Please remember tomorrow:
Green Fools
Student Demonstration
Family
members are invited to come celebrate the skills & knowledge students have
learned during our residency experience with “Green Fools Physical Theatre
Group.”. Although this is not a performance parents will have the opportunity
to see students practice some of the circus skills they have acquired, in a
setting similar to a regular skills development class. There will be no formal
‘audience of chairs’; however, if parents wish to attend, please limit
the number of attendees to two people, and complete the RSVP form at this
link: Green Fools RSVP .
Performances
(Please come directly to the gym):
Thursday, Dec. 12/19 – 1:20 – 1:50 pm – PM Kindergarten
Friday, Dec. 13/19:
Friday, Dec. 13/19:
9:15 – 9:45 am – Grades 1/2
10:15 – 10:45 am – Grades 3/4
10:15 – 10:45 am – Grades 3/4
11:15 – 11:45 am - AM Kindergarten
*Circus
Equipment for Purchase -
return order to school by Tuesday, December 17
If you wish to
purchase any of the equipment that we have been using during the Green Fools
residency, you may order it by sending a note indicating the item(s) and money
to Ken Der and we will have it delivered to the school. Price List (G.S.T
Included in Price)
**Please make
cheque payable to Green Fools.
- Juggling Balls & Rings - $6.00
ea
- Flower Sticks (w controller sticks)
- $22.00 ea
- Peacock Feathers - $5.00 ea
- Spinning Plate & Stick - $12.00
set
- Scarf and Sock Poi - $22.00 ea
- Diablo/Chinese Yo Yo (w controller
sticks)
- Small 4”
- $20.00
- Large 5” -
$35.00
- Stilts (By Order Only)
- Short - $130.00
- Medium - $140.00
- Tall - $150.00
Families
Helping Families
We are calling
on your kindness and generosity to help support families in need at
Christmas. Eric Harvie School will be supporting twelve families in
Calgary. Each pod has been assigned specific families.
These are our contributions thus far:
All
contributions are due on:
Monday,
December 16th, 2019
Please click on the link to get to your child's pod Christmas list:
In the spirit
of giving this holiday season, all staff at Eric Harvie School would like to
thank families in advance for their thoughts and contributions! Thank you for
making a family’s Christmas a little brighter!!
Next week:
Book Clubs with Mrs. Kinsman
Joy Pod
students are all working in book-specific Book Clubs with small groups of
peers. They set their own reading targets each week and are expected to come to
class every Wednesday having read the number of pages or chapters their group
agreed to read the week before. Additionally, students are expected to complete
a series of assignments in response to their books as they read through them.
These assignments are a title page (title/illustration/author), 3 character
sketches (name/illustration/3 facts), an action plan (6 important events in the
book) and written retell responses (5W/1H) to the chapters or sections of their
book. We have not set any quality expectations at this point, just expectations
about what each assignment includes. We developed the expectations together and
captured them on the whiteboard, photos of those are included here. When
we meet on Wednesdays, I go through the children's work with them and we set
goals for improvement for the next week. This is a slow process of developing response
writing that will continue after the winter break; if children are finding it
challenging to complete the work or read the books, parents are welcome to read
with them and encourage them to give the written work their best efforts. At
this point, that is all that I am looking for - to see what they are able to
do, and then set next step expectations with them individually. Thanks!
Highlights
In math students worked with shapes today. Some were identifying shapes while others were building their own shapes.
Ticket to Curlew: We read chapter 9 today. Lots of good summaries are being compiled by the students. Students have been learning lots about how difficult and exciting settling on the prairies was.
The afternoon was spent getting ready for our Joy Pod Museum tomorrow at 9:30am. We look forward to seeing you there!!
