Hi Everyone!  Welcome Back! Happy New Year! I hope that everyone had a wonderful holiday with their family.    Winter Weather  We have a lot more snow now. Please make sure that you are dressed for the weather with mittens or gloves and a  hat.        Skating  Our next skating day is on Thursday January 17th. Ice time is from 9:00 - 9:40am. Please join us if you are able.          Have a great week and best wishes for a wonderful 2013!

 Hi Everyone,  I hope you enjoyed your weekend. There are only two more weeks until Christmas! Just a reminder to make sure you are coming dressed for the weather as the days are getting colder. Please bring your hats and mittens or gloves.      Phys. Ed  Our Phys. Ed days are on Monday and Wednesday.        Library  Library day is on Wednesday. Remember to bring your book.    Christmas Dinner  Our school Christmas Dinner will be held on Wednesday December 12. The cost of the dinner is $5.00. If you do not wish to have the turkey dinner, please bring your lunch on Wednesday, as this is the only meal the cafeteria will be serving.  Christmas Shoppe  The Christmas Shoppe will be opened for students to do some Christmas shopping for their parents. This will take place on Friday December 14th. Items will cost between $1.00 - $3.00. Please bring your money on Friday if you would like to do some shopping.      Class Project With Texas  We mailed out our Christmas cards on Friday. We hope they like the Canadian cards that we sent. This month we are also working on our shared writing about our family Christmas Traditions. We were unable to do our weekly report this week, as we had trouble connecting. Hopefully we will reconnect for next week.    Math  We are continuing with our unit on numbers to 100. We are working on equal and unequal sets and comparing and ordering numbers. Keep working on counting in different ways at home.    Borrow-A-Book  Just a reminder to make sure that you read your book each night and record it on the log sheet.        Have a great week!          

 Hi Everyone,  I hope you had a good weekend! The weather is getting colder! Please make sure that you are coming dressed for the weather with hats, jackets and mittens.      Phys.Ed  Our Phys.Ed days are Monday and Wednesday.        Library  We have library on Wednesday. Please remember to bring your book.    Class Pictures  Our Class Pictures are available to students at a cost of $2.00      Project With Texas  Our friends in Texas were on holiday last week, as they celebrated Thanksgiving. We were unable to connect the week before to do our weekly report. Evan B., Madeline and Caleb will be our reporters for this week. We sent our letters off to Texas last week, so they should get them by the end of this week. We checked on our tulip garden and observed the changes and checked the soil temperature. We predicted what we thought would happen before we went to see the garden. There was nothing growing, but we did see frost on the soil. Our friends in Texas still have not planted their bulbs yet.                                                                            Play With Your Food Art Show  As part of our project with Texas, we will be having our 6th annual Play With Your Food Art Show. Each student in Grades 2&3 will create a character using fruits and/or vegetables. The show will be held on Thursday November 29th. The characters can only be made the night before, so students will make them on Wednesday November 28th. We will send home black eyed peas and toothpicks on that day. A memo has been sent home about the art and there will be follow up ones. The characters do not have to big or elaborate. They can be made with one peice of fruit or vegetable. Check at home first, you may see a character in something you already have. Check out the Iamge Galleries on the school website for pictures of previous years. We are looking forward to this year's show.  Sheree Fitch  On Tuesday November 27th, we will be going to Gretna Green school to see Canadian author Sheree Fitch.        Family Math Night  The school will be hosting a Family Math Night for K-5 students and their families on Tuesday November 27th from 6:00-7:00pm. Come out and have some fun!    Have a great week!

 Hi Everyone,  I hope you enjoyed your weekend and took some time to remember our Veterans,  Canadian Soldiers and Peace Keepers on Rememberance Day.      Phys.Ed  Our Phys.Ed day this week is on Wednesday.        Library  We have library on Wednesday . Remember to bring your book.    Project With Texas  We had our second weekly report on Wednesday. Taylor, Shaye and Alex did a super job as the reporters. We are busy working on our first pen pal letters and are sending them out at the end of the week. For our November activity we will be having, Our Play With Your Food Art Show and our Texan friends will be telling us about Thanksgiving in America.    Skating  Our first skating time of the season is on Thursday November 15th. Our ice time is from 9:00 - 9:40 am. Students will need skates and a helmet to be on the ice. Parents are welcome to join us.      Book Orders  Our November Scholastic Book order is due back on Friday November 16th if you would like to order.        Math  Just a reminder that in Math we are working on a unit of Numbers up to 100. Please keep working on counting backwards and forwards by 2s, 5s and 10s. As well counting with money, even and odd numbers and ordinal numbers.    Borrow-A-Book  Please make sure that you read each night and sign your log sheet.    Have a great week!

 Hi Everyone,  I hope you had a good weekend! It looks like we are in for a wet week!        Phys. Ed  Our Phys.Ed days are on Monday and Wednesday.        Math  We are doing a unit on Numbers to 100 and we are learning to count in different ways, using lots of materials. This week we are counting with money. Get out some coins and count at home.      Library  Our library day is on Wednesday. Don't forget your book.      Class Project With Texas  We had our first weekly report on Friday October 26th. Brianna, William and Garrison did a great job as the class and weather reporters and poetry reader. The students were really excited to finally meet their new friends. We will be doing weekly reports on Wednesday's.    Skating  Our first skating day is coming up on November 15th. Students will need skates and a helmet.        Have a safe and fun night on Wednesday when you are out Trick or Treating.  Have a great week!  Happy Halloween!

 Happy Thanksgiving!  I hope you had a wonderful weekend with your family and friends. This is a short week for students, as there is no school on Tuesday. It is a Professional Learning Day for teachers. Students are back to class on Wednesday October 10th.    Library  Our library day is on Wednesday. Don't forget your book!      Phys. Ed  Our Phys. Ed  days are Monday and Wednesday        School Clothing Orders  Orders for school clothing will be on Wednesday October 10th from 9am - 3pm.        Math  We have finished up our unit on patterns and now we are starting a unit on Numbers to 100. Keep counting in different ways.    Have a great week!

 Hi Everyone!  What an exciting week we had at Nelson Rural last week, with NFL superstar Rob Gronkowski viisting!  The students and staff had a great day!     Phys.Ed - Our Phys. Ed days this week are Monday, Wednesday and Thursday.    Library  Wednesday is our library day. Bring your book!        Borrow-A-Book  Just a reminder to make sure you are reading every night and recording the book on your log sheet.        No School  There is no shool for students on Friday April 20th. This is a CI Day for teachers.        Have a great week!