Popcorn Sale Tomorrow

Reminder: 

• We are having a popcorn sale tomorrow. If your child would like to buy a bag please send fifty cents. Yummy!

October 27, 2014

Reminders: 

• We are having the Living Rosary Assembly and Walk-a-thon prize give away on Wednesday (rescheduled due to the power outage).
• Friday is our Saint Dress up day! Students may come in a saint costume or in their uniform. 
• We are also having a Saint party on Friday afternoon, with the rest of the primary classes. If you would like to make a class set of cupcakes for service hours, please let me know. Thank you!
• Hot lunch on Wednesday

Weekly Work:

• We have started our spelling program! We had a pre-test today and we will have a test on Friday. It will be sent home to be signed and then returned on the Monday for the next pre-test. The words are on the blog for the children to study. 
• We are finishing up short vowel a in phonics and any unfinished work will be sent home on Thursday to be completed by the next day. Hopefully everyone will finish it in class! If it is sent home, they will write what pages they need to do in their planner.
• Please continue reading at home (Raz-kids or books at home) and practicing sight words when you are able to do so.

Have a great week,

Miss Kranabetter

Unit # 1 Spelling Words

1. map
2. lap
3.sat
4. fat
5. mat

October 20, 2014

Reminders:

• No school on Friday. It's a PRO-D Day.
• Thursday is photo retake day. If you would like your child to have a retake, please send me a note in the planner or an email. Thank you!
• Please return any interim reports .
• Friday, October 31st is All Saints Dress up day. Students are allowed to dress up as their favorite saint. Do not feel any pressure to buy a costume, there are lots of easy ideas on the internet that use towels or sheets. If you have any questions about this, I would be happy to help.
• For our All Saints dress up day, we need a class set of cupcakes. If you would be willing to make some for service hours please let me know. Thank you!

Weekly Work:

• We are working on short vowel a this week. We have also started working on word families and are doing 'at' and 'an' words this week. 
• Everyone should now have sight words to work on at home. When you think your child has mastered the list, please just let me know and I will send home a new list. 
• We will be starting to work on addition this week!
• During Religion, we are still learning about the Rosary and will begin talking about the Luminous Mysteries.

October 14, 2014

Reminders:

• Please send in any money that was pledged for the fitness-a-thon. The official due date is this Friday. Thank you!
• On Friday, our interim reports are sent home. This is a checklist to let you know about in class behaviour and organization and is not a academic report. 
• If you ordered, there is Hot Lunch tomorrow!
• A Scholastic order was sent home today. If you would like to order, please send it in by Friday. It is helpful if they come in on the due date, so that I only need to order once. Thank you! 

Weekly Work

• I will be sending home the first set of sight words later on this week. Please practice with your child so that they are confident with these words. 
• This week in phonics we will be working on the sound of y, z and medial sounds. We will be starting our work on vowels very shortly.
• We have started Guided Reading! 
• In Religion we are learning about the Joyful Mysteries
• We are continuing our work with base ten blocks this week during math

October 9, 2014

Reminders: 

• Noon dismissal tomorrow
• Wear gym strip to school for the fitness-a-thon
• Bring a water bottle

October 7, 2014

Reminders:

• If you would like to order individual pictures please send your orders in by Thursday, October 9th.
• Tomorrow is another pledge tally day. If you could write how much your child has been pledged so far in their planner, that would be greatly appreciated. Thank you! 

Have a great night,

Miss Kranabetter

October 7, 2014

Reminders

• Friday is our Fitness-a-thon! It is an early dismissal and your child should be picked up at noon. Also please keep collecting pledges! Last week we came in second place on the tally day! We had 5 extra minutes of recess to celebrate.
• If you have any hot lunch forms, we will accept them tomorrow

Weekly Work

• Keep working on Raz-kids and letter sounds at home
• In our phonics we will be working on consonant sounds of c, r and p and if time perhaps qu.
• We are almost ready to start guided reading. We are now practicing having students complete different tasks at the same time. Some are doing word work, others reading to themselves, while another group is doing read to someone. They are doing great!
•  In Math, we are working with making groups of tens and we will be using ten and one blocks to show numbers 10-20

Miss K.