Dear Kindergarten Families,
Our year began warmly, with much excitement, a few butterflies, and an introduction to our classroom and one another last week. Getting to know one another and have fun while learning the expectations and routines of the Kindergarten classroom will continue to be our main goals for the week ahead.
When your child enters our classroom, I thank you for ensuring that they are wearing their indoor running shoes, and bring in their lunch box and bookworm bag (if they do not yet have a notebook placed inside it, I will have these added at school this week). Children who attend Before School Care are assisted in their morning organization by the staff from that program. PLEASE CHECK AND RETURN THE BOOKWORM BAG EACH DAY. There is additional information on our Kindergarten learning in the e-mail and hard copy newsletters sent home that may not be included on our blog page for reasons of privacy.
I look forward to a wonderful year ahead!
GRACES
We have learned two class graces thus far, and your children may delight in sharing them with you at mealtimes. The first, “Come Lord Jesus,” we call “The Shark Prayer”, as it is begun with “fins up” (hands on top of our heads like a dorsal fin) and begins slowly then picks up speed throughout. It ends with a clasping of hands from a wide open position to a quick clamp together like the jaws of a shark.
Come Lord Jesus, be our guest
And let these gifts to us be blessed
Aaaaaaaaaand (drawn out for dramatic effect)
Come Lord Jesus, be our guest
And let these gifts to us be blessed AMEN!
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Our second grace is done “with a country twang” and is thus far eliciting a tremendous response from the class:
Thank the brown cow for the chocolate milk
Thank the pig in the barn for the bacon on the grill
Thank the egg for the chicken and the chicken for the egg
Thank the Lord for daily bread.
Amen.
YEEHAW!
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Please check the Principal’s Update for these and additional dates and schoolwide information each week!
I can be reached via e-mail at lbutterfield@bsls.ca or by leaving a phone message at 984-9600 x.5 so that I can call you at the end of the school day.
IMPORTANT DATES
September 12th – First Lunch Lady order due
September 19th – First Lunch Lady Lunch for those who ordered (if you need additional forms please just send me an e-mail – the lunches are delivered to the classroom just before noon on this day)
September 30th – School Picture Day
October 19th – School Picture Retakes (please notify the company if you need to have one via the form your child will bring home after the first picture day)
October 24th – Fred Penner Concert (please note the date change)
May God bless you and your family,
Mrs. Lorianne Butterfield
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