WILLIAM OF ORANGE CHRISTIAN SCHOOL
WEEKLY SNAPSHOT
28
APRIL 25 - 28, 2016
SCHOOL CALENDAR
Apr. 25
Apr. 29
May 2
May 3
May 6
May 13
May 18
May 19
May 20
May 23
-Wrap lunch
-Pro-D Day – no school
-Quad School Speaking Contest
-Orange Courier deadline
-Ready, Set, Learn
-Family Fun Night
-International Food Day
-Panorama/class pictures
-Grade 8 Day
-Pro D Day
-Victoria Day – no school
May 25
May 27
June 6
June 7-10
June 13
June 15
June 22
June 23
June 24
-Membership meeting
-Sports Day/Pizza lunch
-Quad School Track & Field
-Grade 7 camping
-Orange Courier deadline
-New Kindergarten morning
-Adopt-a-Street (Tania/Annette)
-Cool Treat
-Grade 7 graduation
-Last day of school
-Volunteer Tea
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QUAD SCHOOL SPEAKING CONTEST
The Fraser Valley Canadian & American Reformed Schools invite you to our annual Public
Speaking Contest! Friday, April 29 at 7:30pm in Yarrow Canadian Reformed Church.
(Host School: John Calvin School)
READY SET LEARN/KINDERGARTEN ORIENTATION
We would like to invite all students born in 2011 and 2012, along with their parents,
to William of Orange Christian School's Ready, Set, Learn! and Kindergarten
Orientation presentation on Tuesday May 3, 2016. Ready, Set, Learn! is funded by the
government of British Columbia through the Ministry of Education, Children and
Family Development and Healthy Living and Sport. Both public and private schools
deliver the program across BC, and William of Orange has chosen to participate in the
2015/2016 school year.
The school doors will open at 6:30pm. The first part of the evening is a drop-in session in which the
preschool children and parents are able to participate in a variety of independent learning activities
(babysitting will be available for younger siblings in the grade 1 room, and for older siblings in the gym).
School staff will be available on an informal basis. At 7:00pm, parents and children will be invited to an
information session. This year, our guest speaker is Liesel Sanday, who is a Christian child psychologist
and currently completing doctoral studies in counselling. She will be speaking about the role of
psychologists and counsellors and how they can work together with school. We hope to finish this
portion of the evening by about 7:30 pm. After this, we will have a brief information session for parents
of children attending kindergarten September 2016.
In addition, parents will be given reference material, children's books, and other goodies purchased
using the money that the school receives for this initiative.
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ORANGE AID
Mothers Day Hanging Baskets
Our hanging baskets this year are 12" baskets filled with assorted flowering annuals from Burnaby Lake
Greenhouses! Please have your order forms with payment ($25.00 ea) in by Monday April 25th.
PICK UP DAY IS CHANGED TO MAY 2ND after school instead of April 29th as stated on the forms.
Dutch VS Canadian
This year for Family Fun Night, we would like to try something new for
our auction. Instead of the usual boy/girl baskets the students put
together, we'd like to have grades k-3 put together a Dutch basket filled
with Dutch treats or anything else Dutch. Grades 4-7 will be putting
together a Canadian basket, with of course, all things Canadian! Just
bring your item to school, baskets will be near the office.
The event you have all been waiting for is just around the corner and we have a lot of great auction
items up for bids! Including family attractions, restaurants, gift cards, hotel stay, tickets to events, and
the list just keeps growing. But we would love to add more, do you have a talent to sew, bake, knit or
a handyman service? Do you have connections with a business that would be willing to make a donation
towards our fundraising event? Please let us know so we can add it to the list!
Melanie Vandeburgt 604-576-0134 or faithhopelove82@hotmail.com or
Colleen Schouten
604-446-5032 or colleen.schouten@gmail.com
Calling all Lego Enthusiasts!!!
This year at Family Fun Night, we have something new and
exciting: a Lego Contest.
All kids from K-7 are invited to enter their most creative Lego works for
exciting prizes.
All entries must be no bigger than a 10" by 10" Lego board and must be
an original work (no instruction sets).
Judges will declare a winner in each age category: grades K-3 and 4- 7. You will also have the chance to
vote for your favorite creation at Family Fun Night for the "People Choice Award" in each category.
Please bring your entry to the school on Thurs. May 5 after school. Entrance fee is $3.
SHOPPER’S CORNER:
Lean ground beef
Hamburger Patties
Rookwurst
Cookbooks
Dish brushes
Meatballs
- $43.00 per box (10-1lb. pkg.)
- $43.00 per box (10 lb.)
