Good afternoon!

We had a great first day back after what I hear were lovely weekends for the students.  The children started off the day today by recording their new weekly spelling words and working in their spelling books.  They continued the day by practicing counting money, completing sentences, completing whole stories, practicing their cursive, and reading about the Spartans and the Athenians in history.  The children also went to french and art classes.

Homework:  Read for 15 minutes and record in the reading chart, practice weekly spelling words, cursive pages 53 - 54 (grade one) 50 - 51 (grade two), and complete journal entries about Sparta and Athens if necessary.

Important information:  A field trip form went home tonight for the St. Jude's trip to the ROM.  Please review the form and send it back with the funds if your child is interested in attending.  This Thursday is Remembrance Day, and we will not be having school on that day so that families may go and pay their respects to our soldiers.  On Wednesday I am giving the children an additional spelling test that is going to cover various words that they have been tested to date.  This is just to ensure that the words are being learned and absorbed by the children, and not forgotten when new spelling words are given.  Please feel free to go over your child's spelling book with them to review past words that may have provided them with difficulty so that they can easily succeed on the test.  I have encouraged your child to do the same in class during free time.

Best regards,

Mrs. Nelson


Grade One                   Grade Two

1. car                          1. rule
2. can                         2. use
3. rug                          3. tune
4. wet                         4. mule
5. will                          5. due
6. cold                        6. true
7. bag                         7. grew
8. jog                          8. few
9. jar                          9. you
10. fun                       10. cute