When one has been dead for 400 odd years, does one day late really matter? While you ponder that question, check out the fun and informative website: http://www.talklikeshakespeare.org/ and learn how to talk just like the bard himself. Celebrate Shakespeare’s 450th birthday with the kids by showing them how to insult friends and family in fun ways 😉
Enjoy Thyself!
The Get to Know Program is a non-profit organization connecting youth with the environment through the expressive arts. For the past 15 years, they have run the Get to Know Contest, a free arts contest inviting all youth in Vancouver under 19 to get outdoors and create art!
The Get to Know Contest has great appeal to students because their artwork can be inspired by nature. They also provide an Art in the Park guide with easy, quick activities to make contest-eligible art that also ties in to the school curriculum.
Youth are invited to get outdoors and connect with nature through art, writing, photography, video, and music. They break the mold of traditional contests by recognizing and celebrating all participants as winners. Their goal is simple: to get youth outdoors to develop a personal connection with the environment.
For more information and to enter the contest visit: http://www.get-to-know.org/contest/canada/
Carousel Theatre’s Wondrous Tales of Old Japan is a collection of amazing Japanese folk tales including worlds where ogres clash with heroes who are born from giant peaches, fishermen fall in love with dragon princesses, and magical dogs reincarnate. The tales include Momotaro: The Peach Boy, Urashima Taro: The Enchanted Fisherman, Yuki Onna: The Snow Woman, and Hanasaka Jiji: The Old Man That Made the Trees Bloom.
Taught by Yayoi Hirano
Sunday, April 20th, 2014 from 3:15pm-4:15pm
Large Studio – Carousel Theatre for Young People
1411 Cartwright Street, Vancouver, BC, V6H 3R7 – across the street from the Waterfront Theatre!
Cost: Free!
All ages welcome.
A fieldtrip is scheduled for Thursday, March 13, 2014 (next week!!) to Carousel Theatre. If you are interested in joining us, please put your name down on the sign up sheet, fill out a consent form and return it to your teacher’s file as soon as possible.
Richard Scarry’s beloved world comes to life in this charming musical! The little ones will love the bright colors, the dance-in-your-seat melodies and the fun costumes! Join Huckle Cat, Lowly Worm, Betsy Bear and the rest of the gang as we discover and explore what people do all day! Huckle shows us how Farmer Pig and Grocer Cat work together to bring food to the town. Construction Worker and his crew build new houses, and Firechief and the gang keep them safe. Isn’t it wonderful how everyone works together to keep Busytown busy?
The Tuesday/Thursday students presented and voted unanimously on the idea of supporting SPCA’s National Cupcake Day. They would like to hold their cupcake sale in the school on Tuesday, February 25th. All the money they raise will go to the BC SPCA. Last year an SPCA representative came to our class with their friendly dog to accept the donation!
All bake sale donations gratefully accepted!
We have a fieldtrip to the VSO coming up on Wednesday, February 26, from 10 – 11 am. The concert is called “Inspector Tovey investigates the Instruments of the Orchestra”. The sign up sheet and consent forms are by the student files. Please have completed forms in to your teacher by Feb. 24.
Monday/Wednesday families only please note:
Due to low enrollment in the Lantern Making Workshop, as stated in the previous blog post, we have had to cancel the workshop for the Monday/Wednesday group. Please do not attend on Tuesday afternoon as the workshop is no longer available.
A field trip to learn about Celebrating Chinese New Year has been arranged to the Dr. Sun Yat Sen Gardens on Wednesday, January 29, 2014. In 2014, Chinese people are celebrating the year of the Horse. People born in the year of the Horse are said to be energetic and active! If you are interested in joining us for this field trip, please write your child’s name on the list beside the student files, fill out a consent form and place it in your teacher’s box.
As many of our parents (and students!) know, we successfully raised enough funds to purchase two robotics kits and have now started our robotics program with the Tuesday/Thursday students. (Yay!!)
