Friday, September 28

Today was our Terri Fox Run!

Here are some of the Kindness Pod's reflections from the day:

I liked running for the people who have had cancer or have cancer now.
I loved running with my best friends.
I loved that my sister got to give me a piggy back ride.
I got to see my brother/sister.
I loved the changing colours of leaves.
I was happy that we got to have muffins and apples and water.
We got to run in the coulee.
I was running for my Grandma.
I was running for my Grandpa.
I loved running through the finish line.

Dear Parents/Guardians:

On Friday, September 28, 2017 students at Eric Harvie School will be taking part in the annual Terry Fox School Run with Twelve Mile Coulee and Tuscany School. This is an exciting community event.  We will begin our run at Twelve Mile Coulee School run through the bike paths accompanied by volunteers and safely escorted across streets by Calgary City Police, to Tuscany School.  We will have a celebration and snack before walking back to Eric Harvie School.

At Eric Harvie School we believe in building peaceful communities and part of this mission is to be able to take care of others.  The Terry Fox Foundation’s goal is to fun innovative cancer research through an non-competitive all inclusive run.  82% of all money raised by the foundation goes toward many forms of cancers including pediatric, lung, brain and more.

Eric Harvie School’s goal this year is to raise $4000.00. 

Donating online is fast and easy.  Simply, go to www.terrryfox.org , click “Terry Fox School Run” and “Give to a Student”,  or click this direct link:

https://secure.terryfox.ca/registrant/TeamFundraisingPage.aspx?Referrer=%26Referrer%3dhttp%253a%252f%252fwww.terryfox.org%252fschoolrun%252fget-your-school-involved%252f&TeamID=741875#&panel1-1

which will take you to our school page on the Terry Fox Foundation website. Your child may also choose to set up their own fundraising page in the “Give to a Student” section of the website.  By doing this, they will be able to email friends and family a direct fundraising link. On-line donations and/or student pages may be set up prior to our run.  Students will also be given a pledge form.

Any amount of donation is greatly appreciated and donations of $20.00 or more that are listed on a Terry Fox pledge sheet (with a full name and address) are automatically receipted.  Cheques and cash will both be accepted. Please make any cheques payable to The Terry Fox Foundation. All monies raised will be forwarded to The Terry Fox Foundation.  All pledge forms and money will be due by Tuesday October 9^th  , 2017.  All students who return a pledge form and donations will be entered into a draw for a Terry Fox t-shirt.

Parent volunteers will be greatly needed as we will be using a route from Twelve Mile Coulee to Tuscany School.  Please check the sign up genius for your opportunity to be a part of our event. 

Sincerely,

Ken Der and Teresa Bowles

Terry Fox School Run Coordinators

Today we did another Terry Fox run practice.  Some of us ran 1.75 kms in 13:00!

Tomorrow please remember to wear running shoes, not winter or rubber boots.
Please check the forecast in the morning.
Wild Rose and Mountain View took their "Who I Am Running For" stickers and tattoos home.  Please have a conversation with your child about who they might run for.  We discussed running for a family member or friend who has been affected by cancer.  If you do not have anyone you know of, we discussed running for Terry Fox.

Please send in your donation forms sometime next week.

Please remember that Orange Shirt Day is Monday, October 1st.

Today we continued with our Canada Goose Math. 

We also practiced IPICK

We practiced our songs for our Peace Assembly

Today's Bloggers:
Marley, Ben, Genny, Shahd, Levi

Highlights:
We did a practice for the Terry Fox run.  We ran 1.5 km!
We drew berries that we saw in the coulee on paper, cut them out and glued them on our background.
We had an assembly today for Terry Fox.
We are practicing songs and doing art for the Kindness Pod's Peace Assembly which is coming up on October 12th!  
We are doing goose math... if there are 15 geese, how many wings are there?  How do you know?  Can you show your family?  Can you count by two's?  Can you double 15?
We practiced IPICK.  


