Happy Halloween!

Reminder- Monday is pizza day. Notice: The sign up sheet for student led conferences is now up. Conferences will be held Nov. 15-18 after school. I will be unavailable the 16th (Tuesday). On Monday, students will be putting their logs on TV hours watched to use as we analyze the data and organize it into a graph. Our graphing unit is coming to an end, and a unit on Patterning will be beginning next week. We also start our unit on Narratives in writing, and making inferences in reading. Of course, nothing else really matters except the big night on Sunday. Have a safe and happy Halloween!

It's Gettting Spooky Around Here!

Reminder - there are still a few TV logs that need to be completed and returned to class. Reminder - Friday is orange and black day Due Date - final drafts of recounts are due tomorrow (Friday). Notes home - wrap order forms and paper copies of the newsletter went home today, also some student photos. Today, students heard the sotry "Maybe a Bear Ate It" and made three predictions during various points in the text. Also, we did a shared reading exercise on Medieval Construction Zones. Finally in literacy, we worked diligently to finish our recounts for tomorrow. Many students are finished and worked on a Free Write. In math we talked about how much sleep we get at night and looked at a different type of graph, called a line plot. For grade threes, we are coming to the end of our unit on mapping skills in Social Studies. Tomorrow, during the last 100 min. of the day, grade four will get to go to a dance. Grade threes will not, but will be offered a game time/free time. Feel free to let your child bring a board game in to play. Have a good night.

Back at it!

I hope everyone had a good long weekend, and is getting ready for Halloween this Sunday. Hard to know what the weather will be like based on the last week. DEADLINE: - final drafts of recount writing are due this Friday. Most students are finished their first draft and ready to publish. OVERDUE - many students handed in their TV watching log, but some are still at home. Please remind your child to bring theirs in REMINDER - read for 15 min. each night Today in math, we practiced our skills with bar graphs. Here is a nice website for review 3s - http://www.nelson.com/nelson/school/elementary/mathK8/math3/quizzes/math3quizzes/m3ch3l4.htm 4's -http://www.nelson.com/nelson/school/elementary/mathK8/math4/quizzes/math4quizzes/m4ch3l2.htm . Today was our Character Recognition assembly. October's character trait was Respect, next month's is Courage. The grade twos entertained us with a very nice song. Have a good night.

What????????!!!!!!?????

Well, I think by now I've recovered from the shock on my front lawn this morning. Snow??? I guess it will save me from raking leaves. Reminders - Monday is a PA day, and therefore a day off for the students. Enjoy! - read for 15 minutes Due Date - the TV hours watched log sheet is due Tuesday. - the final draft of the recount letter is due next Friday We are working on bar graphs in math, here are a couple of links for practice. http://nces.ed.gov/nceskids/createagraph/ http://www.amblesideprimary.com/ambleweb/mentalmaths/grapher.html Have a good weekend.

Pumpkin Mania!!!

No doubt, the big event of the day in Grade 3/4 was definitely the pumpkin carving. Mushy hands and funny faces make for a fun time. The pumpkins were donated by a local market, and are being used for a grand pumpkin tower there. Soon you should be able to go and view your child's handiwork. Reminders - any student still completing the writing planner for their recount needs to finish it for tomorrow - grade threes are on a field trip to Sharon and Bram tomorrow, the grade 4s will have a regular day, but spend the first two blocks in another classroom. - grade 3 will not be able to order pizza or milk tomorrow, but grade 4s will -continue to record hours of TV watched, hopefully students have recorded 3 or 4 days by now -read for 15 mn., students should be well on their way to completing their first reading log by now Today, grade three worked on questions from the a previous EQAO math assessment. All grade 3s and 6s in Ontario will write the EQAO assessment in Language and Mathematics in late May or early June of next year. For those interested in finding out more, seeing assessments from previous years (that you can practice at home), or looking at how the assessments are marked, with examples, check out this link: http://www.eqao.com/Parents/Elementary/036/036.aspx?Lang=E&gr=036 Have a good night!

Tuesday

It is one of those days when you can't quite figure out if the sun is going to shine, or its going to rain buckets. During visual arts today, we worked on finishing our "Apples and Oranges" project, and started a project on a Peace Dove. Halloween is around the corner, and so is Remembrance Day. A short post today. Have a good night.

Farm Trip Fun

By all accounts, the trip to the Edencrest farm was very good today, even with a few drops of rain. Ask your child to tell you about it, or recount it. Today in math, the 3s and 4s discussed analyzing data to find the mode. Check out this website, which also works on the concept of median which we will learn soon. http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/ks2bitesize/maths/data/mode_median_mean/play.shtml NOTICE: - due to the Sharon and Bram trip on Thursday, there will be no pizza or milk orders for the grade 3's. Students should plan to bring a lunch on Thursday. The bus is schedled to be back at the school around 1:15, so the 3s should have time to eat what they have packed. For the grade fours, they will order pizza or milk in the classes they are in. Reminders: - record hours of TV watched - read for 15 min. Have a good night.