Tuesday 13 October 2015

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!