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A few bits for the week...

• Final Field Trip coming up Monday, June 20^th. This will be a year end celebration at Island View Beach with all the grade 2s from our class and Ms. Backhaus's. We will be asking for parent drivers so if you haven't already got your criminal record check, you will need to be quick. I hope many parents/families can join us. More details will be coming soon.

• FUN DAY is Friday, June 24^th! Families are welcome to join us for a day of fun activities. I'll be in the gym for Fireball! The PAC put on an everyone welcome lunch. On-line lunch ordering is available at http://brentwoodpac.ca/ until Monday, June 6^th. They are also looking for volunteers to help out!

• If you are interested in taking some SCRAPBOOKS home to glue together for us, please let me know. The end of school will be here before we know it!

• Next Friday is our last day to borrow books from the school library. All school library books will be due back Thursday, June16^th

• Popcorn Day is next Wednesday, June 8^th. $1

• The Service Assembly recognizing volunteers and staff that are leaving Brentwood is June 22 at 12:30.

• The Grade 5 Farewell is June 28^th at 10am.

• The Last Day of School is June 29^th.

• New Spelling this week! Please help your child return his/her homework book every Thursday. Being responsible for these books and the work in them is an important start to building positive homework habits for future years.

  PINK: (ar) jar, hard, march, yarn, (ər sound) earn, search, worth, worst, spur, pearl, sir, lurk (or) core, chore, score, thorn, hoarse, horse, warm, warn, worn, snore, bore, boar.

  YELLOW: (short i) pig, dish, rich, gift, flip, thin, swim, spill, (long i) kite, while, nice, nine, mice, drive, five, prize, hike (oddball) give

GREEN: Long and short e sound in which syllable (1^st long) needle, season, feature, eastern, people, meaning, reader, freedom, (1^st short) feather, pleasant, heavy, steady, leather, sweater, healthy, (2^nd long) succeed, compete, extreme, increase, repeat*, defeat, fifteen, indeed, thirteen.