Term 2 Begins

• I hope that everyone received a copy of your child's report card. Please keep the report, and return the attached sheet to comment or state that you seen the card.  I am very proud of everyone's work in First Term and am so excited to see what Term 2 has in store for us.
• A big Thank You to all parents for having Food Orders separated and with the correct change last week, it made a huge difference.
• This is a four day week for the kids with no school on Friday.
• I am sure you have heard your child mention that they are recreating the Nativity scene for the Christmas Concert. So, they do not need a fancy dress or shirt and tie this year. Mrs. Brennan would really like if everyone could dress in character (as much as possible). For example: The angels should wear white, Shepherds and Joseph maybe dark robes, Mary maybe wrapped in a baby blue or white bed sheet, Wisemen - we have some stuff at the school but maybe some extra costume jewelry - necklaces. Thank you for your support here and DON'T stress or search too much for anything- it always comes together just fine.
• Our Poetry Unit has been a huge success. Every child in the room is officially a Poet. They are so creative, some hilarious and others heart warming. We will continue to add to our poetry booklets throughout the year.
• Last week we starting learning about magazines, and began reading the Sports magazine that is a part of the Grade 3 Literacy Place program. We will use this as a spring board to create our own class Christmas magazine. So, don't miss your copy of that when it comes hot of the presses in mid- December. 
• ACC is heading to Charlottetown next Friday (Dec.7th), to see the play the Wizard of Oz. This will be a very exciting experience for the children. Permissions slips will be sent home the first of next week. I have already had some parents volunteer to come along, unfortunately there is only a limited number of seats booked and any extra seats would be going to the K-2 classes where they really need some extra eyes to keep everyone together.

Report Card Week

• Report Cards will be sent home this Thursday.
• Monday is food order day for the meals this week. Just a friendly reminder if your child is purchasing both meals to please have the money in separate bags with exact change, as the money is going to two different places and often it is difficult to make the correct change needed in the classroom to have all the orders straight. (This is especially true on a Milk Ordering Day when a $5 & $10 bill are sent in to cover orders going for milk, sub, and a home & school meal.) If the exact change is there in separate bags, it saves a lot of time and confusion on ordering days.(THANK YOU)
• We have FINALLY finished all the letters in Cursive Writing. So, for this week we will finish up the book and review how to make all the letters. We will probably start writing everything in Cursive Writing the following week. At first this really slows down their writing but within a couple of weeks of practice it will become faster than their current printing.
• Speaking of writing this week the students all have really impressed me with the amount of detail and organization that went into their writing pieces. They are really putting their best effort forward and are caring about making their work the best they can make it. (Way to go Team!!)

Back to the Books on Tuesday!

• It was great to meet with all the parents during the interview times. Your children are very lucky to have such wonderful supportive families.
• Last week I forgot to Thank Colby and Keagan for the the Very Yummy Halloween Snacks. The Carmel Dip with Apples and Cupcakes were a huge treat for the kids and they loved them.
• A VERY HAPPY BIRTHDAY to Colby who turned 9 this past Wednesday! We hope you had a great celebration Colby!
• This week is Bully Awareness Week and in honor of it this Friday everyone is asked to wear Pink.

What is Wear Pink Day?

The first Wear Pink Day happened in a Nova Scotia high school in 2007.  It all started when a grade 9 boy was teased by a group of older boys because he wore a pink polo shirt on the first day at his new school, and they threatened to hurt him if he ever did it again. There were two grade 12 boys who heard about what happened and wanted to do something about it. They went to a discount store and bought a number of pink shirts. They also e-mailed their friends to spread the word. The next day, over half the school, about 400 people, wore something pink. The bullies were not impressed, but they got the message, and the boy who was bullied was relieved to know that people would stand up for him and maybe his new school wouldn't be so bad after all. News spread quickly about Wear Pink Day all over the world, and the two grade 12 students who started it were interviewed by many radio and TV shows. Many other schools also organized Wear Pink Days. This certainly proves how powerful bystanders can be.

By adding something pink to your wardrobe, you will be showing your support for the anti-bullying message that these high school students wanted to spread.  It could be a shirt, your socks, a bandanna, a belt, a bracelet, a head band, mittens or a scarf.  Whatever it is, let’s turn ACC into a “Sea of Pink”, and, more importantly, let’s take a stand against bullying!

3 Day Week Ahead

• This is a short week with the students not having classes on Thursday or Friday.
• I really look forward to meeting with Parents this week on Wednesday & Thursday to discuss your child's progress. If you have not yet returned your interview slip please do so.
• This Monday is Food & Drink Order Day for the Month of November. 
• We have a Remembrance Day Service at the school on Wednesday at 10:30am.
• This week we will have a Review of all 36 of the Words we have done this year, by having a Spelling Bee on Tuesday and a Test on Wednesday.
• We have been having an on going issue this year with a number of students forgetting to do their homework or leaving it at home. The students have very little assigned to do at home, and when students do not have their work complete or at school at all it really slows down the entire class. I usually give 3 homework checks and then a detention, this year I have been very lenient and have wiped the slate clean of checks twice. The latest time was this past week and after Monday and Tuesday night there were 9 new checks on my homework check sheet. I have informed the students that from this past week on, once an individual gets 3 checks it will be a detention. I would really appreciate your support in improving this issue.