Using our WITS

Elementary Drama will start on October 17th. It will be on Thursdays this year at 2pm. Students in K-5 are welcome to participate, and they may either be picked up at 2:45pm in the Great Hall, or go home on the bus that leaves at 2:50pm.

Kindergarten Homework:
*Practice sounds every night and tricky words (a, is)
*Return homework duotang and game by Friday.
*Return survey by Friday.
*Library books are due back by Monday.

Grade One Homework:
*Practice spelling words for test on Friday (and, from, had, of, was, ran, can, fan, man, plan).
*Finish homework duotang and game by Friday.
*Return survey by Friday.
*Library books are due back by Monday.
*Read a book every night and record in reading log.

Upcoming Events:
*WITS assembly on September 30th
*Book Orders due on October 7th
*School Pictures on October 8th
*Visit the Fire Hall on October 9th at 12:30pm for Fire Safety Week
*Professional Development Meetings for teachers on October 10th and 11th (no school for students)
*Thanksgiving Day on October 14th (no school)
*Show and Tell on October 24th at 10:50am
*Assembly on October 30th at 11:00am
*Visit the Nursing Home on October 31st and Halloween activities in the classes in the afternoon (bring costume to school)

Learning with Apples!

Apples

Bring an Apple on Wednesday!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Elementary Drama will start on October 17th. It will be on Thursdays this year at 2pm. Students in K-5 are welcome to participate, and they may either be picked up at 2:45pm in the Great Hall, or go home on the bus that leaves at 2:50pm.

Kindergarten Homework:
*Practice sounds every night.
*Return homework duotang and game by Friday.
*Library books are due back by Monday.

Grade One Homework:
*Practice spelling words for test on Friday (at, for, his, that, with, bat, cat, sat, fat, chat).
*Finish homework duotang and game by Friday.
*Library books are due back by Monday.
*Read a book every night and record in reading log.

Bus Evacuation Practice

September Sun!

It looks like a great week of sunshine this week, so lots of outdoor recesses! It is best to dress in layers at school - it will be quite cool in the mornings, but warm in the afternoons.

Elementary Drama will start in October. It will be on Thursdays this year at 2pm.

Kindergarten Homework:
*Practice sounds every night.
*Return homework duotang by Friday.
*Library books are due back by Monday.

Grade One Homework:
*Practice spelling words for test on Friday (as, he, is, on, they).
*Finish homework duotang by Friday.
*Library books are due back by Monday.
*Read a book every night and record in reading log.

Work has Started

This week we have started many new routines in our classroom as we get down to the real work of kindergarten and grade one.

Kindergarten students have started learning the Jolly Phonics sounds and will bring home their yellow sounds books every night. Please just take 2-5 minutes to go over these sounds every night - just flip through the books and have them tell you the sound and show you the action (it doesn't need to take very long at all).

Grade one students have started spelling this week, as well as reading logs and bringing a book home every night to read. We will have a spelling test on Friday. Please practice the five words with your child until they know them well.

Homework duotangs are due back on Friday - you can send it in early whenever it is done.

We have also started Daily Five in our classroom this week to help make us better readers and writers, and we are working with patterns and numbers in math class.

Welcome to School!

What a great first day of school! No tears today at all! I am looking forward to a great year!

I know a lot of information went home today, but please try to read through all the papers, and sign and send back everything as soon as you can. There will be several slips this month offering magazine subscriptions of one kind or another - we get free things for our class depending on how many slips come back, even if they all say "no", so please sign and send them back.

Homework duotangs should be returned by Friday. Reading logs will start next week for grade one, and not until November or so for kindergarten.