Welcome Back!

With school starting soon, I wanted to send out a welcome greeting to all our students!
I have been at school throughout the summer getting our classroom ready for September 3.  I will be posting some photos of the classroom so if you would like a 'sneak peak', you can have a look.

We will be creating a 'community of learners' when we begin school next Tuesday.  Because we share our classroom supplies within the classroom, you won't need to label anything other than your nutrition break snack pack and containers.  I would also like you to keep your ruler and markers at home for use there.  I provide rulers for use in the classroom for measurement activities.

If you have any questions, feel free to call the school when the office opens next week.  I can't wait to see everyone on September 3!

Year-End Celebration

Just a reminder that we are going to be enjoying a morning on Lundy's Lane on Monday to celebrate the end of our school year together.  The children will be enjoying activities in small groups of 4 supervised by lots of parents and teachers!

Remember to WEAR SOCKS!

When we return to school, we will have our lunch and then get busy with some fun math activities.

Where is the homework?

I wanted to let everyone know that we have added all the Grade One and Grade Two words to our word wall.  The students also completed the Developmental Spelling Inventory last week.  I am using the results of that assessment to 'customize' your child's weekly word work activities.  Every Wednesday your child completes a word sort activity that works on a particular spelling skill at his/her current developmental level.  If you would like an extra copy for home practice, please let me know in your child's agenda. 

We will continue to review, through Word Work activities, the words that continue to be commonly misspelled in students' work.  We will also have a weekly spelling theme that we will practice.  This week we are working on regular plurals.  Next week, we will add irregular plurals.

I truly appreciate how diligent the students AND PARENTS have been in completing weekly spelling homework this year!  I will send homework books home TO KEEP next week.

Thanks for all your support!