Christmas at Greenfield

Hello everyone,

Well we've begun our final theme of 2010 which is..... Christmas! I guess the people writing the curriculum were wise enough to know that there's no point in resisting what is on all of the kids' minds anyway. Today we started decorating our classroom for Christmas, while each day we build our Christmas vocabulary as well.

As you may have noticed, the homework format has changed.  The new format consists of practicing the 'mots fréquents' each night and reading one or two short books with mom or dad. The students will keep the same book or books for the entire week and return them on Friday. I will send home a new book or books each week. From time to time I will still send home some homework that requires them to do some printing in their homework duotangs, but I'm interested to see how the new format goes. I welcome your feedback about this change.

In Math we've been working on the concept of estimation. Next we'll be working on the concepts of a value plus one and a value minus one. Please feel free to practice estimation at home! 

Caramba!  You may have noticed that your child came home with a brand new book by this title. All the grade one French immersion students on PEI received this book as part of a special grant program funded by TD Bank. We had a special visitor come in and read the book to the students and then each student was given their own copy.  It's a great story with beautiful illustrations. Please keep this book at home and enjoy it!

Christmas concert - The Greenfield Christmas concert will be taking place on Thursday December 16th. If your last name begins with a letter between A - L, please attend the morning show which starts at 10am. If your last name begins with a letter between M - Z, please attend the afternoon show which starts at 1pm. The students have been working hard on their numbers for the show!

Food Drive - For our class charitable activity for the holidays, I'd like to ask families to donate any non-perishable food items that they can spare. All food items will be distributed to needy families in the community.

As always feel free to contact me if you have any questions or concerns.

Take care,

Ellen