WILLIAM OF ORANGE CHRISTIAN SCHOOL

WEEKLY SNAPSHOT

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January 23 - 27, 2017

SCHOOL CALENDAR

Jan. 23 -Kindergarten Vision/Hearing

Screening

Jan. 25 -Open House

Feb. 3 -First Kindergarten Friday

Feb. 10 -Pro D Day

Feb. 13 -Family Day – no school

Feb. 14 -Orange Courier deadline

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

Feb. 18 -School Dinner

Feb. 20 -Pudding Treat

-Grade 6/7 curling

Feb. 22 -Wacky Hair Day

Feb. 24 -Tri-school Spelling Bee

Feb. 27 -Grade 6/7 curling

Mar. 3 -2nd Term Report Cards

Mar. 6 -Grade 6/7 curling

-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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OPEN HOUSE Staff and students of William of Orange Christian School cordially invite all parents and

grandparents to our annual Open House, January 25th from 9am - 12:05pm. The morning

will begin in the school gym with an assembly, including our annual spelling bee, followed

by refreshments in the library and mingling with students. After recess we will hold our

annual grade 6/7 badminton finals in the gym. Regular classes will then resume with the

opportunity for guests to wander through quietly and observe. We look forward to seeing

many of you on the 25th!

To cause as little disruption as possible to the learning and instruction, babysitting will be provided for all

babies and preschoolers in the Cloverdale church.

Grade 4/5 students are requested to bring baking for the Open House. Please bring the baking to the

gym kitchen in the morning before school begins.

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.

KINDERGARTEN FRIDAYS

A reminder that starting on February 3rd, Kindergarten students will be attending school on Fridays as

well as their regular Monday and Wednesday Kindergarten days.

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.

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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.

SPLITZ/TAEKWONDO/CURLING

As some of you have probably already heard, Splitz is no longer offering school fieldtrips. The staff has

been considering other options to replace the Splitz fieldtrips. 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 each

division with a 45-minute instruction session in the school gym.

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 will be sent home at a later date.

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.

CHOCOLATE LETTERS/COUPON BOOKS Thank you everyone for your support with buying chocolate letters in the fall, our profit was $293.

Thank-you Esther Vandergugten for organizing!

Also, our profit for the coupon books was $333- hope everyone is enjoying their savings! Thank you

Tania Grim for organizing.

BIG BROTHERS FUNDRAISER This popular fundraiser is continuing again this year! 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) ONE

MEMORY WORK � Hymn 8:1 � Psalm 100:4

BIBLE � Samuel’s Call

� The Philistines Capture the Ark

� Victory at Mizpah

� A King for Israel

� A Great Victory

LANGUAGE

ARTS

� Letters & Phonics:

- The Letters S & T – Printing

- Oral Blending – Word Parts & Initial

Consonants

� Reading:

- “To Market, To Market”

� Predecodable Book:

- “The Trunk”

� Sight Words: he, she

� Book Study: Ezra Jack Keats

� Phonics:

- Long a spelled ai- and –ay, long I

spelled igh, -y, and –ie-, /ng/ spelled

ng, words with /nk/

- Adding ing endings

� Reading:

- “Dog Dreams”

- “Sail Day”

- “The opossum”

- “Why Bly?”

- “Cranky Hank”

� Sight Words: comes, climb

� Book Study: Ezra Jack Keats

MATH

� Measurement-Interviews con’t

� Number Sense:

-Working on Five

� Addition and Subtraction

- Solving Missing Part Problems

-Adding and subtracting Using a

Calculator

-Creating and Solving Addition and

Subtraction Problems

-Interviews

UNIT STUDIES � Winter, Snow, and Ice— The Power of Ice

� Review and Test

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

� Jump Rope

� Introduce balance and weight transfer activities and forward roll

ART (HD) � Secondary Colours

MUSIC (HD)

� When Music Tells a Story. We are listening to various pieces of music and

discussing the “story” behind the music.

NOTE:

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GRADES TWO THREE

MEMORY WORK � Psalm 62:1 Friday, January 27

SPELLING � List 17 Friday, January 27

BIBLE STUDY/CHURCH

HISTORY

� Jethro visits Moses

� Israel at Mount Sinai

SCIENCE/SOCIAL STUDIES

� “World Cultures” -Africa

-Adjusting to a new/different culture

-Learning a foreign language

� Communities-A Prairie Alphabet

� Government

MUSIC � Seasonal songs

� Music Box: Beat and Tempo

P.E. � Working with the parachute

� Various running/skipping/hopping games

� Jump rope

LANGUAGE ARTS

� Reading: Open Court-Immigrants Coming to America

� Open Court: Prefixes and suffixes

� Steck-Vaughn Spelling: lesson 17

� Creative Writing: question mark and exclamation point

� Alphabetical order

� Focus on: Astrid Lindgren

� Grammar: singular and plural nouns/common and proper nouns

MATH

� Addition and subtraction

� Place value: ones, tens, hundreds, and thousands

� The five times tables

� Compare and order numbers

� Greater and smaller than

� The doubles

� Money: pennies, nickels, dimes, and quarters

NOTE:

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

HAPPY BIRTHDAY MR. LEGUIJT!

