Happy Monday!

The students started off this morning by copying down their new weekly spelling words and working in their spelling books.  The students focused on 'y' vowel words (grade ones) and suffixes (grade two).  In our IB unit of inquiry the students completed their KWL charts that we began as a class a few weeks ago.  In today's class the students were asked to complete a brainstorm of all the different things they have learned in the structures unit to date, and add them into the 'learned' category of their chart.  It was nice to see how their learning has progressed so far from the beginning of the unit.  In tomorrow's class we are going to begin our final task for this unit.  The children are going to be asked to turn all their learned facts into a book that they are going to create, write, illustrate and present to the class.  This project is going to be marked with a rubric that I will have posted tomorrow for you to review.  Help your child tonight by practising interesting facts with them from this unit.  During math today the children worked on sorting data into groups (grade one) and problems and sides and vertexes (grade two).  We read another chapter of Dealing with Dragons, the children wrote a weekend summary in their journals and the children worked on cursive during language.  They also went to french and P.E classes.


Homework:  Read for 15 minutes and record in the reading chart, practice weekly spelling words, Jump math pages 178 - 179 and cursive pages 178 - 179.

Important information: Invitations for the French Cafe have gone home with all children and have also been sent out electronically.  The French Cafe is taking place on May 4th from 12 - 3pm at SJA.  All friends and family are welcome to attend this event.  Grandparents are especially welcome to attend, as this event is taking the place of the traditional Grandparent's Day concert.  Families are asked to RSVP to me in your child's agenda as soon as possible so that food preparations for the light lunch can be made accordingly.  Details for the children's costumes can be found on Mme. Stella's blog.

This Thursday is the next casual day at SJA.  Students may come to school dressed in any casual clothing they wish.

The upper year students are having a production of The 12th Night on this Thursday!  All students from SJA are welcomed and encouraged to attend this free production with their friends and families.  The production begins at 7pm in the SJA auditorium.  Any students that attend the concert will receive 1,000 house points for coming!

Information for SJA Summer Camps are now available.  SJA offers a range of camps over the summer months with a variety of themes ranging from karate camps, to writing camps to traditional summer camps programs.  Please contact the school for more information about these exciting programs.

I am still waiting for report cards to be completed and returned to me from a few students.  Please complete the 'Parent's Comments' section of the report card and return to school as soon as possible.  I am looking to get returned copies from the following students: Ninara and Seanna.

If your child is part of the SJA choir, please make sure they are practicing the choir song at home.  You can find the song lyrics at http://www.stlyrics.com/lyrics/theparenttrap/doyoubelieveinmagic.htm and play the song for them at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GKyGyH9mWHk.


Best regards,

Mrs. Nelson

Grade One              Grade Two
1. away                   1. having
2. pay                      2. serving
3. try                       3. loves
4. sky                      4. baked
5. they                     5. trades
6. cry                      6. fried
7. my                       7. bodies
8. day                      8. luckier
9. why                     9. funniest
10. deny                 10. carries