Happy Thursday!

I was in the school today, but away from our classroom as we have an IB consultant visiting the school for two days and I was guiding her through the school for the day.  I was able to pop my head into our classroom at points during the day and I saw the students busy working in their language, sentence writing, math and cursive.  I did have a chance to work on on IB unit of inquiry with the students today.  We read a non-fiction book about aboriginal dot art, and then watched a video explaining how to create your own dot art paintings.  The students then had a great time creating their own aboriginal dot art paintings while listening to historical aboriginal music.  This was a great part of the day.  The children also went to music and french class.

Homework: Read for 15 minutes and record in the reading chart, practice weekly spelling words, cursive pages 114- 115, Letters and Sounds page 142 -115 and math pages 136 - 137.

Important information:  A field trip permission form went home with every student tonight.  Our class is taking a field trip to the ROM as part of our current IB unit- How We Express Ourselves.  This should be a great way to see the art forms we have been discussing in class in real life!  Please send in the completed trip form with a cheque or cash by Monday, February 13th.  I am looking for one parent volunteer from our class. 

 If you have not sent back ticket money and family information regarding the Gala to Irene, please do so as soon as possible. February 11th is quickly approaching and I want to make sure everyone is fully prepared to participate in the Gala!

I am asking that all children come to school wearing red and white on the night of the Gala for our class' performance. Preferably the children will have white on the bottom and red on the top. This will go with the love theme for the evening. Our class is going to be presenting The Jackson 5's ABC. The performance is coming along very well so far! If your child would like to practice the dance moves at home you can find the version we are using at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZOXG8wtxx_w.

If your child is the in the choir, we are also asking that they wear read and white for the choir performance. So for this concert we will not require a costume change in between songs. As soon as the choir finishes singing, the children will then join back with their classes for the class performance. The process will be very similar to the Christmas concert.

If your child is in the choir and would like to practice the song you can find the version online at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wn5K-phiBzo and the lyrics for the song can be found at http://www.lyricsfreak.com/e/elvis+presley/love+me+tender_20049149.html. Please note, we are only performing the first 4 verses.

A pizza order form went home with all children on Monday night. If you would like to order pizza for your child please send in the form and money before the date indicated. Lunch Moms is not going to be delivering to SJA after this Friday, so the weekly pizza program has been brought in instead.

Best regards,

Mrs. Nelson