Report Card Time!

Report cards will go home tomorrow with elementary students. Please sign and send back the envelope and the slip that says when you are coming for parent-teacher interviews.

Parent-Teacher Interviews will be on Wednesday night from 6-8pm and on Thursday morning from 9-11am. There is a sign-up sheet outside of teachers' doors to help keep things running smoothly. Feel free to e-mail me or send a note in your child's agenda if you would like me to sign you up for a certain time.

Kindergarten Homework:
*Finish homework duotang and game by Wednesday if at all possible.
*Practice sounds and tricky words (why, where, look)
*Read a book each night and complete homework writing book.

Have a great long Easter Weekend!

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Ants, Ants, Ants

We have had lots of fun in Reading Club reading stories about ants. Here are our plasticine ants that we made today. Please send back any books/duotangs/bags from Reading Club each day.

Kindergarten homework:
*Finish homework duotang and game by Friday.
*Practice sounds and tricky words (what, when, ok)
*Read a book every night.
*Complete purple "Homework Writing" book each night. This will really help with your child's writing and ability to sound out words.

Upcoming Events:
*Assembly on Friday at 1:20pm.
*Report cards go home next Monday or Tuesday.
*Parent-Teacher Interviews next Wednesday evening and Thursday morning.
*No school for students next Thursday and Friday, and the following Monday (5 day weekend for Easter).

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Welcome Home, Dalton!

Welcome Home, Dalton and Heather!

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Happy St. Patrick's Day!

Wear green on Wednesday for St. Patrick's Day!

Happy Birthday this week to Jaykell!

Kindergarten Homework:
*Finish homework duotang and game by Friday.
*Read a book every night. This week, we are starting "Homework Writing Books", which will replace the word bags. An adult reads the words, and the child tries to write down the sounds in the word (just like the dictation we do in school).
*Practice sounds and tricky words (little, down, on)

Reading Club:
*Read the book/story that comes home on Monday and/or Tuedsay. Please return any books and duotangs each day, as we need them for the next lesson.

Upcoming Events:
*GMCS Cinema presents "Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Squeakquel" Saturday, March 20th at 7pm. Admission $5.
*Assembly on March 26th at 1:20pm.
*Report Cards will go home on March 29th or 30th.
*Parent-Teacher Interviews on the evening of March 31st, and the morning of April 1st.
*No school for students April 1, 2 and 5 (So the students have a five day weekend for Easter).

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Welcome Back!

I hope everyone had a great March Break, and are now ready to get back to work for our last part of the school year. We have a lot to do in the next couple of weeks. Report cards will be coming out the end of March, with parent-teacher interviews on March 31st in the evening and on the morning of April 1st. This will give the students an extra long Easter Weekend, and also the perfect opportunity for families who are wishing to travel at that time.

Kindergarten Homework:
*Finish homework duotang and game by Friday.
*Practice sounds and tricky words (only, old, in).
*Read every night!

Show and Tell will be on Friday of this week.

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March Break, Here We Come!

We had a great Day 100 on Friday! The children brought in some wonderful projects, and were happy to share them with their class and friends. Of course, the favorite part of Day 100 is always bouncing the 100 balloons on the parachute.

This week, we are having some dress up days to get us ready for March Break.
Monday: Wear red and white to support Canada.
Tuesday: Backwards Day
Wednesday: Beach Day
Thursday: PJ Day
Friday: Hat Day

Kindergarten Homework:
*Finish homework duotang by Friday. Please send it in early if you get it done early.
*Practice tricky words and sounds.
*Read a book each night and read words in Word Bag (There are only 18 of these, so some children have finished them already.)

Reading Tutor started today for some children in K-2. It will be on Mondays and Wednesdays from 12:30-1:30. Teachers recommended children who either need help getting their homework done, or who just could use the extra one-on-one time with an older student to do some extra reading and practice.

Happy Birthday on Friday to Sierra Brown, and on Saturday to Matthew and Megan Wilcox.

Have a great March Break everyone! Come back rested and happy and ready to finish out the year.

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Day 100 is almost here!

We had a great time last week with Valentine's Day. Thanks for all the wonderful cards!

This week, we can't wait to celebrate Day 100, which will be on Friday! All year, we have been counding up the days of school in anticipation. Please don't forget to bring in your Day 100 project on Wednesday. I can't wait to see what 100 set you have collected, built, drawn, or printed. On Day 100, we will have special activities from recess to noon in each of the classrooms, and then in the afternoon we will go to the gym for special 100 Day activities, after which we will examine all of the Day 100 projects in the cafteria.

Kindergarten Homework:

*Finish homework duotang and game by Friday.

*Read a book each night, and words in your "Word Bag".

*Practice tricky words (like, have, and) and sounds each night.

Elementary Dance is cancelled this week as Ms. Kilburn will be away.

Elementary Drama will be Wednesday from 3-4pm. Hopefully we will get to the end of the play this week! Keep working on memorizing your lines, as we would really like to get rid of the scripts after March Break. Also, don't forget to bring in your $20 registration fee if you haven't already done so.

GMCS Cinema is showing the movie "Planet 51" Friday night at 7pm.

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