Volunteers Needed

The Grade One students will be working on their Bazaar craft on Thursday, November 5th between 9 and 10:30. If you would like to help out, please let me know and I can pass the word on to the craft coordinator.

Week 8

Reminders:

• Thursday is picture retake day. Please make sure that you email me or write in their planner so I can add your child's name to the list. 
• Friday is our All Saints Dress Up day. Students may come dressed up as a Saint and we will be celebrating in the afternoon by having a primary All Saints Party. 
• There will be a notice for the oldest coming home tomorrow about a Halloween collection initiated by the Christian Servers. 
• Next week students can bring any extra Halloween candy to give to AGAPE street ministries. 

Weekly Learning: 

• In phonics the Grade ones are working on short a and the Grade twos are working on short vowel sounds.
• In Math, we are working on showing numbers different ways. The Grade ones are doing this by showing numbers with tally marks, base ten blocks, ten frames and number words. The Grade twos are doing this by using different combinations of rods and units to show the same number. 
• During our Guided Reading Groups, some students are working on the strategy of Flippy the Dolphin. Ask your child what this means. 
• We continue to work on Matter as a whole group. The Grade ones are also learning about the Seasons.
• We are still learning about the Rosary and will be turning our focus to the Saints.

Week 7

Reminders:

• If you have any more Fitness-a-thon monies, please send them in right away! 
• No School on Friday. It is the province wide Pro-D Day and so we are all heading to workshops to do some learning.
• Spelling Test on Thursday due to the Pro-D Day
• Please send in signed Interim Reports. They are due on Thursday.

Week 6

Reminders:

• Tomorrow is the Living Rosary Assembly hosted by the Grade 4 class. Each child is allowed to bring a Rosary or they may use a Rosary from our classroom.
• On Friday our Interim Reports are being sent home. These are a quick update on how your child is doing behaviorally and socially in the classroom. It is not an academic assessment.
• Picture orders are due this Friday. 
• We are collecting the Fitness-a-thon monies, so please send them in as soon as possible. Thank you for all your hard work raising money! We really appreciate it.
• Just a heads up that on Friday, October 30th, we will be having our annual All Saints Dress Up Day. There are plenty of great and simple ideas found online! 

Weekly Work:

• Grade one students are doing "og" words and Grade two students are doing "ug" words. Remember spelling homework is due on Friday. 
• We practiced doing an Earthquake drill today in preparation for our school wide drill tomorrow. I always find that children are a little more anxious about Earthquakes after a drill, so it might be a topic of conversation tonight. 
• We have been learning about the Rosary in Religion last week and this week, specifically reviewing the Joyful mysteries.
• In Math the Grade Ones have been working on how many more/less a number is than 5 or 10. You could help them at home by asking them how many more is 7 than 5, how many less is 4 than 5 etc. We did ordinal numbers today! 
• The Grade 2 students have been working on the language of word problems and how it gives us hints of which operation we should do. We also worked on ordinal numbers today! 

Happy Thanksgiving

Happy Thanksgiving

Also just a note that we didn't do our spelling test today, so we will do it on Tuesday. Have a great Thanksgiving and enjoy the long weekend!

Mrs. Schock

Week 5

Reminders for the week:

• Thank you so much for your hard work at already getting pledges. Last week, on our pledge tally day our class came in second! We were very excited! Please keep trying to get pledges as we are still $400 under our class goal. We will be having another pledge tally day this Wednesday. 
• Fitness-a-thon is on Friday! Students will be coming to school in their gym strip so they are ready to participate in the fitness stations. Also please note we are dismissed at NOON on this day. An early start to the long weekend!
• CISVA Cross Country Meet is on Wednesday. Only certain students are going and they would have received information from Mr. Klaponski.
• Wednesday is also Hot Lunch
• If you would like to order Scholastic please send it to me by Friday. You are now able to pay online, but you will have to look under Kranabetter as I have not changed my scholastic account to Schock yet. I will let you know when I do. 

Weekly Work

• Spelling Bingo is due on Friday
• I will be sending home Sight Words this week for children who need the practice. There will be information sent along with them.
• We are well on our way to establishing our Writer's Workshop. We are now writing for over 15 minutes at a time! We will soon be starting writing groups and conferences where I will pull students to work on a specific skill.
• We are also working hard on establishing our Literacy Centers/Daily 5 routines. On Friday everyone read for 14 minutes. We have also learned more about how to Read with Someone, and what Listen to Reading is.