Day 63
Important Dates

Thursday, December 5- Parent Teacher Conferences 

Tuesday, December 10- Jk-2 Christmas Concert

Tuesday, December 17- Grade 3-8 Christmas Concert

Wednesday, December 18- Casual Day 

Thursday, December 19- Christmas Spirit Day 

Friday, December 20- January 7- No School/ Christmas Holiday

The SJA Parent Guild is pleased to hold its 2nd Christmas Skate for all students and parents/guardians to celebrate the festive season and enjoy some time together. Any proceeds will go towards ongoing fundraising efforts.  This event will take place on Thursday, December 12 from 3:30-5:30 pm at Meadowvale 4-Rinks. Ice time from 4:00-5:00 pm. Bring your own skates or skate rental option is also available. There will be hot chocolate and treats for students and Santa will be ready for selfies!  Forms will be distributed Thursday. Forms and payment are due by Monday, December 2nd to the homeroom teacher.  Please return forms and payment as soon as possible! We will be accepting non-perishable food donations for the Food Bank so please feel free to bring items in.  See you there!  As a reference for sizing parents can use: www.hockeymonkey.com/bauer-skate-sizing-chart.” 

Information regarding our Christmas Concert

Happy Team Work Thursday!

This morning Sparkles we found Sparkles sleeping in our Kleenex box. The children think she is very tired from flying back and forth to the North Pole! 

(I forgot to take a picture toady)

Today someone lost their first tooth!! YAAY! 

Math: Today we reviewed some double-digit addition. Students worked through an addition package. Then I introduced Subtraction and borrowing with students. We learned that when the number on the top is smaller than the number on the bottom we need to go to the neighbour in the tens column and ask to borrow one. Then we bring that extra one back to the number in the ones column. 

Christmas Concert: Today we rehearsed our Christmas Concert in the gym. We went over spacing, singing loud but not yelling, expression and moving quietly on and off the stage. 

Cursive: Today we worked through a few pages of cursive together! We went over the cursive alphabet and I walked around watching students write out cursive and helping them along the way! 

French: No French today 

Inquiry into Language: Together as a class we reviewed the components of a journal. We went over that a journal must include a date, title, opening sentence, sentence starters and a closing sentence. We brainstormed ideas of what we would do if we were the teacher for the day! Then we put our ideas in sequence and began writing our journal. 

Agenda:  

Read 15 minutes

Christmas concert next Tuesday 

Christmas concert outfit brought in by Monday

Spelling test tomorrow  

Spelling sentences due tomorrow   

Trip form and money returned by December 9^th

Unit of Inquiry: Today we brainstormed the importance of organization when we pack our suitcase. Some of us are going on a trip soon so this was a good time to talk about how and why we organize our luggage. We also went over the difference between our needs and wants when packing. Then students were given a template of a suitcase and had to organize everything they would take in their suitcase. For example, shirts on one section, pants in another section, toiletries all together etc.

Have a wonderful evening!

Love, Miss Gandy