Winter Carnival Volunteers

Thank you to all the volunteers for Wednesday's Carnival. You will be helping our team, the Winter Flash. Please come to room 23 at 11 am and we will get everyone organized and ready to go. See you soon! 

HOW many children?

In case you needed to know how many Valentines to make, there are 31 children in the class, and of course, one charming teacher and two lovely ECEs. Plus there's Mme Durnin, our fabulous French teacher. Hope no one has to go back to the store for more supplies!

Family Day

I forgot that new-fangled holiday called Family Day!! Our Flag day will be on Tuesday after you have enjoyed your families. Thanks.   

Our Flag is Fifty!!!

The newly designed Canadian flag was officially raised for the first time at noon on Parliament Hill on February 15th in 1965. We would like to celebrate its fiftieth birthday in our class on Tuesday, February 17th. We will do some crafts and have a special story and song. It would be wonderful if all the children could either wear something with the flag on it or wear lots of red and white. Thank you for your help in another celebration in room 23. 

Date for Cards and Celebrating Valentine's Day

One of the parents asked which day to send in the Valentine cards, since there's a PA day and the 14th is on the weekend. Please send them on Thursday, Feb 12th. The 11th is our Winter Carnival (volunteers still welcome!!!) and so Thursday is the best day. Thank  you for making it an exciting and special time.  

Valentines cards

This is the weekend to get ready for Valentine's day. How to address the valentine cards? We ask that the children just put From and not To as it makes delivering the 900 plus valentines much less of a chore. The children can just put to my friend, or leave that part blank, and put from and their name, eg. From Gregory. They will each have a turn to put their valentines in all their big Valentines envelopes, but we will not have to spend hours helping them read them all and finding all the names that match. We can do some other activities to learn to read and write their friend's names, but it's much better to keep their cards simple. Thank you for your help to make this a fun day of friendship!

U is for UFO

We have reached letter U and read this funny story about a boy in a plane and an alien in a UFO today.

Then we received a parcel, just like the boy in the book!

It was some alien walkie talkies! 

We had a good time playing with them and drawing pictures of aliens and UFOs and rockets. 

Tomorrow we are learning V is for Valentine. I wonder what we'll make?

More Tissues, Please!!

We are all out of tissues. Please send in a box or two if you have the chance. Many thanks!