WILLIAM OF ORANGE CHRISTIAN SCHOOL

WEEKLY SNAPSHOT

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December 9 - 13, 2019

SCHOOL CALENDAR

December 8 -Orange Courier #3

13 -Quad-school Volleyball Tourn. (gr.7)

18 -Christmas hamper packing (gr.4-7)

20 -Christmas assembly

20 -Christmas treat

23-3 -Christmas Break

January 6 -Back to School

15 -Comfy Day

16 -Adopt-a-Street

20 -Soup lunch

29 -Open House

30 -First Friday for Kindergarten students

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QUAD SCHOOL VOLLEYBALL TOURNAMENT

In the afternoon of Friday December 13th, the Grade 7 class will travel to Credo High for a Quad School

Volleyball Tournament. Parent drivers will be needed to drive students from WofO to Credo High.

Please let the school know if you are willing and able to drive. Supervisors are not needed, but

spectators are always appreciated! Permission slips with further details were sent home.

CLOVERDALE CHRISTMAS HAMPER PROGRAM FIELDTRIP

The grade 4-7 students will be walking to the Cloverdale Fairgrounds (Alice McKay building) where they

will be helping pack Christmas hampers the afternoon of December 18th, as part of the Cloverdale

Christmas Hamper Program. Permission slips with details were sent home on Wednesday.

Please join students and staff of

William of Orange Christian School

for a Christmas assembly on

December 20th, 2019 at 2:15 pm

in Cloverdale Canadian Reformed Church.

Students in grades K-3

will lead us in Scripture and song,

celebrating the birth of Jesus Christ our Lord.

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Our school has partnered again this year with the Cloverdale Christmas Hamper Program. This is a

community effort that provides struggling seniors, individuals, families and kids in Cloverdale with

hampers at Christmas time. Please consider donating non-perishable food items, household and personal care items, new

unwrapped toys and gifts, and mall or store gift cards and help those less fortunate in our community.

Monetary donations are also gratefully accepted.

The most needed food items are jam, syrup, pancake mix, real fruit juice, mayonnaise, and ketchup. Donation boxes are located in the school foyer. They are being picked up at the end of this week.

Let’s fill them up!

ORANGE AID

Orange Aid has a new FUNdraiser!!

Ladies Sign Painting Night is this coming Wednesday, December 11th in the school gym.

Come and enjoy an evening of fun, creativity, fellowship and, of course, delicious refreshments!

Hand painted signs are great decorations for your own home or as a handmade Christmas gift.

Choose between two sizes, three wood colours, over a hundred stencils (holiday and anytime) and

many colours of chalk paint!

You can check out some of the designs by looking up Lee’s Sign Painting Parties on Facebook.

12 by 12 inch - $25 12 by 24 inch - $40. Please remember to bring cash or cheque.

Questions? Contact Maggie Van Seters: maggie.vanseters@gmail.com or 604-603-9514 (call/text).

BIG BROTHERS FUNDRAISER

This fundraiser will continue for the duration of the school year. Support Orange Aid by donating your

cloth items while doing your fall cleaning. Fill up a garbage bag (or 2 or 3) and drop it off at the school.

Orange Aid receives $2.50 per bag from Big Brothers. Any questions, contact Hilary.

SHOPPER’S CORNER:

Lean ground beef - $45.00 per box (10-1lb. pkg.)

Hamburger Patties - $45.00 per box (10 lb.)

Rookwurst - $6.50 ea

Cookbooks - $5.00 ea

Dishbrushes - $20.00 ea

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KINDERGARTEN/GRADE 1

Memory Work: Kindergarten –Hymn 21: 1

Grade 1 – Hymn 21

Bible: Moving on – celebrating the Passover, Spies in the Land, Wilderness

Wanderings, Balaam

Language Arts Kindergarten:

Letters and phonics:

-Name and shape of: n,m

-Rhyme

-Oral Blending

-Listening for long vowels

Reading: Bluebird, Bluebird

Author Study: Jan Brett

Sight words: review

Language Arts Grade 1:

Phonics:

