JOY POD
Physical Education: All of the Joy Pod students participate in the same physical education activities. Please ask your child to share their favorite activity that they have been playing and/or learning. Ms. Galbraith, one of our U of C student teachers has been teaching the physical education classes on Monday's and Thursday's. Unfortunately, our last day with our student teachers, Joanne and Sarah will be on Friday, December 14th. However, we are fortunate to have them return to work with Joy Pod students again in their final semester in February. If you happen to see them when you come on Friday for the drumming sharing, please take a moment to thank these fine ladies for all their hard work. We are fortunate to have talented future teachers working with our students.
Suggested Writing Activities at Home: All students would benefit over Winter Break from extra time and practice writing. Here are a few suggestions:
- Provide writing materials of all kinds, colors, textures and sizes, pens, pencils, felt tip pens, post-its. Whatever will invite your writer to explore writing in original, colorful ways
- Encourage revision,add highlighting pens, scissors, and glue or tape to your list of writing materials. These materials encourage adding, deleting, cutting and putting together ideas in different ways
- Provide a print-rich environment in your home with magazines, books, maps, cookbooks to name a few
- Encourage letter writing or thank-you notes for developing a sense of voice, audience and purpose. Letters to relatives or friends for the gifts received this holiday season
- Have your child help write grocery lists
- Help your child create a writer's notebook to document observations, quotes, favorite words or future writing ideas
- Play an alliteration game: The first person begins a sentence and everyone must continue the sentence using the same beginning letter or sound. For example, "Calgary cats" then the next person could say "Calgary cats can't" and the next person could say "Calgary cats can't count" and so on.
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One World Drumming:
Our students continue to learn songs to share with you on the morning of December 14th in a similar fashion to our performances from Sound Kreations. The performance schedule is provided below:
Drumming Performance Schedule
Friday, December 14 2018
Time
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Pod Sharing
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Teachers
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9:30
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AM Kindergarten
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Khan/Conley/Watterson
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10:00
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Kindness Grade 1/2
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Cox/Low/Blenkhorne/Disher/Le
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10:30
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Joy Grade 1/2
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Chang/Bowles/Sigurdson/Ross
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11:00
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Peace Grade 3/4
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Campbell/Huebner/Lawson
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11:30
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Hope Grade 3/4
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Danchuk/Campbell/Neily/Kai
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Joy Pod is looking for empty cereal boxes, cracker boxes or any other boxes made out similar cardboard. If you can help us out, please send to school until the final week of school.
Thank you
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Spreading Joy beyond Eric Harvie School Walls: We collected a large amount of items for the Mustard Seed. Thank you very much for your support!!!!!! We will drop off the collected items on Saturday, December 15th at 11:00AM. Please join us in dropping items off at the Mustard Seed if your family is available.
The Mustard Seed Downtown
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Eric Harvie families, if you are interested in helping…
We are calling on your kindness and generosity to help support a family in need at Christmas. We are supporting 7 families from Colonel Fred J. Scott School. Each pod has been assigned a family/families to support this season. A sign up genius has been set up with the family needs and wishes. Please go to the following site to make your contribution(s):
Pod
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Link
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KINDERGARTEN
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PEACE POD
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HOPE POD
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JOY POD
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KINDNESS POD
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Please remember that our families would love to not have to worry about the purchase of food items and more than one gift card to their chosen grocery store would be welcomed!
Please wrap and label all gifts/donations with whom it is for:
Wrapped contributions will be due on or before:
Thursday, December 13, 2018
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!!
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Upcoming Events:
December 10-14: One Word Drumming Residency
December 13: Poinsettia Orders Pick Up (1:00-5:00)
: Fun Lunch
December 14: One World Drumming Performance at 10:30AM
December 17-20: Carol singing each day in gym
December 20: Last Day Before Winter Break
& Holiday Spirit Presentations 2:00 p.m. in gym
December 21: Professional Development Day (No Classes)
December 22-January 6: Winter Break (School is Closed)
January 7: Professional Development Day (No Classes)
January 8: Classes Resume for Students at 8:25 a.m.
December 10-14: One Word Drumming Residency
December 13: Poinsettia Orders Pick Up (1:00-5:00)
: Fun Lunch
December 14: One World Drumming Performance at 10:30AM
December 17-20: Carol singing each day in gym
December 20: Last Day Before Winter Break
& Holiday Spirit Presentations 2:00 p.m. in gym
& Holiday Spirit Presentations 2:00 p.m. in gym
December 21: Professional Development Day (No Classes)
December 22-January 6: Winter Break (School is Closed)
January 7: Professional Development Day (No Classes)
January 8: Classes Resume for Students at 8:25 a.m.
