Our Week

Well by now you have all heard the big news. Our class was up to 29 kids and most of the classes around us were at 28 kids so the School Board gave us another teacher. Good news and bad. We now have smaller classrooms and fewer split classes but it is still difficult to have move children one month into the school year. It was a very difficult decision deciding who would go into the new classroom. We spent a lot of time thinking of both friendships and working groups. Please trust that these decisions were not made lightly or hastily. We also made sure that the teachers from last year were consulted so we knew about past friendships as well as potential problems. Yes it is upsetting for some of the children- for us too! We are trying to be positive and make these moves go as smoothly as possible. If your child is upset, please help them by trying to stay positive about the moves. I have been through this about five times over the last 15 years and within a week or so, all will settle down. Having said that, please understand that at school we know how upsetting this can be for your child. Lots of hugs over the next week or so! I will make sure that our class and the new grade two class get together for an activity next week.

Congratulations to Coen Wall whose art was selected from our classroom to be shown at the October Art Show at the Regina Public School Board!

This week we did not have a spelling list to study. We spent the week working on various sight words that are difficult to spell. We made up some goofy ways to remember some of the words. We also made word searches using these words and exchanged them with a partner to do.

Doing our word searches.