Important Days in October

Week of Sept 29th - Oct 3rd
Show and Tell Week

Wednesday, October 1st
Metis Presentation

Week of October 6th - 10th
Walk to School Week

Thursday, October 9th
Picture Retake Day

Monday, October 13th
Thanksgiving
No School

Monday, October 20th
LIT Early Dismissal 2:20pm

Week of October 27th - 31st
Show and Tell Week

Terry Fox Run

This week is another busy week at Coronach School! Tomorrow at 2pm we will host our Annual Terry Fox Run. This is a joint event with our great community, so please come and join us. We will have a Penny Parade in the gym before the run. This will be set up by noon! Tickets are $5 for a bundle! See you there!!!

October Scholastic Book Orders

Today your child will bring home 6 Scholastic catalogs ~ sorry! If you are interested in ordering from any of these catalogs, please return the order forms and a cheque to the school by Tuesday, September 30th.

Thank you in advance for your support!

Healthy Habits Blog Post

This morning we posted on our blogs about healthy habits.  Miss Gent has been teaching us about some of the things we can do to be more healthy ~ sleep, healthy foods, smiling, fresh air, and exercise.  We have also talked about "Real Food" and how real foods will rot.  We have started talking about preservatives and processed foods as well.  Here are our posts and we thank you in advance for having a look!

http://kidblog.org/MrsEldersClass2014/

School Photo Package

Today your child will bring home their school picture packages.  Please return ALL packages (even if you do not want to place an order) by Tuesday, September 30th.

Retakes will be available on October 9th if you would like that as an option.

Thanks!

Walk to School Challenge

October 6-10 is Walk to School Week and Coronach School is taking part in a Saskatchewan in motion challenge designed to get more kids walking and biking to school. Our school has a chance to win $1,000 for sports and physical activity, students who walk all five days could win a $250 bundle of active toys and gear and there’s a prize for every student who walks at least once.

Although walking to school is one of the easiest ways to build activity into your child’s day, only 28% of Canadian kids do so these days. That’s why Saskatchewan in motion is challenging families to give walking a try at least once during Walk to School Week.

All students will bring home a Walking Passport and more information about the challenge. We hope you’ll take up the challenge to Give Walking a Try at least once during the week. Students who walk or bike to school arrive relaxed and ready to learn. They build independence, develop social skills and get some of the 60 minutes of physical activity they need every day.

Visit www.saskatchewaninmotion.ca for more information about the Walk to School Challenge and tips for getting started walking to school.

CTV Hometown Tour and Community Lunch

CTV news will be in Coronach this Thursday, September 25^th and they will be stopping at the school for the lunch hour!  The Town of Coronach is providing a FREE lunch for all students, staff and COMMUNITY members from Schnell’s Food Truck!  The food truck will be parked in the high school parking lot, and we will have a few tables and chairs set out for the lunch!  

The younger students, K-6 will be served their lunch beginning around 11:45am to ensure that they get their food.  We are creating a few posters to welcome the news crew and hopefully a few students, staff and/or community members will want to be interviewed during the lunch hour to promote/brag about what a beautiful community we have!

We are also asking all students to wear GREEN to show their support for the Saskatchewan Roughriders during the CTV visit that day.

Please try to find some time to come out for some free lunch, a nice visit and a wave or a pose for the cameras!

Thanks!!

Real Food Rots!

This week we have started looking at healthy and non-healthy foods. We started with a discussion about preservatives in food to make it last longer and how real food rots. We made predictions about which foods in our experiment we think would rot the fastest. Over the next few days we will be observing our experimental foods and seeing how close our predictions were.

Have a great week!
Miss Gent

September Reading Challenge

A reminder to everyone that the month of September is almost over.  This means there are only a few more days left to finish the "Get Caught Reading" Challenge completed.  Remember that the bonus picture can be sent to me at the following email address:

elder.christa@prairiesouth.ca

Thank you in advance for doing the September challenge, and you will receive an October challenge soon!

5k Walk/Run

This Friday afternoon is our annual 5k walk/run. Students are not required to go the entire distance, and the adult who is assigned to each group can determine and/or adjust the best distance.

 If you are planning to attend and would like to be a leader for a few of our students, please let me know.  

Thank you in advance!

