JESSIE WOWK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL 5380 Woodwards Road£ Richmond£British Columbia £V7E 1H1 (604-668-6198

Joanne Rooney, Principal £Eric Yung, School Trustee Email: wowk@sd38.bc.ca Website: wowk.sd38.bc.ca Twitter: @WowkTWolves

JESSIE WOWK COMMUNITY The Week Ahead—

Monday— Collaboration Time for teachers Family Teams activity--Gratitude

Tuesday— Wednesday-Intermediate Band performs @ Aberdeen-1:30pm Pizza lunch—bring a toonie and a plate! Thursday—Subway lunch—pre-orders only

Badminton for grades 4/5 3-4:30pm-in the gym Friday—Spirit Day—Twin Day or PJ Day? Badminton for grades 6/7—3-4:30pm in the gym Upcoming Dates: Wednesday, December 19—Band performance, school-wide sing-a-long @ 1:30pm PAC Winter Celebration 3-5pm in the gym Friday, December 21—Last day of classes and Winter Break begins Monday, January 7, 2019—School reopens after winter break Wednesday, January 9—Pizza lunch and French Immersion presentation for grade 5s Friday, January 11—Hot dog lunch—fundraiser for Outdoor Education—hosted by PAC Week of January 14—Art lessons for all classes—sponsored by the PAC

Reminders PAC Winter Celebration On Wednesday, December 19 our PAC will be hosting their Winter Celebration in the gym from 3pm to 5pm. The band will be performing at 1:30 and we will also have the school sing-a-long within the band performance. At 3pm the gym will be transformed into a magical space. Families are encouraged

to come and hang out and get into the Christmas spirit! There will be a variety of activities to take part in and there is always lots of food! Mathematics in the Richmond School District--December 2018 Spatial reasoning is thinking about the relationship between shapes and space – how shapes can move and turn, symmetry, how shapes can go together to make new shapes and the relationship between 2D and 3D shapes. In our BC mathematics curriculum, there is a big idea at each grade level that focuses on shapes and how their attributes can be described, measured and compared. Within our ADST (Applied Design, Skills and Technologies) curriculum, spatial reasoning in a significant part of being able to code or use computational thinking.

Researchers have determined that spatial reasoning in young children is something that can be developed and is a key indicator of future success in school as well as links to success in both literacy and numeracy (Duncan et al, 2007). There are many materials that develop spatial reasoning at home with your children: jigsaw puzzles, magna-tiles, and games such as checkers, chess, backgammon and Blokus.

The BC mathematics curriculum is available to view here where you can select the grade level/s you are interested in: https://curriculum.gov.bc.ca/curriculum/mathematics For more information about BC’s mathematics curriculum, talk to your child’s teacher, school administration or contact Janice Novakowski, K-12 District Teacher Consultant for Mathematics & Numeracy at jnovakowski@sd38.bc.ca Richmond Continuing Education The district is looking at providing some after school opportunities at schools in Richmond. Jessie Wowk will be piloting this for January 2019. Please see below for an opportunity to take part in one of these after school programs. Registration is done via Continuing Education. Please see below for detailed information.

New Program! After-School Adventures (Winter/Spring 2019)

Richmond School District Continuing Education is now offering an After-School Adventure program for Jessie Wowk Elementary School. This course is intended to be both fun and skill-building for

#40640 Scratch Programming (Ages 6-10)

Designed for imaginative young minds, this course uses Scratch, a block-based program¬ming tool developed by MIT Media Lab to give young students a hands- on first try at programming. Students learn key computer science concepts such as sequences, loops, conditionals and abstraction through building their own

fun projects of animated stories and multimedia games. Guided by instructors at each step, students are encouraged to design and create creative games, and to think deeper about the programming processes powering apps and games they use daily. Please bring your own laptop (PC or Mac Device).

Course Date: January 28th - April 15th, 2019 (Mondays) Time: 1:15-3:00 PM Fee $190 Full Course Dates: Jan 28, Feb 4, 11, 25

March 4, April 1, 8 and 15 (8 sessions) Location: Jessie Wowk Elementary School

Inquiries: 604.668.6532 / 604.668.6049 / 604.230.9174 Online Registration: www.RichmondCE.ca

(Starts from November 24th, 2018) Email: sleung@sd38.bc.ca

Please bring healthy snack, our staff will supervise the students before class

Pictures of our Crazy Hair and Hat Day!