Hello friends and families of Room 51; we hope you had a wonderful week. 

The students wanted to let you know, first off, about “Fill a Sock”:

Help us bring some Christmas joy to our city’s homeless

The Fill a Sock, Fill a Need campaign provides a Christmas “stocking” of essential needs and small personal items to those in need.

We are asking each student to donate $5 (or more J) to help fill socks to be donated to the Drop In Centre.  If possible, we would also ask students to donate a pair of new, warm, adult sized socks.

We strongly encourage students to earn their donation money by doing chores around the house - shoveling snow, taking out the garbage…etc.

We will be collecting money from students between November 21^st and December 1^st.  We will also be collecting cash donations during Parent Teacher Interviews. 

The students are extremely interested in this campaign, and showed what a kind and thoughtful group they are with the comments, suggestions and questions that came up during our “Fill a Sock” discussions.

TWAS:

This week at school we started a new unit in science “building,” which included learning about building resources, the ‘job’ of a house, and using “local resources” to build houses that are strong enough to stand up to “local conditions” (the students will be able to elaborate on this); new songs in music; daily eye openers; Canyon Meadows girls’ choir performed for us; new counting on strategies in math; Daily 5 writing, reading and word work; making a friend storytelling/drama; capitalization and punctuation work and club Friday.

Remember to book for conferences next week; we’re really looking forward to sharing in all of the great thinking/creativity/work that your children are up to each day.

Thanks for reading our blog,

Have a wonderful weekend,

Room 51