November 4, 2013

Remembrance Day

We will be having our Remembrance Day Assembly on Friday, November 8 at 10:50 a.m.

PARENT-TEACHER INTERVIEWS

Last Friday we hosted our Parent-Teacher

Interviews at the school. Parents and

guardians had the opportunity to check on

their child’s progress as we know have had

2 full months back at school. As a remind-

er, please remember that at any time dur-

ing the school year if you would like to dis-

cuss your child’s progress, please contact

your child’s teacher. Email is a wonderful

way to communicate but of course you can

still call the school and leave a message.

Thanks to all of those students and staff members

who donated food items on Thursday October 31st

for our ‘Let’s Scare Hunger’ Food Drive. We col-

lected nearly 200 items in one day! The donations

will go to our local Food Banks. Thank you to our

student leaders, the Lima Beans and Ms. Sullivan for

organizing this wonderful event.

“let’s scare hunger” Food drive

‘Scare Hunger’ Food Drive

Picture re-take day is

Thursday, November 14th

STUDENT RECOGNITION

ASSEMBLY

FOR ALL STUDENTS IS

THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 7TH

AT 11:15 AM

Gr. 6 & 7 Music Modules Presentation

Hidden Pumpkin is found!

Seniors School Tour

Drop Everything and Read Day

Pajama Day!

Gryphon Trio Performance

Student Recognition The following students will be recognized at the assemblies on November 7th at 11:15 am. We hope that parents, guardians and relatives will be able to come and help us celebrate their accomplishments and hear about the wonder-ful things that are going on at our school!

Division 1 – Mr. Oldfield (Gr. 7) Claire Mavin Jenna Miller Cole Needham Ian Petula Division 2 – Ms. Sullivan (Gr. 6/7) Elle Agius Olivia Brunel Amanda Butler Andrew Crookshank Emma Indrebo Ajay Virk Division 3 – Mrs. Lewis (Gr. 6) Steve Carson Drew Deglan Sidney Elliott Sophie Evans Daelin Fjeld Catherine Forsythe Drew Sundberg Division 4 – Mr. Boettger (Gr.5/6) Spencer Braak Madeline Burt Chelsea Butler Hayden Krauss Cohen Mastrodonato Ainsley Needham Annika Schmunk Division 5 – Ms. Whitehouse (Gr. 4/5) Macy Bryce Bronwyn Christmann Ian Dennis Brittni Jolie Danny Schreurs Division 6 – Ms. Hoekstra (Gr. 4/5) Logan Bjelica Brent Bombardir Maddy Gunther Jetta Haggarty Hanna Hobson Emma Parsons Aliya Rachkowski Hannah Simpson Mason Windsor Division 7– Ms. McKinty (Gr. 3/4) Ava Ahmed Satya Bolton Hicks Ceilidh Mavin Ilia McKamey Nicholas Peters Lucas Shipley Phoebe Schur

Division 8– Mr. Olfert (Gr. 3) Sarah Banks Audrey Behan Tanner Burt Adam Hopper Jemma Lloyd Janessa Mayenburg Div. 9 – Mrs. McLean (Gr. 2/3) Kyanna Burnett Shelby Pauls Maya Parsons Lindon Slack Div. 10 – Ms. Tait (Gr. 2) Ayva Gunther Brooklyn Miller Olivia Miller Gracie Munro Edwin Solowan Div. 11 – Ms. Bond (Gr. 1) Reece Deeble Sofia Marchand Vaughn Spencer Lucas Wadsworth Div. 12 – Mrs. Adams (Gr. 1) Misia Choo Hannah Krauss Abby Shoreman Rikki Staniforth

Upcoming Dates:

Wednesday Nov. 6th 12:00pm Hot Lunch - Pizza

Thursday Nov. 7th 9:00am Grade 4 Cross Cultural trip to Sliammon

11:15am Student Recognition Assembly

Friday Nov. 8th 10:50am Remembrance Day Assembly

Monday Nov. 11th Remembrance Day Holiday

Wednesday Nov. 13th 12:00pm Hot Lunch – Subs & Wraps

Thursday Nov. 14th TBA Photo Re-Take Day

7:00pm PAC Meeting

Friday Nov. 15th 12:00pm Parenting Matters Session

Wednesday Nov. 20th 12:00pm Hot Lunch - Pizza

Writing Samples

Mrs. Adam’s Grade 1

Our kindergarten teachers are hosting a Pals Session on December 4th. "Pals" stands for Parents As Literacy Supporters and is a program that sets out to talk with parents about their child's current devel-opmental level and suggests ways to sup-port their learning at home. "Pals" also gives you an opportunity to ob-serve and work with your child in the classroom and a take home bag of materi-als is provided at the close of the session. Hope to see you in the kindergarten room and if work or other commitments make it difficult for you to attend, grandparents or family friends are also welcome. For more information about this program you can check under pro-grams and services on our school's website

Fall Cross Country Meets

& the Continuation of

Cross Country Club

We would like to congratulate all of our students

who participated in one or two of the Fall Cross

Country Meets we attended this Fall. The first was

held out at Kelly Creek on October 8th and the

most recent one was at Henderson on October 22nd.