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GRADES FOUR FIVE

MEMORY WORK

(BV)

� Psalm 107:1 due January 25

� Psalm 112:3 due February 1

� Psalm 122:1

BIBLE STUDY

(BV)

� Amnon and Tamar

� David and Absalom

MATH (BV)

� Math facts

• addition and subtraction facts to 20

• multiplication and division facts to 100

� Division

• dividing 3-digit by 1-digit numbers

� Math facts

• addition and subtraction facts to 20

• multiplication and division facts to 100

� Division

• dividing 2-digit by 1-digit numbers

LANGUAGE ARTS

(BV)

� poetry – simile, metaphor, hyperbole, personification, alliteration and imagery

� Quiz on Friday, January 27

WORD STUDY (LML) � Spelling pattern: /ch/ … -ch or -tch

SOCIAL STUDIES

(BV)

� Immigration

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

SCIENCE (BV) � Energy

- forms of energy

- transfer of energy and conservation of energy

P.E. (BV)

� Basketball – ball handling; shooting; triple threat position

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, practice,

practice!

� Oral – focus on pronunciation &

expression

� Written work: choisit le bon mot &

mixed up sentences

MUSIC (HS)

(THURSDAY AM)

� Students will practice the F-sharp and C-sharp note in context of a 4 measure round.

� Part 2 of the story of the Pied Piper of Hamelin Town will be told and applied to

recorder playing, incorporating familiar and new tones (C# and F#)

NOTE:

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

� Thank You Kindly, dear members of the Morning Women's Bible Study Group, for switching your

Thursday morning meetings to a different day. Facilitating Thursday band classes in church this way is

much appreciated. HS

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GRADES SIX SEVEN

MEMORY WORK (LML) � Psalm 85:4

BIBLE (LML) � Joshua – work on ABC book – see handout in binder

� much of this project will be done at school, but students who want to exceed

expectations, or those who do not use their time wisely in class, will need to work

on it at home as well (don’t forget or lose your memory stick!!)

CHURCH HISTORY (KV) � Last week we killed off Arius (not literally us) and this week we learn about Augustine.

MATH (KV)

� Learning about fractions/ratios relating

to percentages.

� Learning how to manipulate fractions

using different operations.

PROBLEM OF THE WEEK:

Time for another logic problem:

Can You Compete?

Gregory, Adam and Paul are athletes who competed in the downhill skiing

event in the Winter Olympics. Gregory, Adam and Paul each finished in first, second or

third. There were no ties.

Each athlete is also from a different country. One is from Canada, one is from

France and one is from Japan.

Using the following clues, determine who placed first, second and third, and for

which country each athlete was competing.

1. Gregory was faster than Adam.

2. Gregory is not Canadian, and he did not finish in second place.

3. The Japanese athlete was faster than the French athlete.

4. Adam is not Japanese and he did not finish in third place.

5. The Canadian athlete was faster than the French athlete.

HEALTH & (KV)

PERSONAL PLANNING

� Continue discussing/learning about internet safety.

LANGUAGE ARTS (LML) � Reading and Writing: Literature Circles – novels will be previewed and assigned this

week … and then the real work begins!

� *** Parents: the novels we are studying deal with “Children and War”. While these

books are age-appropriate, they do contain difficult subject matter. Please be

prepared to discuss the topic with your child as needed.

� Word Study: Vocab #8 - due Fri., Jan 27

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ART (LML) � Beyond stickmen … more sculpture … Mr Wire Man

SCIENCE (BV) � Chemistry – chemical and physical changes

S. STUDIES (KV) � Continue with the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms, a document that is

both a blessing and a curse for Canada. We will tie this into the Marooned unit and

come up with our own charter.

P.E. (KV) � For the next few weeks in PE: complete badminton tournament, begin basketball,

floor hockey, and handball.

FRENCH (LML)

� Serious play practices

� Oral: pronunciation & expression

� Written: answering questions in

complete sentences

� Serious play practices

� Oral: pronunciation & expression

� Written: answering questions in

complete sentences

MUSIC (HS)

(THURSDAY AM)

� Concert Bb + scale - fingerings, positions,

� Exercise 135 - Grandfather's Whiskers

� The "For _________ Only" exercises between #22 and #91 of the Standard of

Excellence book.

� Keep track of practice times: practice at home will lead to leaps and bounds in

improving tone, tune and touch of the instruments.

NOTE:

� There is a basketball tournament for grade 6/7 with a few small Christian schools taking place at

Cornerstone Christian in Abbotsford (not the Lynden school) on February 17. We would like to have two

teams from W of O and therefore would need to have a parent/older teen coach the second team. If we

have a second coach we can have two teams. If not, well,....