58 Johnson Street
Picton, Ontario K0K 2T0
(613) 476-7883
November 11, 2014
www.sonrisechristianacademy.com
Wed., Nov. 12 Picture order forms due
 3:45 p.m. Afterschool meeting for volunteers
with Mrs. Hoornweg re sewing costumes for the
Christmas concert
Fri., Nov. 14 JK’s attend
 December Scholastic orders due
Fri., Nov. 21 PA DAY No School
Wed., Nov. 26 7-9:00 p.m.
 Parent/Teacher Interviews
 Hep B 2nd Dose Gr. 7’s
 Deadline to have gift card special orders in
Thurs., Nov. 27 Early Dismissal at 2:15 p.m.
 Parent/Teacher Interviews, 2:30-5:30 p.m.
Fri., Nov. 28 JK’s attend
 Skating at Picton Arena, 9-10:00 a.m.
Sat., Dec. 6 10 a.m.—2 p.m.
 Sonrise Craft, Bake & Vendors Sale
Sun., Dec. 7 CEW Team
 Community Carol Service at Picton United
Tues., Dec. 16 7:00 p.m.
 Sonrise Christmas Concert at Emmanuel Baptist
December 22 to January 2: Christmas Holidays
Hotlunch This Week
Chicken fingers, stuffing, vegetables, dessert
Thank you to the Hudgin family!!!
Hot Lunch Signup– Thank you to the families
who have signed up to prepare and serve hot lunch.
We now have all the Fridays filled for November but
we are still in need of someone who could come in
the help Patricia with serving/cleanup on Friday this
week.
[email protected]
Offering Received for Pelagie (Togo, West Africa): $6.50
Offering Received to date: $107.95
Fundraising Banquet Thank You – Thanks to everyone
who helped with our Annual Fundraising Banquet. From Thursday
night to Friday morning and then clean up on Friday night many
hands made light work. God is good and we are very thankful that
over $17,000 was received in donations.
Skating – Friday, November 28th- Time to dig out those skates
and ensure they fit before it is the night before. Skating takes place
from 8:50 until 9:50 and parents are always welcome and
encouraged to join us for skating. Students are to be dropped off at
the arena (please ensure you see a teacher present before leaving)
and then will return to the school for regular classes following
skating. Students will be car pooled back to the school. If there
are not enough seats in vehicles older students will be walking back
to the school. If you have a little one and are unable to stay please
ensure you leave a car seat. All students in Jr & Sr Kindergarten
are required to have a helmet on in order to be on the ice.
CEW Team— will be performing in the evening at the
Community Carol Sing on Sun., Dec. 7th. The entire team will be
needed so please let Mrs. Hoornweg know as soon as possible if you
will be unable to attend.
Sonrise Christmas Concert:
Mrs. Hoornweg will meet with
parents who have offered to help sew costumes for the Gr. 3-5 class
play after school on Wednesday. Thank you.
Christmas Songs – As we prepare for our school’s Christmas
and serving/cleanup are posted. We will be in need
of volunteers for Friday, December 5 and 12.
program please have your child(ren) listen to these songs at home
as much as possible to familiarize them with the words. Back to You
by Mandisa, Every Good Thing by The Afters, Adore Him by Kari
Jobe and Joy to The World. Songs are all available on Youtube or
itunes.
P.A. Day – Friday, November 21st will be a P.A.
School Christmas Decorating – With the Christmas Tea and
December signup sheets for lunch preparation
Day. This is a report card writing day for teachers.
Parent/ Teacher Interviews—First Term
Report cards will be going home at the end of this
month. Each family is asked to sign up for an
interview with their child’s homeroom teacher.
Interviews will take place:
Wednesday, November 26th from 7 – 9 or
Thursday, November 27th from 2:30 – 5:30.
In order to accommodate the Thursday afternoon
interviews
students will be dismissed early at 2:15.
Craft & Bake Sale we would like to get the school decorated for
Christmas inside and out. If you are willing to help decorate and
get the school ready for the festive season let Mrs. Scrivens
know. We have some decorations in the school but if you have
items that you would like to donate your help would be appreciated.
See reverse side for fundraising information…
Sonrise Christmas Craft & Bake Sale
MARK YOUR CALENDARS!!
Saturday, December 6 from 10:00 a.m. until 2:00 p.m.
at Sonrise
So much to see, taste and buy
Bring your friends and family
Vendors tables: visit the various vendor tables & the wide variety of merchandise for sale
Sonrise will have the following tables: White Elephant Sale
Christmas Table
Bake & Craft table
Enjoy some delicious refreshments and pies in our Tea Room
We will be in need of many, many hands to help with baking, setting up, selling, etc. for this fundraising
effort for the school.
Looking for:
 Good, gently used (nearly new) small sellable items for our White Elephant table
 Lots of baked items of all types: cookies, breads, loaves, tarts, squares, candy, bars, etc.
 Crafts of all types
 All types of Christmas related items (ornaments, dishes, decorations, etc.)
Please begin thinking about what you can do to fill these tables for a successful and fun-filled day
Vendors Needed: Spread the word. If you know of anyone who would like to rent a table for $25 to sell items please let
them know.
Contact: Elaine Morris at 613-921-4215 or Mary St. Pierre at 613-393-2074
Shop & Share—
www.ShopandShare.ca. Great way to support the school through online shopping. Check it out!
Gift Cards—Stock up for Christmas!
