Good afternoon!

We had a busy day today!  The children started off the day by working on language.  They practiced a comprehension activity, worked on special sounds, and added suffixes onto root words.  During math the children had a review of adding and subtracting while borrowing and place value.  We had a guest speaker come in to speak to the class about healthy eating.  Mrs. DeVroom is a registered nutritionist and she came and spoke to the children about how to read labels and what types of things to look for when reading labels.  Ask your child tonight to tell you what they learned!  During science we continued preparing for next week's science fair.  The students also went to music, and french classes.

Homework: Read for 15 minutes and record in the reading chart, practice spelling words for tomorrow's spelling test, Letters and Sounds page 115 - 116 and math page 174.

Important information:  Please see Tuesday and Wednesday nights' posting regarding the science fair.  We are hoping that parents, friends and family will attend to see what has been going on in science at SJA!

Tomorrow is the last day of the bake sale.  Rice Krispy squares will be available to buy at lunch recess for $1.50.  All proceeds will be going towards the Haiti earthquake relief fund.

I have asked the students to go through the magazines they have at home to find pictures of flowers.  If they find some, please help them tear out the page and bring into class to be used for our science fair.

I hope the skate-a-thon fundraiser has been going well for people!  Students are beginning to get excited here as they start to see the pledge thermometer raise with each pledge that is turned in to Mrs. Brasil!

Best regards,

Mrs. Nelson