Mrs.Folkerts Grade 1 Adventures in Primary 

From the music teacher:

Wednesday Dec. 15 is Christmas Sweater Day at Highroad.  This is perfect for our annual Christmas Concert performance.  Many students have asked, “But what if I don’t have a Christmas sweater?”.  Good question.  Here are the options for the Christmas concert:

1. a long-sleeved Christmas themed Tshirt, sweatshirt or sweater
2. a long-sleeved plain T-shirt, sweatshirt or sweater
3. a long-sleeved Tshirt, sweatshirt or sweater turned inside out, if there is a design that doesn’t fit our Christmas theme.

Any choice of jeans or dark pants/skirts are preferable to complete the students’ ensemble.

NOTE: we hope that every student has one of these options, as we would like to avoid having one or two students stand out from the class because they are wearing their uniform for this concert.

I will introduce the words on Monday, Nov.29 and the test will be on Fri., Dec 3.  Here are the words:  are, of, top, cat, but, six, my, not ten, bed.  We will practise during the week, but home support is much appreciated!

We made it through this short week of school!  After an unexpected week off, it was awesome to be back at school.  Thanks for your patience and flexibility as things kept changing a bit with what is going on around the school these days. As the countdown to Christmas break approaches, we have a few busy weeks ahead of us.  I look forward to connecting with you tomorrow for our Parent/Teacher interviews.  I will be sending you a link to your email (on file) and once you receive it, simply click on it to connect with me. If you have any issues, please contact me.

Important Dates

Tues. December 1 – Salvation Army Food Drives begins – cash to office

Fri. December 3 – Knight Day

Tues. December 7 – Assembly

Fri. December 10 – Knight Day

Wed. December 15 – Christmas Sweater Day/Recording of Christmas Concert

–Salvation Army Food Drive ends

Fri. December 17 –Knight Day  and last day before Christmas Break (11:30 am dismissal)

Christmas Sweater Day

On Wednesday, Dec. 15 is Christmas Sweater Day and also the day we will be recording our Christmas concert.  So, that will be the “‘costume”’ for the kids this year for the Christmas Concert – all students are being encouraged to wear a Christmas Sweater, or a long sleeve red or green shirt.

We finished reading 50 books of Robert Munsch.  Thank you to all parents that contributed to our theme of October/November.  It was highlight of our storytime! We are now beginning a new series called “Flat Stanley and this is our first of books of chapters.

Salvation Army Food Drive – begins Wednesday, December 1st

• We are setting a school goal of $6000 by December 15th 
• if we reach our goal, we will have an Animal Dress Up day when we return after Christmas break
• We are inviting students and families to DONATE money to the food drive as the Salvation Army has more buying power than we do. All donations go to the SCHOOL OFFICE.

Right now, the Salvation Army can use all the money they can get as they are taking the lead on meal efforts for flood relief, providing extra supplies for those affected by this current situation, and then have a list of those already on the list for hampers and other needs this holiday.

“Give thanks to the Lord for he is good, his love endures forever. “Psalm 118:29  Due:  Tues., Nov.30

Library – Fundraising Update

Guess How Many Candies in the Jar 

We have approximately 250 entries to date. Students can continue to guess up to November 25^th during their Library times. High School students are welcome to drop by Tuesday and Wednesday at their lunch time or Thursday. All students are welcome to come guess Wednesday and Thursday this week before school!

SinAmen Bun Co. Fundraiser
Thank you very much for the approximately 35 cinnamon buns orders received. So far, this has raised $175.00 for new library books! You can continue to bring your orders for some yummy cinnamon buns to the school office up to November 30^th. Order forms can be picked up at the School Office or at the library.

Book Donations
A very big “THANK YOU” to the families who have given cash donations and donated new books and books from their home libraries. The newly donated books will be added to the library with a picture of the family placed at the front as a thank you!

Your support of our school library is greatly appreciated!  Please email questions to – sbritz@highroadacademy.com.

Sincerely,

Ms. Shirley Britz 

Just a quick reminder that tomorrow (Wednesday) is Jersey Day.  Students may wear a sport jersey (not Highroad clothes and not play clothes) with casual pants.  If they do not have a Jersey, students should wear regular uniform.

I sent out a blog previously regarding Parent Teacher Conferences on Friday.  There was a sign up link whereby you could sign up for in-person or on-line interviews.  Due to the mandate from the Deputy Minister to minimize traffic on the roads and unnecessary fuel consumption, we have decided to go with ON-LINE INTERVIEWS ONLY.  If you had signed up for in person, you will see that I changed it to on-line meeting.  If that time slot does not work for you, please feel free to choose another available time slot.

For those who have not signed up already, please do so—it would be great to have a conversation with you about the progress your child is making.