Good afternoon!

I was away for parts of the day today for IB related meetings, but I was able to stop in to chat and work with the children in between.  They started off their day today working on sentence writing.  The children were asked to turn 5 of their weekly spelling words into sentences in their Bell Work books.  During language they also worked on root words, suffixes, prefixes and cursive.   We also read another chapter of The Tale of Despereaux where some exciting events have taken place!  In our IB unit of inquiry, the children worked on a reflection of their trip to The ROM.  They were asked to reflect on their favourite parts, exhibits they would recommend to a friend, and learner profile attributes they showed while there.  During math today the children worked on understanding units of measurement (grade one) and sides and corners (grade two) or various objects. They also went to P.E and french classes today.

Homework: Read for 15 minutes and record in the reading chart, Letters and Sounds pages 128 - 129,  Math pages 150 - 151 and cursive pages 132 - 133.

Important information:  Tomorrow is our whole school oral competition!  The children that have been selected from each class are going to compete to win gold, silver and bronze metals from our panel of judges. The competition begins at 9am, and friends and families are welcome to attend to watch the show! If your child is competing, please keep reminding them to practice, practice, practice!

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

Please keep your eye out for the SJA Book Drive information sheet that came home with each student on Thursday afternoon. We are hoping to have a successful book drive to help add to the SJA school library.  Thank you very much to the children who have already begun bringing in their used books.

Best regards,

Mrs. Nelson