Thank you to everyone who was able to drop-in for our Open House yesterday. I enjoyed speaking with many of you.

This week we started to work in our printing notebooks with the letters A and E. I will introduce the vowels first and then we will work through the rest of the aplphabet. Our focus is on proper letter formation, size, and spacing. We spend time learning the sounds each letter makes and identify words that begin with the letter.

We are doing similar work with the numbers 0 -9. Any extra practice you can provide your child at home for both letter and number formation serves as great review and skill-building opportunities. Children often love fingerpainting, forming the letters/numbers out of playdough, writing them in chalk on the sidewalk, writing with markers, etc.

This week in Gym was spent "conditioning" for today's Terry Fox run. The students set a goal for how many laps they hoped to run and many of them either attained or exceeded their goal. Thank you very much for your generous donations in support of the Canadian Cancer Foundation.

Every day, we have "Calendar Time" in the morning where we practice counting, identifying odd and even numbers, practicing the days of the week and months of the year, and recording how many days we've been at school using numerals, tally marks, ten frames, and place value blocks. Next week, we will be focusing on representing numbers using tally marks and ten frames during our Math lessons.

I sent home a small "homework" task with he students today. Your child has brought home an "All About Me" bag to fill over the weekend with four small objects and/or photos to share with their classmates next week. Please have them choose only 4 objects and make sure they can allfor inside the bag. Please also label their bag with their name. We will share a few bags each day. I'd like to have all the bags back to school by Wednesday.

** We have a dance residency beginning next week with a local dance company called Three Left Feet. Please make sure your child is dressed in clothes that are appropriate for dancing. This residency will be going on for the next two weeks culminating with a sharing assembly in the Gym on Friday, September 25 from 10:45 - 11:30. Parents and family members are welcome to attend! :)

A friendly reminder that our library day is Tuesday. Please have your child return their book by Monday each week to give our librarian time to check the books back into the system. Thank you for your help with this.