Special Dates to Note

Here are as many of the important upcoming dates as we can round up for now. If there are others we will let you know as soon as possible. * Thursday, May 29th Humane Society Presentation at 2 pm. * Friday, May 30th Canadian Geographic Super Giant Map Presentation * Please let me know if you do not want your child photographed by our guest presenters!!* All school library books due back to the library. * Tuesday, June 3rd Volunteer Appreciation Breakfast in the Library * Friday, June 6th. PA Day No School * Monday, June 9th Scientists in the Schools Presentation on Bugs *two more volunteers needed!* * Thursday, June 12th Election Day; Polls in the school, Teacher Appreciation Lunch * Monday, June 16th - Tuesday, June 17th Primary Musical * Wednesday, June 25th Lemonade and Cookie Party with the Parents! Report Cards go home * Friday, June 27th Last Day of School!

Skirts and Shorts

Since the children are very active and go to gym and outside play, they are moving around a lot these days. We would like to suggest that the girls wear shorts under their skirts so they can play everything the boys play and keep their privacy.

Tomorrow instead!

Apparently SOME of the classes are having the Humane Society presentation today and some are tomorrow. We are tomorrow, so if you ask your child about it today you will get even less information out of them than you may on a regular day! But Miss Tiffany saw the guest animal and it is very cute.

Scientists in the Schools

The parent council has given us funds to have a special science experience and our class is going to have Scientists in the Schools present to us on insects! This will be on June 9th. A letter is coming home today. We are looking for 4 volunteers to help with insect centres. You will get training from Petra, our scientist. If you can help out, please let us know on the letter we are sending home and return it to school tomorrow. Thanks for your help!

Mothers' Day Gifts

We hope you enjoyed your gift and have had a chance to see it lit up. Here is the link to the site that inspired us. http://herz-allerliebst.de/2011/11/03/die-laternenzeit/ Now on to Fathers' Day preparations!

Cats and Dogs

The Humane Society is coming to give us a presentation on Cats and Dogs on March 28th. We are sending home a form today with the information. Please use the form to let us know about any concerns, allergies or fears that your child may have and return the forms to school tomorrow. We will make arrangements for those children to be in another class for the presentation time if need be. Thank you for your help!

Hot Days!

Now that the weather is lovely it will be getting very hot in Room 23, as we face south and get sun all day. Please make sure your child has a full water bottle each day. We will also be outside to play, so they will need to have some sunscreen put on them before school and a hat to wear. We now have an extra fan, so we are set! Thank you for your help in keeping the children comfortable in the heat.

Pay It Forward Pizza

We got a $500 gift from the Westboro Business Improvement Association to help some classes at Broadview to go to the Childrens' Festival and we would like to pay it forward. We are having a Kindergarten Pizza day to raise money. We will donate this money to the festival to help a needy school to attend. The forms are coming home today and need to be returned by FRIDAY. Please just send them in tomorrow while you think of it. The cost is $2.50 a slice and they will all be cheese pizza. We will have the pizza on Tuesday, May 13th and be able to present the cheque in person to the festival when we go on Wednesday. Thank you for your help with all our projects!!!

Jars, please!

We are hard at work here in room 23 making some top secret, beautiful Mother's Day gifts and we need some clean, empty SMALLISH jars. Please send in any you can spare. We don't need the lids, though we can use them if they are available. Many thanks!!