Sunday, January 9

Hello parents and Happy New Year!

This has been a busy week as we returned to school and to our regular classroom activities and routines. The children have been reviewing their letter sound "R" and their numbers and they have been working hard at sounding out words and writing phonetically as well as using high frequency words. I am very impressed with how much the children are learning (both reading and writing, as well as numeracy activities) and with their excellent efforts and participation during our lessons and classroom discussions/sharing time. What wonderful students!

Our morning class will start Reading Buddies next week with Mrs. Shklar's Grade Three class! We will meet with the Grade 3s weekly and this is always a very rewarding program for the older and younger children alike. Our afternoon class will continue meeting once a week with their Reading Buddies from Mrs. Zappi's class.

Thank you very much to all the parents who brought in their Christmas cards - we will use them next year around holiday time to make new Christmas cards and crafts! Thank you as always to our wonderful Grade Parents Melissa Busch, Kim DeLonghi, Anne Rankin and Vicky Giancos who work so diligently on our volunteer schedules.

Welcome to our new student Daniel and his family! Daniel is in our afternoon class. Farewell to Declan (p.m.) whose family moved to Calgary. We will miss him.

Each week in Friday's white TDSB bag several of your child's work sheets go home for you to see. I do retain work as well for reporting/parent interview purposes, and the children do continue their journals and phonics booklets in class.

This week's poem is called "Snow, Snow" and the children can practice reciting the poem with gestures at home.

Please note our upcoming January/February activities posted to the right of this blog. We will be doing several fun and educational activities on Thursday, February 10. I would like each child to bring in 100 items for our display table and to show to their classmates. These should be small items and the children should count them in groups of ten before putting them in a (preferably clear) container. More information to follow as 100th Day approaches.

Thank you,

Mrs. Tyndall