L.A. this week!

Just a 'heads-up' about the various things we're doing in Language Arts right now:

1) Spelling Unit Two (Long Vowel words) unit work assigned on Friday, the 15th, is due tomorrow, Wednesday, the 18th.
Assigned work includes: Obs Patt - 1.2.3.4
Disc Patt - 1,2
Exp Patt - 2,3,4
Chall Wds - 2,3,4
Spelling tests on these unit words and others are on Fridays, so this Friday the 22nd is the test on Unit 2.

2) The 'Grandparents Project' is still ongoing. We haven't given much class time to this project, but we will try to give more to it in this coming week. The website we're using as a reference and for examples is www.grandparents-day.net. Your son/daughter should have a topic picked, and done some work on this.

3) D.E.A.R.- Drop Everything And Read! - Students will be given time to read each day, at the beginning of the Language period...hopefully from a fiction or non-fiction book appropriate for their reading levels, one that they can use for their "Bag Book Reports" we will be doing next month. Parents, please remind your child to take their book with them to school.

4) Read-aloud - We're reading RUN by Eric Walters, a book about Terry Fox. Our St. Joe's Terry Fox Run happens on Friday, the 29th, but we will have a speaker from the Terry Fox Foundation speak to the school this Friday the 22nd, to set the tone and purpose for upcoming run.

As always if there are any questions, suggestions or whatever, please feel free to call me at the school, 345-3373.