Monday, November 30th

REMINDERS

Families Helping Families

As is our tradition at Eric Harvie School, again this year we are calling on your kindness and generosity to help support a family in need at Christmas.  This year, we will be supporting 10 families at Colonel Fred J. Scott School who may need a little extra help to make Christmas brighter.  While in past years we asked for specific gift donations for individual family members, due to the pandemic, this year will look different.   

 

This year we are asking for monetary donations.  These donations will purchase a variety of gift cards (eg. Walmart, Superstore, Safeway) and small stocking stuffers gifted to each member of the 10 families in a stocking.  Parent Council has generously offered their support by collecting the money via direct deposit and helping purchase the gifts.

 

Donations can be made via at

 ehsestreasurer@gmail.com   (No password required.) 

and are welcomed on or before  

Monday November 30, 2020 

 

In the spirit of giving this holiday season, all staff at Eric Harvie School would like to thank families in advance for their contributions and making a family’s Christmas a little brighter!! Thank you also to our Parent Council for their support with this peace initiative.

 

Mr. Kai/Ms. Wauthier/ Mrs. Campbell’s class are supporting the following 2 families: 

Family #8 

 

Age 

Dad 

 

Mom 

 

Child 1 

5 

Child 2 

6 

Child 3 

9 

Child 4 

2 

 

Family #9 

 

Age 

Mom 

 

Child 1 

11 

Child 2 

13 

Child 3 

1 

Child 4 

3 

Child 5 

4 

Child 6 

5 


December Spirit Days

Spirit Days are coming to Eric Harvie for December! Each Thursday in December there will be a new theme for everyone! 

 

December 3rd – Crazy sweater day! 

December 10th -  Crazy Hat day!

December 17th – Pajama day! 

 

We are so excited to see what you come up with! Let’s Light Up our Hearts this December!  


Music News


On Tuesday, Dec. 1st,  Mr. Kai's class will be filming their music video for Light Up Your Hearts.  We are very excited.  If your student would like to wear something special they are welcome to! If you have not signed the CBE use of student information form OR sent Mrs. Coulson an email with consent to have your student filmed for this project and you would like your student to be in the video please send an email to jabaine@cbe.ab.ca. 

 

On Wednesday, Dec. 2nd,  Mrs. Wauthier's class will be filming their music video for Light Up Your Hearts.  We are very excited.  If your student would like to wear something special they are welcome to! They are representing Diwali, the Festival of Lights. Bright colours are encouraged. 

 If you have not signed the CBE use of student information form OR sent Mrs. Coulson an email with consent to have your student filmed for this project and you would like your student to be in the video please send an email to jabaine@cbe.ab.ca.



OUR DAY

Mr. Kai and Ms. Wauthier's class are almost done writing their Friendship Journals! Tomorrow we will be interviewing our last friends and writing about them. Ask your child about something they learned about our "friends of the day" that we interviewed this morning! 

Mrs. Campbell's class learned about the Canadian Arctic and the Inuit people. They also learned a traditional Inuit string game called Cat's Cradle! Ask your child how this game works! 




For our Social Studies, Mr. Kai and Ms. Wauthier's class began their investigation into the Arctic tundra. We started by documenting a compare and contrast of our city community and prairie communities. Once we learn more about Arctic communities, we will be comparing and contrasting between all three communities.

Looking forward to seeing you all tomorrow! 



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