Good afternoon!

We started off the day today working on our Polar Express submissions.  Every class at SJA submits work by each child to be considered for the Polar Express writing contest.  Our class is submitting the seasons poems that we wrote last week.  Along with the poem, each child also has to submit an auto biography, which is what we worked on completing this morning.  During language the children worked on special sounds, compound words, vowel sounds, finishing sentences and cursive.  In our IB unit of inquiry the children got back into their groups and they turned the rough copies of their 'Life Without the Sun' stories into good copies.  As a group they also added illustrations to compliment the story.  We also went and had reading buddies with Ms. Chang's 4/5 class.  In math today the children worked on estimating (grade one) and missing numbers (grade two).  Mr. Murano was away today so the children did not have music, but they did go to french class.

Homework:  Read for 15 minutes and record in the reading chart, practice weekly spelling words, math pages 75 - 76 (grade one) and 74 - 74 (grade two), and cursive page 38 - 39.

Important information:  Please see my posting from last night for links to the songs and lyrics for the song being sung by the choir at this year's Christmas concert.

The last day of school this year before the Christmas holidays is December 16th.  This day is a half day which means the students will be ready to be picked up at noon.

Ninara has lost his SJA vest at school today.  If your child accidentally brought home a SJA vest labeled with Ninara's name, please send it back to school with them as soon as possible.

Tomorrow is the last day to order pictures if you would like any from the original picture day.  If you are ordering, all forms and funds need to be in by tomorrow.  You are also asked to bring back the photo negatives by tomorrow as well, even if you are not ordering pictures. 

Best regards,

Mrs. Nelson