HAVE A SAFE AND HAPPY HOLIDAY SEASON!!!!!!!!!!!
SEE YOU NEXT YEAR!!!

Christmas is coming!

The sounds we are covering this week are alternatives to sounds we have already learned for the "long" vowel sounds - ai, ay, and a_e; ee and ea; ie, igh, and i_e; oa, ow, and o_e. We call the a_e, i_e, and o_e magic e words, where the e jumps over the previous letter, a consonant, and makes the vowel say its own name.

Our new words for the week are all and are.

Activities coming up in the nextfew weeks are as follows:

Dec 13 toque day (winter hats)
Elementary Christmas concert - 6pm
Dec 15 - K-5 students can purchase a candy cane gram for .50 - they will be
delivered on Dec 21st
Dec 14 - Christmas sweater day
Dec 15 - PJ Day
Dec 16 - clementine treat day
Dec 17 - Santa Claus Parade
Dec 20 - Santa hat day
Dec 21 - Red and Green day
Dec 22 - Bring Your Own Mug day - free hot chocolate
Dec 23 - 1/2 day - Happy Holidays!!!

Well, hopefully we will have a full week this week.....

Sounds this week are "er", "ar", and "au" (as in autumn). New words for the word wall are "to" and "do".

We had an excellent day on Friday, culminating our Anti-bullying week with a school-wide assembly and wearing our pink t-shirts all day!

Welcome to our newest student in Kindergarten, Alexander Holmes.

CURRICULUM NIGHT

Come to our K-2 Curriculum night tonight, Thursday November 24th, from 6-7pm in the Great Hall at GMCS - BRING YOU STUDENT/S TO SHOW YOU WHAT WE DO EACH DAY!!!!

First of all, a big THANK YOU to those of you who came out to Parent-Teacher interviews. I truly appreciate the time you take on your child's behalf.

We are coming near to the end of our Jolly Phonics sounds. This week we will learn "qu" (as in quack), "oi" (as in noise), "ou" (as in sound), and "ue" (as in rescue).

New words for the word wall are "be" and "was". There will also be a sheet coming in with homework that contains all of the sight words up until Christmas for you to practice with your child.

This week is Anit-bullying week, and there will be activities all week long to help children identify bullying and avoid it - culminating on Friday with a school-wide photo of everyone in their pink tshirts, which they will receive on Friday morning to wear for the day (and keep).

Report cards....

Report cards will come home with the students on Monday, November 14th. After you have read the report, please sign the envelope and return it with the sign-up sheet for Parent-Teacher interviews. The interviews will take place on Thursday, Nov. 17th, from 6-8pm, and again on Friday, Nov. 18th, from 9-11am. If you are unable to make it at either of those times, I will gladly find a time convenient for us to get together.
This week we will be doing 3 more sounds - "ch", "sh", and "th". On Thursday we will watch the video that goes with Book 6 of the Jolly Phonics program. Thank you for helping your child practice the sounds he/she is learning.
New tricky words this week are me and we. I will send a list home with all of the words so far so you can go over them with your child. These foundation words for reading are very important and will help your child be more confident as he/she learns them.
With the Parent-Teacher interviews, there will be no school for students this Friday, Nov. 18th.

There is no school on Friday as we celebrate Remembrance Day. The island Remembrance Day service will be in the Great Hall at GMCS at 10:30am.

There will be a school Remembrance Day service at 1pm on Thursday, November 10th.

We are learning sounds for "OO and oo" as is book and moon, "y" as in yellow, and "x" the ks sound this week. Words for the word wall are "he" and "she".

Report cards will come home next week, and Parent-Teacher interviews will take place Thursday, Nov 17th, in the evening, and Friday, Nov 18th, in the morning. Notices for sign-up will come home next week with the report cards.