Phone: 604-856-7775

Mrs. Colledge: Lcolledge@sd35.bc.ca

Website address
Mrs. Doiron: tdoiron@sd35.bc.ca
 
Welcome  to  division  21!    We  are  so  excited  to  begin  
a  fun  and  busy  year  of  growth  with  your  children.  
Each  month,  in  our  class,  we  will  have  a  monthly  
learning  focus  for  Language  Arts  and  MathemaAcs.     Themes  
We  will  also  be  focusing  on  a  few  cross-­‐curricular  
themes,  which  may  include  elements  of  character  
educaAon,  health,  social  studies  and  science.    Our   All  About  Me  
newsleDers,  as  well  as  our  classroom  focus  wall,  will  
help  keep  you  informed  of  what  we  are  learning    
each  month.    Our  monthly  calendar  will  be  found  on   Feelings  
the  reverse  side  and  will  help  keep  you  informed  of    
upcoming  events,  special  days  and  deadlines,  non-­‐ Autumn  
instrucAonal,  early  dismissal  days,  and  anything  else  
that  comes  our  way  throughout  the  year.  Be  sure  to  
read  through  it  thoroughly  to  avoid  surprises.    

Language  Arts   MathemaAcs  

We  will  begin  the  month  by  focusing  on   In  September,  we  introduce  the  students  
learning  all  about  our  names.  Students  will   to  our  calendar  rouAne.    Each  day  we  take  
learn  the  correct  leDer  formaAon,  as  well  as   a  look  at  the  present  month  and  keep  
the  leDer  sounds.    While  prinAng  their  name,   track  of  the  special  days  we  are  looking  
we  will  remind  students  to  begin  with  an   forward  to.  We  count  up  to  the  current  
uppercase  leDer  followed  by  lowercase.     date,  learn  how  to  idenAfy  the  days  of  the  
This  month  we  will  also    be  learning  about  ‘3   week  and  month  of  the  year  and  the  
Star  Colouring’.  Students  will  be  encouraged   number  symbols.  Each  day,  we  will  also  be  
to  1)  use  colours  that  make  sense,  2)  stay  in   keeping  rack  of  the  weather  and  will  use  a  
the  lines  and  3)  fill  in  the  white  spaces.     bar  graph  to  help  collect  and  analyze  our  
Our  final  focus  for  the  month,  that  will   data.      
conAnue  into  October,  is  on  the  concepts  of   Our  second  focus  will  be  on  colours,  
print.    This  refers  to  understanding  of  the   learning  to  idenAfy  and  experiment  with  
purpose  of  print  and  how  it  is  organized  and   the  different  colors  in  our  world.  
used.    As  children  are  exposed  to  literature,  it   Finally  we  will  begin  learning  about  
is  important  that  they  learn  to  recognize  the   number  sense,  focusing  first  on  the  
difference  between  leDers,  words  and   numbers  1-­‐5.  We  will  be  working  on  
sentences,  print  direcAonality  and  how  print   counAng  sequence,  wriAng  numerals,  and  
is  connected  to  oral  language.   one-­‐to-­‐one  correspondence.