Week of October 3-7

Dear families,

I hope you had a lovely Thanksgiving weekend. The children were so proud of the "stained glass" votive candle holder they made for you. We read "The Thankful Book" by Todd Parr and the children wrote about what they are thankful for. The number one answer was "My Family." They also learned the poems "Gobble, Gobble," and "Five Little Turkeys."

The letter sound of the week was "P." The sight words were IN and SEE.

The children brought home their "Pete the Cat Loves Colours" folder. Please encourage your child to tell you about their work and to read it with you.

Ms. Zappi. Ms. Sunde and myself are organizing a "Scare Hunger" food drive for the Daily Bread Food Bank. LKS is collecting non-perishable and nut-free foods for the next 2 weeks. Thank you for your support!

On Wednesday it is wear BLUE JAYS clothes to school day at LKS. Baseball caps are allowed woo hoo!

Thank you to Caelan's mom who was our Mystery Reader this week. She read some Curious George stories to the class.

With our Grade 4 Reading Buddies the children made a construction paper tree. When it's dry they will be adding fall-coloured plasticine leaves to follow up on our Barbara Reid book study of "Picture a Tree." www.barbarareid.com These will be put on display on the hall bulletin board.

The Scholastic Book Fair is this week. Group 1 goes on Thursday, Group 2 on Friday. If you would like your child to purchase a book/s, please send money in a plastic zip-lock bag marked with your child's name.

Our classroom Science Centre has changed from Simple Machines to Signs of Fall. Once the leaves turn a litle more, we'll go on an Autumn Scavenger Hunt in the Shale Pit and around LKS. The children are also painting "magic" sight word leaves for our big tree in the dramatic centre. This is easy to do at home. On white cardstock, write sight words with a white crayon. When your child paints it, the word will magically appear!

That's the news for this week! Happy Thanksgiving - we have so much to be thankful for.

Mrs. Tyndall