Good afternoon!

We started off the day today with our weekly spelling tests.  The marked spelling tests will be coming home with each student tonight.  We then moved on to language where the children worked on special sounds, root words, suffixes and cursive.  In our IB unit of inquiry today the children worked in groups to create seasonal trees.  Each group was given a blank template of a tree, and were assigned a season.  The students had to use their knowledge of seasons to decorate their tree accordingly.  We had a visual today as well where the children watched a video about the 6 Pillars of Character, where they learned about important character traits and saw examples of people being trustworthy, respectful, responsible, fair and caring .  After they watched the video they wrote a response about it in their journals.  They also went to drama and french classes today.

Homework:  Read for 15 minutes and record in the reading chart, re-write incorrect spelling words ten times each, and cursive pages 40 - 41.

Important information:  A drama form went home last night informing parents about the upcoming Christmas concert.  Mrs. Deras asks that all parents review the form and send it back signed as soon as possible.

Please see my blog from earlier this week with links to the songs and lyrics for the choir song that the children are singing for the Christmas concert this year.

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

Have a great weekend,

Mrs. Nelson