September 23, 2015

Hello families and friends,

Today we started our day continuing work on building our reading stamina and practicing our Read to Someone skills.  Ask your child what their job is during Read to Someone.  Then we continued work on building our number sense in math.  We worked on representing numbers in different ways.

In the afternoon we introduced the first words onto our word wall.  Each week, we will add new "words of the week" to the word wall.  These are words that the students should practice writing and become familiar with so that they are able to spell them correctly on their own during their writing.  We began with a few of the most common words, for both grade ones and twos.  They are "the", "and", "I", "to", and "a".  The grade ones needed to write three sentences that included the words of the week, and the grade twos needed to write five sentences.  Grade twos also had to organize the words into alphabetical order.  The last hour of our day was spent with Ms. Kinsman and Ms. Tuli.  Ask your child what they did.

Two forms went home with your child today; a Terry Fox snack order sheet and the student demographic sheet.  The demographic sheets need to be checked to ensure that the information is correct.  If there are any changes that need to be made, please make the corrections and send them back to your child's teacher.  If they are all correct please return them as soon as possible.  Update: If the information on the forms is correct, they do not need to be returned.  The Terry Fox snack sheets are due back by September 28th.

The open house is coming up tomorrow!  If you have not booked a time yet, this can be done through your CBE Account.  We look forward to seeing all of you then!

To celebrate the Autumnal Equinox, post your favourite thing about fall in the comments below.

Have a wonderful Wednesday,
Mr. Soulliere, Ms. McEvoy, Ms. Fournier, and Ms. Klein