Good afternoon!

The students started off the day today working on math.  As a class we worked on measurement, sums and differences and ordinal numbers.  During our IB unit of inquiry today the children painted illustrations to accompany the environmental poems we have been working on.  We has a discussion about how art can be highlight and develop writing, and they put this theory into use with their paintings today.  The poems and the paintings will be on display at Arts Night tonight.   In the afternoon we read another chapter of Winnie-the-Pooh and the children worked on their chapters in their novel study groups.  This novel study has been a great deal of fun, and we only have two chapters left!   We had whole-school dress rehearsals for tonight's Arts Night concert as well today.  The hard work these children have been putting in has really shown.  We are all very excited for friends and family to see the performance tonight!  They also went to French class today.

Homework:  Read for 15 minutes and record in the reading chart, practice weekly spelling words, and finish math worksheet if necessary.

Important information:  
Some important dates are coming up.  Please make a note of the following:

Tonight- Arts Night 7pm  (All families are friends are welcome to attend.  All classes will be presenting)

June 8th- In-class Spelling Bee competition.  The children will compete to see which 5 students will be chosen to enter into the June 12th whole-school competition.  Please note, this date is a change from the original date that had our in-class competition being tomorrow.  It is now in fact on Friday.

June 8th- Grade 6 Exhibition Presentations  (Grade 6's will be presenting their final PYP assessment from 1 - 3pm.  This is a large assessment piece that all IB students must successfully complete in order to graduate from the PYP program.  Invitations have gone home with every student tonight.  Come and see what it is all about!)
June 12th- SJA Spelling Bee
June 13th-  SJA Graduation Night 
June 15th- Last day of school (1/2 day).  This is a fun day.  Children are welcome to bring in treats if they would like to help celebrate our learning this school year.

Our class' costumes for tonight's performance is 'spring inspired' clothing.  This could mean spring coloured clothing (light pink, blue, yellow, green, purple), spring prints, etc. 

 We are asking that members of the SJA choir come to school wearing 'spring colours' for our performance tonight.  This could mean nice spring colours, flower prints, etc.  

Best regards,

Mrs. Nelson