It's that time of year again!  Our first skating session is on Thursday, November 19th from 10:00-10:30.  Remember to dress warmly and don't forget your helmet!

This week in Math we will be starting our unit on Addition and Subtraction to 12.  Parents can read the attached note for suggestions in helping their child at home.

  Dear Readers, Happy Halloween to all!  We were so busy working on Halloween activities this week.  Last Friday we decorated a pumpkin for Pizza Delight and on Monday we decorated another pumpkin that is on display in the office.  On Tuesday we all wrote spooky stories for our reading buddies.  They wrote spooky stories for us and we shared them together.  We were not scared of their stories, but they were really scared of ours.  Wednesday was Scary Hair Day.  We had webs, skeletons, hair spray, spiders and hair that just stuck up in the air.  We had lots of fun getting our hair ready in the morning.  Thanks parents for helping us with our hair.  We all wore orange and black on Thursday and Dalton even had orange and black in his hair.  Our school President, Jarad, took our picture for Orange and Black Day.  We are all EXCITED for this afternoon because we get to wear our costumes for the Halloween Costume Parade.    Our costumes are: Kaylee - Devil Skylar - Bumblebee Cameron - Iron Man Megan - Hula Dancer Braydan - Wolverine Logan - Star Wars character Dalton - Pirate Drew - Princess Mia - Spiderella Gillian - An action figure Jaden - Wolverine Samantha - Princess Hunter - Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle Evan - Star Wars character Keisha - Fairy HAPPY HALLOWEEN EVERYONE!                                    Sincerely,                                        Mrs. O'Toole's Grade One Class P.S. Bud just returned to our classroom today.  He was in the United States visiting McGruff and Scruff.  He stayed longer to help them film a Halloween Safety movie.  We are glad he is back.  We love him because he writes us letters and he is really cute.    

This week we will be working on the short a sound. The spelling words this week focus on the short a sound and your child will be doing short a sound class activities this week.  You can have your child try to find words in their reading log books that have the short a sound.  Please visit the web link titled Short a Sound on the right hand side of this page for an online game working with words that have the short a sound.    Some examples of words with the short a sound are: apple map cat as ask had Thanks!

Enjoy your Thanksgiving with family and friends!  See you all on Tuesday.  Don't forget to try and write Bud a letter over your break.  Remember to ask him some questions.

This morning the Fire Fighters presented a presentation on Fire Safety for Fire Prevention Week.  It would be a great idea to talk to your child about what they learned about fire safety and also discuss and practice your fire escape plan at home.  Thanks :)

    The Gretna Green Science Fair was a big hit in my class.  The students worked with a partner and decided on what they wanted to test using the scientific process.  Materials were gathered and students worked hard on their projects at school.  They completed all the steps in the scientific process including their hypothesis, list of materials needed, methods, results and their conclusion.  The students were excited to show and explain their projects to the rest of the students at Gretna Green and to the judges.  Some of the projects included, testing different styles of paper airplanes to see which one would go further and figuring out if an ice cube in water would melt faster than an ice cube not in water.  The projects were all well done.