Happy Tuesday!

It was nice to be back to school today after a day off with a head cold yesterday.

The students started off the day today with a writing activity.  As a class we read and explored funny stories and broke them down into parts.  We discussed the important parts of a story (characters, setting, problem and solution) and then the children wrote their own funny stories.  A lot of interesting stories were created today which was great to see!  During our IB unit of inquiry today the children took their environmental poems that they created last week and turned their rough copies into good copies.   During tomorrow's IB unit the children are going to create paintings to accompany the message that they are broadcasting with these poems.  In the afternoon we had a whole-school dress rehearsal for tomorrow's Arts Night concert.  The children also worked on posters that they will be displaying during our class' performance.  They also went to French and music classes.

Homework:  Read for 15 minutes and record in the reading chart, practice weekly spelling words, practice Arts Night song, and locate flags for Arts Night.

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

June 6th- Arts Night 7pm  (All families are friends are welcome to attend.  All classes will be presenting)

June 7th- 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.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.  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 is performing at Arts Night with all the other classes at SJA.  Our class has been working hard getting ready for this fun event, and I really hope that all friends and families are able to attend.  Our class' costumes for the event are going to be 'spring inspired' clothing.  This could mean spring coloured clothing (light pink, blue, yellow, green, purple), spring prints, etc.  Please encourage your child to practice their Arts Night song at home.  Here is a link for the song http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0d87N9GIW2I .  All children have a copy of the lyrics in their home folders.

I have asked the students to bring in flags they may have at home to be used during our class' Arts Night performance.  We are looking to wave flags from around the world as we sing our song.  If any families have flags at their homes that they could send in to be used for this purpose, that would be great!  I am going to start collecting flags on Monday and will have them sent back home to you as soon as our class finishes their performance.

The SJA Choir is having our next performance at Arts Night.  I hope that all students have been practising our choir song at home!  We are asking that members of the choir come to school wearing 'spring colours' for our performance.  This could mean nice spring colours, flower prints, etc.  

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 athttp://www.stlyrics.com/lyrics/theparenttrap/doyoubelieveinmagic.htm and play the song for them at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GKyGyH9mWHk.  The choir's next performance is going to be at Arts Night on June 6th.


Best regards,

Mrs. Nelson