Monday, November 28th, 2011 (59th Day of School)

Grade 1 Spelling Words:
man
pan
can
fan
van
ran

Grade 2 Spelling Words:
sea
dream
weak
cream
mean
least
bean
leave
beat
meal
peas
meat
team
seat
eat
season

Tuesday, November 22, 2011 (56th Day of School)

Grade 1 Spelling:
tap
cap
map
lap
nap
snap

Grade 2 Spelling:
street
sweet
week
speed
feel
greet
queen
tree
feet
cheese
heel
free
meet
bee
seem
seed

Just a reminder that report cards will be going home this Friday. Parent teacher interviews will be on Wednesday, November 30th and Thursday, December 1. The Scholastic Book Fair will be held in the school library during this time as well.

Tuesday, November 15th, 2011 (50th Day of School)

Today was the 50th day of school! We are halfway done our countdown to the 100th Day of School celebration!

Grade 1 Spelling Words:
is
go
to
me
you

Grade 2 Spelling Words:
partner
car
farm
barn
sharp
part
target
art
large
yard
mark
hard
start
card
far
park

Monday, November 7th, 2011 (46th Day of School)

We are almost halfway to the 100th Day of School! Your child's 100 chart should be filled up to #46 today.

This week is a short week with a long weekend coming up. Thursday is early dismissal and Friday, November 11th there will not be any school. There is also no school on Monday, November 14th.

The Remembrance Day service for Springside School will be held at 10:00am on Thursday, November 10th. Visitors are welcome to attend. Each class will be reciting poems and students will be laying wreaths. There will also be members from the legion in attendance.

Spelling and Sound Tests will be on Thursday this week. Book orders are due on Wednesday, November 9th.

Grade 1 Sounds of the Week are long vowel sounds that come in the middle of the word when two vowels are together. We sing the song: "when two vowel pairs go walking, the first one does the talking" to help remember the rule.
Sounds for this week are:
-ai (sail, pail, wait, paint, brain, drain, etc.)
-ay (away, way, play, stay, etc.)
-ea (meal, treat, eat, peach, clean, dream, etc.)
-ee (green, jeep, feet, greet, etc.)
-oa (toast, coat, goat, float, boat, etc.)

Grade 2 Words of the Week are words with -ai in them.
Spelling Words for this week are:
tail
paint
mail
trail
sail
wait
aim
nail
plain
raise
praise
paid
chain
brain
train
main