fun Lunch Day (healthyhunger.ca)

December 19 – SPIRIT DAY: PJ Day

December 19 – Last day of classes before Winter Break

January 5 – First day of classes

This week we:

• learned our first digraph (th) that has two sounds!

The quiet (unvoiced) 'th' sound as in 'thin', 'thick', 'three' and 'throw':

The noisy (voiced)  'th' sound as in 'that', 'this' and 'them':

Ask your child to read to following words:

• practiced segmenting words to write words and sentences about this forest picture

• made a variety of different patterns using various manipulatives (colour, size, etc), and extended a given pattern

• brainstormed and created a list of weather and clothing specific to the fall season.

• looked at and discussed important places/features in our community. Ask your child what some of the important places in our community are!

• practiced our soccer skills in the gym with a variety of balls!

Friday, November 21, 2025

 Hello families,

Important Reminders:

There is NO SCHOOL for students on Friday, November 28 due to Parent/Teacher/Students Learning Conferences.

                                           

PARENT / TEACHER / STUDENT LEARNING CONFERENCES

 

The Parent / Teacher / Student Learning Conference booking system is now open to families on Monday.  Families can book a 15-minute slot with the homeroom teacher during the available times. All bookings will be done through your parent MyCBE account.

Conferences times are as follows:

Thursday, November 27 from 4:30 – 7:45 (for Kinder to Grade Five)

Friday, November 28 from 9:15 – 2:00 (for Kinder to Grade Five)

You should have received an email from the booking system when it opened on November 17.

This week we:

• had a practice fire drill. When the alarm went off, we exited the building quickly and quietly and met at our meeting spot
• learned to read consonant blends at the beginning and end of words. Consonant blends happen when two consonants are next to each other and they still make their own sound. Some examples of consonant blends are: 

Ask you child to read the following words:

• learned the heart word: 'are', 'do', 'from', 'look', 'like', 'some', 'come'

• imagined that we found a secret garden behind our school. We brainstormed lots of ideas, drew a picture and then wrote a few simple sentences about our secret garden

• began literacy rotations where we practice reading and writing skills through hands on activities and games

• learned about the importance of the quantity of zero. We told stories about when we might have zero of something. We also discussed the importance of zero to hold the place in numbers like '10', '20' and '100'.
• practiced counting a variety of objects in groups of tens.

• began math stations where we practice a variety of numeracy and geometry skills independently and in small groups through activities and games

• practiced many different skills to play a game of soccer such as dribbling, trapping and bouncing the ball off our knees.

• Ask your child what game we played in gym with the following equipment.  Ask them how to play this game!