Awesome Snowmen!

Thanks Home Hardware, especially Darla, for bringing a craft for us to make again this year in Kindergarten. We loved making our snowmen! You can check them out on the tree at Home Hardware.

Snow, Snow, Snow

Winter has arrived! Please send hats, mitts, boots and ski-pants with your child.

Today is the last regular drama practice. Next week, we will have our dress rehearsal at 3pm on Wednesday (Dec. 12) , and then will perform our play at 6pm for parents and families. Thursday morning (Dec. 13) , we will perform it for the elementary school at 9am.

Homework for Kindergarten:
*Practice tricky words: are, all
*Practice sounds every night.
*Finish homework duotang and game for Friday.
*T-shirt orders are due tomorrow for Kindergarten!
*On Friday, Home Hardware ladies are coming to do a craft with us in kindergarten.

Reminder: There is no school on Monday, as all the teachers are travelling to Fundy High school for grade level meetings with the other teachers in our district.

K-2 Jones: Practice Rudolph for the Christmas Concert. Can you name all 8 reindeer?

Christmas is only a month away!

Great job at the telethon on the weekend, to everyone who participated!

It was great talking to so many parents on Thursday and Friday. If you ever have any questions or concerns, feel free to call or stop in at any time. An extra set of hands is always welcome!

Our K-2 class is finishing up our introductions for our KON project this week, and we should get to meet the kids from Bristol by the end of the week (virtually of course!).

On Friday, we have an assembly at 9am.

Homework for Kindergarten:

*Practice sounds and tricky words (to, do)

*Finish homework duotang and game by Friday.

*T-shirt orders

Report Cards tomorrow!

Thanks to everyone who sent in the $2 for the anti-bullying show this afternoon. Terry Kelleher entertained the children with funny songs and a couple of tricks, as well as giving the message to not be a bully.

Report cards will go home tomorrow. Parent-teacher interviews are Thursday from 6:30-8:00, and Friday from 9-11:30. Please send back the form letting us know when you plan to attend.

There is also a survey in the report cards about blogs. Obviously if you are reading this, then you have discovered the homework blogs all ready. Please send back the survey with your child. There will be a short (15 minute) session about the blogs on Thursday at 6:30 in room 39 (Ms. Ward's room) for anyone interested.

On Wednesday at 9am, we have another interesting presentation by the Maritime Marionettes. Thanks again to everyone who also sent in $2 to help cover the cost of this show as well.

Homework for Kindergarten:

*Practice your sounds and tricky words.

*Read your guided reading book and do a reading response on the night it comes home.

*Finish homework and game by Thursday this week.

K-2 Jones homeroom:

*We have started a new Knowing Our Neighbours project with a grade 1-2 class at Bristol Elementary School called Winter Wonders. This week we started working on our introductions. In December, we will create a Christmas ABC book together and compare and graph weather in the two villages. In January, we will create presentations about different animals found in our area to send to Bristol. The children are very excited at starting a new project and in meeting a new class of kids.

Kindergarten Visits the Fire Station

What fun Kindergarten had at the fire station today. Thanks Darlene!

Thanks vets!

I hope everyone had a great Remembrance Day weekend, and remembered the men and women who fought in the wars.

Kindergarten Homework:
*Practice sounds each night.
*Practice tricky words: me, we
*Complete homework duotang and game by Friday
*Practice reading words on fish (in words)
*Read your book tonight "Maria Counts Pumpkins" and complete one Reading Response question.
*Tomorrow we go to the Fire Station
*On Thursday, read book "My Book of Numbers" and record it in your reading log. You can also write in any other books that you can read by yourself (for instance, if you take out some easy reader books from the library).

For everyone:
*Bring in $2 for Marionettes
*Tonight is the last night for magazine orders.
*Elementary Drama on Wednesday from 3-4pm

Read! Read! Read!

Welcome to November! It is getting cooler, so please remember to bring warm jackets, mittens and hats for when that wind is blowing.

In Kindergarten, we have started a new unit on Safety. Next week, we will be visiting the fire station, so please send back the permission slip that went home today.

For homework this week, the kindergarten students need to:
*Practice their sounds every night.
*Practice their tricky words (he, she)
*Play their game and finish their homework duotang by Friday.

We are also starting Guided Reading this week. Once a week, the students will bring home a book to read, a reading log to record it in, and a reading response journal. Just answer one question in the journal. Have the kindergarten student do as much of the printing as they are capable - I know this is more difficult for some than for others. Please return the Guided Reading bag (and everythin in it) the following day, as I will need the books for the next group. Later on, we will start bringing a book home every night to read and record in their reading log, but they will only need to complete the Reading Response Journal once a week (on the day we actually do Guided Reading).

For the students in grades 1 and 2, Reading Club is starting up again this week. Every one has been tested in the last couple of weeks, and new groups have been organized. Reading Club will run for the next 5 weeks, and then we will re-test again before Christmas.

A parent survey went home with your child today. Please take time to fill this out and send it back sometime before Friday.

School pictures will go home tomorrow. What a cute bunch of kids!