We would not have been able to purchase these kits and provide a robotics program without the help of all our families – from donating gingerbread dough and decorations, to purchasing the students’ Christmas cards and baking, to attending meetings to discuss how me might raise the necessary funds earlier in the year, to packaging soap with the Pallisters. I want to thank each and every one for joining in and helping us to provide these kits for the students.
I especially want to thank two families who we most definitely would not have been able to do this without:
The Pallisters, in particular Wade, who kindly and with a generous heart, made and donated his artisan soaps to raise funds for the equipment. Through sales of his artisan soap, he raised $500.00 for the Home Learners. Take a look!: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/23457212/Garibaldi%20Soap%20Cheque.mp4
I would also like to thank Lilia Prescod, who conceived of the book sale and took care of all the logistics, and who also suggested the idea of gingerbread making, donated most of the supplies to make that project happen. She also purchased and raffled the gourmet ice cream at the Christmas concert. Through these projects, we raised $239.00.
A big round of applause to all! 🙂
Through the Light Water Drums Festival, the Home Learners’ have secured an artist to come to lead Lantern Making workshops for both our Monday/Wednesday and our Tuesday/Thursday groups .
The workshops are being held here at Garibaldi on the afternoon of Tuesday, January 28th.
As the workshops are being held on a Tuesday, our T/Th students will participate in the workshop from 1:00 – 1:45 p.m.
The workshop for the Monday/Wednesday students will be held from 2:00 – 2:45 p.m. For these students, please ensure a parent is in attendance, or that you have made arrangements for another parent to supervise your child during the workshop. A sign-up sheet will be on the parent table for the Monday/Wednesday students only to ensure we have the attendance we need to hold the workshop for the younger students. If we do not, we will be offering the workshop to another class within the school.
We ask that everyone please bring in plastic bottles (juice, water, milk jugs, soda, etc.) ahead of time, washed, and with a flap pre-cut in the bottle. See picture below. We will have a bin underneath the Parent Table which you can put your bottles in.
For information on the Light Water Drums Festival.
There is a Robotics Celebration event at Crofton House School on February 1st (Saturday). Garibaldi students grades 4 and up are invited to attend and try the various robotics challenges. There are no winners and/or losers; everyone will be having fun. Everyone will have an equal opportunity to give a robot a try at solving the various challenges.
If your child is interested in attending, please click on the link below to register. Make sure you click on the link that states: “I do not have a robot.”
Student Signup: http://vsbrobotics.wordpress.com/student-registration/
Parking is along W.41st ave. (best to avoid the bus stops)
Suggestion: bring a digital camera or a cell phone with a camera built-in to record the robot demo(s).
What a way to start the New Year – with an internet outage at our school! Today is the first day I have had any access to the internet, so apologies for any confusion the lack of communication has caused. We seem to be up and running for now, but I understand there will be another disruption next month (sigh). Onwards and upwards!
Happy Holidays
to
all our families
From
Shannon and Juliana
School resumes January 6th, 2014.
Our fabulous Home Learner Dad, Wade Pallister, has graciously made special hand-made gift soaps especially for the Garibaldi Home Learners Robotics Program & for the Rock Foundation to help build a school / community center in the relocated Borei Keila village in Cambodia. At Garibaldi, our goal is to purchase 3 robotics kits so that every child will get hands-on robotics experience. We need to raise at least $900.00 to purchase this equipment.
one Chamomile Calendula Sensitive Soap, one Cinnamon Vanilla Sweet and Spicy (Christmas) Soap, one Coffee and Milk Soap Scrub Bar, and one Peppermint Rosemary All-Purpose Miracle Soap
All attractively packaged for instant gift giving for the price of.. $21.00
To buy a soap gift pack for the fundraiser, please click here: http://www.justsoap.org/pages/garibaldi-home-learners-robotics-cambodia-fundraiser
Please tell your friends,family and neighbours! Help a local company grow and support two good causes!
