Monday

We had a wonderful time at McQueen Lake last week.  I look forward to doing some follow up activities with the children over the next couple of weeks.  Homework tonight:

 - home reading
 - study spelling
 - study science (Quiz Wednesday)
 - gym strip
 - overdue library books
 - McQueen Lake duo tang if not brought back today
 - inside shoes if not brought back today
 - WITW/Canadian Reader due tomorrow

Have a good night.

Tuesday

The year 4's completed the online portion of their numeracy FSA this morning.  They will complete a written question tomorrow.  I have been hearing wonderful feedback about how well the other children are working in other classrooms while I am administering the FSA's to the year 4 students.  If you have not done already please return your child's McQueen Lake field trip form by tomorrow and please return even if they are not planning on attending.  Even if the money is not handed in by tomorrow I need to know numbers.  Right now I only have 8 forms returned.  Homework tonight:

 - home reading
 - study spelling (no spelling for 4's this week)
 - grammar sheet if not done (now late)
 - return McQueen Lake permission slip
 - math 5p. 98 #1-12, 6p. 111 #1-8

Have a good night.

Monday

The grade 4's completed their first FSA today, online Reading.  Tomorrow they will do the numeracy portion.  The grade 5/6 students have been working hard in other classrooms during this time.  Homework tonight:

 - home reading
 - study spelling (no spelling this week for yr 4 because of FSA)
 - gym strip for tomorrow
 - McQueen Lake notices returned
 - grammar sheet

Have a good night!

Friday

Today we started coding online using the site coding.org.  The children are working through individual lessons.  If they would like to continue working on coding at home I encourage them to go to the hour of code and work on those activities and save the lessons to work on at school so I am able to view their progress.  Homework this weekend:

 - home reading
 - novel study if not complete
 - permission slip

Have a good weekend

Tuesday

The children in year 4 worked on Numeracy practice today for FSA practice.  These practice tests can be accessed from our school website.  Today we used algorithms to create paper airplanes.  We learned that lots of things in life require following algorithms.  Also that we can have a different algorithm and still get to the same result.  On Friday the children will be starting to work on computers and will need their headphones to complete this.  Homework tonight:

 - home reading
 - study spelling
 - French comic if not complete
 - Math 5p. 94 #1-14, 6p. 101 #1-8
  - ask your parents about art cards

Have a good night.

Monday

Today the year 4 students learned how to log on to the FSA practice tests online.  They can use the same format they learned today to log on and practice at home if they would like.  Homework tonight:

 - home reading
 - study spelling
 - French comic due tomorrow year 5/6
 - gym strip
 - Write Traits if not complete

Have a good night.

Friday

Today in art we talked about perspective and how this can change the view of the same image.  Homework tonight:

 - home reading
 - math if not complete 4p. 92 #1-10 (skip 8), 5p. 90 #1-13 (skip 8 and 9), 6p. 97 #1-14
 - spelling sheet if not complete
 - yr 4 notice
 - something positive that happened to/in the world in 2016
 - please make sure that skates and helmets fit for skating on Thursday

Have a good night.

Thursday

Today we started the first lesson in our unit on coding.  We completed some graph paper programming guiding our partner's Automatic Realization Machine (ARM).  Ask your child to explain to you how this worked.  Homework tonight:

 - home reading
 - spelling dictation tomorrow
 - spelling sheet if not completed
 - novel study marking tomorrow for Island and Holes groups
 - skating permission slips if not returned

Have a good night!

Wednesday

The children worked so quietly today!  They all got a lot accomplished today and were very proud of themselves at the end of the day.  A reminder that tomorrow is our library day and all books are due to either return or renew.  Also they will need to have gym strip for tomorrow.  Homework tonight:

 - home reading
 - study spelling
 - verb review sentences if not complete
 - math if not complete 4p. 88 #1-10, 5p. 86 #1-11, 6p. 94 #1-7
 - gym strip
 - library books
 - skating permission slip

Have a good night!

January 3, 2017

Welcome back!  Today went so quickly!!!  I know that there were many tired faces in the room today so make sure that everyone gets a good sleep tonight!  Some children forgot their gym strip at home today so please make sure that they have it for Thursday.  Homework tonight:

 - home reading
 - study spelling
 - math 4p. 84 #1-10, 5p. 82 #1-13, 6p. 90 #1-10
 - skating permission slip
 - overdue library books
 - report card envelopes

Have a good night!