Good afternoon!

We started off the day today by having our poetry competition.  Our class joined together with Mrs. Haag's grade three class for the event.  We chose four winners from each of our classes, and I am happy to announce that representing our class at Wednesday's school-wide competition will be Jessica, Shannon, Temi and Alex!  Congratulations to our winners! Everyone did a really great job today.  The rubrics for how the poems were assessed will be going home with your child tonight.  We continued on with our day by having our weekly spelling test and working in our spelling books.  The marked spelling tests will be going home with your child tonight.  During social studies we continued on with our unit, Canada and the World.  We looked deeper into the characteristics that make up Canada, spoke about direction, and discussed some of the geographical landmarks that are found in different areas of our country.  The children also went to french class.

Homework:  Read for 15 minutes and record in the reading chart, and re-write incorrect spelling words ten times each.

Important information:  Tomorrow is a P.D Day so the children will not be required to come to school.  Monday is Family Day as well, which makes this weekend a four day long weekend.

The children that have been selected as the winners for the poetry competition should use this weekend to perfect their performance for Wednesday's competition.  Please continue to work on voice, eye contact, passion and pacing.  The rubrics that are being sent home should act as a good indicator of what is being sought after in the competition.

Have a great long weekend!

Mrs. Nelson