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