Jan. 26- 29th

 What's coming up! 

• Feb. 11th: Spirit day- Wear red and/or pink
• Feb. 12-13th: No School- Teacher's Convention
• Feb. 16th: No School- Family Day
• Feb. 19th: Fun Lunch- Mr. Pretzel & Subway
• Feb. 24th: Report cards are open for viewing

Important note about Valentine's Day...

This year, Valentine’s Day is on Saturday, February 14 but the last day of classes that week is Wednesday, February 11.  Sometime between February 9 to 11 classes at Northern Lights School will recognize and approach Valentine’s Day discussions as opportunities for students learn more about how their actions of kindness, gratitude, friendship and small, thoughtful gestures can positively impact the world around them.  

Some classes may choose to facilitate an optional exchange of Valentine’s cards/notes from home and these teachers will send a list of first names home. Please see the teacher’s individual blogs for details about what they may or may not be doing. 

If you child would like to bring a message of kindness to other students before February 11, we ask that you respect the following expectations:  

• Each child in the class should receive a message if your child would like to send something.  (There is no expectation that your child will send a message, but we request that if your child does bring a note or Valentine that no student in their class is left out.)  
• What is written is kind  

For safety reasons, no candy, chocolate or other food items can be handed out. (If your child brings any candy, chocolate or food items, they will be sent back home with them.) Thank you in advance for your cooperation and understanding. 

Here is what we have been learning this week!

Literacy: This week we learned the prefixes super and sub! We also completed a best writing task about, "If you could get any pet, which pet would you get?". Grade 3's were very creative and did a great job showing me that they understand paragraph structures. We will continue with the same spelling words next week, since we didn't have enough time to practice. These words are: very, was, people, could, their, were, talk, know, where, and some. On Friday Feb. 6th will be their words wizard test! 

Math: For multiplication and division this week, we practiced the strategy of repeated addition/subtraction and breaking apart. Grade 3's loved playing the game, multiplication war. 

Social Studies: We completed a SWYK for our unit Time and Place. 

Science: Grade 3's also completed a SWYK on Forces. Next week, we will start a new unit on Earth Systems. 

Health & Wellness: For Thoughtful Tuesday we created compliment jars. Everyone got to walk around and write a compliment to each other. This was very uplifting and heart warming. 

See you on Monday! Have a great weekend!