Upcoming Reminders and/or Events:
- Our first Trail Walk is tomorrow (Wednesday). Please help your child to remember to dress for the weather. We still go in the rain! If families are interested in joining us, you are welcome. We do attendance and line up by our outside door around 8:50am and are back by 9:20am.
- Early dismissal days are coming up this week on Wednesday and Thursday, September 25th and 26th for teachers and families to meet. Students will be dismissed at 1:48pm on these 2 days. If you are interested in meeting with Ms. Norris, please see the sign-up schedule here.
- Our Terry Fox run is on Thursday this week. Lochside is hoping to raise $400. Bring a 'twoonie for Terry' to help us reach our goal. Students should come to school on Thursday with their running gear on.
- Photo Day is coming to Lochside this Friday, September 27, 2019.
- Fun Lunch is on Friday this week.
- Monday, September 30th is Orange Shirt Day. The Lochside community is invited to wear orange on this day to come together in a spirit of reconciliation and hope because every child matters.
- Spelling: Each week we focus on a pattern. This week the focus is words with the sound 'f'. We learned that it can be spelled 4 different ways - f as in frightened, ff as in suffer, ph as in paragraph, and gh as in enough. We are looking for patterns, synonyms, and meanings with the words this week. We also have a proofreading challenge and paragraph writing each week.
- Math: After spending two weeks with Stanford's Week of Inspirational Math, we've got some great growth mindset lessons to get us ready to learn. The messages we heard is everyone can have a math brain, it's not about speed but about thinking deeply, there are many strategies we can use, as well as the importance of struggle and believing in yourself. We are set for a terrific year in math!
- Writing: So far we have been exploring ourselves as writers. What do we like about writing? What do we find difficult? We also talked about the best writing environment and designed it.
- Gym: We've been playing some whole group games in class so far. Today we played 10 second tag and Hawks and Doves.
- Reading: We read every day for 30 minutes. We are working on our stamina. The challenge is to settle in for 30 minutes with one book. Ms. Norris checks in on us to see if we are understanding what we are reading.
- Tech Tuesdays: We have new passwords here at school. We met with Ms. Molloy, our Learning Commons Teacher, to talk about the importance of having strong passwords. This week we'll be continuing Digital Citizenship lessons using Common Sense Media's Digital Passport online games and discussions.