Good afternoon!

In today's class we started off the day by working in our cursive books.  The children were asked to describe pictures in their books, and answer various questions using complete sentences.  In math the children worked on shapes and calendars (grade one) and graphing, patterning and thousands place (grade two).  During language the children continued on with their novel study.  Today we had the final work period to complete the reviews of chapter one and two.  The children also went to music, french and P.E classes.

Homework:  Read for 15 minutes and record in the reading chart, practice spelling words, practice Valentine's Day play, cursive page 79 - 80, math page 83 - 84, complete chapter one and two book review.

Important information:  The children are all bringing home the Valentine's Day script with them.  Mrs. Deras would like every student to take some time to practice memorizing their lines for the play.  As you know the Gala is quickly approaching (February 12th) and we want to make sure that everyone gives their best performance!  Mrs. Deras is also making a call for togas and fake swords that can be used for our class' play.  If you have any of these items please send them in.

I hope all families have bought their tickets for the Gala to see our performance!

The chapter reviews are being sent home for those students who did not finish them in class time.  We have had a great deal of time to work on the summaries in groups, and have read and re-read the two chapters they have been asked to summarize.  The completion of the summaries should be a fairly simple and speedy task for them to complete at home.

Tomorrow is pizza day.

Good luck in the snow tonight!

Best regards,

Mrs. Nelson