Merry Christmas!!!

Hi Everyone! I hope you are enjoying Christmas Day with lots of love and laughter!

From my Family to yours, we wish you a very Merry Christmas and Happy Kwanzaa tomorrow!

Love,

Mrs. Nelson

One....More...Day!!!!!

Today was busy! Full of singing and spelling and painting and colouring and some more singing!

Tomorrow is our last day of 2015! It is a half day so please don't forget to pick us up at 11am.  We have caroling in the morning followed by a short Grinchy movie! Then we are going to do a craft with our Grade 2 friends! We will finish the year with a Dance Party....of course!!!

We have had a wonderful first 4 months of Grade 1 and we look forward to some more! We have so much to celebrate in the new year!

Keep up the reading, either with your own books or on Raz Kids!

I'm looking forward to the break, but I will miss you all! See you tomorrow!!!

This is out late...so sorry!

We had a great day filled with lots of painting! We sang carols this morning with the whole school and then we just had to listen to the Hippopotamus song in class too!!! Mrs. Nelson loves Hippos!

Popcorn still for sale tomorrow and they will get it on Friday!

We finished making a special gift today!!!!!

2 more days!

3 more days!!!!

Today each student was able to choose their own book as a gift from Parent Council! What a GREAT GIFT!!!! The money came from funds they have raised and we are so grateful to receive this gift! We hope you enjoy the book with your child. 

POPCORN SALE!!!! It started today and continues on Wed and Thurs. The popcorn can be bought anytime BUT it will be given to students on FRIDAY during our movie time.
Popcorn is $2 per bag. 

The flavors are:
Dill Pickle
White Cheddar
Say Cheese
Jalapeño Jack
Kettlecorn 
Salt and Vinegar

We have been working on a special gift for you! We really hope you like it!

In Social Studies we are talking about why we have certain businesses in our community. In the new year, we will celebrate Kwanzaa and learn about our Family History and what our future could hold! 

We will have our Spelling Review on Thursday....Friday is going to be crazy!!! :) 

Today we had our spelling review!!!! We did GREAT!!!! Thank you to everyone who is practicing at home! Keep up the great work!!!!

We learned about places in our community and followed a directions sheet to colour them a certain colour! We are getting great at reading and following directions!!!

Next week we will be making some great crafts made from US!!!!

There is a popcorn sale next week on Tues, Wed and Thurs. The popcorn can be bought any of those days BUT it will be given to students on the FRIDAY during our movie time.
Popcorn is $2 per bag....a notice should be coming home today about it!

Enjoy the last two days of Hanukkah!!!

Thank you Thank you!

Thank you to all of you who were able to make it to our Winter Concert and Art Walk last night! We had a great turn out! We hope you enjoyed all of the art! We loved creating it!

Today we did indoor PE and we were all exhausted by the end. We worked our legs, arms and hearts!!!

We did Student of the Day and practiced our printing and we looked for our spelling words in the lyrics of a song! Then we got to dance to the song!

We watched the Dress Rehearsal of the other students performing tonight! WOW....are you ever going to be blown away if you're going!

Spelling review tomorrow!

So Sorry!!!! Winter Concert Wednesday

This was supposed to be posted last night! A thousand apologies!!!

TONIGHT is our Winter Concert! We had a great dress rehearsal this afternoon! The doors will be open at 5:30. Please drop off your child to their classroom and then find a great seat to watch the concert! We appreciate everyone staying the entire evening!

After the concert, your child will tour you around the school for the Art Walk! A lot of time and effort has gone into the displays and the art! Please take time to enjoy it all!

Tomorrow is Library Day. We will not be taking books out tomorrow, but we will return all our books! We will take books out after the winter holiday!

Keep practicing those spelling words!

can
on
is
at
you

See you tonight!!!!!!

Tubular Tuesday!

Did you learn about Hanukkah from your child last night? We learned a song today about a driedel! Ask me to sing it for you!

We started to learn about different shades of colours this afternoon for Science! It is already looking so delicious.

Tomorrow evening, your child should be at school at 5:30. That is when the doors will be open. We are excited to show you our singing and art work!

Home Reading and Spelling practice for homework!

Happy Hanukkah

Today is the 2nd day of Hanukkah. We read a story and watched a video about why Jewish people celebrate Hanukkah! Hanukkah is celebrated for 8 days. Ask your child why!!!! It has to do with the oil!

We are so excited to sing for you on Wednesday night. Please be here at 5:30, so you can drop your child off at their classroom and you can find a great seat! The Art Walk will be after the concert!

New Spelling Words:

can
on
is
at
you

Your child will be bringing home a practice sheet! Please help them practice!

Thank you to those parents interested in joining our Wee Reads program! Please make sure that your green form is filled out and returned to your child's classroom teacher no later than Friday December 11. Our Calgary Reads coordinators will contact you about the training session being held on Tuesday December 15.

Thank you and Volunteering!

Thank you to everyone who was able to make it to Conferences! It was lovely to see you and talk about your child.

If you missed out on coming, please email me at milnelson@cbe.ab.ca and I will be able to set up a time to see you after school.

If anyone has received their security clearance and filled out our Volunteer forms, I am looking to have a schedule for Volunteering within our classroom starting in the New Year! If you are interested please email me or call after school and we can chat.

We have a program called Wee Reads with Calgary Reads and are looking for Volunteers for that. It is a time commitment of 20-30 minutes each week reading with 1 or 2 children. The children will be from K, Grade 1 or Grade 2. You will be matched with the same children each week. You may play a game or build other literacy skills with them as well. I have volunteer sheets for this and can send them home with your little one.

For Wee Reads there is a mandatory meeting on Tuesday, December 15th at 5:30pm here at the school.

For any information, please do not hesitate to email or call me.

Michelle Nelson
403-777-6610
milnelson@cbe.ab.ca

Conferences

Hope I get to see you all tonight or tomorrow! Mr. Rattan would love to have some visitors as well! Please call the office to book with him (403) 777-6610. Or see if you can just pop by while you are here.

Some students came home with books from the book fair. I love to see their thirst for knowledge!

Please read with your child each evening for about 10-20 minutes. Reading each day will help with their reading comprehension and fluency. Send them on a word hunt for some of our spelling words.

Have a glorious weekend!

Winter Community Fair

For Your Information:

Scholastic Book Fair

Students have looked at the books in our book fair and have brought home a sticky note with the title of the book and cost of the book. They are allowed to bring money in to make purchases, but it is not not mandatory.

Thank you for your support!!!

Sorry we missed yesterday! We had a student running in our hallway get hurt and I got pulled away to help him. It was a great reminder that we shouldn't run in the hallway.

This month we will be reading about different holidays that are celebrated this time of year. Hannukah, Christmas, New Years, Kwanzaa and any other holiday that we come across! If you know of a holiday that is celebrated please let me know and we will do our best to learn all about it.

my email is milnelson@cbe.ab.ca I promise it works now!!!!!

Yesterday and today we did dance in PE. Yesterday we were chicken's and today we were turned into Bunny's. It was SO much fun!

The students are working on their Math Centres as I write this, and it is beautiful to see their minds engaged in their activities.

If you haven't done so already, please book an appointment to meet with me for Conferences. You can also book with our Music Teacher, Mr. Rattan if you would like to know what your child is learning in Music. If you can't access through the website, please call the office and book with Mrs. Cummings.

http://schools.cbe.ab.ca/b372/ this link takes you to our school website that has directions to the conference bookings.

This afternoon we continued working on our Snowman and our Countdown to Winter Break.