With picture day and a couple of fire drills thrown into the mix, week three was very full! One of our many areas of focus this week was building up stamina in our Read to Self activity. The students are currently able to stay engaged in reading behaviours for eight minutes! After they finish reading, we graph the stamina minutes...they become very motivated to beat their own record!

For the Word Work section, I have created center activities using the October spelling words. Students will have many opportunities to practice their spelling words and group working skills while working with various classmates on fun activities.

I will be starting a Work on Writing activity with my students this week, it is a book called My House All Year. In this book, each student will write a sentence about each month of the year and draw a picture to accompany the sentence. This book will provide my students with writing practice and math practice (time: months of the year and seasons). We will only do one page every few days and I am really encouraging each student to do their best, because we will show these books to their parents at Parent-Teacher Conferences.

Reminders:

• Sept 26th- Opening Mass at ST. Martha's church. Buses will drop students off at the church. If you drive your child to school or if you walk, you will need to bring them to the church no later than 8:40. Buses will bring all students back to the school.
• Sept 27th- Wear your running shoes!! The entire school will be running for the Terry Fox Run.
• Running club continues until the end of October: 
• Mon - Thurs 8:20 - 8:35 
• Mon 12:05 - 12:35 - Div 2
• Tues 12:05 - 12:35 - Div 1