Good afternoon!

We had a very busy day today on our second day back this school year.  The students started off the day by copying down their weekly spelling words and working in their spelling books.  This week's focus was on consonants and the sounds they make.  Each student is going to bring their spelling books home with them tonight to study for tomorrow's spelling test.  Because the spelling words were not given with much time to practice, tomorrow's test is going to be a practice round.  Please just encourage your child to try their best!  We moved on to a fun getting-to-know-you project where the students each created their own family crest.  As a class we discussed when and why crests and shields were used and then the students had the task of creating their own shields with images that describe them. In tomorrow's class we are going to finish our shields and present them to the class.  Ask your child tonight what images they chose!  During math today the children began their first unit on patterning and place value.  The students had a lot of fun exploring this unit by analyzing hundreds charts in their new textbooks and then working on reinforcing the concepts in their workbooks.  They also went to PE today.

Homework:  Read for 2o minutes and record in the reading log, practice weekly spelling words, math page 3 and practice opening and closing their lock if necessary.

Important information:  We are looking to have small boxes collected for an upcoming project in our Unit of Inquiry.  The students are going to be asked to build small scale rural and urban communities.  Please help us with this project by collecting and sending in small boxes that we can use.  Please see the form sent home yesterday for more information.

A form went home today with all of the wonderful after-school programs offered at SJA. Please take a look and review these programs to see if there are any that may be of interest to your child.

Please sign and return the permission form that went home yesterday to allow your child to come with us on a field trip to No Frills. We will be taking this trip as part of our Unit of Inquiry to help research what items our community imports to suit our needs.

There is an information form coming home with all students tonight to request an update on family contact information.  Some of the information SJA has on file may be outdated and we want to make sure we have the best records for all of our families.  Please fill out the forms and send them back as soon as possible.

Best regards,

Mrs. Nelson