PRINCIPAL’S MESSAGE FOR JANUARY
A new year brings a fresh start and a time to set goals. Teachers will be reviewing goals students set earlier this term to track progress and re-evaluate if needed. As a school we are setting high expectations, striving to fill in any gaps in learning and challenge students to achieve their personal best.
Parents sometimes ask how they can help their child at home with Math. We encourage parents to focus in on measurement over the next few months. Time and money are two areas students often struggle with. At home you can be saying things like, “In ten minutes we will….” or “Bedtime is in a half hour”. This will give students a sense of ten minutes and a half hour. You can be pointing out the time on an analogue clock and a digital clock. Metric units are also something that can be discussed, be it kilometres, grams, or Litres. If you are cooking with your child you can have them measure out quantities called on in the recipe.
Kindergarten registration (for students new to Junior Kindergarten in 2021) is between January 5th and January 22th at 4:00 p.m. Parents can register students online at www.ugdsb.ca/kindergarten or click on the Kindergarten Registration button on our school website. A Google Meet will be scheduled to show us proper documentation after they have registered online; the registration is only complete after this step. If you know of anyone in the neighbourhood with Junior Kindergarten aged students please let them know.
Happy New Year to you all and I hope that you will have been able to have some valued time with family over the winter break.
Carla Anderson
Principal
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