Hi Everyone!

Welcome back! I hope you had a good weekend!

Phys. Ed- Our Phys. Ed days this week are Tuesday, Wednesday, and Friday.

Library - Our library day is on Thursday. Make sure you bring your book back so you can sign out another one.

Homework/Reading - The homework for the week is listed in the orange folders. The spelling words focus on the short /i/ vowel sound. We will be working on the words each day at school as well. The word work activity is on the short /i/ vowel sound too. Students have to look at the picture and put down the sounds they hear for each one. We are doing some writing again this week. It is important that our sentences tell a whole idea and begin and end the right way. Use the pictures on the page to write a sentence. See if you can use some of this week’s spelling words in the sentence. In math we are working on even and odd numbers and place value to 25. Make sure you read your book each night and record it on the log sheet.

School Clothing Orders - If you would like to order school clothing, you can do so on-line at the link provided. Orders are done by River Signs and will be sent to the school for pick up. Monday October 25^th is the last day to place your order.

https://www.riversigns.ca/collections/nelson-rural-school

Fundraising - Our School Fundraising Campaign will kick off on Tuesday October 26th. The fundraising packs will be going home with the students on Tuesday. Please look for this information in the yellow folders.

Spirit Week – This week is our first Spirit Week of the year. There are theme days each week. Tuesday – School Colours; Wednesday – Mismatch Day; Thursday – Black & Orange Day; Friday – Crazy Hair/Hat Day or Costume. Please note that the students can’t wear masks to go with their costume. The school will be providing fruit and veggie trays for each class on Friday.

Pumpkin Contest – If you would like to enter individual pumpkins in the contest, students are asked to take a picture of their entry and e-mail to Mme. Hitchman by Wednesday October 27^th. rebecca.hitchman@nbed.nb.ca

Picture Retakes/Sibling Pictures - School picture retakes and sibling pictures will be done on October 28th. Please fill out the purple form that was sent home if you would like to have these done.

Literacy - This week we are continuing our spelling program. The word work for the week will focus on the spelling words and the short/i/ vowel sounds. We will be doing lots of work with vowels. Our writing is coming along and we are adding more sentences to the amount we write. Remember that our sentence tells a whole idea and must begin and end the right way. We will start doing work with the 6+1 Writing Traits this week. The first trait is Ideas. We are building on our bank of strategies to help with our reading. It is important that we read every day and use the strategies we are learning.

Math - In math we are working on place value to 25 and representing numbers in different ways, and odd and even numbers. We continue to work on counting by 1s, 2s and 10s forwards and backwards.

Have a fun week!