June 21, 2024

 Dear Families,

Welcome to our final blog of the 2023-2024 school year!

We have been working through our last full week of school by doing some fun learning activities.  We have been doing a ten day countdown to summer, with each day having a different theme.  The students have enjoyed Jellyfish Day, King and Queen Day, Popcorn Day, Jungle Day, and Clay Art Day.  We have worked through a lot of stories, songs, and art projects to help us celebrate each day.  The students have also had a lot of fun creating masks, crowns, and dressing up in costumes to help them understand and connect to each theme.  As part of Clay Art Day, we are creating some beautiful pieces for the students to bring home next week.  The students have also been enjoying their gym time outside, as well as music in the music room throughout the week.

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Over the course of this past school term, we have been focusing on a lot of functional academic skills.  

In Language Arts, the students in EES have worked on:
- examining ways that messages can be organized and presented for different purposes through stories, pictures, books and play

- learning different listening behaviours such as focusing on the speaker, taking turns, using appropriate body posture and using appropriate gestures while listening

- developing vocabulary through a variety of literacy experiences such as rhymes, songs, poems, read alouds, pictures, conversations and learning on the land

- using antonyms and synonyms in speaking and writing

- building phonological awareness through experimenting with sounds in words and identifying sounds at the beginning and end of words

- learning rhymes through songs and poems and recognizing what rhymes are

- learning that sentences can be separated into words 

In Math, the students in EES have worked on:

- learning that quantity can be represented using objects, pictures, words and numerals

- counting forwards and backwards, and learning to start at any number

- learning to subitize small quantities 

- investigating 2D and 3D shapes

- exploring size and weight through direct comparison

- identifying and creating repeating patterns using familiar objects and shapes

- describing time in different ways using words such as next, first, today, etc.

- describing time using standard units such as days, hours and minutes

In Science, the students in EES have worked on:

- investigating and examining properties of objects and environments using the 5 senses

- exploring movements of objects, humans and animals

- investigating and examining the needs of plants and animals

- investigating the behaviours and sources of light and sound 

- examining landforms and bodies of water

EES has done a lot of learning this term!

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Fun Lunch

The last day for Fun Lunch will be Wednesday June 26 .

Fun Lunch is only for grades 1-4 and our EES students. Orders are accepted 1 week prior to the day.

• Go to healthyhunger.ca
• Log into you existing account or create a new one.
• Add your child’s information in the “add child” box – name, province, city, school, grade and class.
• All Fun Lunches will then populate – select the order now button!

Please make sure to send a morning snack with your child on Fun Lunch Days.

Report Cards

Families will be able to view online student report cards for kindergarten to Grade 12 from June 26 – July 26, 2024. 

Parents and Guardians can sign in to MyCBE​ to view student information, including report cards, comments from your child’s teacher, assignments and grades, and attendance information.

For best access to information, log in to the MyCBE​ portal. 

Last Day of School

Just a reminder, our last day of school will be Thursday June 27. Students will be dismissed at 12:00pm.

Upcoming Dates

June 25 - Sports Day - Tropical Shirt Day 

June 26 - Kindergarten Graduation - AM Kindergarten 9:30am / PM Kindergarten 1:45pm

June 26 - FUN LUNCH - Little Caesars

June 26 - Report Cards Available

June 27 - LAST DAY OF SCHOOL (early dismissal 12:00pm)

Have a fabulous summer, and we look forward to seeing you all in the fall!

Ms. Emma, Ms. Veronika & Ms. Swapna