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June 24-26

Hello Grade One Families! Hard to believe this is our last weekly blog!  Time really does fly when you are having fun! What a beautiful day it was yesterday! It was great to see many of you at the [...]

June 17-21

Hello Grade One Families, Oh my goodness…here we are at the last full week of Grade One! Can you believe it? The students keep telling us ideas of what they would still like to do in Grade One [...]

June 10-17

Hello Grade One Families, Last week the children enjoyed a visit from Peter the Seminarian! This week he spoke about being a gift from God. When we give to others, we are really giving to God! Thank [...]

June 3-7

Hello Grade One Families, The Grade Ones enjoyed attending the Vancouver Children’s Festival this past Tuesday. A special thank you to our parents who joined us as chaperones: Mr. Zhang, Mr. [...]

May 27-31

Hello Grade One Families, Last week, we enjoyed hearing the beautiful singing of the St. Patrick’s Chamber Choir. We also enjoyed welcoming Peter the Seminarian into our classroom. He spoke to the [...]

May 20-24

Hello Grade One Families, The Grade Ones are so excited to attend the Vancouver Children’s Festival! Thank you to all the families who have sent in their field trip forms already! We have [...]

May 13-17

Hello Grade One Families, This week is the final week of our The Reading Longer Words Unit, which was the students’ first introduction to words with more than one syllable. The lessons addressed [...]

May 6-10

Hello Grade One Families, Thank you to Ms. Lee for subbing into our Grade One classroom the past two weeks! Mrs. D and Mrs. Mallari returned this week, and got to hear about all the fun that the [...]

Advent Calendar

The Grade 1’s reflected different ways they can prepare their hearts for Jesus during the season of Advent. They thought of prayer activities, acts of kindness and small sacrifices they can make to become closer to Jesus. In our classroom, we have a life-size version of the calendar and we will read it each day […]

Agenda Book

Our Agenda books have arrived! They have begun to take them home this past week. Please read and initial the agenda book every day. The agenda book is used to record reminders and homework assignments. Occasionally there may be a note in the front pocket of the agenda book as well. The agenda book must […]

Home Reading

The Grade One students are asked to read for fifteen minutes every day after school or in the evening. In order to provide parents, caregivers, and students a variety of options for home reading practice here are some choices (please note that these are optional, and families can choose how to best support their children at home): […]

Birthdays

It is always fun to celebrate our birthdays! In Grade One all birthdays are acknowledged with song and a special treat. As noted in the Thursday letter, you are welcome to send a treat for all of your child’s classmates on your child’s birthday (this is entirely optional). If you choose to do this, please […]

Eating Snacks and Lunch at School

Here are some guidelines about snack time and lunch time in Grade One: the students wash their hands before they eat and this time is not counted as part of the eating time the students have 15 minutes to eat their snack in the morning and 30 minutes to eat their lunch mid-day the students […]

Absentees

Your child may need to miss school due to illness, appointments or family commitments. Please e-mail Mrs. Ong, Mrs. Dos Santos and Mrs. Teodosio to let them know that your child will not be attending school. If your child will be missing more than one consecutive week of school, you must also include Mrs. Moorehead […]

Drop Off and Pick Up

It is very important that you tell your child who is picking them up and where that person will be waiting. We recommend that, if possible, all Grade One parents/caregivers park in the back-parking lot and walk to the covered area to meet their child at afternoon pick-up time. We do have a brief transition […]

Uniforms

Students are expected to wear their full school uniform everyday unless we have a planned non-uniform day (which will be on the school calendar and class blog). The uniform policy is in the Parent Handbook which can be accessed on the school website. Please remember that hair accessories must match the uniform. On PE days, […]

Scholastic Books

Our class has a class code for Scholastic Canada. If you are ordering from Scholastic, please enter our class code at checkout and then we will be given credits for purchasing books, games, puzzles etc. for the classroom. The class code is RC161132 We will send home book club flyers monthly. You can access the […]