October 25, 2019

I hope everyone had a wonderful Thanksgiving weekend and are ready for the excitement of Halloween. We will celebrate Halloween on Wednesday, October 30th since there is no school on October 31st. Students are allowed to wear their costumes to school but please keep in mind we will be learning that day so they should be comfortable, able to sit both at their table and on the floor, be able to take it off to go to the washroom independently, no masks, and no weapons. We are very close to finishing our focus on the individual letters and sounds. Please continue to practice this at home as knowing this is essential to reading. In math we have been focussing on comparing numbers and discussing not only which numbers are greater than or less than but also putting numbers in order from least to greatest. Next week we will change our focus to 2D shapes. Today we celebrated belonging day. Thank you for helping your child to bring something to school to show that they belonged to a group. Everyone created a belonging page that will be used in our class We Belong book. We are starting to apply our knowledge of colour and shades in our most recent art project. Today students mixed paint colours together and painted paper in different shades for the first step of our Autumn art project. Please remember that next week is a very short week. There will be an important letter that goes home next week introducing our Star Student activities that will begin in November and carry through the entire year. If you would like to volunteer please sign up through the volunteer tab. The students love having loved ones come in to volunteer and I always have many activities that need volunteer support. Enjoy your weekend!