February 14th, 2017

Hello families and friends,

Happy Valentine's Day!  For word work this week we have introduced our words of the week.  They are "now", "long", "ever", and "how" for grade ones, and "light", "but", "right", and "goes" for grade twos.  Then today we did another Making Words with the letters 'o', 'u', 'b', 'd', 'l', 'n', 't', and 'w'.  What is the longest word you can make using these letters?  Post your word in the comments below.  We also did some work on Mathletics and Raz-Kids.  A reminder that these websites are available through the school website, and are a great resource for books and math activities that are at an appropriate level for your child.  We continued working on our art for Arbour Day, scratching our fractal tree designs into the paint and adding some ripped white paper at the bottom for snow.  They have turned out really well!  The students got to work on a colour-by-number activity with addition and subtraction this afternoon.  In gym, we have been learning about and using maps to find different things around our school-grounds.

A reminder that tomorrow is our Winter Sports Day.  Our class will be going out in the morning for the festivities, so please make sure that your child is dressed appropriately for being outside during the early day temperatures.  It is also Fun Lunch.

This weekend is a VERY long weekend for the students; Thursday and Friday are Teachers' Convention, and Monday is Family Day.

Have a great afternoon,
Mr. Soulliere