Good afternoon!

We had a lot of fun today working in our classroom.  We started off the day today by working on cursive.  The children reviewed the work from yesterday and learned the letter 'u'.  We also worked further on our IB line of inquiry on relationships.  Today we re-read the story about the little badger and his grandfather and we discussed how we can learn from relationships. In class today the children practiced interviewing to find out information from each other.  They are going to finish their in-class interviews tomorrow in class.
Interviewing and collecting information is going to be a very handy skill for them to develop, because we are going to be starting a research project tomorrow.  Get ready because the students are going to bring home interview questions over the weekend to ask someone with whom they have an important relationship.  The interview questions are going to be used as the basis for an assignment which they will present to the class next week.  So keep your eye out for the interview questions tomorrow night!
After working on the IB unit of inquiry we moved on to math where the children practiced counting, matching, more and fewer (grade one) and number words (grade two).  They also went to music and french class.

Homework:  Read for 15 minutes and record in the reading chart, practice weekly spelling words for tomorrow's test, finish cursive page 4 - 6 if necessary and math pages 30 - 32 (grade one) 27 - 29 (grade two).

Important information:  Tomorrow is the Terry Fox run.  Please send your children in their gym clothes tomorrow.  We are going to be leaving the school to walk over to the track tomorrow at approx. 2:00pm and will be returning to the school at 3:30 ready for home time.

Next Wednesday is a casual day at St. Jude's.  You do not need to come to school dressed in house colours.  Children may come to school in any casual clothes they wish.

The family trees that your children completed are coming home with them tonight.  All children also have a peer evaluation attached to their work that was completed by a student in the class.

Best regards,

Mrs. Nelson