Good afternoon!

The students began the day writing sentences using their weekly spelling words.  They got house points for completing their work which always makes an activity a lot of fun!  After sentence writing the students moved on to language where they worked on finishing sentences, picture words, special sounds and identifying vowels.  The students also worked on their cursive writing.  During our IB unit of inquiry we continued working on the seasons wheels. Almost everyone was able to complete their rough copy fact sheet and move on to their good copies, which was good to see.  Tomorrow is the final period to work on the seasons wheels.  They will be coming home completed and assessed tomorrow night.  In math today the students worked on problems and puzzles (grade one) and number lines (grade two).  They also went to music and french classes.

Homework:  Read for 15 minutes and record in the reading chart, practice weekly spelling words for tomorrow's spelling test, Letters and Sounds page 58 - 59, cursive page 46 - 47, and math pages 82 (grade one) and 81 - 82 (grade two).

Important information:  I informed the students today that in one week's time (December 1st) all writing that is done in our classroom will have to be done in cursive.  We have completed our cursive practice for almost every letter, so it is definitely time we put this hard work to use in our classroom.  I have explained to the students that they now have a week to become comfortable working in cursive.  If you would like to provide additional cursive practice at home to better ready your child, you can find cursive sheets to print online at http://www.kidzone.ws/cursive/index.htm.  Just search for the letter(s) that your child wants to practice and print out the corresponding worksheet.

Please see my posting from yesterday with the information for the choir song and lyrics.  If you child is in the choir and would like to have additional practice, please feel free to use the sites I posted last night.

Best regards,

Mrs. Nelson