Thursday September 16, 2010

It is such a change having a bigger group of boys in the class this year. When we have a French sing off you can actually hear the boys group! The children seem to be having a lot of fun with the French songs we have been learning in the last week (numbers, colours, days of the week, months of the year), have them sing them for you at home! Homework tonight:

- home reading (a reminder that we will get library time next week)
- study spelling (our first dictation (test) will be tomorrow)
- math - any unfinished math from the week needs to be finished as we will be moving on tomorrow
- French - sheet due Monday
- W.I.T.W./Canadian Reader - article due tomorrow (Tamil Migrants/Governor General)

Have a great night!

Tuesday September 14, 2010

I placed the students into assigned groups today. It has really seemed to make a difference on the noise level in the room! We had a great day today with our first real work blocks of the year. All the students seemed to do really well with organizing their day, there were not many that needed my help, congratulations Year Fours! Homework today:

- home reading (we should be getting our first library time next week)
- study spelling
- open house tonight at 6:30 (I will be giving a small talk to start the night, it would be great if you are a Year Four parent to attend - not long, only 10 min. or so)
- gym strip
- 5's - Math if not finished

Have a wonderful night, I hope to see some of you at the Open House tonight.

September 9, 2010

Another good day today. I think the children were tired by the end of the day, make sure you go to bed early tonight! We worked on math, French and started a small research project on Maria Montessori. Homework tonight:
- home reading
- math (due Monday)
- French (due Monday)

Have a wonderful night!

First Full Day!

What a fantastic first day! I hope that all the children had as much fun as I did. The Year Fours did amazing in their first day as intermediate students! We jumped right to work today and did some work with grammar: exclamatory, imperative, declarative and interrogative sentences as well as subject and predicate. Tomorrow we will start some math and social studies. Homework tonight:
- home reading
- verification form - please complete this and return to the school as soon as possible
- school fees - $64 is the total cost owing this year including YPC
- Newsletter - this will be my last monthly class newsletter in paper form, from here on out information will be on the blog or by email
- email - even though your verification form has an email section to it, please have your child write an email address that I can reach you at in their agenda so I can create my own list on my own computer
- Scholastic orders - dates for handing in are on the back
- Owl orders - even if you are not ordering can you please send the page back marked NO, they send gifts for returning the orders even if the NO box is marked
Have a great night!

Welcome Back!

Wow! It's hard to believe that summer is over and we are back to school. I am really looking forward to the year this year. It was great to see last years class today and I am looking forward to having my new class tomorrow! For those Year Sevens moving on, please come back and visit, I will miss you!

Final Friday!

Wow, it is the final Friday of the school year! What a day! Not much homework this weekend:

- home reading
- Mathletics (Monday is the final day to bring in your $5 for the summer use)
- Swimming Monday
- P.J. day Monday, feel free to bring in a pillow and snacks to watch the movie

Have a great weekend!

Thursday

What an amazing band concert today!!! If you have a chance to see it tonight I highly suggest going. It starts at 7pm. Not much homework (since we are winding down)
- home reading
- Mathletics (bring in $5 if you would like to be signed up for the summer)
- swimming form with $1.25

Have a great night.