Blog Posts

Today was our second time posting on our blog. We are working on alliteration and wanted to share what we have learned with you.  Thanks for looking and commenting on our blogs! We appreciate it!

http://kidblog.org/MrsEldersClass2014/

Healthy Habits

We have started discussing healthy habits in our classroom and the various ways we can be healthy, both in school and at home. As a class, we will be creating a book on healthy habits starring the Grade 1 and 2's. We will be spending the next week or two taking pictures of us being healthy to put into our book. Some of our pictures will feature people eating something healthy, either at snack or at lunch. In order for everyone to get a chance to be in these pictures, I ask that you help them pack a lunch or snack that features a few healthy options to include in our pictures.

Thanks for all your help!

Miss Gent

Education Week ~ Celebrating Success

This year the theme of Education Week is “Supporting and Celebrating Success”.  In the past, we have celebrated the success of people in our community, this year, we want to celebrate the success of our students—we know that these are many!  We need your help to do this!  We would love if you would take some time to send us pictures/videos of your students doing something “successful”.  Please keep in mind that these successes do not have to be huge and life altering…success is different for each person.  These success videos/pictures can be anything from: tying shoes to writing their name for the first time to reading to riding a bike without their training wheels.  Also, things such as: swimming lessons, diving, catching a fish, sleeping in a tent, rodeo or playing ball.  Please send us your pictures, we hope to put a PowerPoint together to showcase the great things our students are doing.  You can attach your pictures/videos and email them back to your Staff Companion or send them straight to Rachul.ashley@prairiesouth.ca or elder.christa@prairiesouth.ca

Thank you so much for your support in celebrating success! 

Classroom blogs

As we begin blogging in our classroom I would like to share a few reminders about posting comments. We strongly encourage people to comment on student blogs.  It shows students that they are writing for an audience and that their work is important to people.  We do our best to reply to comments and continue the conversation, but please be patient with us as we are learning to blog. 

When commenting we ask that you do not add any last names of students or your own last name.  This is the best policy in regards to student privacy and safety.  You can refer to yourself as Mom, Dad, or Grandma, and even Grandpa from Saskatoon, but please don't refer to last names.

We also strongly encourage you to use best spelling, punctuation, and grammar practices when submitting comments. We use comments and blog posts as a learning tool, so we ask that you do your best to capitalize, use punctuation etc. when submitting. 

Thank you! 

Scholastic Book Orders

Today your child is bringing home Scholastic Book Order catalogs.  If you wish to order anything from these catalogs, please return the order form and a cheque (we are not allowed to take cash) to our classroom by Friday, September 12th.

Thank you!

The Bloggers Are Back!

Day 5 in our classroom and we are already blogging!  This is big news for us as we LOVE to blog about what we are doing in our classroom.

Each student has their OWN blog where they will post during the school year.  You can view the student blogs at this site:

http://kidblog.org/MrsEldersClass2014/

Please share this site with family and friends using the buttons at the bottom of this post.  There should be a Facebook and Twitter button that you can click on to share easily with your family and friends.  We encourage you to not only read your child's post but to also comment on them as well.  We do our best to have conversations and make connections with those who comment on and view our blogs.

Each comment must be approved my a blog administrator before it is visible on their blog, so please don't panic if it doesn't show up immediately.  We also encourage you to have friends from across Canada and around the world view the student blogs.  We have a view counter to keep track of how many views, but also a world map that allows us to see all the places around the world that have looked at our blogs! Thank you so very much for helping us with our blogs this year!

Get Caught Reading ~ September

Today your child will bring home a "Get Caught Reading" bookmark for the month of September.  We would like the students to complete as many of the items as possible during the month of September.  Many of the items can be done simultaneously, such as "Get caught reading outside" and  "Get caught reading a book about animals".

Students can return them to school once they are completed! Thank you for your support of this project!

Spirit Week

The SRC has started the year planning fun and exciting events for all our staff and students.  We are going to have a Spirit Week/Dress Up Days next week.  Below is the list of days!  Please let us know if you have any questions!

 Spirit Week—Sept 8-12

Monday—Pajama Day

Tuesday—White Day

Wednesday— Fan Day—A piece of clothing from your favorite team

Thursday—Formal Day for School Pictures  

Friday—School Color Day (Blue and Green)

Rider Day on Friday

This Friday will be Rider Day at Coronach School.  If your child has any Rider gear, or and green clothing, please have them wear it on Friday to help cheer on the Riders in Winnipeg!  Thank you!