Wednesday, Jan. 16

Wow! Wind, blizzard-like conditions and cold - winter can have a bitter edge. At school some of the students are finishing off some Super-kid letters they are behind on. Unfortunately, as this was past homework, they are catching up at recess breaks. Homework is a fact of school for most students. Our class policy is to give one day's grace if it was forgotten at home. But if it was forgotten or not done for 2 days, the student loses recess privileges until the work is completed.
Homework for this week:
Social - Test is on Thursday, Jan. 17. The students should have a study guide for Chapter 3.
Spelling - Unit 12 work is due and they will have a quiz on Friday, Jan 18. (compound words)
Handwriting - one page with H, K, and X is due on Friday, Jan. 18.
Superkid Letter to Lindsay- we work on this tomorrow morning, but the final product will also be due on Friday, Jan 18.

The students from Grades 4-9 watched a ski/snowboard presentation in period 8 today. The Grade 6-9 classes will have the chance to go skiing at Castle Mountain on Wednesday, Jan. 30. The Grade 4 and 5 classes will have the chance to go skiing on Wednesday, February 14, 2008. As this is Valentine's day, the Valentine's Day party will happen but it wil probably be on the 13 or the 15. We wil let you know as we know.

Have a warm evening.

Finally, Friday, January 11

It seemed like a long week, but we made it.
Some of the students have homework over the weekend. This includes a journal entry and finishing Christian's Superkid letter. The journal entry is to write a paragraph about what they will remember about Christmas 2007 and to write a paragraph about their New Year's resolution. Each paragraph should have 5 sentences. Both are due on Monday.
Some students still have to finish Spelling Unit 11 and handwriting capital M and N.
Also some of the students said they would still like to make a donation to Holy Childhood Association. I will wait until Monday to send away the monies recieved at the school.
Have a great weekend!

Thursday, January 10

Homework due tomorrow, Friday, January 11:

Spelling Unit 11 - quiz on Unit 11
Handwriting - the capital N and M page
Religion - quiz on Advent, Christmas, and John the Baptist's message

Deadline for Holy Childhood Association donations.
Have a good night.

Wednesday, Jan. 9

Welcome to a new year! I hope each of you had a relaxing holiday without too many scheduled things to do. I enjoyed the break complete with the planned activities and the opportunity to do my thing for a while. The students are adjusting well to getting back in the routine, even if they are not here by choice! Once again we have homework and deadlines.

Homework:
Spelling - Unit 11 is due on Friday, Jan 11 along with the posttest. The posttest will be in printing, but all pretests will be in handwriting.
Handwriting - Capital letters M and N are due Friday, Jan 11.
Religion - We have finished Unit 4 which mainly about Advent, Jesus being our Light, and John the Baptist's message to prepare for Jesus, repent, and change our hearts and actions to be ready for Jesus at Christmas. The students have 2 sheets to study in their religious doutang for a quiz in Friday's class.

Other deadlines:
Pizza lunch to be served on January 16 must be ordered by tomorrow, Jan 10.
The Grade 4 class will be going ot 9 a.m.mass tomorrow along with Grade 3 and 5.
The Holy Childhood Advent boxes are due Friday, January 10.
Book orders are due Tuesday, Jan 15.
Grade 4 students are providing the cupcakes for the sale at noon on January 23.
Grades 4 - 9 will be going to the St. Francis presentation of "High School Musical" on Monday, January 28.
Grade 6 and Jr. High skiing is on Jan. 30. Grade 4 and 5 will be going on February 14.
Science in Motion will come on January 31.

Enjoy the evening!