It was the 100th day of school today!  The students had a great time counting to 100 by making 100th day hats and playing the math game race to 100.  They also made pictures using the number 100.  Ask your child what they made out of the number 100.  Even for our bell work today, the students had to write 100 words! A favourite activity for the 100th day of school is the Fruit Loop Necklace.  Yes, they made those as well!  We had a exciting day.  We will continue with our regular program tomorrow.  We will start linear measurement in Math (measuring length) and write recounts for our writers' workshop.  We have been writing recounts every Monday with On the weekend I... however, we will look at the different criteria for recounts.  We will also being our guided reading groups next week.  In Social Studies, the grade one students are learning about different community helpers and the grade two students are learning about Lunar New Year.

Valentine's Day is this Friday, so the students may bring Valentine's Day cards to hand out to the students.  If your child does decide to hand out cards, please ensure he/she gives a card to each student in the class.