Tuesday, November 16th (53rd Day of School)

Welcome back! I hope everyone had a relaxing and enjoyable long weekend!
This week in school, we are busy starting numerous new concepts. We are starting number sense in math and have been learning lots of new games to help us easily remember these concepts. Ask us about the new power of ten game we played with a partner in math today!
In science, we are exploring and learning more about our senses through experiments.

The Grade One students just discovered the "wh" sound at the beginning of words. Ask us to show you how we blow out the candle to make that sound. We are practicing sight words like where, why, what, when and our colour word for the week, white. We will also have a sound test again this week with the short vowel sounds: a, e, i, o, u.

The Grade Two spelling words this week are:
aim
sail
trail
nail
wait
plain
rain
praise
paid
mail
paint
tail
*All of these words have the vowel pair "ai" in them. We use the saying "when two vowel pairs go walking, the first one does the talking" to help us remember the sound that it makes so we are pronouncing the words properly.

Reminders:
*Please continue to fill in the 100 chart with your child every night. We are currently on the 53rd day of school.
*Thursday, November 18th is Early Dismissal.
*November 24th and 25th is Parent Teacher Interviews in the evening.
*A message was sent home in the agenda today about shoeboxes. We are going to be doing a craft that requires them. Please send at least one with your child. If you have any extras that you are willing to donate, they would be greatly appreciated. Please send them to school for Monday. Thanks!