We had decent participation and some very good

results! We are going to continue to have a Cross

Country Club throughout the school year. The new

path around the school makes it very convenient.

The Cross Country Club will meet on Thursday

mornings at 8:20am in the gym for a warm-up. We

will continue to track and log our runs. Interested

participants can check in with Mr. Burt for more

information.

We would also like to make a correction from our

last newsletter: Annika Schmunk was definitely a

top finisher in our Terry Fox Run this year and Mr.

Burt inadvertently left her off the list. Annika also

had two 1st place finishes in out two Cross Country

Meets this year. Way to go!

PARENTING MATTERS

Parent Information Session

Friday, Nov. 15 - noon to 1:00

Westview Elementary School Community Multi-Purpose Room

DISCIPLINE, LIMIT SETTING AND WHY KIDS MISBEHAVE

All behavior has a purpose. Come and find out what your child is trying to tell you with his/her behavior. This

informative session will focus on looking at the need behind the behavior and how to help our kids get their

needs met in healthy positive ways.

Lunch will be provided and child care can be arranged.

**Register for this session by calling Westview School at 604 485 5660 or email

gromanica@sd47.bc.ca

Session facilitated by Kevin Dodd (family enhancement counsellor – Child and Youth Family services) and

Glynis Romanica (SD 47 school Counsellor)

In the Roots of Empathy program, a parent and ba-

by (who is two to four months old at the start of the

program) from the community visit a classroom

nine times over the course of a school year. A

trained Roots of Empathy instructor visits with the

family to guide children as they observe the rela-

tionship between the baby and its parent. The in-

structor also visits before and after each family visit

to reinforce teachings. There are 27 classroom vis-

its in total in a Roots of Empathy program. In the

program, the baby is the “teacher.” With each fam-

ily visit, the instructor leads the children in noticing

how the baby is growing and changing over the

course of his or her first year of life. The children

also watch the loving relationship between the par-

ent and baby and see how the parent responds to the

baby’s emotions and meets the baby’s needs. The

attachment relationship between a baby and a par-

ent is an ideal model of empathy. Children learn to

understand the perspective of the baby and label the

baby’s feelings, and then are guided in extending

this learning outwards so they have a better under-

standing of their own feelings and the feelings of

others. This emotional literacy lays the foundation

for more safe and caring classrooms, where chil-

dren are "Changers." They are more socially and

emotionally competent and much more likely to

challenge cruelty and injustice. A decade of inde-

pendent academic research across several countries

has consistently shown that the program dramati-

cally reduces aggression and increases social and

emotional understanding among children who

receive it. Children who have participated in

Roots of Empathy programs are kinder, more

cooperative, and more inclusive of others, and

are less aggressive and less likely to bully others

compared to children who do not

participate in the program. These positive ef-

fects have been shown to last years. At

Westview Elementary Mrs. Taylor ‘s and Mrs.

Butula’s classes are participating in the program.

POWELL RIVER KINGS –

Read to Succeed Program

We are very fortunate this year to once again have the

opportunity to participate in the Powell River Kings

‘Reading Heroes` Program. The Kings, along with First

Insurance Credit Union and Powell River Literacy Coun-

cil, have put together this wonderful program that puts

emphasis on the importance of reading.

Every Monday our school will select a `Reading Hero.

The `Hero` that week will receive two tickets to a Kings

game and a $10 gift certificate to Breakwater Books!

Our weekly Hero will be chosen for a variety of reading

reasons. It may be someone who reads a lot, it could be

a student who is really making an effort to become a

stronger reader, it may be someone showing leadership

by promoting the importance of reading.

As a bonus, a couple members of the Kings will be

working with our students throughout the school year

modelling their reading skills! This alone will be a huge

motivating factor for many of our kids! We may also co-

ax them into showing off their skills on our road hockey

court at recess!

We have recognized two students so far:

Cooper Jones in Kindergarten,

Heidi Gale in Grade 1 and

Gracie Munro in Grade 2

Lang Creek ‘Big Buddy’

Field Trip On October 18th our Kindergarten students and their

Grade 7 ‘Big Buddies’ took their annual trip to the Lang

Creek Hatchery to learn more about, and see firsthand

the life cycle of salmon. Our Grade 7 students were

wonderful ‘buddies’ and set very good examples for

our younger students. Many thanks to our teachers,

SSAs, our parent volunteers and the volunteers at the

hatchery for giving our students this experience.

STORYTIME! for Preschoolers

Powell River Public Library explores great books,

action songs and rhymes, simple puppetry and

join-along fingerplays, geared for youngsters two

to five years accompanied by an oldster.

Starting Wednesday November 13, 2013, Sto-

rytime will take place at the Early Childhood

Community Room at Westview Elementary School

(3900 Selkirk Avenue)

Wednesday mornings from 10:30am-11:00am.