On Tuesday, our Baptism Worksheets are due and the students will be presenting them so please ensure they are sent to school on Tuesday morning. Thank you for your help with this and many students have already been very excited to show their Baptism photos!
TYPHOON TOONIE TUESDAY: On Tuesday, we are also raising money in support of our friends in the Philippines who are struggling after Typhoon Haiyan hit the province of Leyte. All students are asked to send in a Toonie as the government will match every dollar that we raise. This will also be a non-uniform day in order to thank the students for their generousity so send in a Tuesday and thank you in advance for your help!!! Please keep the people of the Philippines in your prayers!!!
On Friday, students will be bringing home their first term Report Card. If you have any questions or concerns, please contact me to set up an appointment so we can discuss things in person. If I have specific concerns for your child, I would have already contacted you by now and would continue to do so in the future but I welcome anyone who would like to discuss their child's progress at greater length at any time. We also will be having Three Way Conferences on Thursday, November 28th and Friday, November 29th. Your family should have received a note on Friday asking you to choose a time when you are able to come in with your child and we ask that you return this form to school by Tuesday, November 19th. This is a time to celebrate your child's progress and to look at goals for our next term together. These conferences are more geared towards a conversation with the student and our time is limited to 10 minutes but you have more specific items you would like to discuss, again, please make a separate appointment. Thank you!
CHRISTMAS: We are already starting to turn our attention towards Advent and the Christmas Season. Students have started to prepare for our Christmas Concert, taking place on Tuesday, December 27th at 1:00pm and 7:00pm. More information will be coming home soon but just a heads up that our students are being asked to dress up as angels. Students will be asked to wear white robes or white clothing (although beige or very light coloured pants can be worn as I understand white pants are not usually in a Kindergarten's wardrobe:o) We will be supplying 'halos' but please start thinking about white angel-ish clothing for your child and save the date. Our Parish Bazaar is also coming up on Saturday, November 30th and our class made a craft to be sold on this day. You may pre-purchase your child's craft in advance but make sure you get your orders in ASAP. Also, I will be sending home information about Advent and I would encourage all of you to talk to your child about this wonderful season of preparation. A wonderful activity to do together is to create an Advent wreath to display somewhere in your house. I usually wait until we have some big wind and then pick up evergreen branches around my home and voila...my wreath is prepared (with my dollar store pink and 3 purple candles)! Your child will also be bringing home an Advent Chain next week to help count down the days so I would also encourage you to help your child take a chain off each day and follow the message inside. We often become very busy thinking about decorating, shopping and presents...it would be wonderful to take time thinking about the true reason for the season and spending our time in prayer and finding ways to give gifts to Jesus...both in our words and actions.
STAR OF THE WEEK: Congratulations to Orlagh for being our Star of the Week!!! Here are a few things her friends had to say about her...
Orlagh plays nicely.
She is a good friend.
She is nice to people.
She is good at soccer.
She is nice.
Keep shining, Orlagh! You are a star! This week, we will be learning more about Adie and finding ways to celebrate her! We have a class of shining stars!
Enjoy the week and God bless!
