Good afternoon!

We had another great day today at SJA!  We began the day today with more ABC order practice during bell work time.  The students seem to be getting on very well with this concept and had a lot of fun with it today. 
We reviewed what we learned about rules on Wednesday (rules are either made to keep us safe or to keep someone happy).  The children then choose a rule they are asked to follow at home and had to determine whether it was designed to keep someone safe or happy.  We had a lot of fun listening to the different rules the students came up with :) 
Later today we discussed how sometimes we can make rules for ourselves and turn these rules into goals.  We read a story about a girl who made a goal of learning to figure skate, and listened to all the steps she had to take to reach that goal.  The students were then asked to create their own long term and short term goals that will be kept to review at the end of the school year.
During math we continued on with counting.  In today's session the children had to count different objects and then match them up with the corresponding numbers.
They also went to french class today.

Homework:  Read for 15 minutes and record in the reading chart, and complete the 'My Goals' worksheet if necessary.

Important information:  Next Friday, Sept. 16th is our first spirit day at SJA.  Children are asked to come to school dressed in their house colours on this date.  The three house colours are blue, green and orange.  Every student is in a house and will be asked to come to school dressed in the colours for that house.

This Monday is a gym day.  Gym days at SJA are Mondays and Wednesdays this school year.

Mme. Stella is still waiting for a few students to bring in their red duotangs for french class.  Every student has been asked to bring in 6 red duotangs (the type with with metal tabs) for french class.

A number of children in our class have been having issues with their belongings this week.  Children have been complaining their shoes don't fit, they have lace-up shoes and cannot tie them, or they are having issues with their lunch bags not working properly.  Now that a week has gone by, I would suggest over the weekend checking with your children to see if they might need to switch any of these items to help make the year easier for them.

Have a great weekend,

Mrs. Nelson