December 14th

Hi Parents,

We had a very busy week getting ready for our Christmas Concert on Wednesday. Everyone did an amazing job!  We also had the chance to go and watch the other grade 1-3 concert on Thursday afternoon, we really enjoyed it!

We continued practicing our literacy and math skills through math and literacy centers.

In writing this week we worked on retelling a story. We read the story "The Mitten" by Jan Brett and then retold the story using the sentence starters First, Then, Next, Last.  Each day we added a new part to the story and drew a picture to go along with it. We also decorated our own mitten.

We also learned a new letter sound, "Sh".

In Social Studies, we continued our learning about Landmarks. We learned that a landmark of Alberta is the Rocky Mountains. We added this to our flip book of landmarks.

Our words of the week this week were: big, can, little, went
Next week we will be reviewing all the words of the week we have learned so far this year and then in the New Year we will start our words of the week again.

A couple weeks ago we worked with our grade 2 buddies to come up with a description of a snowman and  this week we used that description to create our snowman using paper, markers, and chalk pastels.

We also got our gift bags ready this week. We helped sort out all the supplies, decorated our bags and stuffed the bags. They are now all ready to be sent out to our friends at other schools! Thank you to everyone who contributed! :)

Reminders:

Wednesday December 19th Report Cards will be sent home.

Thursday December 20th is PJ and Movie Day. Students are invited to wear their PJ's to school and we will be watching a movie in the gym in the afternoon.

Friday December 21st is Club Friday and the last day of school before Winter Break.

Monday January 7th is a PD day. No School.

Tuesday January 8th is first day of classes after Winter Break.