A short update for the 16th of January

Chers parents, It has come to my attention that some families are having difficulty listening to and viewing the Voki character on the blog. Unfortunately the characters require Flash player to be able to play them. I do not believe they can be viewed on iPods or iPhones. (I am not sure about tablets.) I am looking into getting a link where the audio can be downloaded, or provinding recordings of the files on cds. Sorry for the confusion and the inconvenience. Thank you to those who let me know about the difficulties. I still want to receive photos of your child doing a winter activity outside for our assembly at 9:00am on January 31st in the gym. Please send two photos (no larger than 2MB each in separate messages) to wallacej@spsd.sk.ca Thank you for the ones that have already been sent! The children are very excited in their preparation and are working very hard. If you can arrange to attend we will be very pleased to have you in the audience. We have begun a new winter poster entitled: La neige est merveilleuse! I will post the photo soon. We are enjoying the winter theme and all the fun that comes with it. We are also concentrating on some skills that originate from the Early Skills Development program. We are learning these concepts as a class: L’écoute –Listening Suivre les directives—Following directions Répondre à une demande—Responding to a request Ignorer les distractions—Ignoring distractions Être en contrôle—Having self-control Accepter les consequences—accepting consequences The students are taking responsibility in these areas and I have seen some very good work. Bravo!