WILLIAM OF ORANGE CHRISTIAN SCHOOL

WEEKLY SNAPSHOT

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February 6 - 9, 2017

SCHOOL CALENDAR

Feb. 8 -Taekwondo - gr. K-5

Feb. 10 -Pro D Day

Feb. 13 -Family Day – no school

Feb. 14 -Orange Courier deadline

Feb. 15 -Taekwondo - gr. K-5

Feb. 17 -CESS Basketball Tourn. - gr. 6/7

Feb. 18 -School Dinner

Feb. 20 -Pudding Treat

-Curling - gr. 6/7

Feb. 22 -Wacky Hair Day

Feb. 24 -Tri-school Spelling Bee

Feb. 27 -Curling - gr. 6/7

Mar. 3 -2nd Term Report Cards

Mar. 6 -Curling - gr. 6/7

-P/T interviews – after school

Mar. 8 -P/T interviews – evening

Mar. 10 -French plays

Mar. 13-24 -Spring Break

Mar. 27 -Return to school

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We would like to welcome Caitlyn Plug to William of Orange! She will be replacing Tania Grim as

Educational Assistant for the remainder of the school year. Caitlyn was born, raised, and educated in

Australia and has worked in our schools there with special needs students for three years. She is

currently living in Aldergrove, working at Credo High 2 days per week, and will be working here at

William of Orange on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday. We are thankful the Lord has provided this

opportunity!

Please continue to pray for Tania, that the Lord will surround her and her family with his love and care as

she undergoes treatment for leukaemia.

TAEKWONDO

Thanks to a parent’s suggestion, we have scheduled Taekwondo classes for the grades K-5 students.

Instructors from Chang’s Taekwondo will be coming to our school on Wednesday afternoons, February

1st, 8th, & 15th, and providing the K-5 students with a 45-minute instruction session in the school gym.

Students, please remember to wear or take along your Taekwondo shirt for the sessions!

ASSEMBLY CANCELLED Please note: The gr 6/7 assembly, scheduled for Feb 15th, has been cancelled for a variety of reasons.

Please remove it from your school calendar.

BASKETBALL The grade 6/7 students will be participating in the CESS Mixed Basketball Tournament on Friday,

February 17th at Cornerstone Christian School in Abbotsford (3970 Gladwin Road). Permission slips with

more information were sent home today.

CURLING

The grade 6/7 students will continue the tradition of curling lessons. They will be doing so

on February 20th, 27th, & March 6th at the Cloverdale Curling Rink. Further details and a

permission slip were sent home today.

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SPELLING BEE A Tri-school Spelling Bee is planned for Fri., Feb 24th (probably 10 a.m.) at John Calvin School in Yarrow.

More details in the coming weeks, but please mark it on your calendar as we’d love to have spectators.

SICKNESS Lately a significant number of students have succumbed to the flu, cold or the "winter

vomiting bug." For colds and flu, typically children are contagious on the day before

symptoms manifest, and about 5 to 7 days afterwards. Children don't need to stay home for

the full period they are contagious. However, if your child is sick, please consider not only

their needs, but also whether they are likely to pass on the bug to their school mates,

especially with frequent coughing.

FSA’s During the coming weeks, the Foundation Skills Assessment (FSA) will again be conducted at schools

across the province. The FSA is an annual province-wide assessment of our province’s students'

academic skills in grades 4 and 7, and provides a snapshot of how well BC students are learning

foundation skills in Reading Comprehension, Writing, and Numeracy. While statistically it may be

questionable to read too much into results for students in a particular (small) school, over time results

do give indicators of trends and overall strengths and weaknesses of an educational program. Not only

can the testing experience be a learning opportunity for students, but the tests also offer parents an

independent assessment of your child’s skills. Consequently, we’re happy to participate.

