Hello everyone!
I hope that you all had a lovely Thanksgiving weekend shared with family! What a beautiful weekend it was! I have said it many times, but I feel so blessed to live in a city that gives us the most amazing and glorious autumns.
This week will be short and sweet! While there are only 4 days at school, we still have plenty of work to do!
We had our pictures taken as a class yesterday. I cannot wait to see all of the beautiful smiling faces! There will be a class picture for each student. I will send them home when they are ready.
Here are our word wall words for this week. You will notice that there are MANY more words that the ones your child brought home. As it is with much of our learning, students are working at varying levels. Each student has their own words that they are responsible for practicing.
Word families are an excellent way to learn rhyming words and spelling patterns. This week, we have discussed words in the _ip word family (for example: dip, hip, flip, ship, ship, sip). We read a story about an alien named Zip who lives on Planet Blip! Please review the words with your child!
We are staring to talk about stories and their elements. Earlier in the year we explored what the characters (who the story is about) and the setting (where the story happens) of a story were. This week, we will begin looking at what happens during the story and identifying what takes place at the beginning, the middle and the end of a narrative story.
Take a look at our writing goal. We are working toward writing perfect sentences, and this chart shows how we will get there!! For students who have mastered these steps, they are working toward creating more descriptive sentences by adding details and explanations.
A few reminders:
*This Friday, October 17th is PJ and Crazy Hair Day. We are raising money for United Way, so bring in your loonies and wear your cozies!! *The following Friday, October 24th, will be wear your SJA colours day. Wear your SJA gear or sport some navy blue and/or grey and show school spirit!
*On October 31st, students will be invited to wear orange and black to celebrate Halloween. Each class will have the chance to decorate a pumpkin. After being on display, students can enter into a raffle for a chance to win their favourite pumpkin! Raffle tickets will be 25 cents each or 5 for $1.00. Students who bring in $5.00 or more for the pumpkin raffle will be entered into a draw for one of several school t-shirts.
*SJA is working together to SCARE HUNGER! We have been collecting canned goods and we will continue to do so until Halloween. We will be donating all goods collected to Morrison Gardens. Please give if you can!
Thanks for reading!! I hope everyone has a nice week!
I hope that you all had a lovely Thanksgiving weekend shared with family! What a beautiful weekend it was! I have said it many times, but I feel so blessed to live in a city that gives us the most amazing and glorious autumns.
This week will be short and sweet! While there are only 4 days at school, we still have plenty of work to do!
We had our pictures taken as a class yesterday. I cannot wait to see all of the beautiful smiling faces! There will be a class picture for each student. I will send them home when they are ready.
Here are our word wall words for this week. You will notice that there are MANY more words that the ones your child brought home. As it is with much of our learning, students are working at varying levels. Each student has their own words that they are responsible for practicing. Word families are an excellent way to learn rhyming words and spelling patterns. This week, we have discussed words in the _ip word family (for example: dip, hip, flip, ship, ship, sip). We read a story about an alien named Zip who lives on Planet Blip! Please review the words with your child!
We are staring to talk about stories and their elements. Earlier in the year we explored what the characters (who the story is about) and the setting (where the story happens) of a story were. This week, we will begin looking at what happens during the story and identifying what takes place at the beginning, the middle and the end of a narrative story.
A few reminders:
*This Friday, October 17th is PJ and Crazy Hair Day. We are raising money for United Way, so bring in your loonies and wear your cozies!! *The following Friday, October 24th, will be wear your SJA colours day. Wear your SJA gear or sport some navy blue and/or grey and show school spirit!
*On October 31st, students will be invited to wear orange and black to celebrate Halloween. Each class will have the chance to decorate a pumpkin. After being on display, students can enter into a raffle for a chance to win their favourite pumpkin! Raffle tickets will be 25 cents each or 5 for $1.00. Students who bring in $5.00 or more for the pumpkin raffle will be entered into a draw for one of several school t-shirts.
*SJA is working together to SCARE HUNGER! We have been collecting canned goods and we will continue to do so until Halloween. We will be donating all goods collected to Morrison Gardens. Please give if you can!
Thanks for reading!! I hope everyone has a nice week!
