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!!

Hurray! Tomorrow is May!! We are going to dance and go on a Field Trip soon!!

Tomorrow is May Day and we will be celebrating with flower crowns and some streamer dancing. Then we will be counting down the days until our FIELD TRIP to the OTTAWA INTERNATIONAL CHILDRENS' FESTIVAL!!! We are going all day on Wednesday, May 14th and we have room for a few volunteers on the bus and more if you would like to meet us there. We will see a performance of Frogz, a mime presentation that focusses on observing and imitating things around us. It looks delightful. We will also have time to visit the displays and do many other activities. We will have a picnic lunch. If the weather is wet we can still do all the activities because they are in tents. The trip permission form is coming home today and MUST be returned for your child to go on the trip. Please send it right back in tomorrow so you don't forget. Thank you for your help making this amazing trip happen! Here is the link to the festival: http://ottawachildrensfestival.ca/

Gymnastics!!!

Yesterday the children received a 50 minute Gymnastic class from Bubbles, a teacher visiting from Star Gymnastics. They had a very lively class and were so happy to try all the different stations. These included a mini trampoline, marshmallow stilts and a giant round pillow for them to do (supervised) back flips on. They surprised us all by being able to stand by a wall, put their hands down on the floor, walk up the wall with their feet and do a handstand! We took lots of pictures to show you in June. It was a great part of healthy active living week.