Good afternoon!

In today's class we started off the day by having our school-wide speech/poetry competition.  All the children at St. Jude's did very well today, and I am pleased to announce that in our class we had Alex and Shannon as 1st place winners, Jessica in 2nd place and Temi in 3rd place.  Congratulations again to all our winners!  When the competition was over we came back to our classroom and worked on language.  The children worked on rhyming, root words, opposites, word meanings and creating sentences.  During math the children wrote their math unit test for our forth unit.  In social studies we began an assignment describing, illustrating and writing about Canada.  The children also went to french and drama classes.

Homework:  Read for 15 minutes and record in the reading chart and Letters and Sounds page 89 - 90 (grade 1) page 80 - 81 (grade 2).

Important information:  The marked math tests will be going home with your children tonight.  Children who scored 84% or less have the ability to write a re-test.  The re-test will take place this Friday at lunch recces.

Please sign the math test and send it back with your child tomorrow so I know they have been seen at home.

Best regards,

Mrs. Nelson