Week 27

Happy Easter!

Weekly Reminders:

• Wednesday, Christian Servers are selling popcorn for $1 a bag
• Tomorrow is also Hot Lunch
• This Saturday is the Grade 2 Retreat. We will be meeting at the Church at 9:00 am for Mass. We should be finished by noon. 
• The Knights of Columbus are starting another round of the CCS Shopping Card Challenge. It starts this weekend and goes until June 5th. You may make your gift card purchases after Mass. 

Weekly Work:

• Grade 1 Spelling: bone, cone, zone, tone, lone, drone, phone, stone, throne, alone
• Grade 2 Spelling: light, night, right, knight, plight, slight, fright, delightful, skylight, frightened
• In Religion this week we will be continuing the celebration of Easter! The Grade two students are also focused on learning more about the Mass. The Grade one students will be focusing on Baptism this week. 
• In Math, we will continue with our subtraction focus. Students are also learning some new math games to continue reviewing double digit addition.

Week 26

Welcome back! I hope everyone had a wonderful Spring Break!

Weekly Reminders:

• Spelling test on Thursday
• No school on Good Friday or Easter Monday
• Next Saturday, April 2nd is the Grade 2 First Communion Retreat. It will be from 9-noon. Please let me know if you will be unable to attend.

Weekly Work: 

• Grade 1: kite, site, bite, white, write, quite, sprite, spite, night, light
• Grade 2: bow, row, show, know, snow, grow, below, borrow, pillow, thrown
• It's Holy Week! We will reading many stories of the events of this important week. On Wednesday the Grade seven class will be leading us in the Stations of the Cross
• We are reviewing our subtraction strategies this week and will be moving on to double digit subtraction with regrouping (at least for the Grade 2 students). 

Week 23

Weekly Reminders:

• We are going skating on Thursday! Once again we will be leaving the school at 9:45 to make our way over to the skating arena. Thank you to all those who were able to volunteer to come with us. 
• Food Bank Mass on Friday
• Reports Cards are coming home on Friday!
• Spring Break for two weeks. We are back on March 21st. 
• Spelling words:  
•          Grade 1: dime, lime, mime, time, slime, crime, grime, prime, chime, bedtime
•          Grade 2: fail, hail, rail, frail, grail, quail, snail, trail, ailment, detail