Lion's Pride!

BGPS Lion’s Pride

Dear Parents and Guardians,

You may have already noticed the display case in our front foyer. This year, we are using it to present items of “pride” from all of our BGPS students.

On Tuesday, February 19, 2019 students from our class will be sharing their items with the school. Students may choose to bring in an item such as a photograph of place they have travelled, a medal/certificate for an accomplishment, or an artifact to represent their heritage. The cabinet is locked, and all items will be returned in 3 weeks.

Please send what your child would like to put into the display case by

Tuesday, February 19, 2019. As well, please have your child write a paragraph reflecting what he/she is bringing in, and why it is important to him/her.

Students should use the paragraph writing skills they have learned in class (i.e. a topic sentence, relevant and detailed information, and a concluding sentence). Students may choose to use some of the following sentence starters to help them write their paragraph:  

This is my ________________.

I earned it by ________________________.

It is important to me because ________.

Thank you for your support in this school-wide initiative,

Ms. Curci

Family Day - Monday February 18

Monday February 18, 2019 is Family Day in Ontario! 

There is no school on this day. 

Enjoy the day spending time with your family and loved ones. 

See you Tuesday!

Spirit Day - Tuesday February 19

Our Student Leadership Team wants to share with everyone that our next Spirit Day of the Year will be held next week.  They officially declare Tuesday, February 19th Sports Team Day!

All staff and students are invited to cheer on their favourite sports teams by wearing their jerseys or other sports clothing!  The Raptors, Leafs, Blue Jays, TFC or any other team you might like are all welcome!  Let’s show off our Sports Team pride!

Scientists in the School - Volunteers Needed

Grade 3 Scientist in School in this Friday February 8, 2019.

We are looking for volunteers! If you are able to volunteer for the morning (8:00am - approximately 11:30am) we would appreciate your help!

Please send me an email or write a note in your child's agenda.



Thank you,

Mrs. Longo and Ms. Curci

Lunar New Year!

This Tuesday, February 5th will be the Lunar New Year!  

We welcome all those who celebrate the holiday to dress up in traditional New Year clothing, if they wish. We welcome all of our students to get into the spirit, even in the absence of traditional clothing, by dressing in red on Tuesday. The colour red is thought to symbolize good luck, so please help us usher in the Lunar New Year with some colourful good fortune!

Hello 2019!

Welcome Back! I hope you all had a happy and relaxing Winter Break!

We are already back in full swing, and working hard in our classroom!

Curriculum Areas:

Math

- We are currently working in two units -- Patterning and 2-D Geometry
- We have added three new concepts to our to our daily Math Mania - multiplication facts (up to 7x7), measuring to the nearest centimetre, and reading analog clocks. These are all concepts that can be practiced at home.

Literacy

Reading:
- We are continuing to read short texts and respond to comprehension questions using information from the text

Writing:
- We are continuing with our unit in Recount Writing
- We are looking at mentor texts to determine if they are strong or weak, and working to improve them
- Our final assignment will be to write our own short recount

Health and Phys Ed.

- Our unit in Healthy Foods is complete and will be coming home this week
- We have begun our unit on Personal Safety and Injury Prevention.
- We are playing badminton in gym 

In other news...

- We are continuing to work on our Learning Skills and earn "For the Love of Learning Skills" tickets
- A reminder that this Thursday, January 17th is BEACH DAY!!!

Happy January! :)

QSP - Order Pick Up!

As a final reminder, we wanted to share with everyone that that frozen items ordered from QSP will be available for pickup this Wednesday.  For those families who ordered cookie dough or frozen treats from QSP, we would kindly ask that you please come to the school on Wednesday December 12th between 3:00 p.m. – 6:00 p.m. to pick up your orders.

All packages will be labeled and ready to be picked up from the front table in the foyer.  We would ask that all items be picked up on that day as we do not have storage facilities for frozen items.

Our continued thanks for your support of the school.