120 Harvest Moon Drive, Bolton, Ontario, L7E 2W1
Phone: (905) 857-7582
Principal: A. D’Agostino
Fax: (905) 857-9353
Vice Principal: V. Viola
Dear Parents,
The first month of school has really flown by! Your children have been hard at work learning
our classroom routines and expectations. They have also been busy getting acquainted
with one another, making new friends and meeting the planning time teachers who
support our class.
Thank you to those families who were able to make it to our Open House and BBQ. It was a
wonderful opportunity to get to know you better!
Later this month we will be beginning our Snuggle Up and Read program. Books will be
sent home on a weekly basis for you to read and enjoy with your child. Further information
about this exciting new program will be sent home with your child at a later date.
Please check our classroom calendar as well as the school newsletter for other important
dates and events. Our classroom’s monthly calendars and newsletters are also posted on
the St. Nicholas school website. You can access it by going to
http://www.dpcdsb.org/NICHO. Click on the learning tab (at the top of the page), then
scroll down to classroom pages. Finally click on: Henderson & Raposo (which is a blue
hyperlink on the left side of the webpage). Also please check out our school’s twitter
account at @st_nicholas15 for other exciting news and events that are happening.
Thank you for your continued partnership!
~Ms. Henderson & Ms. Raposo
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October Birthdays
Happy Birthday Chase- October 3rd
Happy Birthday Olivia- October 3rd
Happy Birthday Luciano- October 6th
Happy Birthday Sofia- October 13th
Happy Birthday Joshua- October 14th
Happy Birthday Eva- October 24th
Important Upcoming Dates:
 Thanksgiving Liturgy- October 8th
 Happy Thanksgiving (No School)October 12th
 Halloween- October 31st
Our math focus is….
Number Sense and Numeration!
Our literacy focus is…
Students will be learning about:
Students will be learning how to:
use, read, and represent whole
numbers to 10
 use of one-to-one correspondence
in counting objects and matching
groups of objects
 demonstrate understanding of the
counting concepts of stable order
and order irrelevance
 investigate the idea that quantity is
greater when counting forward and
less when counting backwards
 Letters and the sounds they make
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 Sight words: I, am, like, going,
see
 Characters, setting and the
problem in books
Ask your child to tell you about….
Our Classroom Wish List:
 Rice
 Flour
 Salt
 Pasta
 Sidewalk Chalk
 Craft materials that can be used at
our art area
Websites to Help Support Literacy
&Numeracy At-Home:
 http://www.abcya.com
 http://www.starfall.com/
 Our celery and colours
experiment
 Making a bird’s nest using art
materials
 Making our first class book
“Chicka, Chicka Boom, Boom
Look Who’s in our Room?
 How to problem solve using
bugs and wishes
o I wish…
o It bugs me when…
 The song we learned about
Terry Fox
 What good writers do (Ex. The
words match the picture, you
start a sentence with a capital
letter, you end a sentence
with a period etc.
 How germs spread and why
we wash our hands
Other business:
 Please send in a pair of outdoor shoes, if you have not already done so.
 Students engage in a daily quiet time. As such, children may wish to bring in a
stuffed toy, and/or a blanket to use during this time. These items can be stored at
school. Blankets will be sent home each Friday to be washed.
 Please do not send “home toys” to school with your child. The school is not
responsible if these items are lost or stolen.
 We will be starting to construct our family tree in the coming weeks, please send in a
family photograph, if you have not already done so.