Valentine's Update!

Due to the very short week and the beginning of Lent next week, we will be celebrating St. Valentine's Day on TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 12. Students are welcome to bring in cards and treats for each other. I ask that if your child is bringing in Valentines to include everyone in the class. We have 25 students. If you require names, the list is found on the side bar or the family list that was distributed.

MONDAY-- NO SCHOOL--Family Day

TUESDAY-- Valentine's Celebration & Shrove Tuesday

WEDNESDAY--  Ash Wednesday (We have a Bun and water lunch. Please do not pack treats for snacks.)

THURSDAY & FRIDAY-- NO SCHOOL-- Catholic Educator's Conference :)


Homework:
1. Religion-- Finish Creed book
2. WW- Lesson 4 story questions
3. Chinese New Year venn diagram
4. Star student sheet-- Ryan

There will be a hot chocolate sale tomorrow!

HAPPY CATHOLIC SCHOOLS WEEK!!!

We've got spirit! Yes we do! We've got spirit! Thanks to you!!!

We are celebrating Catholic Schools this week and the students came up with their own Top Ten lists of why they think CCS is the best school! Come on in and read our lists!

Today to kick off Spirit Week, we had crazy hair and hat day! It was a hoot to see all the creative ways to wear our hair. (I enjoyed wearing a tiara all day!) Tomorrow is Funky Socks and Shoes Day. Thursday is a non-uniform day and students are asked to wear red and white to show school pride.
Friday will be full of fun activities that ask students and teachers to show off their talents!

Tomorrow is our skating day. We will be leaving the school at 10:30 and will be back by 12:00. Please ensure that your child has what they need to skate (helmet, gloves, skates, snowpants, etc.)
We will be walking to the rink and back. It is also popcorn day for 50 cents!

Homework:
1. Spelling Unit 17-- WP
2. WW Lesson 4-- activities A-C
3. Religion Creed booklet (2 pages)
4. Math w/s

HALF WAY THERE!

Happy 20th week of school! We are half way there! (Not that anyone is counting!!!) 

This week, as usual, is just another busy week in the classroom. Today I introduced our class poem for SPEECH ARTS. Our poem is titled "Little by Little" by Anonymous. We will recite it often in class, but please go over the poem with your child at home as well. The local Speech Arts competition is on Monday, March 4. I will assess them on this poem at the end of February. 

Students will also need to learn a poem of their own choosing. We will have a classroom Speech Arts on Thursday, February28. They may choose any poem they like but it needs to be 2-3 minutes in length orally. They must provide the title and author of the poem. They need to memorize the poem and recite it in the class. 

Students will be given three bible readings to choose from. They will have to recite one but DO NOT NEED to memorize it. I will send home an invitation for the classroom speech arts closer to the date if any family members are interested in coming. Thank you!

Overall, students did really well with our Provinces and Capitals Test. I sent it home today along with  with last week's math test, mad minutes quiz and Wordly Wise quiz. Please sigh and return to school. If your child received a "Not Yet Within" (that's 0-12 out of 26), they will take a retake next Tuesday.

Today's Homework:

1. Spelling Unit 16- Challenges|
2. Wordly Wise- Lesson 3 (Activities A-C, Story questions 1-5 only)
3. Current Events- Raccoons questions
4. Religion-page in our Creed book

Sigh and return tests

Tues. Jan 22

I hope you all enjoyed an extra day off yesterday! Professional development means that teachers go to work and hopefully learn something new to take back to the classroom. Yesterday, our team did some work with the Science curriculum and procured some new material for the curriculum!

Tomorrow we are going skating! Students MUST come to school in their uniform but will be able to change for skating before we leave for the rink. If you are able to walk with us, please be at the school by 10:30am. We should be back around 12:00. STUDENTS ARE NOT ALLOWED TO USE THE VENDING MACHINES. Thank you for your cooperation.

Today was busy, busy, busy! We started Spelling Unit 15 and Wordly Wise Lesson 2. We also started subtraction with borrowing and are continuing with our creative writing with snowmen as our topic.

Here is today's homework:

1. SP Unit 15-- WTW and WP
2. WW Lesson 2- activities A-C
3. Math w/s-- back side (we did the front side together in class)
4.Novel Study-- sentences

SS-- colouring the Map of Canada is due THURSDAY and we will have a TEST on JAN. 29 about the provinces, territories and capital cities.

Please encourage your child to wash their hands often as the cold bug is now invading our classroom! We have a lot of sniffles and coughing right now. If you would like to send some hand sanitizer for the classroom, it will be much appreciated!

Friday, Jan 18

Thank you to parents for taking the time to go over the readings and parts of the Mass last night with their kids. I apologize for such short notice! The students did a wonderful job at Mass today! I am glad that some of you were able to join us. Our next class Mass is scheduled for March 15.

We have started our new novel study this week, The Mouse and the Motorcycle, and we are reading it as a read-aloud. Please do not read ahead at home since we will be doing prediction activities in class and those that read ahead will not be able to do the tasks properly. I will also be sending home some "EXTRA CREDIT" work next week in connection with the novel for those who want to get extra marks for Language Arts. These project-based tasks are NOT mandatory, but I encourage students to try them.

This week we also started Wordly Wise. The routine for WW will be very similar to our Spelling routine. The activities will be given on TUESDAY for the lessons. We will go through them in class. Activities A-C will be due on WEDNESDAY. The story and questions will be read in class on WEDNESDAY and due on FRIDAY. A quiz on the vocabulary will be given on FRIDAY.

TUESDAY: Activities A-C assigned (DUE WEDNESDAY)
WEDNESDAY: Story & questions assigned (DUE FRIDAY)
FRIDAY: Quiz

Next week we will be on Lesson 2.

We are going skating next week! YAY! By the looks of it, we have enough parents walking with us. If you are available to meet us at the rink and skate with us, you are more than welcome! Extra hands are always appreciated with tying of the skates! Please do not send money. Students ARE NOT ALLOWED to purchase things at the vending machines.

NO SCHOOL MONDAY for students! It's a staff PRO-D Day! Enjoy your long weekend!