From Tuesday, November 10th to Tuesday, December 15th, we will be offering two optional activities in the afternoon:
From 1:30 to 2:00 Shannon will be taking interested students to the school library for Storytime and book exchange. All the children have their own library cards and may take out books of their choice.
From 2:00 to 2:30 Juliana will be taking interested students to room 117 for Math Games, fun and engaging games that also teach math skills!
Students not interested in these programs will continue to participate in Centres. Parents can sign children up for one or both of these afternoon activities.
Please email Shannon if you wish to sign up for one or both of the activities, or sign-up when you are next in.
Mary-Ann (one of the parents) has arranged a field trip for Pioneer Holiday Traditions at Delta Museum on Wednesday November 18 at 1pm. Here is a description of the program:
Where did Christmas traditions come from? Children will explore the Museum galleries bedecked with seasonal trimmings, learn the origins of Christmas traditions and create old fashioned hand-crafted decorations to take home.
The program is 90 minutes. The Delta Museum is located in the heart of Ladner Village. If you are interested in this field trip please send an email to Shannon and she will forward the information to Mary-Ann. If you need a ride or have space to offer a ride, please indicate in your message.
Thanks
Mary-Ann
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Port Moody Station Museum Programs for Home Schooling Families:
There are still few spaces left for Building a Community in Pioneer times program offered Thursday, November 12th from 10:00-11:30am. All participants must book ahead.
Building a Community in Pioneer Times (For ages 7-10)
What does it take to start a community? Participate in an art activity, recreating the budding town of Port Moody circa 1900. Examine objects from turn-of-the-century facilities such as a bank, school and general store. Then explore the museum in a guided scavenger hunt.
In the future:
Box Car Kids (For ages 3-5)
See, touch and learn all about trains in this interactive hands-on program. Be your own train with our box car kids costumes. Then take an imaginary journey with Jessie on our 1920s passenger car. Finally, explore the station museum with a scavenger hunt for railway tools and objects.
Offered Monday, December 7th from 10:00-11:15am
Programs can be booked by individual families and are delivered with parent participation in mind. Cost is $6. for 1 adult and 1 child, $2. for each additional child.
Call ahead to book 604-939-1648 or email programs.pmmuseum@telus.net.
Our school engineer, Mr. Scott, is a member of the ANAVets. His club is on South Fraser. As a special event for the members of his club, men and women who are veterans, and for our students, he has invited me to bring interested students to attend the club on Friday, November 6th at 6:00 p.m.
I suggest that interested students work with me to prepare a song and to recite (with me, from a flip chart) In Flanders Field. Just a nice, upbeat visit. Mr. Scott will have treats for the students. The entire event should last about half an hour, but will give the students something tangible to relate to for Remembrance Day – people and a place, and some very friendly, adults and older folks they can actually meet – real veterans!
Mr. Scott has also asked if his club might borrow our poppy artwork for the weekend, which the students could present to the club. I think it is such a great thing to connect the children and the club and make what can be an esoteric event for children into something concrete and meaningful.
A small group of veterans from this group visit our school every year for our Remembrance Day assembly and visit all the classes to talk about being a Vet and answering the many questions they receive from the students.
If you would like your child to join us, please come and see me. I will be working with the children Tuesday and Thursday to learn a song together, and to talk about and read through In Flanders Field. If there is time, I may read a story to the children while at the Veterans Club – The Story of the Poppy, for the enjoyment of the children and the adults.
Garibaldi PAC is holding a Silent Auction/Kids Movie Night on November 10th: SilentAuction
the PAC is hosting a hot lunch on Thursday, October 29th.
Hot Lunch Order Form: Please print and bring in for your order, or pick up a form from the Parents’ table.
Individual photo re-takes are being held on Monday, October 26th at 9:00a.m. in the Gym. If you would like your photo re-taken, please bring your original package back to give to the photographer.
Photo orders are now over-due. If you still have an order you would like to bring in, please bring it by Tuesday, Oct. 27th. The photographer is picking everything up on Monday, but oh-well. He will just have to wait for the HL order!
The 30 piece Brock House Seniors Orchestra is coming to Garibaldi to perform on Wednesday, October 28th from 10:45 to noon. Everyone is welcome! They will have a question and answer time for the children following the performance. They are a wonderful group of people and I encourage everyone to come. I will be hosting a tea for them after the performance that HL’s may want to join to meet and chat with these lovely people.
Finally – we still need 4 litre milk jugs for the next stage in our mask making for Art. If you have any you can donate, it would be greatly appreciated.
For those interested in participating the in once-a-month Science World Home Learners’ Program, I have set up a system to pay them directly for your participation.
The program runs the last Thursday of every month at 3:00 p.m. The next session is Thursday, October 29th.
Participants need to register in advance as space is limited. Simply register with Science World and they will bill me direct.
- Tomorrow is the field trip to the pumpkin patch. There are two options available to home learners to get to the field trip:
1. Be at the school by 8:45. I will be walking to Frog Hollow with the children, along with the K/1 regular class and teachers.
2. Be at Frog Hollow Neighbourhood House at 9:30. Let them know you are with the Garibaldi Home Learners and you can wait for the rest of us to arrive, if we haven’t already.
I will be walking back with everyone so feel free to take either option for your child in the morning, knowing I will walk everyone back.
The weather forcast calls for rain again tomorrow, so if your child will be walking, I suggest bringing a change of clothes, or at least a change of socks for when we return to the school.
If your child is not participating in the field trip, Mrs. C will still be here for Music and Ms. Mad will be here for knitting.