Reminder:
Book Truck Update - The book truck is under maintenance and did not come today.  It will sadly not be back until Wednesday, October 10. 
Orange Shirt Day is on Monday.  Please wear any orange clothing you may have.
Terry Fox Run is on Friday.  Please don't wear your winter/rubber boots.  Wear good running shoes.
Don't forget to bring dollar or two!  You can also donate here:

https://secure.terryfox.ca/registrant/TeamFundraisingPage.aspx?Referrer=%26Referrer%3dhttp%253a%252f%252fwww.terryfox.org%252fschoolrun%252f&TeamID=815942#&panel1-2

Today's Bloggers:
Mackenzie, Bradly, Ava, Billie, Ben

We got our pictures taken.
We did math about Canada Geese.  We drew 15 geese in a "V Formation" and wrote an equation.
We painted a background of our picture from the coulee.
We wrote in our journals today.
We have our own pencil cases with erasers and a pencil in it.  It is ours for the year. 
In P.E. today, we played a train game and worked on our planks. 
Today we read "How to Read a Book" and we practiced the 3 ways to read a book.  They are, read the words, read the pictures and retell the story.

Please look over the Student Demographic forms, make any necessary changes and sign the back before returning them to school. 

We will acknowledge Orange Shirt Day on October 1st.  Please wear an orange shirt to help us keep the discussion of residential schools happening each year. 

The annual Eric Harvie Terry Fox Run is taking place on Friday, September 28.  We are teaming up with Twelve Mile Coulee School and Tuscany School this year.  Each school requires at least 45 volunteers.  EHS requires 40 course volunteers who will be stationed along the course (with an option of running) and five food volunteers.

Please see the Sign Up Genius for information and to volunteer:

https://www.signupgenius.com/go/5080d44afab28abf94-terry1

Today's Bloggers: Mackenzie, Lucas, Nolan, Brody, Kian

Highlights From Today:
I like when we went on our walk.  I like lily pads.
I liked when we saw those red berries and all the nature.
I liked the stream.  There were rocks and water and bugs in the water.
The walk was fun because we got to explore.
I liked when I saw a bridge.  It was a tiny bridge in the water.
I liked walking.  It's fall.  We saw goldish colours and red.
I saw a leaf that was half of one colour and the other half, another colour.
I read two stories today.
I liked when we played Go Noodle this morning.
During Ignite I did building.
Some people were wondering if woodpeckers get headaches.
One person asked if flowers die like leaves do in fall.
I wondered how the big tree grew so high.
I learned a bush doesn't have one trunk it has lots of branches coming out.
Some trees fell down.
We saw lots of water striders.
We saw buffalo berries, saskatoon berries, juniper berries, and maybe choke cherries.

Notices:

Terry Fox Run...

The annual Eric Harvie Terry Fox Run is taking place on Friday, September 28.  We are teaming up with Twelve Mile Coulee School and Tuscany School this year.  Each school requires at least 45 volunteers.  EHS requires 40 course volunteers who will be stationed along the course (with an option of running) and five food volunteers.

Please see the Sign Up Genius for information and to volunteer:

https://www.signupgenius.com/go/5080d44afab28abf94-terry1

Tomorrow we are going for a coulee walk.  Thank you to the parents who volunteered to help us out!

Please sign up for our Open House Thursday afternoon through your child's PowerSchool account.

Another information package has/been or will be sent home with your child.  Please contact us if you do not receive this by tomorrow afternoon.

Our student will have their Learning Commons orientation over the next few days where they will receive their library card (to be kept at school) and their first library book.

The annual Eric Harvie Terry Fox Run is taking place on Friday, September 28.  We are teaming up with Twelve Mile Coulee School and Tuscany School this year.  Each school requires at least 45 volunteers.  EHS requires 40 course volunteers who will be stationed along the course (with an option of running) and five food volunteers.

Please see the Sign Up Genius for information and to volunteer:

 https://www.signupgenius.com/go/5080d44afab28abf94-terry1

Today's Bloggers Are:

Mountain View and Wild Rose


Community Walk - We are going to go on our first Coulee Walk on Wednesday (Sept. 19) from 12:30-2:30pm. If you are able to volunteer for this walk, please let us know (either in the comments or by email).


