Happy October everyone,
We have a short week this week. Students do not have school on Friday October 6th seeing that teacher are attending a PD session. We also do not have school on Monday October 9th as well. I hope you will all enjoy your long week end and get to enjoy some family time and turkey.
School choir starts on Thursday at 11:45 in the gym. any student from grade 1-6 who want to join the Christmas choir are asked to bring their lunch to the gym at that time. Choir will be every Thursday after that, up until Christmas. If they do not want to join this choir there will be another after Christmas. More information will follow once they know more.
We have our Thanksgiving liturgy on Thursday at 1pm in the gym. All is welcome to attend.
The clothing drive has started, if you have any gently used clothing that you would like to donate to those in need, please bring them in. They will gladly accept infant- adult clothing as well as shoes. All they ask is that the clothing be cleaned and in good conditions. Please no rips or stains. All clothing can be placed on the gym stage, collection ends on Thursday.
The school is also looking for parent volunteers to come in October 10th at 9am to help sort the donated items. If you are interested please contact Mme Laviolette and she will get you into contact with the right people.
Family pictures are due on Thursday October 5th. Please send in individual pictures of each member if your family. Group photos are hard for the students to cut out everyone's head. Along with the pictures please in the form sent home last week with family members names.
Scholastic book orders are also due on Thursday October 5th. I want to get them in early just in case you are looking for some great Halloween books.
Picture day is also next week October 13th. Please mark that in your calendars.
Thanks again to all who are helping donate to our classroom basket. We have 4 items left...Mme Shelby has 2... we are in a slight competition with the grade 5 class....lol They students have me checking the status every other day.
Reading packages can be returned on Tuesday October 10th. Please be sure to fill out the yellow and blue pages with the title of the books and if it was easy, just right, or to hard. A lot of you did not do this and it makes it difficult for those exchanging to keep track of books, seeing we have limited copies. If you did not get to read the materials just let us know and you can keep it for another week.
I also wanted to correct myself, I said that there would be two paper books of each. That will start after Christmas. Right now your child will only receive 1 French, 1 English.
Also on Monday's you can send the whole package back in to be exchanged. I suggest you keep everything in the package so that you do not lose anything, however if you want to keep some items at home you may keep the following: Pink book (until asked for it to be returned), reading CD, numbers game, tic-tac-to, jolly phonics game cards and black duo-tang (Be sure to put new sheets into the duo-tang, the kids know how to do this). Matching games (les couleurs ect.) will be exchanged every 2 weeks, wiki sticks. If you have any questions feel free to ask.
Our class is looking for more volunteers to help with pumpkin carving and Halloween centers. If you are available October 27th from 10:15-11:45 we would love to have you come join us to carve pumpkins. Students love this activity. We estimate how many pumpkin seeds we may find, talk about what type of face we want to draw and how to keep ourselves safe.
We are also looking for 3 more parent volunteers for Halloween centers. Centers will take place October 31st. ( I will email you this week if it will be in the am or the pm, just want to check the schedule)
I have started to randomly ask students to read their sight words for their prizes. So far we have ad to happy students successfully read through all their French words. Keep practicing.
In the next two weeks students will be tested on what they have learned on patterns. Feel free to practice patterning at home. They will be required to finish patterns, make patterns longer by recognizing the elements as well as make more complicated patterns by adding colors. There are a few of us that still need a little help on this, please ask your child how they are doing.
I will also start to test students on the French alphabet in the next couple of weeks. Students will be required to identify upper and lower case letters, give me the sound and name of each letter in French. These letters are out of sequence, feel free to practice at home with your child.
That is all for this week. I hope you have a great rest of the week. My thanksgiving wish for you all is to be surrounded by those you love, may your house be filled with warmth and laugher and be sure to cherish the time you have together. Happy Thanksgiving everyone to your family from mine both far and near.
Mme Laurie Anne
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