Good afternoon everyone!

I hope you had a great night!

Happy Pancake Tuesday! We started off our day right by handing out our monthly awards and by having a pancake-eating contest. YUM!

Important information and reminders:

Spirit week is fast approaching! This is a fun filled week that we look forward to every year and it is a great lead up to March Break. Spirit week will run from Monday, March 6-Friday, March 10. Please see schedule below!

Monday, March 6 - PJ Day - come dressed in your cozy PJ's!

Tuesday, March 7 - Crazy Hair/Colourful Outfit Day - come dressed in colourful colours and/or with crazy hair!

Wednesday, March 8 - Princess/Superhero Day - come dressed as your favourite superhero or princess!

Thursday, March 9 - House colours - come dressed head to toe in your house colour!

Friday, March 10 - St. Patrick's Day Spirit - come dressed in your finest St. Patrick's Day attire!

Uniform reminders: JK- Grade 2 gym uniforms are to be worn on Mondays and Wednesdays. After a weekend where Monday is a holiday students will return to school on the Tuesday in their dress uniform. For grades 3 and up students are asked to come dressed each day in their dress uniform and bring their gym uniforms daily to change. Grades 4 and up should be wearing the blazer (or house hoody) each day. They will wear it in the hallways and on trips but have the option of removing it in the classroom. Lastly, our spring uniform will be in effect when we return from the Easter Holiday weekend. We will be beginning uniform checks over the next couple of weeks, so please ensure you child is coming to school everyday in their full uniform. Uniform violations will be sent home for students not in their proper attire.

The Medieval Times Festival forms and money were due on Monday. If they have not yet been returned, please do so.

The annual SJA/TMA Oral Competition is taking place this tomorrow. Good luck to our SJA participants. Let’s go SJA!!

Language

Today was our reading buddies and library day. We also continued work on our UOI summative.

Homework – Read for at least 30 minutes per day

So much fun with ours reading buddies!

Math

Today we looked at repeating patterns. A repeating pattern is a pattern that repeats itself. The core is the part of the pattern, which repeats. We explored repeating patterns using attributes (a characteristic of a person or thing – size, shape, colour, etc.)

Homework – MMS pg

UOI

Today we continued work on our good copy comic strips.

Homework – Our UOI summative will begin this week and will be due Friday, March 3. Students will be required to create a 10-frame comic strip based on Feudalism, Knights, and the Black Death (plague).

-Medieval Festival forms and money

Have a lovely night!

Mrs. Hocevar J