1. Kya     2. Adam 3. Maggie 4. George 5. Allison   6. Meaghan 7. Lauren 8. Henry 9. Olivia 10. Tayla 11. Trent 12. Sawyer 13. Holden 14. Hilary 15. Evan 16. Nate 17. Dalilah 18. Catherine  19. Mr. Comeau    

Our sight words this week are: said, can. If you can spell can, what other words can you spell? Practice spelling these words at home and try and use them in your writing.   Poetry books will be going home this week. Parents, your child should know quite a few words in these poems! They are all becoming wonderful little readers. Have them practice reading the poems to you.   In Math, we are still working on geometry. Ask your child to tell you the 3D shapes they know.   If the weather co-operates, we will be going skating on Wednesday afternoon from 1- 2. You need skates and a helmet to go on the ice. Parents are more than welcome to join us for a fun afternoon!

We have a new student in our class. Welcome to Gretna Green, Kya!   This week, we will be reviewing all our Zoophonics sounds and signals.  Keep practicing these at home.  Parents, make up some nonsense words and see if your child can sound them out! Use words like: suv, nip, sen and vov.  You can also say a word and have your child tell you the sounds in the word. For example, if you say dog, your child will say /d/  /o/   /g/.   Encourage your child to write at home.  Let them help prepare grocery lists or write notes to family members.  Encourage your child to stretch out the words and put down all the sounds they hear.    In Math, we are working on shapes.  Look around and see how many shapes you can find!   Show and Tell will be on Friday.  Check the schedule to see if it's your turn. During recess on Friday, students will be participating in a crazy sock hop!  Wear some crazy socks to school that day!

The countdown to Christmas is on! Santa will be here before we know it!   This week, we will be working on the letters Yy and Zz.  Show your parents what yancy yak and zeke zebra say and do.  Yy is found in words like yarn, yellow, yes and yipee!  When we print a lowercase y, it hangs below the line.  Zz is found in zebra, zap, zipper and quiz.  What other words have these letters?    We are finishing the alphabet this week but will continue to work on our letters and review their sounds in January.   There will be no show and tell this week.   There is no homework this week.  Keep reading and reviewing your sight words!   Our Christmas concerts will be on Wednesday at 10:00 and 12:30.  The snow date is Thursday.   This is Miss Case's last week with us! Hopefully, she will come back and visit in the New Year! Congratulations on finishing your teaching degree, Miss Case!   This is going to be an exciting week in Kindergarten! We have lots of Christmas themed Math and Language Arts activities to do!

The countdown is on! Only three more weeks until Christmas Break!   This week we are working on the letters Uu and Vv.  Uu is a vowel and makes two sounds.  It can be found in words like you, cute, quiet, quail, up, and under.  We saw a video of a real umbrella bird today. It was really neat! We made our own umbrella birds and practiced printing the letter.    Vv is  a fun sound to make. Try it and see what happens with your mouth!  Vincent vampire bat can be found in the words, very, vampire, vest and valentine.  We are going to read a book about bats tomorrow.   Our sight word this week is: here! Practice spelling and printing it.   We are going to start Math centers this week with Mrs. Walls' class. Yay!   On Wednesday and Friday, our Grade 3 Readng Buddies will be down to help us write Christmas stories.   We will be making some fun Christmas crafts and learning some songs and poems these next few weeks.   Our class pizza party will be held on Friday.  There will be a note going home tomorrow.    

     Only 4 more weeks until Christmas break! Wow!   This week we are working on the letters Ss and Tt.  Sammy snake likes to slither.  Show your parents the action for this letter.  Ss can be found in words like snake, silly, Sawyer, Matheson, Allison, yes, snow and Santa! What does your mouth feel like when you make the s sound? Try it! It's fun! Tt is found in the words tomato, the, tiger, trick, toys and tickle.  Try to make a list at home with words for both of these letters.  Practice printing your alphabet.   Our new sight word this week is look!  Look around and see where you can find sight words and letters. They are everywhere!   Keep practicing printing your numbers to 5!  See how many different ways you can make 5.   We are going to see Sheree Fitch on Tuesday morning! Yay! I love the pocket poems that we wrote today.   Parents, we recorded some Christmas jokes today for the morning announcements.  Keep an eye out for us! We'll be appearing soon :)  

I hope everyone enjoyed their long weekend, especially the beautiful weather we had! It was a great weekend to play outside!   This week, we will be working on the letters o and p.  "Oo" is a hard working vowel and makes two sounds.  It can make the /o/ sound that's found in words like octopus, Ollie, dog, log, and long.  It can also say it's own name like it does in open, Olivia, November and ocean.   The /p/ sound can be found in words like penguin, pen, pepper, pop and push. It's fun to make the /p/ sound and make your lips pop!  Look around for more words with the letters o and p in them!   Keep practicing the sounds and printing the letters that we've covered so far (a, b, c, d, e, f, g, h, i, j, k, l, m and n).   Our sight words this week will be: "go" and "am".  Keep practicing your sight word cards! Tell your parents how to spell the words: the, a, and, like, to and is!   In Math, we are going to keep counting and making sets to 5. We are also going to keep printing the numbers 0, 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5.   Your poetry books will be going home this week. Surprise your parents by reading the Monster and Little Poppy poems!   We are going to talk about ways to react when things don't go our way this week.  What can we do when someone or something makes us angry?   Friday is school spirit day.  Show your love for Gretna Green by wearing green and gold!