Good afternoon!

We started off the day today with our weekly spelling test.  The children are bringing home their marked spelling tests with them tonight.  Any words that were spelled incorrectly should be re-written ten times each in their spelling book over the weekend. In language today the children worked on picture words, suffixes and finishing sentences.  In our IB unit of inquiry today we continued discussing The Group of Seven and the works of art that have stood out to us from that important time in Canadian history.  The children then had a chance to draw their own version of Group of Seven works. We had some time to play soccer as a class which the students found a lot of fun!  We also read another chapter of The Tale of Despereaux today, and the children 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 122 - 123, and Cursive page 120 - 121.

Important information: 

• If you have not yet sent in the $26 and ROM trip permission form, please do so as soon as possible.  The form and trip money are due by this coming Monday, February 13th. 
• All children have brought home a poem they are responsible for memorizing and then reciting in the oral competition.  The in-class judging of the poetry reciting will take place on Wednesday, February 15th, and the winner from this contest will go on to compete in the school-wide competition on Thursday, February 23rd to compete for 1st, 2nd, and third place.  Parents, families and friends are invited and encouraged to attend the final competition on the 23rd to watch the students compete.  The competition begins at 9am.
• We had an in-class poetry competition today to see which students have their poem memorized already.  We had a few students who were able to fully reciete their poems today and they were awarded 50,000 house points!  Congrats to Dumeir, Adi, Zuri, Adam, Angela, Mishal and Carter!
• The costumes for the Gala are changing!!!  Please send your children in whatever 'fancy' outfits they were going to be wearing for the night of the Gala.  You do not need to send them in red and white which was the original design for the class performance.  The choir outfit remains the same. If you have already secured a red and white outfit, please feel free to send your child wearing it as it will be a nice way to represent the Valentine's Day holiday.
• Gym will be on Tues and Wed for the entire month of February.
• The Gala is happening tomorrow night!!  This is a very fun night for the students and families, and all classes will be performing.  I can't wait to see everyone there!
• If anyone has accidentally ended up with Ninara's gym sweatshirt at their house please send it back in to school.  His name is on the inside tag.
• Ninara's family is going to be supplying a pizza lunch on Monday, February 13th in honour of his birthday.  Cheese and pepperoni pizza is going to be brought in for all of the students in the class.  Children will not need to bring an additional lunch on Monday due to this birthday celebration. 

Have a great weekend!
Mrs. Nelson