Tuesday, December 14th (72nd Day of School)

This week our class is busy getting ready for Christmas. We are practicing for the Christmas concert everyday this week so we will be ready for our big performance on Monday, December 20th. We are also participating in the door decorating contest with our school, so we will be spending some time decorating our door as a class. We will be making Christmas cards to send over to our friends at the Heritage Center as a Social Studies project to be a part of the community. Last week we wrote letters to Santa and even learned how to address our own envelopes, and then we made a trip to the post office to hand deliver our letters to the mail box. Keep checking the mail at home for a reply from Santa!



During all this Christmas preparation, we are still continuing with our daily routines at school. We are continuing to work on our number sense in math. In health this week we will have a special presentation on Thursday where a guest is going to come into our room and talk to us about feelings. In Language Arts we are continuing to work on spelling, making words, letter writing, journals, sight words practice and daily phonics. We will have a spelling test on Friday. Here are this week's spelling words:



Grade 1 (_an word family words):
pan
man
fan
can
ran
van

Grade 2 ('ea' vowel pair words):
mean
peas
seat
meal
season
leave
team
meat
eat
beat
dream
bean

Tuesday, December 7th (67th Day of School)

Only 12 days of school left before Christmas holidays. We are busy in the Grade One and Two classroom getting ready for Christmas. We began practicing for our concert yesterday. We will be singing a Christmas song and reciting a poem. Ask your son or daughter to practice their line for you while you are preparing supper or getting ready for bed each night so they are getting daily practice with their part at home too!

Thursday is early dismissal this week. Friday is hot lunch and also our spelling test and show and tell day. Spelling words for this week are as follows:

Grade One ('ap' word family words):
map
cap
tap
nap
lap
gap

Grade Two (words with the squeely ee's):
meet
free
queen
feet
street
feel
tree
sweet
week
seem
seed
bee

Wednesday, December 1 (63rd Day of School)

For the month of December, the Grade 1 and 2 students will be doing lots of exciting and new things! The month started off with a field trip today to see "Seussical the Musical" at the Yorkton Regional High School. The students really enjoyed the show and represented our school well with their outstanding behaviour!

Next week we will begin practicing for our Christmas concert. Each child will have one line to memorize. They will be bringing this line home to practice as well. Please encourage your child to practice it to an audience at home.

Grade One students have officially finished with new stories in their I Can Read books. This book may be kept at home or in their home reading bag for periodical practice at home to supplement their home reading program. We will still continue to learn new sight words at school weekly, so please continue to read with your child each night and watch their vocabulary grow!

Grade One and Two students have spelling words this week. We will have a spelling test for these words on Friday.

Grade One Spelling words:
go
me
to
is
you

Grade Two Spelling words (bossy r words):
car
hard
art
large
yard
sharp
start
mark
barn
park
far
farm

We are currently on the 63rd day of school. Please remind your child to fill in the days of school each day on their 100 chart.

November Star of the Month

The Star of the Month for November is Alia Breitkreuz!

Alia is star of the month for many reasons. Alia is always a positive role model for her peers and other students in the school. She always has a positive attitude which she shares with classmates. Alia always tries her best and does everything with 110% effort. She has also received the caring and respect awards in our class and is a great friend to everyone.

Congratulations Alia!