The price of the soap will be equally split 3 ways. $7 will go to pay for the cost of the ingredients and packaging. $7 will go to paying for the robot kits for the Home Learners Program and $7 will be donated to the Rock Foundation Cambodia to help build a school / community center in the relocated Borei Keila village. Please check out the information and videos about Borei Keila at http://www.justsoap.org/pages/garibaldi-home-learners-robotics-cambodia-fundraiser.
We have two field trips coming up. Next week, Thursday, December 5th, we will be going to the Royal City Youth Ballet Company’s production of The Nutcracker.
The performance is 12:00 p.m. – 1:30 p.m. at the Michael J. Fox Theatre in Burnaby. Field trip forms and the sign-up sheet are on the parent table.
On Wednesday, December 11th, we will be going to Carousel Theatre’s Seussical The Musical, at Granville Island. The sign-up sheet and field trip forms for Seussical are also on the parent table.
Our school is participating in a food drive for the Greater Vancouver Food Bank Society. Items can be dropped off in the box outside our classroom until December 19.
Following is a list of the most needed items:
canned fish and meat, canned soups, dry lentils, rice, pasta, canned fruits and vegetables, canned beans, peanut butter, pasta sauce, baby food and formula, low-sugar cereal
Thanks for your support!
EVENT DATE AND TIME: Tuesday, December 3rd, 2013, 3:00 – 4:00 PM ET/12:00 – 1:00 PM PT
Audiobooks are a proven literacy resource, which is why they’ve been used in classrooms for decades. The benefits of listening to audiobooks are many, including enhanced vocabulary, fluency and listening skills. In fact, there are reading methods such as The Daily 5, which include listening as part of the curriculum; studies show that when a listening component is added to reading instruction, student achievement increases measurably. Proficient reading is the product of listening comprehension (i.e. fluency and vocabulary) and decoding skills.
In the U.S., just 32% of fourth graders read proficiently. And students not reading proficiently at the end of third grade are four times more likely not to graduate from high school. Tales2Go is a 21st Century arrow in the literacy quiver to get kids excited about and skilled at reading. The Tales2Go library ranges from PreK to Young Adult, fiction and nonfiction and includes Spanish and kids’ music areas.
NB: In the appropriate boxes, please register using your own information and as: Elementary Library/ Garibaldi Elementary/1025 Slocan/v5k 3y2
We have two field trips fast approaching: Arvaarluk and The Ugly Duckling/Tortoise and The Hare productions happening the week of November 25th.
On Wednesday, November 27th, we are going to Axis Theatre/Lightwire Theater’s production of The Ugly Duckling/Tortoise and The Hare. Lined with electroluminescent wire, well-known characters illuminate the darkened stage and warm audiences’ hearts. Lightwire Theater, with its dazzling visuals, poignant choreography and creative use of music ranging from classical to jazz to pop, literally brings these beloved tales into a new and brilliant light.
On Thursday, November 28th, we will be attending Arvaarluk: An Inuit Tale. We are reading Michael Kusugak’s books in class in anticipation of this event.
Sign up sheets and consent forms are in room 104 (Shannon and Juliana’s office).
We are booked to attend the VSO’s Elementary School Concert: Let’s Dance! on Thursday, November 21st at 10:00 a.m. The Vancouver Symphony Orchestra will be your guide through the wonderful world of symphonic music and dance. Discover why music and movement have been a dynamic duo from the start. Spectacular repertoire by the masters will keep you moving in your seat, and tapping your feet!
The sign-up sheet and the field trip forms are now on the parent table. Field trip forms need to be signed and returned to your teacher’s file folder by Tuesday, November 12th. The cost is only $7.50 per person.
Here is the Study Guide for the concert.
UNICEF, Owlkids and Pier 1 Imports are together hosting a holiday greeting card contest. This year’s theme is: A Joyous Celebration.”
Enter for your chance to have your artwork printed as an official 2014 UNICEF holiday greeting card!
How to enter: click on this link to download the entry form and rules.
One grand prize winner will receive a $5,000 scholarship plus $500 in art supplies for your school! Four runners-up will receive Owlkids gift packs.
Contest deadline is November 25th, 2013.