Patricia will be placing the Christmas order at the end of November
which would be the last opportunity to order cards that we do not carry instock. The deadline for these orders is
Wed., Nov. 26. Please contact Patricia at 613-393-9983 or [email protected]. Complete merchants lists are
available at the office to see what is available to order. Reminder: orders over $1,000 must be prepaid. Thank you.
Mrs. Daniels, JK, SK
Phonics:
JK: Letter of the week is Dd. Review blends at home too. This would be fantastic! Da, de, di, do and du.
Dd makes the sound of a drum.
SK: Continuing with CVC words. Consonant Vowel Consonant
Math:
JK: JK's are now on the letter 6. I will send home a sheet with our number poems on Thursday. This is just to help you if
your child needs some extra hints to make their numbers.
SK: We have been reviewing first term the teen family which we learned last year. We are now continuing on. We have
begun counting by 10's in order to help identify numbers 20 to 50. If you could, please review all numbers 0 to 19 with
your little ones if they need some extra practice.
Syllables: Counting out syllables this week.
Christmas: A note went home with the K to Grade 2 songs for Christmas. It would be extremely helpful if you are able
to download the songs on your phone or computer. It is a lot of words for the K's, so the more practice the better. If you
have misplaced the note, I would be more than happy to send another one.
Mrs. Hoornweg, Gr. 1,2
Bible: Finishing up the life of Jacob and how God has fulfilled His promises to Abraham & Jacob.
Memory Work: Psalm 100 was sent home in your child’s agenda. 1 vs/week. “Shout for joy to the
Lord, all the earth”
Spelling: List #7 – sent home on Friday
Gr. 1 – be, he, me, by, my, cry, try, go, no, so, one, two
Gr. 2 – may, way, say, stay, play, scale, scan, scuff, scoop, scout, skate, sky, skid, skip, ask,
dusk, brisk, says, said, today
Phonics: Orange Cards
Creative Writing: Storytellers write down their stories
Language: Gr. 1 – opposites, compound words, and writing proper sentences
Gr. 2 – Writing proper sentences, adding suffixes, opposites
How to Raise a Reader Tip #9 – Stay positive. Your job is to be reassuring and supportive, never critical. You want your
child to look forward to reading and enjoy it. Reading is hard work and your encouragement goes far.
Math: Gr. 1 – Pattern rules, finding the core of a pattern, and finishing a pattern
Gr. 2 – Scale & Missing numbers
Science: Day/Night
Social Studies: Where Loyalists live – Log Cabins
Drama: Students are practicing songs that they would benefit from listening to at home as well. You can find most of them
on YouTube or download individual songs on iTunes $1.29.
From CD Ultimate Kids Christmas Worship - Angels We Have Heard on High,
Christmas Offering , He Made A Way in a Manger
From CD Kids Sing Christmas - Welcome Baby Jesus
Mrs. Scrivens, Gr. 3,4,5
Here’s what’s happening this week in Room #4
The students are excited to be working on their skit for the Christmas concert. Thanks to Mrs. Hoornweg for planning and directing this for us.
Spelling – Spelling test Friday. List 9 for all grades. For the grade 4’s this week this is a vocabulary review test. Therefore
no study sheet went home but students were told to take their spelling workbooks home for studying purposes.
Math – The grade 3’s are working on mental math strategies and are getting ready for arrays and multiplication. The
grade 4’s and 5’s are continuing multiplication and are working on multiplying by one and two digit numbers.
Reading – Yesterday we did a reading assignment on John McCrae and then the rest of the week will be reading from our
short story readers.
Writing – For the month of November we will be focusing on descriptive writing.
Bible – Memory work for Friday is Psalm 96: 7- 13. Students at any time they are ready can recite to me their full memory
work and be finished for the term. The last day to say it to me will be next Thursday, November 20th. We are starting now
to work through the Old Testament beginning with the Creation Study from Genesis.
Language –The grade 3 and 4’s are all about commas and the grade 5’s are finishing their unit on nouns.
See reverse side for more Classroom & Afternoon Rotation
Mrs. Law, Gr. 6,7,8
Math: Gr. 7 will be having their math test on angles and geometry on Thursday. Gr. 8 will be wrapping up their unit and
having their test on Tuesday. Gr. 6 is finishing long division and will be having a long division quiz on Thursday before continuing in our unit to rounding.
Language: We will be having a Language quiz on Friday covering end marks, commas, apostrophes, quotation marks,
italics, hyphens, semi-colons and colons. We have started our novel unit reading Bud, Not Buddy.
Bible: Memory work this week is John 14:5-9.
Spelling: List # 9
History: Grade 7/8 will be having a history test on Friday on Canadian history from the Proclamation Act, Quebec Act,
American Revolution and Loyalists, to War of 1812. We are finishing the War of 1812 today and will spend Wednesday and
Thursday reviewing together. A review sheet will go home tomorrow.
Gr. 4 – 6 Science – Starting our unit on space with the theme The Heavens Declare the Glory of God. Students were given a sheet with some readings and instructions while they go outside to do some star gazing.
Gr. 4 – 6 Social Studies – Starting our unit on Ancient Egypt
Drama: practice for Christmas
Health: Gr. 1 -2 – finish dental unit. Please bring your tooth brush for Wednesday.
Gr. 3 – 5 – Digestive System
Gr. 6 – 8 – Minerals, Vitamins, Carbs…etc. and their purpose for our bodies