Remember your form for tomorrow!

Hi Students, Please remember to bring back your form for our little field trip tomorrow, if you haven't already. Also, please bring your bus pass if you have one, or $1.50 bus fare for each way (please try to bring the exact change for each way - if you bring, for instance, a twoonie and a loonie, it's hard to divide up!) Have you noticed that my blog entries don't have paragraph breaks?? I'm going to have to fix that! I put them in when I'm typing, but for some reason they don't show up. And we know how important paragraph breaks are! I'm beginning to feel a bit better and am looking forward to tomorrow. By the way, Bogey is still gradually getting better!

Bogey Update

Hello Class, Well, you've all cared so much about Bogey, I thought I would give you an update. After school on Friday I went and visited Bogey at the Vet Hospital - which is a wonderful, caring place. Bogey was a little better, but still on an IV (intravenous - fluids given to him through tubes). He was feeling a little better and the Doctor said he was improving, but they were still worried about him and wanted to keep him another night. I was disappointed, but knew he was in good hands. On Saturday, he improved in some areas, but went a bit downhill in others. Still, by Saturday night,they let him come home with me. He was off the IV, keeping his food down, and missing home. So, I brought him home and he curled up by me and stayed that way except when I had to give him his medication - 14 pills! The good news is that he has steadily improved. He's eating some now, he wags his tail and is walking around the house, and has even gone into the back yard with me. He's looking more and more like himself. He saw the vet again today and she said his blood count numbers are still improving and they're pretty happy with him! He still has a ways to go and isn't completely out of the woods yet, but I'm so happy to report that at this point he is recovering. It must have been all of your crossed fingers! Thank you, students and parents, for all your caring thoughts. On another note, the beginning of the year cold syndrome has caught up with me, and I am sneezing and snorfelling tonight. I don't want to spread my germs and I have to say I'm feeling pretty crummy, so, Bogey and I are going to curl up tomorrow and get better together. You will have a TOC - band students remember that you're in band all morning after advisory, and Mini X students, you will have a fun morning too. You have your first math lesson in fourth block with Ms. Hendra. Remember to bring your form for the Symphony field trip back on Wednesday if you haven't already. I will for sure be back for that, wouldn't miss it! Have a really great Tuesday everyone.

Date Correction!

Please note that the yellow form that came home today for the Symphony field trip should read (in the permission section) Wednesday September 25 (NOT Thursday November 1!). Please ask your child for the form if you don't receive it tonight - we need the permission slip back on Tuesday! Thanks very much.

It's official. This is an AWESOME class!!! I feel so very fortunate to have each and every one of you to share time and space with together this year. Already I have seen kindness, humour, cooperation, respect, and empathy. That empathy has been particularly evident this week. Many of you know that my little dog Bogey (think Toto!) has been very ill this week. This has been very hard for me, and the caring of all of the students has been so comforting. Just to update you, Bogey has been diagnosed with an autoimmune disease - he is one sick little puppy. He is currently at the Animal Hospital, he had a blood transfusion last night, and we are keeping our fingers and toes crossed that he will make it through this - it will take a few days to know if the treatment is successful. I very much hope to have him once again be the "mascot" of Advisory 62 and have him keeping tabs on all of us from under my desk! It was wonderful to meet so many of you the other night at our Community Picnic. I am looking forward to meeting you all again in mid-October for our parent teacher conversations - but, if you have anything you wish to discuss with me before then, please feel free to email me (kkilpatrick@sd61.bc.ca) or phone the school and leave a message. I'll get back to you, and am happy to arrange a time to meet. I can't tell you how much I'm looking forward to what promises to be a wonderful year!

Welcome to Advisory 62! I am so happy to have all of you in my class, and am really looking forward to a wonderful year. On this blog, I will be posting general information, upcoming dates, reminders, news, homework (!), interesting facts...and you can give me input as to what you would like to see on the blog! I will try and update frequently, so get in the habit of checking in, even if I don't post something every day. The blog is a great way for your families to keep in touch with what you're doing too. See you at the picnic tonight!