Good afternoon!

I hope everyone did well out on this gloomy day today!  We had our award ceremony this morning and all the participants from yesterday's oral competition were recognized with either a medal or a ribbon for their hard work.  Congratulations again to all of the winners!!  We started off today with our weekly spelling test.  The children are bringing home their marked spelling tests with them tonight.  I am asking that all incorrectly spelled words (including the bonus word) get re-written ten times each in their spelling books. After spelling the children worked on language where they practiced their cursive, and worked on roots and suffixes.  In our IB unit of Inquiry today the children completed their ROM reflection sheet from earlier this week.  The marked worksheet will be coming home with each child tonight.  We also spent some time reading famous children's tales such as Sleeping Beauty, Robin Hood and Peter Pan.  As a class we had a discussion of how art is used to accompany these stories and to add to our understanding of the plot and characters.  The children were then broken into groups and asked to design their own cover pages for the stories they had just heard.  The children had a lot of fun with this activity. Ask your child tonight to share with you what story they illustrated.  In math today the children worked on exploring shapes (grade one) and measuring the length of sides (grade two).  We also read another chapter of The Tale of Despereaux today as a class.  At the end of the day the students went to french class.

Homework: Read for 15 minutes and record in the reading chart, re-write incorrect spelling words ten times each, Letters and Sounds page 130 - 131, Math page 152 - 153 and cursive pages 136 - 137.

Important information:   All children are brought home a permission form with them yesterday regarding an upcoming reptile show that is happening at SJA on March 8th.  The children have a chance to learn about, view and maybe even hold a range of real life reptiles!  This activity will correlate with an upcoming unit we have about life cycles of living things.  Please send in the $5 with the permission form by March 1st.

The next casual day is taking place on March 1st. There will be two casual days for the month of March this year.

An information sheet has gone home with all students about the SJA Book Drive that is happening right now. We are hoping to have a successful book drive to help add to the SJA school library.  Any used books or magazines that are no longer used by your familiy are appreciated. Thank you very much to the children who have already begun bringing in their used books.

Have a great weekend,

Mrs. Nelson