Happy Wednesday!

We started off the day today working on a writing activity.  Is today's lesson we reviewed the parts of a friendly letter, and then as a class we wrote a friendly letter to Mr. Sawatsky!  The children were then given questions to answer about friendly letters examples they had been given.  Once the review was done, the children had to individually write their own friendly letter to a person of their choice.  Ask your child tonight what they wrote about.  During math the students worked on finding shapes within objects (grade one) and comparing the masses of two different objects (grade two).  In our IB unit of inquiry today the students completed their graphic organizer about structures that they began yesterday.  The organizers are going to be a useful tool at the end of the unit to reflect back on the learning that has been done.  During language the children worked on special sounds, suffixes, picture words, practiced their cursive and we read another chapter of ' Dealing with Dragons' by Patricia Wrede.  They also went to french and P.E classes today.

Homework:  Read for 15 minutes and record in the reading chart, practice weekly spelling words, math page 167, Letters and Sounds pages 143 - 144 and cursive pages 152 - 153,.

Important information:  Tomorrow is the next casual day at SJA.  If students have paid their money to participate they may come to school dressed in any casual clothing they would like.

I am asking that students bring in old magazines for an art project we are going to be completing on Friday.  In this project we are going to be collecting pictures of various types of structures and comparing them.  Any type of old magazines that you can send in with your child in the next few days will be appreciated.

The SJA Running Club began last night for those students who have brought in their signed permission forms.   The club will meet every Tues, Wed and Thurs at 3:45pm.  If your child is participating, please make sure they have appropriate jackets, hats and mitts if needed for an outdoor run.  For more information please see Ms. Elliot's blog.

The French Cafe is taking place on May 4th at St. Jude's Academy.  All classes are participating for this exciting event.  Invitations with specific details will be sent out shortly.  Our class is doing a Renaissance piece for the event.  Girls are asked to come to school is fancy Renaissance themed gowns or robes, and boys are asked to come in fancy Renaissance themed attire with a tie.  For more information please see Mme. Stella's blog.

Once we return from the Easter weekend students may come to school dressed in their summer uniforms.  This means that students can wear their polo shirts with their gray pants or tunics and do not have to wear a sweater or a vest.  Students may also come to school wearing their navy SJA shorts instead of pants on gym days.

April 6th is Good Friday.  There is no school on this day.

April 9th is Easter Monday.  There is no school on this day.


Best regards,

Mrs. Nelson