EMERGENCY SCHOOL CLOSING – SNOW DAYS Just a little reminder - “When extreme weather occurs and creates hazardous driving

conditions, school may be cancelled. Please listen to your radio station, CKNW 980 AM or

Praise 106.5 FM or check the websites www.wofo.org or www.credochs.com for school

cancellations. The decision to cancel school by our transportation committee will be made

by 6:30am. All schools affected will be announced separately by the radio stations.”

SNOW AGAIN!

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ORANGE AID

SAIL AWAY WITH ME... WILLIAM OF ORANGE ANNUAL SCHOOL DINNER

- **note date change**

Please join us on Saturday, February 18, 2017 as we cruise the open seas with

good food, wine, company and much laughter.

Doors at Cloverdale CanRC Church open at 5:30 – Dinner starts at 6:00.

Tickets are $30 each or $25 senior/student.

Please reserve your tickets by emailing wofo.school.dinner@gmail.com or call

Julia at 604-574-3391.

SKATE/HELMET RENTALS Thank you all parents who participated and also made sure they paid their skate and helmet rentals this

past skating season. Lots of fun was had by all!

BIG BROTHERS FUNDRAISER This popular fundraiser is continuing all school year long! Bring your bags of used clothing, shoes, linens,

purses, etc. to the school. Orange Aid receives $2.50 per bag from Big Brothers.

SHOPPER’S CORNER:

Lean ground beef - $43.00 per box (10-1lb. pkg.)

Hamburger Patties - $43.00 per box (10 lb.)

Rookwurst - $6.50 ea

Cookbooks - $5.00 ea

Dishbrushes - $17.00 ea

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GRADES KINDERGARTEN (M/W/F) ONE

MEMORY WORK � Hymn 8:1 � Psalm 131:3

BIBLE � Saul’s Disobedience

� A New King

� David and Goliath

� David at Saul’s Court

LANGUAGE

ARTS

� Letters & Phonics:

- The Letters W & X – Printing

- Oral Blending – Word Parts & Initial

Consonants

� Reading:

- “To Market, To Market”

� Sight Words: review

� Book Study: Kevin Henkes

� Phonics:

- Long o spelled ow, and oa

- Long u spelled ew and ue

� Reading:

- “A Game Called Piggle”

- “The Snow Game”

- “Jafta”

� Sight Words: give, some, laugh

� Book Study: Kevin Henkes

MATH

� Number Sense:

-Working on Five

� Exploring 3D and 2D shapes

-Exploring 2D Shapes

-Sorting 2D Shapes

-Searching for Shapes

UNIT STUDIES � Light and Sound

P.E. � Practice locomotor movements, running, skipping etc. with relays

� Jump Rope assessment

� Introduce balance and weight transfer activities and forward roll

ART (HD) � Valentine’s/Family Day

MUSIC (HD)

� No music this week due to the taekwondo presentation.

NOTE:

� Kindergarten students will be coming to school Fridays now too!

� Congratulations Lyla, Emily and Elijah for reading 100 books!! Amazing!

� We really enjoyed the first week of taekwondo. Please remember to wear or send along your child’s

taekwondo shirt for the next two Wednesdays.

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GRADES TWO THREE

MEMORY WORK � Psalm 80:8 Thursday, February 9

SPELLING � List 19 Thursday, February 9

BIBLE STUDY/CHURCH

HISTORY

� Forty years in the wilderness

� Taberah and Kibroth-hattaavah

� Miriam and Aaron oppose Moses

SCIENCE/SOCIAL STUDIES

� Communities-A Prairie Alphabet

� Government

MUSIC � Music Box: Storytelling

P.E. � Jump rope

LANGUAGE ARTS

� Reading: Open Court-A Place Called Freedom

� Open Court: Suffixes and reading comprehension

� Steck-Vaughn Spelling: lesson 19

� Alphabetical order

� Using the “First Dictionary”

� Focus on: Astrid Lindgren

� Grammar: common and proper nouns

MATH

� Addition and subtraction

� The doubles

� The six times table

� Counting money-nickels, dimes, quarters, one and two dollar coins, five and ten

dollar bills

NOTE:

� The grade 2/3 classroom is a peanut/peanut butter free classroom.

