Week of November 14-18

Dear families,

First snow today! Time for mittens, hats boots and scarves!

It was a pleasure meeting with you last week to discuss your child's progress. Both Juniors and Seniors will receive Progress Reports in February.

Last week the children completed a drawing and writing about what Peace Is... We continued our inquiry on Feelings and read several books about feelings. So far we have written and talked about how sometimes we feel happy, sad, mad or bored. Sometimes all in one day! We also read "You're Mean, Lily Jean" and "Enemy Pie" which are about bullying. The children helped Ms. Santiago write words to fill in a "Friendship Pie" and then they painted a pie and wrote the ingredients inside. The

A special thank you to Ellie, who brought in a Paper Wasp nest that had fallen from a tree. This led to a terrific science inquiry. First we guessed (made several hypotheses) about what it was and what kind of insect made it; then we observed the nest by passing it around, using our five senses and watching a video about paper wasps. Finally, we concluded that it was a paper wasp nest. The children also hypothesized about why the nest was empty i.e. why the wasps left their home. There were lots of interesting guesses and finally one classmate correctly hypothesized that the cold air made insects go underground. Good job!

Thank you as well to Hudson's mom who was out Mystery Reader this week.

On November 25 it is Moustache Day at LKS to support research for Prostate Cancer. Feel free to send your kids to school with a moustache that day! You may send donations with the kids; they will be collected by our Student Council. Thank you!

The November Scholastic Order is due on Tuesday. On Friday the children will be taking home their December order forms. They will be due December 1st to ensure delivery before the holidays. Please remember to mark your order form "GIFT" if you want me to hand your child's order to you personally rather than putting it in his/her backpack. Thank you!

The sight words of the week were PLAY and ON. The letter sound was "C." Next week it will be "K" and "CK."

This week with our Grade 4 Reading Buddies we will be doing interviews! It's also pizza lunch this week. Thank you in advance to our volunteers!

That's our news for this week. I hope you're having a great Sunday. :)