October 15 - 19

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Highlights of our week from the perspective of our students:

 "This week we made self portraits. We used different materials to make our self portraits. For my hair I used brown yarn and I also used pink ribbons." SS

 "We wrote about our self portraits and one of the things I wrote about was I used a blue background to let my brother know that I am always thinking about him."AM

"We read a book which was no words in it,  its called Flotsam and in the book there was a boy who found a flotsam in the water that was an underwater camera. that takes pictures. The boy found a special photo of people taking photos of themselves with a photo and it goes on and on and at the end of the book the boy throws it in the water and someone else finds it."ED

"Ms. Manser and Mr. Newman did the chicken dance in the assembly." KB

"We did partner reading... its when you go with a partner and read with them." IB

 "We did a Stem Challenge today. I went with my brother. At the first station it would always fall down when we asked Mr. Newman to take a picture so we had to keep building another one." ES


 Upcoming Dates
October 22-25th - Swimming AM -Div 1
October 25th - Fun Lunch
October 26th - Non-Instructional Day (PD) - No School

Volunteers Needed
-We  are still in need of some volunteers for our upcoming swimming field trip for Thursday October 25th. If you can volunteer on this day, could you please email your child’s teacher. We currently do not have enough volunteers  for this day.

Reminders
Our Grade 3s will be swimming at Canyon Meadows Pool this upcoming week (October 22, 23, 24, 25). We will be departing from school each day at 9:50 am and arriving at the pool at 10:00 am. Students will swim from 10:30 - 11:15 am. We will then depart Canyon Meadows Pool at 11:30am and arrive at Andrew Sibbald at 11:40am. 

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