Mask making

Huge thanks to Mrs. Paterson for helping out in the class today. Things went well, except for the odd eye brow hair sacrifice! Here are some pictures. Also someone has volunteered to bring macaroni and cheese now.

SS letter that was sent home...

Also perogies are taken for the potlatch so cross them off your list! I have two parents for Friday so we do not need anymore helpers. Thanks 

October 18th

Reminder that tomorrow is mask making in the afternoon. We are still looking for any parent volunteers. The more the merrier. We will be starting right after lunch.

Also I have parents signed up for meatballs, buns and butter, zucchini casserole, and cheese/crackers. You can just write a note in the agenda or leave it as a comment on the blog. The students will not need a lunch on Thursday. 

Something happened to my original blog from Friday and so I will repost a picture of the letter that went home with the kids tomorrow at school. 

We will also be starting our dioramas soon in social studies and I will post an outline for parents on the blog too. This project will be done at school unless a student does not get a lot done in class time. Hope everyone had a good weekend! 

October 9th

Today was our second day with our artist in the classroom. Lynne is working with us to make haunted houses out of clay. The students really did a great job. She will be back next week after they are fired in the kiln so we can glaze them. We will be completing a creative writing assignment to go with them called "House For Sale". Look for them on display in front of the office just before Halloween. Here are some pictures.

Some of the students also participated in the Divisional Cross country meet. The course was just over a mile (1.2 to be exact). Boy were they fast! The fastest boy was from Athlone and finished it in 4:40. Here are some pics:

We finished our first math centre rotation today for place value and the small group instruction seemed to work well. I will try and post a video soon that shows the strategies used in our class. A great game we played on the iPad was Mathdoku! The kids thought it was going to be a price of cake but to their surprise it was quite a challenge, even on the beginner level. You might want to try it to help with your number sense. 

A few reminders for you as well:

- picture day is Tuesday

- hot lunch forms are due back on 14th

- book orders are due back on 14th

- chess club has started at lunch on a Day 6. 

- soccer forms are due back ASAP.

- I will need some parent volunteers soon to help make plaster casting masks but I will need to work around the artists schedules.

Have a happy thanksgiving! 

October 6

Things are progressing well in class with some of our routines. We have completed a round of guided reading where the students learned about text mapping on a scroll (just a photocopy of an nonfiction text that had been attached to form a continuous story.) Our first one was just two pages but the kids learned a lot from using these pre-reading strategies, without even reading the text. 

We had our first quiz and most students passed but a few learned to double check their quiz over before saying it is complete! They will be handed back as soon as two students complete the quiz as they were away. Everyone does already know their mark. 

We have TIA staring this week on Oct. 8 and 9th. We are using clay and will be making Haunted houses to go along with our descriptive writing activity. 

The autobiographies look great!

Tell me the secret word is Gimli. The first 5 students will get a treat! 

Friday, September 24th

We had our Terry Fox run this afternoon. This is the after picture! Students can still bring in money ($1 or $2) on Monday. 

We will have a quiz on Canada on Thursday. There is a map that I have sent home that highlights the important parts to remember. This is a summary study guide from the three maps we made in the last week. 

Here is a copy incase yours gets lost!  Also book orders are due on Monday! I will set up the credit card option later today. 

Here is a sample of some of the Autobiography stories that are completed already. 

Have a good weekend and if you read the blog this weekend make sure you tell your child the secret code word so they can tell me and get a treat! It is "Popcorn"!

New year!

Finally...
Welcome to our blog for the 2015-2016 school year. I had some technical difficulties with my password. (Never hyphenate your last name when you get married!) We are slowly getting into the swing of things and have completed some assessments. We have started our human body it in science so expect your child to lecture you on what you are eating! We are also reviewing Canada geography before moving into our aboriginal groups history.

In Language Arts the students are working on an autobiography project and are welcomed to bring in pictures of themselves. Hopefully they will be up to view at the BBQ on Thursday. In math we have been setting up our problem solving strategies and beginning place value.

I will get the calendar updated for you to access shortly.