Tuesday, September 13, 2016

Tuesday, September 12

Bonjour,

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It is a pleasure to be teaching your child. Please read the newsletter I sent home today. If you have any questions please do not hesitate to email me cdross@sd73.bc.ca or call the school 250-573-3261 or drop by Room 205 (Mr. Conroy's old room).

In your package was a Get to Know You, your homework as one student mentioned! This informal form allows me to get to know you, your child, your routines and your expectations a little better prior to our interviews in October.

School newsletters were also sent home.

Any school forms and school supply forms have also been sent home. As well as the Terry Fox Run permission slip as the intermediate students do run off of the school grounds for this.

Ice Cream sales are happening tomorrow, $2.00 per cone.

Students will be filling out agendas at the end of the day and my expectation is they will be initialled  by you as this ensures you know what's happening in our class. The agendas also allow for communication between us as I know you may not always be able to come to the school. Students also received a binder which will allow them to take home any forms or homework and their agenda can snap right into it! Just makes it so you don't end up with a whole bunch of crumpled up papers!

We do have some classroom pets; a guinea pig named Bacon, a hamster named Rosalita Hammy Oreo Ross Jr. and some fish.

I am very excited to be part of the Technology Cohort for SD#73. What this means is Ms. Saemerow and myself have 30 chromebooks and 7 iPads to use throughout the year with our class! This is amazing! I do need students to bring in headphones and if they would like a mouse (some students do not like to use the trackpad). I am also looking into setting up Fresh Grade which is an outline portfolio therefore you will be able to see what is happening in our class!

I am also a Technology/Inquiry Coordinator for our school which is why Mrs.Pearson is in the classroom on Monday & Tuesday from 11:15-2:30 & Thursday from 8:30-11:15. She will be teaching French, SS, Math and PE. Mrs. Pearson is a PE specialist and fluent in French! I am excited to start using our green screen in the classroom.

A big shift in thinking this year in our classroom is one from a Fixed Mindset "Luke & Darth Vader" to one that is a Growth Mindset "Yoda". Ask your child to explain this to you.


Bonne nuit,

Mrs. Ross

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