Month: January 2020

Our time together has come to an end for the TEIR program! It has been a wonderful and rewarding time with every single one of you! Thank you for all your hard work, smiles, and hugs! We will miss you!

We had a fun and relaxing day of surprises! We started the day with puzzles and Pokemon battles, then moved onto playing Jeopardy about food, followed with a surprise reveal of memory books for each of the kids, and ended the day with surprise snacks of popcorn and cupcakes!!

Thank you again and we wish you all the best!

Love,

Claire 🙂

Hard to believe it has already been 81 days of TEIR! We have just 4 more days together next week! The kids continue to work hard and have a great rapport with each other.

What an eventful week it has been! We tried a new RBLM Station, we had lots of snow, we had a SNOW DAY, we tried a new puzzle, used lego for a multi-sensory station, participated in the BC Mobile Museum that came to our school…wow!

This RBLM Station is called Swim & Dry. We have to do the army crawl across the long mat and then stand up and “wipe” our arms and legs. This gives our body full tactile stimulation, and increases our upper arm, shoulder, and leg strength. It was really fun! (At least Ms. Fong thinks so!)

The snow was exciting throughout the whole week and the kids thoroughly enjoyed having the chance to play in the snow. They were bundled up and came back with big smiles and rosy cheeks. Then Wednesday was a SNOW DAY and everyone got to stay home! Can anyone recognize where the picture on the right is? That is the gate around Gaston Park on Thursday morning, with no recognizable path in sight!

We continue to practice our spelling words and some eye coordination & math skills by building words with Lego and making an under the sea puzzle!

We ended the week with a fun “trip” (to the library room next to us!) to the BC Mobile Museum! We had the chance to learn all about the history of BC and the significant impact, influence, and presence of the First Nations people. There were plenty of great books for us to browse. We even got to touch some special artifacts like animal fur, stone hammers, weaved baskets, and replica arrowheads! It was a great way to end the week, with it followed by Fun Friday!

Upcoming Dates!

Monday January 20th – no school for the students, Pro-D Day for the teachers!

Wednesday & Thursday January 22nd & 23rd – Phone Conference! PLEASE SIGN UP if you have not done so already. Thank you! (Click on the button below to get to the website.)

Friday January 24th – Last day at TEIR! Report Cards go home.

Take care and take it easy!

Claire 🙂

Happy New Year and welcome back! I hope you all had a wonderful and relaxing holiday season. It is great to see the kids again! 🙂 They even got a postcard from Klaus! (It is a very heart-warming movie!)

The final countdown is on – including today, we have just ten days left together! Time really flies! We jumped right back into the swing of things and learned another round of spelling words. Amidst the spelling, we are reviewing the words we have learned before and seeing how our progress has been over the past few months.

I will be sending out an email regarding final conferences coming up in two weeks. They will be TELEPHONE conferences, as it is the end of the term before the kids head back to their home schools. If you prefer an in-person conference, please still sign up on SignUp Genius, but send me an email to let me know. Phone Conferences will be on Wednesday January 22nd and Thursday January 23rd from 3:40 – 5:15pm. Each conference is about 15-20 minutes. You can click on the link below to go to the website.

To top off a nice first week back, we got snow!! They were so excited and definitely got to play outside (with some safety rules in place – no throwing snow!). It was great snow too, easy to pack and make little mounds and snowpeople! Some of us chose to go play outside in the flurries of snow during recess; I went out to play with them too, I couldn’t resist! 😀

Upcoming Dates:

Monday January 20th: Pro-Day Day, no school

Wednesday & Thursday January 22nd & 23rd: Telephone Conferences

Friday January 24th: Last Day of TEIR!

Have a great weekend and stay warm! There is supposed to be more snow in the coming days and week…!

Take care and take it easy!

Claire 🙂