-Print uppercase letters: Curvers: D, Sliders: V,W

-Sound of: ar, w, wh, /er/ spelled er and ir -Blending

-Rhyming

-Developing Oral Language

-Checking Comprehension

-Dictation and Spelling

Reading: At a Port, In a Jar, Wes Gets Wet, The Whiz, A Spark in the Dark, Bird

Shirts

Author Study: Jan Brett

High frequency words: for, out, went, will, girl, her

Math Kindergarten: Measurement: Estimate and compare mass, math interview

Math Grade 1: Addition and Subtraction: writing addition and subtraction sentences, counting

on and back, finding combinations to ten, exploring part-whole relationships

with addition and subtraction

Unit Studies: My Family and I

P.E. Gross motor skills: running, hopping, skipping and galloping

Simple exercises, Creative movement to music

Running games, including some First Peoples games

Wednesday afternoons:

Music (LD): Trepek from the Nutcracker routine.

Art (LD): Christmas Craft

Monday, December 16th is the day we make our “gingerbread houses!”

Please bring: Some candies for decorating and an 8” x 10” foil covered

piece of heavy cardboard to build the houses on. The candies will be

divvied up to share; that way we can all have a variety to choose from. We

plan to decorate from 10:35 to noon. Please feel welcome to come out

and join the fun (no junior children please, babies OK ☺).

If you would like to help with set up, please contact us for the particulars.

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GRADES 2/3

Bible Study: Elisha and Naaman. Elisha strikes the Syrians blind. Elisha and the siege of

Samaria.

Memory Work: no psalm for this week.

Spelling: List 13 for Friday.

Language Arts/Unit Studies:

This week we will be reading and discussing “Oceans, Eye to Eye With

Endangered Habitats”. From “Flights Near and Far” we will be reading “Louis the

Lobster”. We will be playing on the board games that have been laminated. We

will be doing a Venn-diagram on cuttlefish and squid. Journal. Spelling-Words

with short U.

Math: The three times table. Addition and subtraction. Place value. Ordering

numbers.

Music: Songs for the primary Christmas assembly.

Phys. Ed. : Balancing. Throwing and dodging.

Ch e Fish Hatchery.

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GRADES 4/5

Memory Work: Hymn 17:1 (Dec. 13)

Hymn 22:2 (Dec. 20)

Bible Study: Wisdom Literature

Math: Addition and subtraction of large numbers and decimals.

Language Arts: Read Aloud - Watership Down

Studying vocabulary in context

Novel study: Snow Treasure – character traits

Writing paragraphs

Social Studies: Building First Nation village models

Science: Natural resources we use everyday

PE: Badminton - backhand and forehand serves and returns

Art: Drawing 3-D objects

French 5 (JK): Students are busy learning all kinds of new words and phrases – they know

enough French to put full sentences together and communicate basic ideas

already! Encourage them to practice at home.

Music (LD - Mondays): Grade 4: Beethoven Paragraph

Grade 5: Ukulele Go Now in Peace. Choosing what to play for the open house.

Music (CV- Fridays): Grade 4: Recorder/Carol of the Bells Orff Arrangement

Grade 5: 12-bar blues improvising/ Listening activity/Carol of Bells Orff

Arrangement

Alumni visiting

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GRADES 6/7

JK: Memory Work: Psalm 149:1

Bible: The Kings of the Divided Kingdom.

Language Arts: A Wrinkle in Time concluding project.

Math: Prime and composite numbers, multiples (Gr. 6);

Integers, review and quiz (Gr. 7)

POTW: The number of seconds in 19 days divided by the number of minutes in 19 days.

Social Studies: Introduction to Ancient Civilizations.

French 6/7: Vocabulary building with actions, expression, and song.

LD (Mondays):

Music 6/7: Using our new understanding of note values to write the counts in our music.

PK (Tuesdays):

Math 6 Using Databases

Math 7 Median and Range

PE 6/7 Floor hockey

Science 6/7 Force and motion

AdV (Wednesday AM/Thursdays PM):

Church History: Presentation Performance

Health: Strategies for Managing Personal Health

Art: Haida Art

CV (Fridays):

ADST 6/7: No ADST this week

P.E.: Grade 7 Volleyball tournament at CCHS

Music 6/7: Working on a Christmas arrangement

Friendly remember to practice your instrument 3 times/week outside of class (about 10-15 minutes).