Good afternoon!

We had a great day in our classroom!  We started off the day by working on language.  The children practiced their story writing skills, sentence construction, special sounds, and worked with riddles.  During math time the children reviewed borrowing while subtracting using three digit numbers.  This was a skill I am glad we re-visited because it seems many children needed the refreshment!  During science we began our new science experiment.  We are making observations of a plant life cycle by planting our own flowers in tin cans, and watching them grow!  Today we decorated our cans, planted our seeds and began day one of our observation sheet.  The children also went to french and drama classes.

Homework:  Read for 15 minutes and record in the reading chart, practice weekly spelling words, Language page 129 - 130, Letters and Sounds page 113 - 114, and Arithmetic page 172 - 173.

Important information:  The bake sale continues tomorrow!  Mr. Sawatsky's class will be selling brownies for $1.50.  All proceeds go towards the Haiti Relief Fund.

Please make sure your children are bringing in their pledge money everyday.  Children who bring it in get placed into our classroom draw and are given house points!  And there are amazing prizes awarded to children in the school-wide contest as well!

April 20th is the SJA Science Fair.  It runs in the afternoon until 3:25pm.  All families and friends are welcome to attend to come and see what the students have been doing in science.  Our class is participating and we are all very excited for the day!

Best regards,

Mrs. Nelson