As I'm sure all of you know, the kids are very wound up about the idea of Halloween! We will be incorporating some Halloween activities into our work this week as we wrap up our final unit My Family & Autumn.
While I'm on the topic of Halloween, we will be having a class Halloween party on Friday morning with some games, songs and special treats, followed by a school wide Halloween activity on Friday afternoon that will involve students circulating between different activities. Students are allowed to dress up on Friday, if they so choose, but it's not required. Please remember that no masks are to be worn and if students are wearing Halloween makeup that it be applied at home. Please do not send your child to school with makeup to be applied or 'touched up' at school. We also discourage students from bringing play guns, swords, etc... Lastly, if you're sending in any Halloween treats with your child, please remember that Greenfield nut free.
We finished making our family trees and they are posted outside of our classroom. Thanks for sending in the photos. The kids really enjoyed doing this project. During our last week of this theme we'll be working on a haunted house project. Students will colour and cut out their own haunted houses and do a writing activity describing their haunted house. It's will be a lot of fun, and the finished products will be on display at the end of the week.
This week we'll continue our work on acquiring the French vocabulary words for the parts of the body. The sight words for the week are j'aime, des, viens, gros, grosse. The sounds we're focusing on this week are au, eau and y. We'll also be doing a special focus on vowels.
Students have begun borrowing books from the school's library books. We go to the library on day three, which is this coming Wednesday. The librarian suggested that students take home their library book for one night and then bring it back to the classroom the following day. We have a special library book box in the class, and then all students may read the borrowed books. Please make sure that your child's library book is put back into their homework bag.
In Math this week we'll be doing some review of the previous unit on patterns, and then continue on working with the ten frame. This week we'll also focus on the concepts of plus one and minus one, while using the ten frame as a tool.
The upcoming theme for November is "En pleine forme avec mes amis les animaux" (With my friends the animals).
I sent home the monthly menu for November on Friday. If you'd like to make a food order, please send it back with payment as soon as possible.
The school choir for primary students has begun. Choir practice takes place at big recess on Tuesdays and Fridays. All students are welcome!
Lastly, parent teacher interviews are coming up and have been officially slated for Wednesday November 10th and Friday November 12th. Because I'll be away on Friday the 12th, I'm hoping to hold interviews from 3 - 8pm on Monday November 8th, Tuesday November 9th and Wednesday November 10th. If this is a problem, please contact me and we can make alternate arrangements. I've had some requests for particular times. I'll try my best to accommodate you whenever possible.
As always, please don't hesitate to contact me if you have any questions or concerns.
Ellen
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