HAPPY HOLIDAYS EVERYONE! (and New Year's celebration news for our first day back in 2016)

A big thank you to all of our families for everything that you have done this year! Thank you for your donations, for your kind words and for our gifts for Christmas. 

Have a fabulous holiday, Merry Christmas and be safe! 

Monday January 4th:
Please note that we will be having a mini New Year's Celebration on Monday afternoon!

If your child has "tooters" or a New Year's Eve hat to bring in, we would love for them to do so.
We would also gladly accept healthy/nutritious snacks like fruit, veggies, popcorn etc.

Merry Christmas everyone!
Mrs. Porto and Mrs. Kimberley

School Bus Safety!

We had school bus safety on Thursday and we learned a lot about it. Please ask your child what they learned and what they remember.

1) Danger zone=within 10 steps around the bus
2) Always walk across the street when the crossing guard or the bus driver says that it is safe
3) Stay seated on your bottom when riding on the bus
4) Say hello/goodbye to the driver, but never stand and chat while the bus is in motion
5) Be at your bus stop 5-10 minutes before your pick up time
6) Walk up and down the stairs and use the hand rail.

Free Play

-Play dough cookies
-A den for the bears
-Gingerbread puppet show
-Big Lego building
-Soft sand bin

Thank you to Ms. Socha (ECE supply) and to Ms. Salmon (EA Supply) for coming in today and for helping me out so much.

Have a great start to your week everyone!
Mrs. Porto :)

What was your child's favourite Gingerbread story?

Friday free play and our morning message.

Your little ones did a great job this morning!

Sugar cookies...done!

Today your children all had a chance to mix, measure, pour and spoon sugar cookies or chocolate chip cookies. We baked our red and green sugar cookies, however, we didn't have time to cook up our chocolate chip batch. We will bake the dough tomorrow!

Please check your child's zippie tonight as they each got a cookie to take home with them.

Thank you for your donations of butter, flour, sugar, decorations, chocolate chips, beaters and bowls. We hope that you got your beaters and bowls back tonight. If there is something missing, please let us know and we will get it to you.

See you at the concert tomorrow morning!

Mrs. S. Porto and Mrs. R. Kimberley :)

Concert Thursday at 9:30am!

Please remember that tomorrow at 9:30am we will be having our Christmas concert. If your child has something red, green or "space related" to wear, please dress them in the morning with these items. If your child has a Santa hat or reindeer antlers, we would love for you to send those in with them. Please meet us in the gym at 9:30 and not in the classroom.

We can't wait to share or holiday and space songs with you.

See you tomorrow!
Mrs. Porto and Mrs. Kimberley

Sick child

Dear Families,

It has come to our attention that several children are coming to school ill. If your child is under the weather, we urge you to keep them home. Illnesses spread quickly and we are all prone to catching what your little one has.

If your child has a fever or has thrown up, please think about keeping them home for at least 24 hours after the fever has broken.

We will be more diligent and we will be calling home if we feel like your child is not up for a full day due to illness. 

A day or two of Kindergarten missed is harmless.

Thank you for your understanding, 
Mrs. Porto and Mrs. Kimberley

In need of a parent volunteer or two for Wednesday morning baking.

Dear Parents,
We are in need of one or two parent/grandparent volunteers to help lead some baking activities. If you have an easy to bake cookie that you would like to share with a group of 6-10 children, we would love for you to lead a group. 

We are also in need of a few large bowls and an electric beater.

Our baking period starts at around 11:20am and will go until around 12:30pm. Please message us here or in the communication book. 

Thank you,
Sylvia Porto :)

Some creative works for all to see!

Look at Ashley and her celebration...

Thank you to Ashley's family for sending in these special pictures at Diwali.

Look who has arrived in our classroom!

This morning there was a special delivery to our Purple room! Mr. H rushed in to let us know that there was a package from the North Pole! The package was frozen and there was a lovely letter from Santa!

Please ask your child the following:
1) What was delivered to your class this morning?
2) How did the package feel?
3) What did the letter say?
4) What is his name?

We now have Elf Journals to work on (literacy activities) and we will have some special activities going on over the next few weeks.

Cheers,
Mrs. K and Mrs. P

Important December information!

Hi Parents!
Our Christmas concert is coming up soon and we sure hope that you and your little one have been practising the Planet Song at home.

Concert Date: Thursday December 10th, 2015
Time: 9:30am
Location: Please meet in the Gym

Our class donation basket is coming along nicely, if you have any "Super Hero" items or "Princess" items to donate, please send them in before December 4th (this Friday)

We will be baking holiday cookies sometime next week (once our class marble bucket is full). We still have a bag of flour and food colouring but we may be in need of items like butter, sprinkles, sugar and eggs. If you are able to spare an item or two, we would love to have them collected by next Tuesday.

Our last day of school before the holidays is December the 18th. Please stay tuned for the pick up time as it is an early dismissal. 

Thank you again for all that you do. We couldn't be the best Purple room ever (; without your help!

Mrs. Porto and Mrs. Kimberley

It's dress up time!