Merry Christmas

I want to take this opportunity to wish all my students and their families a most blessed Christmas and Peace in the New Year. What an awesome concert last evening. You should all be proud of great work.

Turkey dinner tomorrow for all students. Remember to look your very best as we celebrate together.

Friday

Language Arts: Not much assigned here but students are to make sure they have completed any assignments from the last week or so because I am completing my grade book and can only enter scores for work turned in to me. Anything not in before Wednesday will not be awarded a grade.

Math: See yesterday's blog post for the assignment.

Thursday

Language Arts: We checked Unit 9 Spelling today and students should be ready for a test on the list words tomorrow.
Also we shared some of their wonderful Christmas poems which we'll finish tomorrow.

Math: Only two groups have to complete their multiplication arrays. Students are to complete page 67 in their text for class on Monday.

CONCERT PRACTICE: STUDENTS MUST PRACTICE INSTRUMENTS FOR THEIR PART IN THE CHRISTMAS CONCERT!!!

Wednesday

Language Arts: Students are to complete a Christmas theme poem using similies for tomorrow. Also if your kids have been looking at you a lot and scribbling down notes its because they had to secretly observe your behavior for a day and graph the results. It is interesting what they have discovered. I'm still waiting for some late work form a few people.

Spelling Unit * is due tomorrow.

Math: Students have just about finished constructing factor rectangles for the numbers one to fifty.


Lots of mail went home tonight please be sure to check packs for the latest stuff.

Tuesday

Language Arts: Kids are working on similes. Please have master 15 complete for tomorrow. We will be working on poem with similes tomorrow using a Christmas theme so watch for that coming. Also tomorrow is the absolute last day to get that secret assignment in so please make sure you give it to me in the morning.

Math: We are using a new text resource starting today and there was no assignment tonight.

Social Studies: We will be beginning a new unit in the next few days.

Monday

Language Arts: Some students still have to complete or make revisions to the work that was due today. From the mystery assignment some of you live very interesting lives.
We were able to spend the afternoon today watch a marvelous performance of Hamlet. It was just excellent. Be sure to ask your kids about it.

We'll pick Math up again on Tuesday.

Busy Season

Well, we got through some of our testing on Thursday. We will continue Tuesday at noon hour. We are very busy getting ready for the Christmas concert and all will go well. The fives are doing great. Until next time -
Miss Leite

Science

Students will be having their unit test in science on Classroom Chemistry this coming Tuesday, December 13. It will be on all the experiments of seperating substances, physical and chemical changes and reactions as well as acids and bases. Thx. Have a great night!

Miss. G

Thinking Thursday

** Language Arts: For tomorrow students have to complete the graph of their daily activities and their questions from "Apes on the Go"

** Math - Students are to complete the multiplication practice worksheets using the method of their choice for Monday. There are two sheets that will need to be done for Monday. Class time will be provided today.

** Social Studies: Topic A Assessment is to be in at the end of class tomorrow. World in News deadline is approaching.

Anyone wanting a taco in a bag for Mission Mexico next Friday needs to have money and orders in tomorrow. It's also Red and Green day then too.

Way to go on the toy drive as the gathering space is full of generously donated toys and games.

Can you guess the riddle? Email me with your answer.

COMING CC U

Wacky Wednesday

**Language Arts: Students are to complete a graph of their activity for one day. There is an example of a graph on page 65 of their text book. This due on Friday. For next Monday the students have special secret project that is to be completed. We'll let you know more on Monday. Stay tuned!!


**Math: Students are to complete page 136 for tomorrow using the special strategy we worked on today. Questions or difficulty please contact me. We'll go over this tomorrow to be sure the students have the concept well in hand before we move on.

** Social Studies - Students should have Monday's test home with them. Please have them show it to you.
We are continuing to work on their responses which they will hand in on Friday.

hooray it's warming up and students can spend their breaks outside. Please make sure your child has proper outdoor attire.

Terrific Tuesday

*** Language Arts: Spelling Test on Unit 8 today. Below is the assignment for Spelling Unit 9. Students will have class time to work on this so if they take it home it must come to school each day so they have something to work on if class time is provided.

Unit 9 Spelling Assignment Due December 15, 2005

Unit Test Tuesday, December 16th
***WRITE OUT LIST WORDS
Observing Patterns 1,2,3,4
Discovering Patterns 1, *2
Exploring Patterns 1,*3,*4
Challenges with Words 1,5
* Write out/draw shapes

** Math: We corrected page 134 in class today and started working on page 135 which involves two digit multiplying. Please have 135 complete for I gave the kids a couple of strategies for multiplying with two digits. Ask them to show you strategy 3. They can use the example at the top if they want but the table method will show a deeper understanding of the concept.

Marvelous Monday

** Language Arts: We checked our Unit 8 spelling work. Our test on the spelling words is tomorrow. Please study!!

** Math: We corrected homework from Thursday. Please finish page 134 for tomorrow.

** Social Studies - We had a test today on the physical regions of Canada. By the end of class on Friday students should have completed their response to the Topic A Assessment. Students will have lots of class time to work on this during the week so all they should be doing at home with you is maybe giving you a look at what they've done each day. They should also be self evaluating their work according to the rubric as they go.

** Notices - A number of notices went home today. Normally I only send things out Wednesdays but look for newsletters and special notices in the student's backpacks tonight.

Welcome Miss Leite

Hello all. In Band, the kids will be doing playing tests on Thursday. We will have theory handouts and I will call pairs of students up to complete the test. The kids have two weeks notice of a test and we will practice the piece in class. I have been taking kids during our sectional time to work on basic and they seem to be enjoying it. I am very excited about this year. Lets work hard and have a successful year.

Frenzied Friday

** Language Arts - Students did an excellent job of revising and reinventing their shape poems. I'm very impressed with their creativity and how they adapted their work into interesting poems. There are only a few not done so we can stay together please have this completed for Monday.
Reminder about Spelling Unit 8 due on Monday.

*** Social Studies - Test on Canadian regions on Monday. Be sure to look over your information chart to prepare for the test.

Thursday's Thrills

**Language Arts - Shape poems came in to day and students presented them. For the most part they are very creative and well done but some of them need some reworking on the format which we will take care of tomorrow.
It seems I forgot to post the Spelling assignment so here it is:

Unit 8 Spelling Assignment Due December 5, 2005

Unit Test Tuesday, December 6th
***WRITE OUT LIST WORDS
Observing Patterns 1,2,3,4
Discovering Patterns *1, 2
Exploring Patterns 1, *2,3
Challenges with Words 1,2,3,*6
* Write out/draw shapes

** Math - For Monday please have completed from page 130 to 133. Please make sure to explain your answers to the problems.

** Social Studies - Students should continue to prepare for the test on Monday and keep thinking about their assignment that we are working on in class. I hope students will share the assignment with their families as we continue to work on it in class.