Bursting with Pride! School Spirit at its Best!

The final tally was $750.00! We came together as a school community to support L.A.W.S. and it was a roaring success! On Monday Rufus (the Saint Bernard) and David C. (the V.P. of L.A.W.S.) stopped in to thank us and to tell us a little bit about all of the wonderful work L.A.W.S. does for the community. He was overjoyed with our donations and Mrs. T. and I could not have been more proud! When the idea came to us we never guessed that it would be such a success! Congratulations to everyone and thank you once again for all your contributions!

Our Christmas Writing! Language Learning in December!

The grade ones are continuing to work on writing interesting sentences with details. They are reminded to read over their sentences to make sure they make sense. When they edit their sentences they are looking for their own mistakes to correct. They should be recognizing missing or the incorrect use of capital letters, missing punctuation, misspelled word wall words, proper letters sizes and spacing between words, etc.... This is something that can be practiced at home. Even if you encourage your son or daughter to write one sentence each night. It's a great opportunity to practise the word wall words for that week. Use flashcards with word wall words and mix up the words. Now put the words together to make a sentence! Don't forget to use flashcards for the different types of punctuation and name the words that would need a capital letter. We used our sentence writing skills to write Christmas sentences. You can see them on the red and green lights which are decorating our bulletin board.

The grade twos are learning to use the wonderful sentences they learned to write in grade one for writing powerful paragraphs! They know what a topic sentence is and why it is important in a paragraph. They are becoming more skilled when writing the detail sentences that support the topic sentence. They really do love to write and read and it warms my heart to see them eager to work and express all of their wonderful ideas! Editing is still and area that needs work but it too is coming along! Sometimes those simple mistakes are the hardest to find! All of our paragraph writing skills are also displayed on the bulletin board! The grade twos worked in groups of two or three to write their own Christmas paragraph. We brainstormed the topic sentences together and each group then chose the topic sentence they wanted to turn into a paragraph! The silver ornaments shine just as brightly as our paragraphs!

Ho Ho Ho Ho'tastic work everyone!!!