October 14, 2015

Hello families and friends,

Our words of the week for this week are "are", "is", "my", "good", and "friend".

The students have continued to work on their literacy skills in the mornings.  Each class has started allowing the students some freedom in their choice of work from Read to Self, Read to Someone, and Work on Writing.  This is also time that teachers can work with small groups.  The students are showing some great independent work skills!  In math, we have continued doing our rotations.  Mr. Soulliere has been teaching the students number concept, Ms. McEvoy has been teaching about measurement, and Ms. Klein has been teaching about shapes.  Ask your child what they have done so far this week.

In the afternoon today we started our new word work groups.  The class has been split up into three groups, and each group will work with one of the teachers on building their knowledge of letter sounds, word families, and common spelling rules.  Then in dance we started learning some swing dance!  After that we began some writing about peace.  This will be part of our display for the Student Led Learning Walk next Wednesday and Thursday.  We ended our day with Mr. Southworth and a special visit from Ms. Fournier.  Ask your child about what they did.

Fun Lunch orders for November and December are available online now.  These are due in by Wednesday, October 28th.

Please see below for a message for Running Club Members:

Running Club members were given an order form for Running Club T-Shirts. Orders and money must be returned to their homeroom teachers by Thursday, October 15th to ensure that we receive the t-shirts prior to our last running club day.

Have a wonderful Wednesday!