Welcome Back!

What a wonderful surprise for RBES Staff this morning!  Thank you to the many parents and families of RBES!  Our staffroom, over the Christmas break, was given a much needed make-over! 

New Home Reading was sent home.

This is a reminder of the importance of nightly home reading.  Students who read for 20 minutes per night will read roughly 1.8 million words in a year!  Quality exposure to words (books) is essential to becoming a good reader.

Please ensure your child ​is reading nightly and ​returns his/her home reading bag on Friday so that he/she will have new books for the following week.

New Word Sort - Word sorts this week are contractions.  Students are expected to be able to match the contraction (i.e.: it's) with it's long form (i.e.: it is) and also to spell all contractions. Spelling test will be on Friday. 

In Math today, we began our exploration of 3D Objects.  We looked at the attributes of cubes, spheres, cylinders, pyramids, cones and rectangular prisms.  We noticed that 3D objects have faces that are 2D Shapes!  During Math Workshops this week, we will describe, identify, compare and sort 3D objects.

We have our first library block of 2015 tomorrow!