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GRADES FOUR FIVE

MEMORY WORK

(BV)

� Psalm 122:1 due February 8

� Psalm 123:1 due February 15

� Psalm 125:1 due February 22

BIBLE STUDY

(BV)

� Sheba Rebels

� David’s mighty warriors

� David counts the fighting men

� Test on 2 Samuel Friday February 10

MATH (BV)

� Math facts

• addition and subtraction facts to 20

• multiplication and division facts to 100

� Division

• dividing 3-digit by 1-digit numbers

• estimating quotients

• Test on Thursday February 9

� Math facts

• addition and subtraction facts to 20

• multiplication and division facts to 100

� Division

• dividing 2-digit by 1-digit numbers

• estimating quotients

• Test on Thursday February 9

LANGUAGE ARTS

(BV)

� Poetry – writing poems using simile, metaphor, hyperbole, personification,

alliteration and imagery

WORD STUDY (LML) � More pesky silent letters!

� Making Big Words

SOCIAL STUDIES

(BV)

� Immigration

• Why did people come to Canada? What was life like for them in the new country?

o Chinese, Japanese, Italians, Ukranians

SCIENCE (BV) � Energy

- forms of energy

- transfer of energy and conservation of energy

- the scientific method

P.E. (BV)

� Basketball – ball handling; shooting; triple threat position; rules

HEALTH AND CAREERS

(BV)

� Canada food guide: What is in a healthy diet?

ART (BV) � Oil pastel landscapes and nature

FRENCH (LML) � Le Chat et la lune – practice: dramatic

expression of voice and body

� Written work: mixed up sentences

� Phrases bizarres

MUSIC (HS)

(THURSDAY AM)

� Section 3 of Recorder Time book - exercises 58 - 65. Students sing the note names to

the melody as a music memory strengthening exercise.

NOTE:

� Please check agendas regularly and have them signed for Monday morning.

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GRADES SIX SEVEN

MEMORY WORK (LML) � Psalm 97:1 *** Due: Wed., Feb 15th

BIBLE (LML) � Begin our new unit on Judges

CHURCH HISTORY (KV) � Complete unit on Augustine and have a test on Thursday

MATH (KV)

� Working on fractions � Using equations, including equations

with letters

� FSA testing this week

PROBLEM OF THE WEEK:

HEALTH & (KV)

PERSONAL PLANNING

� Peer pressure and anti-racism

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LANGUAGE ARTS (LML) � Reading and Writing: Literature Circles – read, respond, discuss, debrief, repeat ☺

� Meetings: A Long Walk to Water – Tues 7th & Tues 14th; The Bully Boys and Number

the Stars – Mon 6th, Wed 8th & Wed 15th

� BookTalk is back! Tuesday, February 21st – sign-up sheet going home today

� Word Study: Vocab #9 - due Thursday, Feb 9

� Oral: Colour my Conversation...should start Wednesday - see parent letter for more

information

ART (LML) � Cutting and gluing … hopefully, a little more advanced than the kindergarten kind.

Google “Notan images” to get an idea of what’s possible.

SCIENCE (BV) � Chemistry – using the scientific method

S. STUDIES (KV) � Test on Charter of Rights and Freedoms on Tuesday.

P.E. (KV) � Basketball skills and games

FRENCH (LML)

� “Comment y Aller?” – we’ve made a

few adaptations to the play, and now

need to learn a few new lines

� Oral: reflexive verbs

� Written: answering questions in

complete sentences

� “Louise la Grenouille” – practice,

coordinate music, etc.

� Oral: reflexive verbs

� Written: answering questions in

complete sentences

MUSIC (HS)

(THURSDAY AM)

� Please encourage regular practice time for your son/daughter. A detailed practice

record for daily exercise is provided with that goal in mind.

NOTE: