Wear Orange Day

Friday is Orange T Shirt Day.  Below are some videos we either watched already, or will view on Friday.  This is a day to raise awareness of the chapter in not so distant Canadian History regarding residential schools, and the impact they have had on First Nations people and culture.

Wear Orange Shirt Day

Timeline Video




Our Stories Our Strength

Math and Reading ideas

Here are some ideas we have discussed and developed as a community over the past weeks.  There are also some photos of great work done while expanding on a pattern.  Some groups extended with a doubling pattern, some with a standard growing pattern, and one group chose to build their extended models with an alternating pattern!

Room 211 By the Numbers

Terry Fox and busy Friday

Hello Room 308 families.  It was a busy day in class today, with our first visit to our reading buddies, some work with patterning and pentominoes, work summarizing non fiction articles, and lots of warm weather!!!

Just a heads up to look for the Terry Fox forms that came home today.  There are pledge sheets, or you can go online and donate in the name of Churchill Alternative School

This Thursday, September 28th, is our annual Terry Fox Run at Dovercourt field.

We will leave Churchill at 10:40 to walk to Dovercourt.  Students will run and then eat snack, before returning to Churchill for approximately 1:00pm.

Volunteers are needed for the walk and the event.  Please look for pledge forms, and permission forms, in your child's backpack.  The link below can be used to make donations online, in the name of Churchill Alternative School.  

Every day next week students will be collecting Toonies for Terry in the classrooms, so send in your pocket change!

 To date we have raised almost $35 000 as a school over the past 13 years!  Let's do this for Terry!

Quick Link to Churchill Alternative's Terry Fox online Pledge Site

Class Meeting

Thank you to everyone who came out for our class meeting last night.  For an early night in September, we had representation by about half of the families.  For those who were not able to attend, the overview of topics we covered is posted below.  I also posted images of a couple of handouts I had available here.  The first has tips on how to promote and support reading with your children.  I also included a photo of the immunization information handout I had here.  It has a useful website and info regarding child immunization from Ottawa Public Health.
One of the topics that came up regarded Group Snack.  The feeling seemed to be that families were behind the idea.  If you are not interested/able to have your child bring in group snack approximately once a month for the class (as I mentioned in our newsletter, healthy snack options like apple slices, veggies, bagel and cream cheese, etc are often the choices) then please email me and I will make sure your name is not on the schedule.  So far no dietary concerns have been brought to my attention.  Please let me know if this changes.  Chantal DeWitt, Luis' mom, has offered to organize the snack schedule (thanks Chantal).
One important thing I wanted everyone to be aware of is our reading program.  We already have two volunteers who are willing to regularly come in and listen to students read out loud.  I would love to set a goal of having each student read aloud with a volunteer once a month.  If you have some time in your week where you can join us, and have a student read with you, please let me know.
Regards,
Ray