We had a great day today in the grade one and two classroom.  We started off the day working on proofreading.  The children were asked to read and review sentences to find where there were missing capitals.  They had a fun time with this game!  The students then moved on to phonics where they identified short and long vowels, completed words, and identified special sounds.  During our IB unit of inquiry the children had their final work period to complete their personal timelines.  They will be presenting these tomorrow to the class.  This will be the final element of the rubric (found on Monday's posting) which is the final assignment for this unit.  During math today the children worked on counting objects up to 20 (grade one) and ordinal numbers (grade two).  They also went to music and french class.

Homework:  Read for 15 minutes and record in the reading chart, practice spelling words for tomorrow's spelling test, cursive page 17 and Letters and Sounds pages 16 - 17.

Important information:  Fall/winter uniforms began on Tuesday.  All children must come to school wearing their mock turtlenecks, sweaters/vests, gray pants/tunic, and navy socks/tights.  This is the the acceptable uniform at SJA for this season.

Cookies are for sale during 1st recess for $1 if you are interested.

Please regularly check the music, french and drama blog as they often have information relevant to your children.

Some event dates have changed from the original school calendar delivered at the beginning of the year.  So please mark your calendars with these new dates.

The Halloween dress-up day is going to be taking place on Monday, October 31st, 2011.

Picture Day is on October 26th, 2011

Casual Day is on October 27th, 2011.

Best regards,

Mrs. Nelson