Ms. Lawless' Blog: December 14th

Hello Parents,

This is the 3rd week of Advent. The liturgical colour is purple. Advent is a time for waiting. We are waiting for the birth of our saviour, Jesus! Mrs. D'Ettorre added the shepherd and Three Wisemen to our Nativity display in the front foyer. We gathered around the Nativity Scene last week to talk about it. Your child should be able to talk about the meaning of the following: manger, stable, Mary, Joseph, Angel Gabriel, Jesus, Advent, Advent wreath, shepherd, wisemen, gifts.

Note that there will not be any new word wall words this week. We will resume our word wall word study in January. You can take this opportunity to review all the words studied to-date. I will send home a list of all the words studied so far this week. Remember that they are required to know all these words by sight. I will be assessing each child on their knowledge of the word wall words in early January.

St. Cecilia Advent Project

A very BIG thanks to those who sent their items for needy families. Some money from Spirit Day and the White Elephant Sale will also go to purchasing items for needy families for Christmas.

The White Elephant Sale was a lot of fun! Each child had a chance to purchase something from the sale. The Kids loved it!

In Language, we are finishing up our study of descriptive writing. The children had many opportunities to practice this writing form and get very good at it. Our next writing form will be procedural writing (e.x. How to make a snowman, How to make lemonade etc.).

We are working our data management unit (ex. tallies, surveys, bar graphs, pictographs, interpreting data). The children are getting good at collecting data from a survey question, tallying the votes and completing a bar graph. They are also getting good at interpreting the data using math terms such as more, less, most popular, least popular, more than, less than.

A big thanks to Nanny Sue and the awesome volunteers for making our elf crafts last Wednesday. The children really enjoyed making this craft and are also getting better at following step-by-step instructions. Super!