WILLIAM OF ORANGE CHRISTIAN SCHOOL

WEEKLY SNAPSHOT

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January 16 - 20, 2017

SCHOOL CALENDAR

Jan. 16 -Soup lunch (bring mug/spoon)

Jan. 20 -Gr. 7 Volleyball Tournament

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. 18 -School Dinner

Feb. 20 -Pudding Treat

-Grade 6/7 curling

Feb. 22 -International Food Day

Feb. 24 -Tri-school Spelling Bee

Feb. 27 -Grade 6/7 curling

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GRADE 7 QUAD SCHOOL VOLLEYBALL TOURNAMENT The Grade 7 Quad School Volleyball Tournament that was cancelled in December due to a

snow day, has been rescheduled for Friday, January 20th from 1- 4:30pm at Credo Christian

High School. Parents are asked to pick up their child(ren) from the high school after the

tournament. Permission slips with further details were sent home today.

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.

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 final 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

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.

BABYSITTERS NEEDED If anyone is willing to babysit the morning of January 25th for the school open house, or knows someone

who would be willing, please contact the school office (office@wofo.org). Thank you!

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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.

SPELLING BEE Many students are practicing for our school spelling bee. If you or your child would like a study list,

email me, and I can send it for you to print at home. (lmllanguagearts@gmail.com)

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.

VOLUNTEER OPPORTUNITY Books that are added to our library are previewed by adults for appropriateness, etc.

If you’d be interested in helping to pre-read, please contact me. LML … 604-574-5036 or

lmllanguagearts@gmail.com.

ANOTHER VOLUNTEER OPPORTUNITY Are you a parent who is interested in athletics? Every year our students in grade 4-7 (mostly

6-7) participate in various sporting tournaments against other Christian schools in the Fraser

Valley. I am looking to pass the baton onto someone else. This volunteer position involves going

to 2 meetings a year, spring and fall, and organizing with the teachers, which events our school

will participate in. We also help Surrey Christian organize the cross country meet in the fall. If

this is something that you think you would enjoy, email Tania at grimtania@gmail.com.

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.”

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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.

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 99:1

BIBLE � Ruth Gleans

� Boaz and Ruth at the Threshing Floor

� The Happy Ending

� Review and Test

� The Birth of Samuel

LANGUAGE

ARTS

� Letters & Phonics:

- The Letter Q & R – Printing

- Oral Blending – Word Parts & Initial

Consonants

� Reading:

- “Bluebird, Bluebird”

� Book Study: Ezra Jack Keats

� Phonics:

- /kw/ spelled qu.

- Long e spelled –y, -ie-.

- Long vowels followed by r.

- Long a spelled ai- and –ay.

� Reading:

- “Queen Squid and Her Sea Pals”

- “The Fancy Party”

- “Dog Dreams”

- “Sail Day”

� Sight Words: lived, heard, comes

� Book Study: Ezra Jack Keats

MATH

� Measurement-Interviews

� 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—Focus on Snow Flakes

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

� Jump Rope

� Introduce balance and weight transfer activities

ART (HD) � Painting with Primary 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 57:1 Thursday, January 19

SPELLING � List 16 Thursday, January 19

BIBLE STUDY/CHURCH

HISTORY

� The Israelites in the Wilderness of Sin

� Water from the rock at Rephidim

� Israel attacked by Amalek

� Jethro visits Moses

SCIENCE/SOCIAL STUDIES

� “World Cultures” -Africa

-Adjusting to a new/different culture

-Learning a foreign language

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 16

� 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 four and five times tables

� Rounding to the nearest ten

� Compare and order numbers

� Greater and smaller than

� The doubles

NOTE:

� Birthday Party: Friday, January 20

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

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GRADES FOUR FIVE

MEMORY WORK

(BV)

� Psalm 103:8 due January 18

� Psalm 107:1 due January 25

� Psalm 112:3 due February 1

BIBLE STUDY

(BV)

� David brings Ark to Jerusalem

� God’s Promise to David

� David and Bathsheba

� Amnon and Tamar

� David and Absalom

MATH (BV)

� Math facts

• addition and subtraction facts to 20

• multiplication and division facts to 100

� Multiplication and Division

• multiplying 2-digit by 2-digit numbers

• Test on Monday January 16

• dividing 3-digit by 1-digit numbers

� Math facts

• addition and subtraction facts to 20

• multiplication and division facts to 100

� Multiplication and Division

• multiplying 2-digit by 1-digit numbers

• Test on Monday January 16

• dividing 2-digit by 1-digit numbers

LANGUAGE ARTS

(BV)

� poetry – simile and metaphor

WORD STUDY (LML) � Spelling pattern: sounds of j and g

SOCIAL STUDIES

(BV)

� The Railway

• How the railway tied the nation together

SCIENCE (BV) � Energy

- forms of energy

- transfer of energy and conservation of energy

P.E. (BV)

� Badminton Doubles Tournament

HEALTH AND CAREERS

(BV)

� Making healthy choices

ART (BV) � Oil pastel landscapes and nature

FRENCH (LML) � Roles have been assigned; serious memorization begins

� Oral – focus on pronunciation & expression

� Written work: choisit le bon mot

MUSIC (HS)

(THURSDAY AM)

� Students engaged in some music penmanship, learning the fingering of the high D

and the F-sharp note: they played "For Health and Strength and Daily Food We Give

You Thanks, O Lord" - even as a 4 part round.

� Next Thursday a legend will be told and the central role of the pipe/whistle/recorder

will be processed - and applied!

NOTE:

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

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GRADES SIX SEVEN

MEMORY WORK (LML) � Hymn 82:2

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) � Review and test (Thursday) of Athanasius

MATH (KV)

� Ratio and percentage � Test on Tuesday

� Then operations with fractions

PROBLEM OF THE WEEK:

Lost Marbles Found

Daniel has a bag that contains exactly 3 black marbles, 6 gold marbles, 2 purple marbles

and 6 red marbles. Mark finds a number of white marbles and adds them to the bag. He

tells Becky that if she now draws a marble at random from the bag, the probability of it

being black or gold is 3/7 (3/7 is a fraction). How many white marbles did Mark add to the

bag?

HEALTH & (KV)

PERSONAL PLANNING

� Last week we discussed cyber-bullying and this week we discuss how much personal

data should be shared on the internet

LANGUAGE ARTS (LML) � Reading and Writing: as preparation for Lit Circles: responding to literature,

focussing on making connections; asking “deep” questions (that can lead to

discussion); writer’s craft; problems for children during wartime

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

ART (LML) � Beyond stickmen … sculpture … Mr Tinfoil Man

� Keeners can check it out beforehand at …

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eDOOqdm_9jc

SCIENCE (BV) � Chemistry – chemical and physical changes

S. STUDIES (KV) � We continue the unit of Marooned and intertwine it with other topics. This week

and following we will deal with the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms,

connecting to developing our own Charter for our society as marooned on the

island.

P.E. (KV) � We are finishing up with badminton, although the finals will be delayed for the open

house.

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)

� Students shared many different way a simple scale can be played. For warm-up,

fingering, positioning and pitch & tone development they are assigned to practice this

in the course of the coming week.

� Also: Sakura, exercise 135. This is a stretch for Grade 6-ers and a fun challenge for

Grade 7 students and offers a learning opportunity in synergizing for all.

NOTE: