Good afternoon!

It was a good day today!  We started off the day today by working on spelling.  The children copied down their new weekly spelling words and worked in their spelling workbooks.  During language they also worked on suffixes, and we read another chapter of Pipi Longstocking.  After we read the chapter they worked on a response in their language books.  During math the children worked on the final pages of the measurement unit we have been working on for the last few weeks.  On Wednesday we are going to have a math quiz for the measurement unit we have just completed.  It is going to be a review to make sure that the main concepts have been grasped by all students.  Ideas such as how to measure something using centimeters, how to decide when to use centimeters and when to use meters, and how to estimate the length of objects will be tested.  The children also went to french class.

Homework:  Read for 15 minutes and record in the reading chart, practice weekly spelling words, Letters and Sounds page 160 - 162, math page 204 - 205 and complete language response if necessary.

Important Information:  Track and Field has been postponed until Friday, June 3rd, 2011.  Some students from SJA are going to be away at a soccer tournament on the 2nd, so the Track and Field event was pushed back to make sure that everyone can participate.

This Wednesday is Arts Night at SJA.  All children need to be back at school by 6:30 at the latest to get ready for the event.  I am going to send home the children's costumes with them tonight so that they can come dressed in their costumes that evening.  Children who are in choir need to come dressed in their yellow tops and black pants and then they will change into their Pied Piper clothing after we have sang our choir song.  The choir is going to perform before the Pied Piper for this concert.  All other children need to come to school dressed in their Pied Piper costumes (see Mrs. Deras' blog or the sheet that was sent home if you need to be reminded of costumes).

The last week of school (June 6th - June 10th) will be a casual week at SJA.  Students do not need to pay $2 to dress casually.

Best regards,

Mrs. Nelson

Grade One          Grade Two

1. small              1. food
2. last                 2. noon
3. spot               3. mouth
4. spoon            4. soil
5. slide               5. talk
6. black              6. return
7. blue               7. unlike
8. fly                  8. whole
9. drink              9. write
10. broke          10. sound