Highlights:

We did math and we played SNAP!
We played at the park today.
We did attendance (TWICE!)
We had recess.
Math was awesome because we went to different classrooms.
We went to gym and played group games.
We did writing. We did I See, I Think, and I wonder. We wrote what we saw, thoughts, and wondered about a picture.  (The other groups also worked on journal techniques)
Today we had exploration first thing in the morning. We called in Ignite.
We split up into animal groups for math and literacy.
Today we split up into Mountain View and Wild Rose so that we do some art and math.

Notices:

Early Dismissal - September 20 @ 12:05pm

Open House on Thursday - check out the email from last week for more details.

Picture Day - September 24

September 13, 2018

Today's Bloggers are:

Oliva D, Alina, Sarah, and Eli

Highlights:

Today's lunch was great today! We watched a video about letters.
In gym we played a dot game. 
We did exploration. We could choose a lot of choices like working in the Studio, working in one of our four classrooms in our pod. 
I went to Mrs. Le to read a book about Man Fish.
Mrs. Cox' literacy group read The Giving Tree.
After lunch we watched Austin's Butterfly and after we drew butterflies.
In my math group we had to guess dots - a teacher showed dots and we had to guess them very quickly.
When we went to math groups, we had to guess a number.
Other math groups also learned about counting in different.


Notices:
Open House - September 20th.

Picture Day is September 24th.

Thank you to all the parents that volunteered be our 'Room Parents'

September 12, 2018

Today's Bloggers are:
Brody, Cameron, Finn, Sebastian, Charlotte 

Highlights:
Today is Brody's and Olivia's Birthdays!  Happy Birthday to you!!!

We went for a community walk.  We were doing a scavenger hunt looking for signs of fall.
I saw flowers and trees and I saw a sunflower that reached to the top of a house.
It is going to be Fall.  We need to make sure we dress warm.  It may snow tomorrow.  
Some of us did Todd Par art pictures of ourself.
In P.E. one group listened to music and danced and the other group played games.
Some of us painted a leaf and we are going to write ways we can be kind on the leaf.

Notices:
We all went to the Book Truck and each student got to choose a book even if they don't have a public library card.  The book truck will come again in 2 weeks.  If you return your book on Wednesday the 26th, you get to choose a new one to take home.  

Picture Day is September 24th.

We are looking for 2 room parents for the Kindness Pod to help us coordinate volunteer opportunities, and other classroom events.  If you are interested please contact a teacher from the Kindness Pod.

 

 

September 11, 2018

Today's Bloggers are:
Matthew, Beighley, London, Phoenix and Omar

Highlights:

I liked playing outside during our break.
I liked counting up to 100 in math today.
Mrs. Blenkhorn taught us a new song.
I liked being in Mr. Kelly's group.  He read "Ish" and we did a drawing of us.
He did an activity with us where we started low and we grew into something.
In our literacy group we wrote about the story we read.
Mr. Der did a counting activity with us.  It was challenging.
I calmed myself down in the calming room.
We couldn't go for an afternoon schoolyard walk because of the rain.
We played "Wizards, Elves, and Giants" as well as "Turtle Tag" in P.E. today



Updates:
Please return your medical and media consent forms
Child Safe and Picture Day notice went home today

Thank you for reading our blog today!

Monday, September 10, 2018

Today's bloggers are:
Ava, Billy, Jensen, Parker, Steven, James

Today we did some lego building.  We made towers and the other group played a game called Poison.

In Poison you are supposed to try not to be the last one to get the last block.  You start with 13 blocks and you can take either 2 or 1 blocks from the pile and you go back and forth.

My group read a story and then wrote about ourselves.  We wrote a story about ourselves and being peaceful.  

We did drawing about what we hear, smell, seeing, and feeling.  

We went outside today after lunch.

In gym (P.E.) we practiced falling

We got to go into the Maker Space.  I helped my friends make mini robot obstacle course.

I took apart a radio.  I used a screwdriver.

I did Kapla with two other boys.  We tried to make a city.

Reminders:
Please return medical and consent forms