November 25 - 29

LA - everyone should be finished their first / sloppy copy of the descriptive report by Wednesday.  We'll work on revising and hand in our good copies by Friday Monday.

Math - please practice multiplication facts from 1x1 up to 9x9.  Students have learned strategies to figure out answers, but ideally these facts will become automatic.  We've also talked about multiplying by 0, 1, 10, 100, etc.


Report cards will be coming home on Wednesday Thursday afternoon.  Please sign and return the envelopes as soon as possible.

Two neat websites we looked at this week:

This one: Create your personalized food guide lets you do just that.  You enter your age (and gender, not that it matters) and then choose foods from each group that you like.  The site will then make you your very own food guide which you can print or save.  Pretty cool.

This one: Ghost Blasters, lets kids practice multiples for times tables.  You can set it to be anything that's a multiple of 2 (2x __ ) 3, 4, right on up.  There is a game for adding as well, here.

Friday is feel good Friday, wear your jerseys and get ready for some staff-vs-students sports action!

Our class will be singing Carol of the Bells in the Christmas concert this year.  Click for a copy of the lyrics we'll be using.  Practice lots, we'd like to be able to do it without a paper copy!

November 18 - 22

It's been a week!  I have been out sick for 3 days, so we're playing a bit of catch-up.  I heard nothing but excellent things from the supply teachers though, so that's fantastic!

LA - We are working on descriptive reports - on an animal, a place, a building, etc.  All students should have their information ready to go, if not they need to finish up over the weekend.  We'll write our 'sloppy copies' next week, and do revising and editing to hand them in for Friday.

We have also started our big book project.  Students have many choices - they may draw, write, act, build.  We've gone over all of the project choices, and most students have chosen which they'd like to do.  All students must *finish* the book before finishing their project!  Projects will be presented / shared December 5th.  We'll be working on them in class, so if students need things from home, they should bring them in as soon as possible.

Math - our new unit is all on multiplying, dividing, and estimating.  Please practice times table facts up to 9x9 (and higher, if you can!) to help make this easier!


Also:
There is a tree lighting tonight (Friday) at the Rec Centre at 6:30.  Santa and cookies will be there!

Please return the letters about Snider Mountain, even if your child is not planning to attend (just so we have numbers)

There is a movie night fundraiser on December 5th at 6:30.  Cost is $6 and includes snack and drink.

Christmas Dinner will be served in the cafeteria on December 5th as well.  Cost is $6 and includes a lovely turkey dinner.  Tickets will be on sale ahead of time.

November 4 - 8

LA - get the persuasive writing in as soon as possible!  Several students have not completed theirs.  Continue reading every night, and recording it in your reading log.  We're now on word work #8.

Health - we've spent some time talking about personal safety, how to avoid dangerous sitations with strangers or even people we may know.  Each student has been asked to create a family password that can be used in emergencies when you might need to send someone else to pick up your child.

Math - review sheets due in.  We'll have our unit assessment on Friday.

Our class will be reading the poem In Flanders Fields at our remembrance day assembly Thursday.  Each student has a copy of the poem to practice.  We're working on not stopping in the middle of lines, but remembering to pause at commas and periods.  We've reorganized the line breaks in a way that makes it easier to read properly.  Think about what the words are saying!

A reminder that there will be no school on Monday, November 11th, because of the holiday.  There is also no class for students on Friday, November 15th, as we will be holding student-led conferences in the morning, and PD in the afternoon.
On that note, forms for student-led have gone home.  Please pick your top 3 available times when your student can come in with you and show you all the great stuff we're doing!  I'll send home a confirmation the end of this week.