- $6.50 ea
- $5.00 ea
- $17.00 ea
- $49.00 (10lbs – approx 320)
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KINDERGARTEN (M/W/F)
GRADES
MEMORY WORK
Hymn 20:1
BIBLE
Queen Esther
Haman’s Plot
A New Celebration
Review and Test
LANGUAGE
ARTS
ONE
Hymn 26
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Letters & Phonics:
Review sounds learned
Short vowel E
Initial & Ending sound of: F
Initial Consonants
-
Reading:
“The Nest”
Phonics:
Review sounds
Words that describe
Using Print for emphasis
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Reading:
“My Brother is Afraid of Just About
Everything”
“Goblin Story”
“Something is There”
Sight words: here, is, are, where,
the
Outlaw Word: nothing, shoe
Author Study: Folktales
Author Study: Folktales
MATH
Math Interviews: con’t
Explore counting quantities greater
than 10
Grouping Tens
Comparing Capacities
Measuring capacities with nonstandard
units
Comparing Masses
UNIT STUDIES
Exploring God’s World Test
Communities
HEALTH
Healthy Me - Focus on: Review and Assessment
P.E.
Simple exercises and Gross Motor skills
Developing Hand Eye Coordination with balls: soccer skills
Games using balls
ART (KD)
Activities from "I can Draw!"
NOTE:
The grade K/1 classroom is a peanut/peanut butter free classroom.
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GRADES
TWO
THREE
MEMORY WORK
Psalm 131:1
Thursday, April 28
SPELLING
List 27
Thursday, April 28
BIBLE STUDY/CHURCH
HISTORY
King Josiah
Kings Jehoiakim and Jehoiachin
SCIENCE/SOCIALS
STUDIES
Pioneer life
“Wagon Wheels”
Fort Victoria
MUSIC
Whole , half, and quarter notes
Music Box: Let’s Make Music
P.E.
Catching and Throwing
Soccer
LANGUAGE ARTS
Reading: All Eyes on the Pond
Open Court: Main Idea and details
First Dictionary for grade two
Young Canada Dictionary for grade three
Six Traits of Writing: Word Choice
MATH
Addition and subtraction strategies
The eight times table
Picture graphs
Tables, bar graphs, and circle graphs
Division and division with remainder
Measurement: centimeters and meters
Fractions
NOTE:
Fieldtrip: Monday, May 9, to Fort Langley
The grade 2/3 classroom is a peanut/peanut butter free classroom.
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GRADES
FOUR
MEMORY WORK (BV)
Hymn 17:1 due April 28
BIBLE (BV)
Passion Week
MATH (BV)
FIVE
Division
Estimating to check if the answer is
reasonable
• Dividing 2 digit by 1 digit
•
Division
• Estimating to check if the answer is
reasonable
• Dividing 3 digit by 1 digit
LANGUAGE ARTS (BV)
Novel Study: Call it Courage
Verb tenses: Short /a/ and long /a/ spelling patterns
SOCIAL STUDIES (BV)
Henry Kelsey, the La Vérendryes, and Anthony Henday explore the Prairies
SCIENCE (BV)
Natural Resources
P.E. (BV)
Slow Pitch Soft Ball
Practice for Sports Day
ART (BV)
Drama exercises
FRENCH (LML)
N/A
MUSIC (KD)
Performance - Duets and trios
Listening: Classical versions of recorder pieces
Theory: Different groups of instruments
Oral – food preferences (fruit & vegetables)
Review of numbers and letters
Written work related to TPC – mixed up
sentences
NOTE:
SCHOOL CHOIR
MARANATHA CAN. REF.
CHURCH
APRIL 16, 2016
5
GRADES
SIX
SEVEN
MEMORY
Hymn 75:1 “Alleluia!! Alleluia!!”
BIBLE (LML)
Hosea – similes and metaphors; Messianic prophecies
CHURCH HISTORY (KD)
It's the chapter of the isms: Pietism, Rationalism, and Deism
MATH (KD)
2D geometry test on Tuesday
(probably)
2D Geometry
Problem of the week:
If I had ten more nickels, I could divide all my nickels into piles of 25 nickels each.
What is the total value of my nickels? (Gr. 7 - find two possible answers)
HEALTH &
PERSONAL PLANNING
(KD)
Today we discussed the recent introduction of assisted suicide legislation and what
we as Christians can do. This discussion took place in the context of a petition
circulated for the House of Commons and a rally next week Wednesday in front of
our local MP John Aldag's office. If you would like specifics on either of these two
items, please let me know.
No class due to proD day
LANGUAGE ARTS (LML)
Reading/Writing/Speaking/Listening
Presentation of speeches in class – Monday & Tuesday
In-school contest (top 6 speakers) – Wednesday
Quad-school contest (top 3 speakers) – Friday night in Yarrow
Word Study – next Vocab Assignment Due Friday, May 6
ART (LML)
Plasticine pictures à la style de Barbara Reid
SCIENCE (KD)
Extreme Environments: Part 2 of the project is due Thursday (identify the
challenges to surviving in your environment)
S. STUDIES (BV)
Indian Culture: assessing the caste system
P.E. (KD)
We are still running twice per week, but we are also
taking advantage of the beautiful weather and dry
fields to start our softball unit.
FRENCH (LML)
Oral and written stories based on
pictures
Written work: answering questions in
complete sentences
Vocab – food preferences
MUSIC (KD)
Performance: #103 and beyond
Theory: Ear training
Listening: Music for different occasions
NOTE:
6
Oral and written stories based on
pictures
Written work: phrases coupées
Vocab – food, dishes