Monday, March 31st: Hannah G & Daniel Ding

Good Monday morning parents!

I have only had 9 parents fill out our NEW field trip form for the rescheduled MacSkimming Field Trip.

Here it is again:

OCDSB 122 – Consent for Student Participation on a Field Trip

Dear Parents/Guardians,

The Grade 3 students in Mr. Jackson’s class and mine will now visit the MacSkimming Outdoor Education Centre Pioneer Village on Monday, March 24th. This is our rescheduled date due to the bus cancellations on February 13th.

We will travel by bus to the village at 3700 Wilhaven Dr., departing at 9:30 AM and returning to school by 2:15 PM for the last block of the day. Students will also have a lunch break at the Education Centre.

As promised, here is the new online field trip permission form link. Please complete it as soon as possible so your child can participate:

I currently only have 1 parent for the new date. If you are interested in volunteering, please indicate this on the online permission form and email me directly. I will then send you the trip volunteer form. A valid police records check is required to volunteer. If you do not already have one, you will need to obtain one before the trip. If you had a record check filled out before, please email it to us again so that it will be date stamped when sent.

Due to seating restrictions on the bus, we have a limited number of volunteer spots available.

Thank you for your support!

Ms. Lewis

Dear Parents/Guardians,

The Grade 3 students in Mr. Jackson’s class and mine will now visit the MacSkimming Outdoor Education Centre Pioneer Village on Monday, March 24th. This is our rescheduled date due to the bus cancellations on February 13th.

We will travel by bus to the village at 3700 Wilhaven Dr., departing at 9:30 AM and returning to school by 2:15 PM for the last block of the day. Students will also have a lunch break at the Education Centre.

As promised, here is the new online field trip permission form link. Please complete it as soon as possible so your child can participate:

OCDSB 122 – Consent for Student Participation on a Field Trip

If you are interested in volunteering, please indicate this on the online permission form and email me directly. I will then send you the trip volunteer form. A valid police records check is required to volunteer. If you do not already have one, you will need to obtain one before the trip. If you had a record check filled out before, please email it to us again so that it will be date stamped when sent.

Due to seating restrictions on the bus, we have a limited number of volunteer spots available.

Thank you for your support!

Ms. Lewis

The students have started delving into the depths of effective storytelling and how to captivate an audience when reading aloud. Students will be exploring different activities based on books by the renowned children’s author, Robert Munsch. There will be reading and listening activities, and assessments related to identifying the main idea and examples from the text to support their BIG IDEA claim. The students have been sampling several books by this author, and will very soon (by Monday of next week) have chosen a book that they feel a connection to or has sparked their interest level to read to the class as their project.

Throughout the course of this unit, the students will rehearse their chosen book at home with parents and at school with peers, practice their oral fluency skills, and hone their presentation skills. The unit will wrap up with each student getting up before the class dressed as one of the characters from their book selection and reading the story to the class. The students should use their time nightly to prepare for their Robert Munsch book presentations which will take place the week of  March 17 – 21st.

The students have been given a booklet of stapled activity sheets for this project yesterday. This booklet is to go home and come back to school every day starting late next week until the presentation date. Parents are asked to fill in the Practice Log at the back of this booklet regularly to indicate that their child has been practicing the reading of his/her chosen book! There is also a spot to give them constructive feedback as the students prepare.  Any activity work that is not completed in the time given in class at school during the day should be finished at home. You can also help your child with the planning of his/her costume and prop ideas to enhance the presentation. 

The rubric for the presentation is in your child’s booklet.

Here are a few pictures from previous years of students on their presentation day:

The pick-up process might be slower than usual today as the snow is deep and we ask for your patience. There is no urgency to pick up your child as dismissal is at 3:45 and we always have supervision until 4:00pm.

If you want a quick pick up and to avoid the rush at end of day, please feel free to come and sign your child out from the main office before 3pm today.

Drive safely everyone!

*******Please note that if the school board cancels buses due to inclement weather early Thursday morning, our field trip will not proceed and will also be canceled completely. Listen to the morning radio announcements and check the news/your email/this blog before school on Thursday.******

Thank you for signing the online field trip permission forms for Thursday’s trip to the MacSkimming Outdoor Center! The students and I are looking forward to the pioneer village experience! A special thanks go out to our parent volunteers: Meesha’s Dad, Shawn’s Dad and Mithran’s Mom. These parent volunteers should sign in at the office at 9:20 am and head up to our classroom. We will be heading out the bus at 9:35 am sharp (right after O Canada and morning announcements), so please make sure your child is here on time at the first bell, or he/she will be placed in another Grade 3 class for learning until we return to the school. We will be returning to the school around 2:15 pm in the afternoon.

Snow is forecasted for this Thursday, so students should be dressed according to the conditions (hat, mitts, snow pants, winter coat, winter boots, extra socks).

Review the information at the following link before Thursday for more info: The Village Field Centre Information Package

Don’t forget to pack your child a litter-free lunch and a reusable water bottle on Thursday. We will have a brief lunch break while we are there.