Please let me know if you decide to meet us at the pumpkin patch, so we aren’t waiting here unnecessarily.
After eating lunch and French, we will be having our Hallowe’en Party! Everyone is welcome!
- JUMP Math, Workbook 1, Part 1 (Grade 1) has finally arrived! Please come see me for your copy.
A busy week is ahead!
Tomorrow and next Tuesday for Science, we will be doing experiments with a distinct “Hallowe’en” theme! For tomorrow’s experiment, if you have any type of plain white bar soap, please bring it for your child.
Both the Scholastic orders and the photograph orders are due back by this Friday, October 23rd. If you haven’t been by to pick up the catalogues, I have them online for you.
October Elf
October SeeSaw
October Lucky
October Arrow
October Click
Wild Math and Science
Also: If your child is going to the Pumpkin Patch on Thursday morning, please ensure I have the signed permission slip. If you/your child is walking with our group, please be here by 8:45a.m. If you will be meeting us there, plan on being at Frog Hollow at 9:30a.m.
parentmeeting[2]: Agenda for the Home Learner Parents meeting on October 20, 2009.
Once again, Garibaldi is participating in the UNICEF program Trick or Treat for UNICEF. Last year, our little school raised over $800.00!! Children are no longer given boxes to take trick-or-treating with them. Instead, they are given UNICEF and are asked to approach friends and family for donations instead. The forms are on the parent table.
Next Thursday, October 22nd is the field trip to the Frog Hollow Pumpkin Patch. The children will be coming back to school at approximately 11:30 a.m. with pumpkins they have chosen from the patch.
After lunch, we will have our Hallowe’en party! We will set up pumpkin carving, so the children can scoop out and carve their pumpkins and we can save the seeds to roast, share pot-luck snacks, wear costumes and have some fun!
It may seem a bit early for our party, but it ties in nicely with the pumpkin patch field trip, and the following Thursday, October 29th, is the next offering of the Science World home learners program. Some of our students will be attending that program in the afternoon, so will be away (more on that Science World later as I am attempting to set up a system with them so you can check in and not worry about payment).
We have some students in our program who have gluten allergies, but no other allergies that I am aware of. Please email me if your child has an allergy I am unaware of. For their sake, please label the key ingredients of the potluck items that you bring. At this point that would simply mean labelling your dish “gluten” or “non-gluten.”
PAC Meeting Agenda for PAC meeting Tuesday, October 27, 2009 at 6:30 p.m.
The photos from the school photographer are now in: I will put them on the Parent Table for you to pick up. Also, the Scholastic orders came in today. I have them sorted and labeled and they on the top of the resources book shelves for you to pick up also. October Scholastic order forms are on the Parent Table and are due back October 23rd.
October Garibaldi News – This month’s School Newsletter. Also available in paper form in the Parent box.
Tomorrow, Tuesday, we will be completing our Harvest Moon and starting our Harvest Cornucopia for Art. For the Cornucopia, your child might like to bring interesting branches, nice leaves, acorns, chestnuts, corn husks, etc. We will be making a display that will include leaves and acorns we will make here with construction paper. Along with the Harvest theme, we will be finishing removal of the sunflower seeds from flowers, and preparing the seeds for roasting.
For an added, optional treat, Ms. Pappas, from VLN has offered to start a Flat Stanley project with our students. We have a class of children from Nova Scotia who would like to participate with us. The children will be read the first Flat Stanley story, then make their own Flat Stanleys, which they will then send to the Noval Scotia students, who will send theirs to us. Your child will get her or his Flat Stanley back after the sharing.
Ms. Pappas will be bringing her camera to take a “head shot” of each student participating so that each child’s Flat Stanley will feature their own face/head! In the past I have then laminated the Stanleys so that students can have fun taking him/her with them on events and outings and taking photos of themselves in various locations — an excellent tie-in to learning about communities. Ms. Pappas will start around 10:00.
Not only is 2009 the U.N.’s International Year of Astronomy, but 2009 is also the tenth anniversary of the U.N.’s World Space Week. The theme of this year’s week is: Space for Education.
If you would like to explore space, do some activities or projects, or learn about specific topics related to space, there are two excellent web sites that should serve you and your children as starting and jumping-off points for learning about all things Space! Enjoy!
The first website is the “official” website of World Space Week. It isn’t commercial and is a bit unpolished, but is a diamond in the rough!
The other website that is very good is the World Book at NASA for Students. It has image boxes for dozens of topics such as “the moon,” “ozone,” “solar system,” “air,” and so forth. A wonderful resource!
Happy imagining, learning and exploring! Happy World Space Week!
Ms. Mad would like to offer students two options for knitting:
Garibaldi will buy the same wool and everyone will learn to make a pot holder for their first project
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You chose your own wool and your own simple pattern, and Ms. Mad will help your child with their project.
Please let Shannon know ASAP if you would like to do the pot holder project starting next week, as we will need to purchase enough wool for everyone who wishes to participate. If you wish to do your own project, please come prepared with your own supplies next Thursday.
Thank you from Madeleine and Shannon
The Home Learner Program would like to extend big Thank Yous! to Karen Kamon, Seema Boneshirt, Suzie Mah and Rita at the St. Mary’s Ladies Auxillary for their generous donations of childrens books to our program.
ALSO: If you have any bulb orders from the Veseys Catalogue, I will be submitting the order to the company this weekend – so please bring or email your orders in by Friday. If you haven’t been in to get a catalogue, let me know and I can email you a PDF copy. This is a fundraiser for our program.
